The Horse Colors Site

Bringing together the best information available today
for Identifying and Breeding Horses of Color.
If you'd like to have your horse's picture considered for use as an example on this site, you may submit it to us as an email attachment.

Kat's Colt, our "Cover Boy"

The horses in the photo, left, may look unrelated, but they are dam and foal, and their colors are easily explained (see the color chart).

The mare is an AQHA buckskin, Me Smart 'n' Classy. She was bred to another AQHA buckskin, Poco Merlin. Each of them had one cream and one non-cream gene. The foal received the one cream gene from each parent (25% chance he would), and at least one "bay" gene (dark points), so he is one might call a "double buckskin", a color called perlino. (This is just one possible result of breeding two buckskins.) He will remain cream colored with a darker golden mane & tail all of his life, and will give one cream gene to every foal he sires!

This fine colt is an example of a horse that was lost to the AQHA under the previous system. As you can see from his sire and dam's pedigrees below, his is 100% AQHA bred. But could not be registered as an American Quarter Horse. So what is he? A Morgan? A mongrel? No! He IS an American Quarter Horse, through and through!

In those days, cremellos and perlinos could still be included in the APHA's registry, formed to take in the fine Quarter Horses and others with larger white spots ... even though cremellos and perlinos are not spotted or white.

Here is his AQHA dam's pedigree (click to view, jpg file): Me Smart 'n' Classy
Here is his AQHA sire's pedigree: Poco Merlin

Here are some more pictures of the foal:

The Horse Colors Site

Bringing together the best information available today for Identifying and Breeding Horses of Color. If you'd like to have your horse's picture considered for use as an example on this site, you may submit it to us as an email attachment.

Kat's Colt, our "Cover Boy"

Bringing together the best information available today
for Identifying and Breeding Horses of Color.
If you'd like to have your horse's picture considered for use as an example on this site, you may submit it to us as an email attachment.