Chief Golden Eagle

Chief Golden Eagle is a palomino stallion born in 2008. His sire was buckskin tobiano Glacier who was last week's featured historical pony. His dam was the solid chestnut Beautiful Dreamer. The Golden Eagle part of his name comes from a nickname for the late stallion Cinnamon Hologram. Chief's had two sons kept for the herd; Thunderbolt and CLG Ember's Golden Flame. He's had five daughters kept; Shy and Sassy Sweet Lady Suede, Two Teague's Golden Girl, Chili, CLG Cowboy Kisses, and Angeliques Tigress Warrior.
Chief inherited chestnut from both of his parents in order for him to be a palomino. Beautiful Dreamer was a chestnut herself and Glacier carried it recessively. He passes one copy of chestnut on to all of his foals.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html

Interestingly Chief appears to have two copies of the bay causing agouti. He's never sired a black foal and has sired a bay out of his black mare CLG Ember. His color tested foals have all had agouti, including Ember's Master Chief whose test results I featured a while back. We can't see Chief's agouti since it only affects black pigment so we have to rely on offspring or testing.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/bay.html

Chief has one copy of the cream dilution to make him a palomino. He inherited it from his buckskin sire. Chief passes that cream on to his foals statistically 50% of the time.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/palomino.html

He tends to sire darker palominos despite not being super dark himself. They're not sooty though, just a darker shade. Color shade isn't something we know a lot about yet. Chief's often darker palomino foals lends to a theory that sometimes shade is inherited.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/colorshade.html