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Gold champagne foals are born red, often a quite saturated shade. Gold champagne color is characteristic for the American Cream Draft, although it is sometimes mistakenly identified as palomino or cremello.
Cream Plus Champagne—And Other Colors Determined by Champagne
A previously used term for horses who have one Champagne allele and the Cream Dilution allele was “ivory.” However, the term “ivory” does not reflect the genetic nature of the colors of this group, and it has been recommended by the ICHR to use compound names containing the names of the genes/alleles involved instead. As an example: the color resulting from the combination of amber champagne with Cream Dilution is called amber cream.
The genetic base of such colors can be any—chestnut, black, bay, or seal brown. The genotype usually consists of one or two Cream Dilution alleles (Ccr) and one or two Champagne alleles.
Horses in this group are born with light pink skin that becomes covered by dark specks with age. Eyes at birth can be light blue, and with age they can become light green or amber—all being characteristic signs of champagne colors. The dilution of pheomelanin caused by the Cream allele combined with dilution of both types of melanin by the Champagne gene can have a varying effect, thus complicating color identification. It is possible to define color most precisely by DNA analysis. Here I will consider only those combinations that have authentic representative carriers and for which there is real phenotypic data, but note that other combinations are also possible.