Cremello

Appearance

Foals			Cremello foals have a cream-colored body and a cream or white mane and tail. They have pink skin and blue eyes.

Foals

Cremello foals have a cream-colored body

and a cream or white mane and tail.

They have pink skin and blue eyes.

Chestnut base diluted to a creamy color. The coat, mane and tail have a nearly white to a pale cream color. Cremello horses have pink skin and blue eyes.		Adults

Chestnut base diluted to a creamy color.

The coat, mane and tail have a nearly white

to a pale cream color. Cremello horses have

pink skin and blue eyes.

Adults

All double cream dilutions (cremello, perlino, smoky cream) have overlapping appearances. Genetic testing is necessary to confirm the coat color.

Cremello is the result of a chestnut base diluted by two copies of cream. The cream (CR) dilution is an allele of the MATP gene.

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Cremello:
Chestnut (e/e) + CR/CR

Cremello horses will always pass on a cream allele to their foals.

Read more:
Chestnut | Palomino | Perlino | Smoky cream

Locke, M. M., Ruth, L. S., Millon, L .V., Penedo, M. C. T., Murray, J. D., & Bowling, A. T.; The cream dilution gene, responsible for the palomino and buckskin coat colours, maps to horse chromosome 21. Animal Genetics (2001); doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2052.2001.00806.x
Mariat, D., Taourit, S., & Guérin, G.; A mutation in the MATP gene causes the cream coat colour in the horse. Genetics Selection Evolution (2003); doi: 10.1051/gse:2002039