Tested Pony: Prince Caspian of Chincoteague

Prince Caspian of Chincoteague is a 2025 gelding born on Assateague. His sire is bay pinto Henry's Hidalgo and his dam is buckskin pinto Molly's Rosebud, both are still on Assateague. His year older full brother Rose Bud's Romeo's test results have already been featured, take a look back at those to see the difference between the two brothers! Thanks to Caspian's owner Amanda at Wild Meadows Equestrian Center for sharing his results! Check out their page to follow his adventures.
Prince Caspian of Chincoteague's test results: a/a, E/e, CR/n, nd1/nd2, TO/TO

Caspian is a black carrying recessive chestnut, which shows on his test as a/a, E/e. His full brother Rose Bud's Romeo is a chestnut so not a big surprise Caspian carries chestnut. Both of their parents have a chestnut parent so we already knew they carried it recessively.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/black.html

You may have noticed that Caspian is kind of a weird looking black. I noticed that about him right away and I guessed his was a smoky black. His test came back that he is! Smoky black means he carries one copy of the cream dilution which he inherited from his buckskin dam. Not all smoky blacks look odd like him, but it seems to be a pretty good indicator when they are a bit funky looking.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/smokyblack.html

He has one copy of non-dun1 and one copy of non-dun2. Non-dun1 can cause ponies to have primitive markings and non-dun2 can cause them to not. So either is possible in Caspian's case.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/primitivemarkings.html

Caspian is tobiano pinto and like both of his parents and his test showed he got a copy from each of them. So he's homozygous tobiano or TO/TO.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/tobiano.html

You may be wondering where Caspian's blue eyes came from. Not sure! I expected him to have splashed white 1 since it's in his sire's family. Didn't have any of the eden whites either. While it's surprising it's not entirely unexpected that there's something unknown in the herd. With over 40 pinto patterns currently testable we know for sure there's more out there to be found! I'm pretty positive my Chincoteague has a not yet testable white pattern too.
https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/pintoblueeyes.html