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# Gold champagne
- URL: https://equinecolors.com/gold-champagne/
- Published: 2026-04-16T11:45:32.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-10T10:57:38.000Z
- Description: Gold champagne is a horse coat color caused by the champagne dilution acting on a chestnut base. The coat is golden with a creamy or white mane and tail, amber coloured eyes, and freckled skin.
- Author: Hannelore Roodhooft
- Tags: Colors, Dilutions, #Import 2026-08-12 09:42

## Appearance

| Foals | ![Gold champagne foal](https://equinecolors.com/content/images/2026/04/goldchampagnefoal.png) | Champagne foals are often born **darker**than their adult color will be. They have**blue-green eyes** and **pink skin**. |
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| **[Chestnut](https://equinecolors.com/chestnut/) base** diluted to a **yellow or gold** color.**Mane and tail** have a lighter **creamy** to **nearly**white shade. The **eyes** darken to a **hazel/amber**color as the horse ages. The **skin** has a slightlydarker, **pink to lavender** "pumpkin colored" tonewith **freckling** around the eyes, muzzle, udder,sheath and under the tail. | ![Gold champagne horse](https://equinecolors.com/content/images/2026/04/goldchampagne-1.png) | Adults |
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### Mimics

Gold champagne shades can look very similar to palomino. Champagne and pearl can, in some cases, look almost identical: both have freckles/mottled skin, amber eyes, pinkish skin, and their coat colors can look very similar.

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Champagne horses can be recognised by their typical freckled, pink skin, often with a purple hue.

## Genetics

Gold champagne is the result of a **chestnut base** diluted by **one or two copies of champagne**. The champagne (CH) dilution is an allele of the **SLC36A1** gene.

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****Gold champagne:**  
Chestnut (e/e) + CH/\_

**Read more:**  
[Chestnut](https://equinecolors.com/chestnut/) | [Classic champagne](https://equinecolors.com/cla/) | [Amber champagne](https://equinecolors.com/amber-champagne/)

[Back to Champagne](https://equinecolors.com/dilutions/)

## Articles

1. Cook D, Brooks S, Bellone R, Bailey E.; **Missense Mutation in Exon 2 of SLC36A1 Responsible for Champagne Dilution in Horses*;* PLOS Genetics (2008); Doi: [10.1371/journal.pgen.1000195](https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000195?ref=equinecolors.com)

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