gold champagne horses

Champagne horses with a chestnut base color are called gold champagne. Gold champagne horses resemble palominos, having a golden color coat. They may have a white mane & tail, or these may be gold colored too. Probably this depends on whether the flaxen gene is also present, but I don’t think this has been properly tested yet.

Gold champagnes are often referred to as pink, pumpkin or wheaten skinned palominos and usually registered as palomino. Sometimes their coat has a pinkish hue not normally seen in palominos. However the resemblance to palomino is purely in the phenotype (external appearance) as they do not have the cream dilution allele (C^Cr).

One horse – the American Cream Draft Horse seems to have been started in 1911 with a gold champagne mare called 'Old Granny', who is apparently the foundation dam of ninety-eight percent of all the horses now registered by the American Cream Draft Horse Association.


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