While the saying "a good horse is never a bad color" is certainly true, it’s especially nice when you can have both a good horse and a nicely-colored one in the same package.

And as it turns out, the earliest domesticators of horses felt the same way.

Researchers with the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin told Discovery.com that 5,500 years ago, all horses were drab brown, much like Przewalski’s horses. It wasn’t until humans got involved that colors were intentionally selected for in breeding