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Perlino
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The perlino color is the buckskin color with one more cream gene added.  The buckskin is a bay horse with one cream gene, and the perlino is a bay horse with two cream genes.  Or, you could say  it's a buckskin with one more cream gene added.  These horses have cream colored body hair and a darker yellow, tan or orange cast to their manes & tails.

Streaks Pale Rider "Pistol" is owned by My Kolors Show Horses  in Melrose, MN ;  click here for his pedigree starbuck1.jpg (45293 bytes)Starbuck : owned by Milynda Milam; 1996 APHA Perlino Stallion; APHA Superior Halter Horse, Homozygous for Black Gene, HYPP N/N ... his Pedigree

boogie1.jpg (23724 bytes)Invest In Rodeo Owned by Robin Mitchell.  AQHA-bred stallion.

Kat's Colt, "Pearlie",  was our cover boy because this picture illustrates how perlino is a natural result of the color genes in the buckskin horse!
wpe51.jpg (9272 bytes)Niftys Phantom Flash (if she could've been registered.)  Owned by Alicia Crider. Dam: Nifty Yellow Flash AQHA # 1186567, a buttermilk "dunskin" x Otoe Flash x Otoe x Sugar Bars Sire: name Dynamic Coca AQHA # 1976523, registered as a palomino.  She has a full sister that is registered AQHA #3241468, Niftys Winter Storm, foaled in 1993.
 

 

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