sentences:  Bay or black is usually preferred.The name "russ" comes from a now obsolete word "ross", which means a riding horse or a charger and it is linked etymologically to the English word "horse" (in Old High German this word appeared as "hros", and in English a metathesis has switched the places of the /r/ and the /o/, whereas in Swedish /hr/ became /r/, producing "ross" or "russ".This breed of horse resembles the Hucul and Konik of Poland.