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 Gold
Champagne on Chestnut
ee (any agouti) Ch__
Gold
is the result of one or two champagne genes acting upon an otherwise red (chestnut/sorrel) horse. This can have several different results, depending
upon which other genes are present. Usually they have a flaxen (white)
mane and tail; sometimes they are born the same beautiful golden-sorrel color all
over, like this one.
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usual way the champagne gene affects a red (chestnut/sorrel) based horse is
to create a golden body color with a flaxen, or near-white, mane &
tail. This horse is usually registered as a palomino, even though the skin
is some shade of pink with freckles, not the normal dark skin of the
palomino. The term "mottled", under skin color, may allow for
this in the PHBA registry (palomino Horse Breeders of America.) Zippos Millenium Bug
shown here.
Gold sometimes manifests as more of an apricot color with darker apricot
points. This is referred to as "dark gold" (see examples below.)
Factoid: Nearly the entire American Cream Draft Horse breed is
gold champagne, which they call "medium cream".
MORE EXAMPLES
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 Gold filly Zips SiouxzQ Outlaw had a
mane and tail that matched her "red" body color (see inset at
right) until she matured, when
her body color lightened, and her mane and tail grew in flaxen, as shown
at left.
This is very typical for golds.
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Here is a "dark gold" champagne mare, JIL
Doccita Gold ("Cita"). Some golds, like this one,
have manes & tails that are (and remain) darker than their body
color.
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Champagne
Cadillac, a gold AQHA stallion.
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Clar
Ann Cap's Judy, a Gold American
Cream Draft Horse mare. Nearly this entire breed is gold champagne, with
some being gold creams and a very few ("crop-out") palominos.
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Zippo's
Millenium Bug, a gold mare, as a filly.
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The
gold TWH stud colt, Primed For Cash.
Note the typical pink, freckled skin under his tail.
The younger the horse, usually, the fewer freckles.
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Ellie Mae, a gold MFT sired by Danny's
Pride of Princess S. (aka Lobo) out of a dark chestnut mare, Sal's
Good Sugar Baby (far right). At left, her color as a 10 month
old filly, winter coat; near right, her color as she matured.
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Ellie Mae's dam
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 These
three close-ups are of Ellie Mae, again at 10 mos., in winter coat. The
close-up pictures of eye, muzzle and under-tail show clearly that she is "a
champagne".
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