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Saltwater Pearl is a 2025 foal born on Assateague and owned by Rose of Sharon Ranch. Thanks for sharing her results! Pearl is by palomino Chief Golden Eagle and out of buckskin tobiano Serendipity. She has three full siblings. Last year's full sibling was also a double dilute. Saltwater Pearl's test results: e/e, A/A, CR/CR, nd2/nd2, TO/n Pearl is the pale, near white, color of a double cream dilute. Ponies like her have two copies of the cream dilution. Cream is an incomplete dominant which means two copies of cream look different than one. Her test showed this as CR/CR. As you can see she also has pink skin and blue eyes which is something all double dilutes have. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/doubledilute.html Most double dilutes visually look the same and require testing to find out which type they are. In Pearl's case she could be a cremello or a perlino. Her sire appears to be homozygous for agouti which would rule out smoky cream for her. Pearl's test says she is a cremello. e/e means she has two copies of red/chestnut. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html It's really hard to tell when looking at her but Peral is tobiano pinto. She has one copy because only her dam is tobiano. This showed on her test as TO/n. The white markings of double dilutes can be very hard to see as they blend into the pale coat color. When they're wet they can be seen a lot easier. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html The last part of her test nd2/nd2 tells us that she doesn't have or doesn't have the mutation to have primitive markings, like a dorsal stripe. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/primitivemarkings.html  
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Outcrossing info! This is a half Arabian yearling colt sold at the end of the 2000 auction. He was bred by Stanley White and born at his Grandeur Arabians in Florida. He sold for $1,300. The other week I was pulling info from the Arabian Horse Association Datasouce on Chincoteague associated Arabians. Noticed a HAHR record that matched up with this colt. According to the record he was registered as Handsome Dreamer. His sire is the Arabian Calistoe and his dam is Pebbles who was owned by White. Pebbles was born on Assateague in 1994. She was sired by Hurricane and was likely the first foal of Witchkraft/Friendly Girl. Handsome Dreamer's only recorded show record was a placing in a Native Costume class in 2006. There aren't a ton of half Chincoteagues registered as half Arabians so it's fun to find some like this colt!  Effie's Papa Bear, better known as Hoppy, was born in 2007. He was sired by the bay tobiano half Arabian Sockett to Me. His dam was the Assateague born full Mustang solid bay Mermaid. I think his breeding is really interesting and is definitely why he's pretty tall! He was quite leggy when he was a foal. The 2007 stallions turning 19 next year is making me feel things. Hoppy has had one son kept for the herd and 9 daughters. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/arabian.html https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/mustang.html Hoppy is a bay like both of his parents. It sure looks like he inherited agouti from both of them because he hasn't sired a black out of tons of foals. That also means he passes one copy of agouti on to all his foals, including the chestnuts. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/bay.html Multiple foals of Hoppy are chestnut, including his son, so he carries chestnut recessively. Both of his parents also carried recessive chestnut so one of them passed it on to him. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html Effie's Papa Bear's likely genetic makeup: A/A, E/e   I featured this mare's last buyback Misty Mills so I decided to keep this week's historial pony post in the family. This mare was best known as Goose because of a pinto marking that looked like a goose taking flight. Her registered names were Twirling Lace and Sweet Mischief. She was listed as Sweet Mischief on the papers of her foals from the old Chincoteague Pony Association for years and it changed to Twirling Lace in 2005. She was born in 1985 and her parents are unknown. Goose was famous for being able to walk across the cattle guard. Her foals kept for the herd were Merry Teapot's High Bid in 1991, Slash of White in 1998, and the aforementioned Misty Mills in 2006. Her son Calico Kid was an off island island with many offspring. Goose was retired to Texas in 2008 and died in 2021. Goose was a bay and carried recessive chestnut. Two of her buybacks, Slash of White and Misty Mills were chestnut. Goose appeared to be homozygous for the bay causing agoui because she never produced a black foal, just chestnuts and bays. All this tells us that both of her parents had agouti and at least one parent was or carried chestnut. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/bay.html https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html Goose was a tobiano pinto and had one copy of tobiano. We can figure this out because several of her foals weren't pinto. I think it's possible she had another pinto pattern with that big blaze she had. Several of the newer discovered white patterns tend to add to existing white or add white marking, rather than big pinto markings. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html   Millennium Midnight, better known as Oreo, was born in 2000. She was born on the Leonard farm but went through the auction that year. Her sire was the bay tobiano Miracle Man. The dam listed on her papers from the old Chincoteague Pony Association was Chantilly Lace. However, that's either not her dam or Chantilly Lace isn't who we thought she was. More on this later. Oreo spent most of her life as a broodmare and spent many summers at the Chincoteague Pony Centre. Here's a video I took in 2010 at the Centre: https://youtu.be/HZ2H8klfrv0 From 2018 to 2020 she lived on Assateague having been loaned to the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company. Here's another video of her from this July in her retirement: https://youtu.be/Nv7ykK5u6J0 Oreo is a bay like her sire. Her test revealed she has two copies of black and agouti. This means her foals could only be bay and indeed they all were. Back to the question about her dam, the mare everyone thinks was Chantilly Lace was a chestnut. A chestnut can have a copy of agouti but can't have a copy of black. So that mare can't be Oreo's dam, since she has two copies of black and had to have inherited a copy from each parent. Her white stripe "cream in the middle" gave Oreo her nickname. That white came from tobiano pinto of which she has one copy. She had a solid colored foal so it wasn't a surprise at her test result showing one copy. Oreo doesn't have a dorsal stripe but she has one copy of non-dun1, aka nd1, which can cause ponies to have primitive markings like dorsal stripes. She has one copy of Eden White 3, one of the more recently discovered white patterns. This is probably why she has a star and a snip. Still finding out what all EDXW3 can do. I don't know which parent EDXW3 came from but I've been eyeballing Miracle Man for forever at possibly having had something other than just tobiano. Perhaps this was it! Millennium Midnight's genetic makeup: A/A, E/E, nd1/nd2, TO/n, EDXW3/n   Misty Mills was born in 2006. Her sire was the half Arabian chestnut tobiano Courtney's Boy and she looks a good bit like him. She's the last foal of the prolific bay tobiano mare Goose, registered name Sweet Mischief and/or Twirling Lace (it's complicated). She's a half sister to the late Merry Teapot's High Bid, Slash of White, and off island stallion Calico Kid. None of her foals have been kept for the herd on Assateague. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/arabian.html Misty Mills is a bright red chestnut, much like her sire. Her dam was bay but she carried chestnut recessively and provided the other copy of red. Chestnuts can have some white hairs mixed very lightly into their coat. It's just something that happens sometimes and she has this. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html I have no idea if Misty Mills carries the bay causing agouti. Her bay dam could have passed it to her. Her sire could have also as he appeared to carry it based on his foals. All but one of Misty Mills's foals have been sired by a chestnut (the only outlier a bay by a bay) so without testing I don't have any info to go on. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/bay.html Both of Misty Mills's parents were tobiano pinto and she inherited one copy from one of them. She's had five solid colored foals and that tells us she is heterozygous for tobiano. I think she has another white pattern and I think her sire did too, but no way to tell for sure without testing. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html Misty Mills's probable genetic makeup: e/e, TO/n   Living Legend was born in 1997 and died in 2013. She was by the bay tobiano Hurricane and out of the dark buckskin Noble Sea Bird. Her old identification number was A70. Living Legend had two offspring kept as buybacks the palomino tobiano Whisper of Living Legend in 2000 and her last foal the buckskin Alice's Sandcastle in 2012. Her 2004 palomino tobiano son Hurricane Charley's Legacy was a stallion for years and has over a dozen offspring, including Angel's Stormy Drizzle who lives at Beebe Ranch. I remember her well and it's a bit odd to think she's now considered historical, but of course she is. Living Legend was black and she carried recessive chestnut. She had six palomino foals and that tells us she definitely had chestnut! https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/black.html https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html She was a bit of an odd looking black sometimes because she also carried cream, called a smoky black. If you look at my pictures she looks a bit of a pewter look to her black coat. Cream only affects red pigments so it doesn't have much to do on smoky blacks. None of her foals were sired by cream dilute stallions yet the majority of her foals, including her two buybacks, were cream dilutes. No denying she was a smoky black with that many dilute foals! https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/smokyblack.html Living Legend was a tobiano pinto and only had one copy which was inherited from her sire Hurricane. She has some tobiano roaning on her left side and a couple cat tracks on her right. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html While picking out pictures for this post I noticed she also had a bit of puzzle coat. It's the velvet looking spot on her neck in the picture of her left side. It's thought to be related to metabolic issues. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/puzzle-coat.html   Riptide's As You Wish, known as Wesley, is a 2020 gelding. He's by Surfer's Riptide and out of the late Thetis. Thanks to Lori for his test results and this picture! His test results weren't a surprise, but it's always great to see results. Wesley genetic makeup: e/e, a/a, nd1/nd1, SW1/n. Wesley is a chestnut which was the only color he could be since both of his parents are chestnut. Two chestnuts can't have anything but a chestnut. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html He tested as a/a which means he doesn't have the bay causing agouti. Agouti doesn't visually show up on a chestnut because it only affects black. I'm pretty positive his sire is a/a too based on test results like this and his offspring. Wesley has two copies of the primitive marking causing nd1. Primitive markings are like dorsal stripes and leg barring. His sire has a pretty obvious dorsal stripe (likely enhanced by sooty) so not surprised by this test result. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/primitivemarkings.html Both of his parents have Splashed White 1 as proven by their offspring. One of Wesley's 3/4 siblings Surfer's Rouge Wave is a homozygous "classic" splash. Wesley's test showed he has one copy of SW1/n. His white markings are pretty typical for heterozygous SW1. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/splash.html Wesley is a flaxen chestnut like his sire and his sire's family. We know flaxen is genetic in some way but it hasn't been figured out yet. I definitely think it will be in the near future. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/flaxen.html He has some birdcatcher spots and his dam did too. They were extensive on her face. The spots themselves aren't genetic but the reaction that causes them is. They are the result of an autoimmune response, often from bug bites. So Wesley inherited the autoimmune reaction from his dam. Birdcatcher spots can appear and disappear while others show up and stay throughout a pony's life. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/birdcatcher.html  Tuney, sometimes spelled Tunie, is one of the elder mares in the current herd having been born in 2003. I took a couple of foal photos of her and didn't realize it until years later! She had the nickname Queenie before her name was known because she was Queen Neptune. Her sire was the chestnut tobiano Willie's Majestic Dreamer, she was the only one of his foals kept for the herd. Tuney looks a lot like her brown tobiano dam Seaside. She has had two foals kept for the herd, Don Leonard Stud II and JAZ Willa's Mirackle. She's a dark bay or brown. Browns are so far genetically the same as bays, however in other breeds it's different so we'll have to see what research shows in the future. Tuney only has one copy of agouti because she produced one black foal. Interestingly her son Don Leonard Stud II does appear to be homozygous for agouti because he's never sired a black foal out of dozens of offspring. The first photo is her in her summer coat and the second is in her winter coat, the color shade of her coat changes with the seasons. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/bay.html https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/brown.html Tuney carries recessive chestnut from her chestnut sire. She's also produced a few chestnuts, including her stallion son Don Leonard Stud II. A pony can only be chestnut if both parents either are chestnut or carry it recessively. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html She's an excellent example of a tobiano pinto. Tuney's produced several solid colored foals so that tells us she carries one copy of her pinto pattern. Both of her parents were tobiano but only one of them passed tobiano on to her. https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html Tuney's likely genetic makeup is E/e, A/a, TO/n.   Midweek history tidbit! An August 1944 sale ad from the Orange County Review. For a "spotted" Chincoteague Pony, presumably a pinto. The pony is advertised as gaited. Chincoteagues aren't gaited these days, however some have been found to have a copy or two of the gaited gene DMRT3.  |
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