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 CHAMPAGNE
CREAMS
The Colors formerly known as "Ivory"
"Angel" is a GOLD CREAM. She has at least one champagne gene
and at least one cream gene on a red (chestnut/sorrel) base.
This would make her a gold champagne plus a cream gene: "Gold cream".
This filly is Beloved Angel, bred by Gary
and Debbie Seale. An uninformed person might call her a
cremello, but she is not. To see more, detailed, pictures of her,
click HERE.
These very light colors result when a horse has:
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one or two Champagne genes
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plus one Cream
gene
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on a chestnut, bay, black or seal brown base
**** It is unknown whether it is possible to make any visual differentiation
between a cremello, perlino or smoky cream (2 cream genes) with champagne genes
and those without champagne genes. So for now we limit our descriptions
and color names to
champagnes with ONE cream gene.
"How can I tell if my
pale-colored horse is a Cream + Champagne combination?"
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First, look at the sire and dam. Do they have the
right genes to produce this combination? There must be at least one
Cream
plus one Champagne gene in the mix. Here are the two combinations of
"breeding partners" that can produce a Champagne cream :
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A Champagne cream plus any other color horse. A Champagne cream
can give the offspring both its champagne and its cream
genes. Thus the foal could have one of each, regardless of the
other parent's color, and it could be a Champagne cream itself.
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One Champagne of any type plus one cream of any
type (Palomino, buckskin, cremello, perlino, smoky black, or smoky
cream.)
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Then, look at the horse itself. Is its coat a pale
cream or ivory color? Is its skin pale? If it is over
a year old, does it have the typical champagne freckling around its nose, eyes,
and private parts? Did the eyes start off blue, stay that way for at
least a month, and then turn pale amber to
medium brown?
If you can answer "yes" to all of these
questions, your horse is quite likely a Champagne cream. If your answer
is "yes" to most of these questions, there is a good chance it
is one.
Examples of CREAM + Champagne combinations:
GOLD CREAM
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Brooke's Wind Dancer is a well known GOLD CREAM
Champagne Tennessee Walking Horse stud. Owned by Renee
Woodward.
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Banner, GOLD CREAM, spirited, 14.1H
TWH/QH cross gelding. SOLD by Sharon Jones,
Cincinnati, OH. His new home is with Jim Adams in Middletown, OH.
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Goldie Lasan, GOLD CREAM AQHA champagne gelding, owned by Chuck Harrell
of Texas. Notice how dark the Texas sun has made his freckles!
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Sundance Lasan, GOLD CREAM AQHA stud, owned
by Chuck Harrell of Texas.
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AMBER CREAM
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Sugars Uno, an AQHA
AMBER CREAM Champagne stallion, is owned by Mr.
Alvin Van Zee of SD. He has several offspring the same color as
him from a buckskin mare.
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Classic Creams
Carolyn Shepard's list of classic creams in the stud book, and on what
basis they're called that.....
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#004 Wind D.'s Champagne Myth
- phenotype, report on foal coat color. Owned by Wendy Morton, DVM.
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#105 Pine Trees Bonus Spring Beauty - pedigree and progeny
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#107 Ridgehavens Cocoa - DNA tested
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#142 Reactors Glorious Lady - phenotype, progeny
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#172 HHH InMyWildestChampagneDreams - foal coat, phenotype (may be
classic silver instead)
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