This
pretty gold AQHA filly belongs to Rita Gambino of Long Island, New York. She's all
grown up now and has a flaxen mane & tail.
Gold
is the result of one or two champagne genes acting upon an otherwise red (sorrel
or chestnut) 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.
The
usual way the Champagne gene affects a red (sorrel or chestnut) 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.) Nearly the entire American Cream Draft Horse breed is
gold Champagne, which they call "medium cream".
Zippo's
Millenium Bug, a Gold mare owned by Ereidi
Farms
The
Gold TWH stud colt, Primed For Cash.
Note pink, freckled skin under tail, right. The younger the horse,
usually, the fewer freckles.
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Solid
Gold Champagne filly Zips SiouxzQ Outlaw (photo
at top) had a
mane and tail that matched her body until she matured, when they started
growing in flaxen. See Cita, below, for a very different Gold.
Ellie
Mae, a 10 month old Gold champagne MFT filly, sired by Danny's
Pride of Princess S. (aka Lobo) out of a dark red chestnut mare, Sal's
Good Sugar Baby (right). We'll be watching to see if her mane & tail
lighten up.
This
is Ellie Mae again, also at 10 mos., in winter coat, in CA. Her
close-up pictures of eye, muzzle and under-tail show clearly that she is a
champagne. Add to this her famous Gold champagne sire,
Lobo, and she
gets registered as Gold champagne.
Lobo's proud owner is Linda Vishino,
Zorro Farms
, St. Louis, MO
Here is an extraordinarily colored Gold champagne mare. We don't know
why her mane & tail are so dark, but all of her other attributes,
including her pedigree and full sisters, put her firmly in the "Gold champagne"
category. JIL
Doccita Gold ("Cita")
There are many more golds, of course, in our stud book; why not have a look
through it? STUD BOOK main page.
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About
emailing the ICHR: Horse color questions cannot be
answered without the horse's breed and registered name, if any.
Due to the extensive research conducted by the ICHR, we are usually able
to determine if a horse has champagne in its pedigree by recognizing the
names of ancestors we have determined were actually champagne.
These champagne sources are listed in the right
column of each entry in our
stud book!
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Ellie
Mae, a 10 month old Gold champagne MFT filly, sired by 
