Where did the colour go?
Does the current palette of the modern sport horse not make it a distinct colour breed with its extreme limit variety?
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Cream Dilution in the Thoroughbred...
The cream dilution gene has been present in the Thoroughbred breed since the very beginning.
It most likely was introduced through native mares and "Turk" imports (ancestors of the modern Akhal Teke). Most buckskin or palomino Thoroughbreds were listed as "dun" in the early stud books, though the portraits made of some of the more famous of these horses clearly show them to be cream dilutes.
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How does the creme gene work?
Cream is the most common of the dilution genes, giving the popular palomino and buckskin colors.
It has been known for many years, but was poorly understood in the early days. Even to this day, there is confusion about the inheritance of these colours... Why could this the gene "hide" on a black or seal brown horse? And why does it sometimes seem to skip one or more generations?
The vast amount of misidentification, misunderstanding, and mistaken ideas about cream-dilutes that has occurred over the years would be enough to fill an entire website, so let's just say that thankfully, the gene is well understood today, and leave it at that....
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Cream is the most common of the dilution genes, giving the popular palomino and buckskin colors.
It has been known for many years, but was poorly understood in the early days. Even to this day, there is confusion about the inheritance of these colours... Why could this the gene "hide" on a black or seal brown horse? And why does it sometimes seem to skip one or more generations?
The vast amount of misidentification, misunderstanding, and mistaken ideas about cream-dilutes that has occurred over the years would be enough to fill an entire website, so let's just say that thankfully, the gene is well understood today, and leave it at that....
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Coat Colour Calculator
This calculator will give you the possible offspring coat colors and their probabilities when given the parents coat color...
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This calculator will give you the possible offspring coat colors and their probabilities when given the parents coat color...
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