Horse Genetics Resources
Cedervale Cookies And Cream is an Australian Stock Horse filly with a chestnut sire and a brown dam. When she was born she had a visible light patch covering most of the near side of her rump and extending down her leg…
Loki is a mostly-white foal who was entered into our Mystery horse competition. His dam is a Palouse pony, and his sire is unknown. We tested Loki for a wide range of colour genes to find out why he is nearly completely…
I’d like to remind everyone about our free Monthly Mystery testing. We like to do free testing colour on one horse every month and write up the results to share on social media and keep in our archives. There is one key…
I love seeing all the ideas that come in for our mystery coloured horses! This time most of you went the same way as me and thought it might be some sort of splashed white gene. It’s not! This stallion is Coralvale…
This one is a common question: buckskin or not? This filly’s coat varies from season to season. We’ve tested her for agouti, red/black, cream and dun/d1 (nd1) to find out. Responses on this one were roughly equal for buckskin vs. not buckskin….
We have an answer! Zeus is actually chestnut, not taffy (silver) at all. He also has two copies of d1 (nd1). Overall, we tested Zeus for agouti, red/black, silver, cream, dun/d1 and W20. The agouti and red/black tests were to find out…
Zeus (a very handsome fellow!) is a brumby passively culled from the herds in the Kosciuszko National Park. He’s our next horse in the mystery colour program. What colour do you think he is? What colour genes should we test him for?…
Our latest monthly mystery horse is a gorgeous part-bred Arab/TB called Tanlee Romeo. He has a chocolate coat that is lighter than most smokey blacks (black buckskins) but more evenly coloured that most dark buckskins. He also has a very large blaze,…
For our next mystery coat colour project we’ve chosen Tanlee Romeo, an Anglo Arab. Romeo is dark brown with a wide blaze, four high socks and a white tail tip. His eyes are brown. Romeo’s dam is dark brown or black with…
Once again our monthly mystery horse is actually two horses. But this time instead of being Paint horses with unusual patterns, we have a dilute mystery! Both horses have pale gold coats, darker silvery manes and tails, and unusual light eyes. They both also…