Palomino Blanket or something else?

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Michelangelo


I'm 99% sure he's a palomino blanket but he seems lighter than my other palomino horse so I'm not sure

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Michelangelo


I'm 99% sure he's a palomino blanket but he seems lighter than my other palomino horse so I'm not sure

He looks lighter because he is diluted by the dun gene as well as him cream gene. (So he's a Palomino Dun.) He's also got a lot of shine from training, as well as some light varnish starting to show. (You can tell the varnishing if you look closely near the edges of his blanket - the small, darker spots are the parts of his Lp pattern that won't varnish with age.)

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Michelangelo


I'm 99% sure he's a palomino blanket but he seems lighter than my other palomino horse so I'm not sure

He looks lighter because he is diluted by the dun gene as well as him cream gene. (So he's a Palomino Dun.) He's also got a lot of shine from training, as well as some light varnish starting to show. (You can tell the varnishing if you look closely near the edges of his blanket - the small, darker spots are the parts of his Lp pattern that won't varnish with age.)

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it. The whole coloring thing is so interesting, but it's so hard!