Smoky cream

Appearance

Foals			Smoky cream foals have a cream-colored body, mane and tail. They have pink skin and blue eyes. Smoky cream foals may sometimes have darker patches in their coat, which disappear as they get older.

Foals

Smoky cream foals have a cream-colored body,

mane and tail. They have pink skin and blue

eyes. Smoky cream foals may sometimes have

darker patches in their coat, which disappear as

they get older.

Black base diluted to a creamy color. The coat, mane and tail have a nearly white to cream color. The shade may be slightly darker or reddish compared to other double creams, but they can also be very light. Smoky cream horses have pink skin and blue eyes.		Adults

Black base diluted to a creamy color. The coat,

mane and tail have a nearly white to cream

color. The shade may be slightly darker or

reddish compared to other double creams, but

they can also be very light. Smoky cream 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.

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

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Smoky cream:
Black (E/_ + a/a) + CR/CR

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

Read more:
Black | Smoky black | Cremello | Perlino

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

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