Palomino Pearl

Appearance

Foals		Palomino pearl foals have a creamy color, mane and tail can be slightly lighter. The skin is pink. The eyes are blue and may darken a bit with age.

Foals

Palomino pearl foals have a creamy color,

mane and tail can be slightly lighter. The

skin is pink. The eyes are blue and may

darken a bit with age.

Cream and pearl on a chestnut base dilute the horse to a pale, creamy color similar to homozygous cream. Therefore, they are also often called “pseudo-double dilutes”. They have pink skin and green/blue or amber eyes.		Adults

Cream and pearl on a chestnut base dilute the

horse to a pale, creamy color similar to

homozygous cream. Therefore, they are also

often called “pseudo-double dilutes”. 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

Palomino pearl is the result of a chestnut 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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Palomino pearl:
Chestnut (e/e) + 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