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Sable
Champagne on Seal Brown
With the ability to test for the agouti (bay) gene came the
revelation that seal brown horses were not solid black horses with another gene added
to cause the lighter shading. They test "non-a" at at least one locus,
making their genotype look like bay!
Yet, they do not behave genetically as a "shade" of bay, either. Thus,
we were forced to deal with the fact that there are champagne horses whose color is the result of champagne on this newly isolated color.
That
color was dubbed Sable, and has taken its rightful place alongside Amber, Gold,
and Classic. Here are two of the horses now classified as Sable: they look
much like Classic, but test positive for
agouti. They tend to have a "cooler" coat color than Amber, but not
quite as "cool" as Classic (cooler meaning purpler, warmer being more golden or
orangey.)
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California Champagne, a Sable, homozygous tobiano, APHA colt
owned by Carolyn
Shepard of California. Sire is Good Gold Almighty,
#16. Here is his PEDIGREE.
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This next one *may be* sable; more research is needed.
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 Doc's
Golden Champagne has been called amber, but looks a bit more like a
Sable. His pedigree also allows that possibility. See more of
him HERE.
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