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# Cream sunshine
- URL: https://equinecolors.com/cream-sunshine/
- Published: 2025-11-20T11:52:20.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-30T10:48:12.000Z
- Description: Cream sunshine is a horse color, caused by one copy of cream and one copy of sunshine, diluting the coat.
- Author: Hannelore Roodhooft
- Tags: Colors, Dilutions, MATP, #Import 2026-08-12 09:42

## Appearance

| [Cream](https://equinecolors.com/cream/) and [sunshine](https://equinecolors.com/sunshine/) dilute the coat, maneand tail to a **cream color** similar tohomozygous cream. They have **pink skin**and **blue eyes**. | ![Sunhine horse](https://equinecolors.com/content/images/2025/11/cremello-1.png) | Adults |
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### Mimics

Cream sunshine looks similar to homozygous cream ([cremello](https://equinecolors.com/cremello/), [smoky cream](https://equinecolors.com/smoky-cream/), [perlino](https://equinecolors.com/perlino/)). Genetic testing is necessary to confirm the coat color.

## Genetics

Cream sunshine is the result of **one copy of cream and one copy of sunshine**. The cream (CR) and sunshine (sun) dilutions are both alleles of the [**MATP**](https://equinecolors.com/matp-gene/) gene and interact with each other.

![CTA Image](https://equinecolors.com/content/images/2025/12/Equinecolors_Icon_DNA1-23.png) 

****Cream sunshine:**  
CR/sun

[Back to Sunshine](https://equinecolors.com/sunshine/)

## Articles

1. Holl H.M., Pflug K.M., Yates K.M., Hoefs-Martin K., Shepard C., Cook D.G., Lafayette C., Brooks S.A.; ***A candidate gene approach identifies variants in SLC45A2 that explain dilute phenotypes, pearl and sunshine, in compound heterozygote horses***; Animal Genetics (2019); Doi: [10.1111/age.12790](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/age.12790?ref=equinecolors.com)

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