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Sooty? Pearl?
I thought he was a Silver Smoky Black Pearl first but changed my mind to Sooty Cream Champagne.
Like... is it sooty or black based? I'm guessing sooty.
Silver or flaxen? There is a possibility for flaxen if one look at the family-tree.
He have mottling on his muzzle, I can see them if I zoom in in the gallery... so he obviously have champagne. I don't think pearl can be seen together with only champagne?
So I'm still guessing 1 cream + 1 champagne + sooty + flaxen/silver? Or maybe even no flaxen and no silver just chestnut based with regular champagne/cream dilution.
Or something else?
Why is it so hard for me to learn the differences?
ER's Lemon Pumpking
Like... is it sooty or black based? I'm guessing sooty.
Silver or flaxen? There is a possibility for flaxen if one look at the family-tree.
He have mottling on his muzzle, I can see them if I zoom in in the gallery... so he obviously have champagne. I don't think pearl can be seen together with only champagne?
So I'm still guessing 1 cream + 1 champagne + sooty + flaxen/silver? Or maybe even no flaxen and no silver just chestnut based with regular champagne/cream dilution.
Or something else?
Why is it so hard for me to learn the differences?
ER's Lemon Pumpking
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I'm not so sure about sooty. Sooty is often in patches and/or comes slow with aging. Look at his dam - born fiery red, darkening somewhere between 2 and 6 years, and still has bright legs.
This colt is only 2 years old. His coat looks very uniform and has barely changed shade. He looks like a (much) lighter version of his half-brother here:
who is a silver black.
Now, I'm not an expert on sooty, so he might still be some kind of sooty that I haven't seen until now. But if I had to guess, I would guess silver + black + champagne + additional dilution.
The intresting part is the "additional dilution" because he has light eyes. Now, cream + champagne gives dark eyes (look at his father). Adding silver does not change that. Double cream is impossible. So yes, you might have a pearl (+ cream).
What I'm most suprised over is how dark his coat is if my guess is right (cream + pearl + champagne). It pretty much requires (silver) black as base color.
This colt is only 2 years old. His coat looks very uniform and has barely changed shade. He looks like a (much) lighter version of his half-brother here:
who is a silver black.
Now, I'm not an expert on sooty, so he might still be some kind of sooty that I haven't seen until now. But if I had to guess, I would guess silver + black + champagne + additional dilution.
The intresting part is the "additional dilution" because he has light eyes. Now, cream + champagne gives dark eyes (look at his father). Adding silver does not change that. Double cream is impossible. So yes, you might have a pearl (+ cream).
What I'm most suprised over is how dark his coat is if my guess is right (cream + pearl + champagne). It pretty much requires (silver) black as base color.
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I forgot to thank you. So, thank you ^^
I'm guessing he is Silver Smoky Black Pearl Champagne, but it's hard to know as I have not seen another horse with the same colour that I know of.
I'm guessing he is Silver Smoky Black Pearl Champagne, but it's hard to know as I have not seen another horse with the same colour that I know of.
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Arctictea wrote:The intresting part is the "additional dilution" because he has light eyes. Now, cream + champagne gives dark eyes (look at his father). Adding silver does not change that. Double cream is impossible. So yes, you might have a pearl (+ cream).
He sure is tricky.TheSpottedCat wrote:I forgot to thank you. So, thank you ^^
I'm guessing he is Silver Smoky Black Pearl Champagne, but it's hard to know as I have not seen another horse with the same colour that I know of.
Today I realized that his light eye might be due to Tiger Eye instead (I got a chestnut+cream+champagne+tiger eye foal myself, and felt a bit dumb). This would eliminate the "need" for pearl.
Looking at his mane and tail, it is actually remarkably light. Much lighter than his father, who is also cream+champagne+silver. Maybe you were right to begin with, and he actually is a (dark) chestnut (+cream+champagne).
As comparison; the chestnut + cream + champagne + tiger eye filly.
Do they have the same eye color?