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Sable
Champagne on Seal Brown
With the ability to test for the agouti (bay) gene came the
revelation that seal brown horses were not solid black horses with another gene added
to cause the lighter shading. They test "non-a" at at least one locus,
making their genotype look like bay!
Yet, they do not behave genetically as a "shade" of bay, either. Thus,
we were forced to deal with the fact that there are champagne horses whose color is the result of champagne on this newly isolated color.
That
color was dubbed Sable, and has taken its rightful place alongside Amber, Gold,
and Classic. Here are two of the horses now classified as Sable: they look
much like Classic, but test positive for
agouti. They tend to have a "cooler" coat color than Amber, but not
quite as "cool" as Classic (cooler meaning purpler, warmer being more golden or
orangey.)
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California Champagne, a Sable, homozygous tobiano, APHA colt
owned by Carolyn
Shepard of California. Sire is Good Gold Almighty,
#16. Here is his PEDIGREE.
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Glass Eyed Doc,
a Sable Champagne QH stallion owned by Jeanette and Terry Slocum.
Has many DNA verified Sable offspring.
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 Doc's
Golden Champagne is most likely Sable. His pedigree tends toward
that conclusion. See more of him
HERE.
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Glass Eyed Pure Tari is a DNA verified Sable
QH filly owned by Keith & Bonny Kirby of Texas (ICHR reg. #173)
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Doc Bars Lil Bandit has been DNA confirmed to be Sable Champagne (ICHR
Reg. #241) owned by Merlin & Jen Kemp of Wisconsin.
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Also sable, tested: CHA Champagne Taste (365), Bo's Champagne Bandalerro
(381), Raffels Star (502 - who just had a sable foal by the horse listed at
the top of this page), Champagnesugarcookie (503), Champagne Royal Secret
(520 - who may also be silver)
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To look for more horses of the rare Sable Champagne color,
check our ONLINE STUD BOOK.
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