Buckskin pearl

Appearance

Foals		Buckskin pearl foals have a creamy, sometimes gold-toned color. The skin is pink. The eyes are blue and may darken a bit with age.

Foals

Buckskin pearl foals have a creamy, sometimes

gold-toned color. The skin is pink. The eyes are

blue and may darken a bit with age.

Cream and pearl on a bay base dilute the horse to a cream color similar to homozygous cream. Therefore, they are also often called “pseudo-double dilutes”. The points may be slightly darker than the body. They have pink skin and green/blue or amber eyes.		Adults

Cream and pearl on a bay base dilute the

horse to a cream color similar to homozygous

cream. Therefore, they are also often called

“pseudo-double dilutes”. The points may

be slightly darker than the body. They have

pink skin and green/blue or amber eyes.

Adults

Mimics

Pseudo double-dilutes (palomino pearl, smoky black pearl, buckskin pearl) look similar to homozygous cream horses (cremello, smoky cream, perlino). Genetic testing may be necessary to confirm the coat color.

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Cream pearl horses can have darker eyes and a more golden shade compared to homozygous cream horses.

Genetics

Buckskin pearl is the result of a bay base diluted by one copy of cream and one copy of pearl. The cream (CR) and pearl (prl) dilutions are both alleles of the MATP gene and interact with each other.

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Buckskin pearl:
Bay (E/_ A/_) + CR/prl

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Articles

Sevane, N., Sanz, C.R., Dunner, S., Sevane, N., Sanz, C.R., Dunner, S.; Explicit evidence for a missense mutation in exon 4 of SLC45A2 gene causing the pearl coat dilution in horses; Animal Genetics (2019); Doi: 10.1111/age.12784