Champagne dilutes both red and black pigment. Red pigment gets diluted to a golden color, black to a chocolate brown shade. Champagne horses have pink to lavender skin with mottling/freckling, and amber or hazel colored eyes.
Colors
Gold champagne
Palomino is a horse coat color caused by one copy of the cream dilution acting on a chestnut base. The coat is golden with a creamy or white mane and tail.
Hannelore Roodhooft
Classic champagne
Amber champagne
Cream combinations
Gold cream
Classic cream
Amber cream
Gene
SLC36A1
Presence in horses
The champagne dilution originated in North America and, as a result, is primarily present in American breeds like the Quarter Horse, Tennessee Walking Horse, etc.
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