I'd talked some about today's tested pony's results in the past but I realized I never really went through them! This is Riptide's Cocoa Dream. She's by flaxen chestnut Surfer's Riptide and out out bay Pappy's Pony. Both of her parents are still on Assateague and her full sister is black Barbara's Tasi. She lives at Grit & Grace Family Farm. Thanks again to her owner Jamie for sharing her results and these pictures!
Cocoa tested as e/e which means she's a chestnut. Chestnuts must get red from both parents. Her sire is a chestnut, that one's easy. Cocoa's bay dam carries recessive chestnut, from her dam. Chestnut: https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/chestnut.html She tested as having one copy of agouti or A/a. Her bay dam passed a copy of agouti on to her, but not the black. Agouti causes the black on bays to stay on the points but it doesn't have anything to do on a chestnut. Bay/agouti: https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/bay.html Cocoa's primitive markings test was nd1/nd2. This result means that a pony would sometimes have a dorsal. She does have a dorsal stripe similar to her sire's, she likely inherited it from him. Primitive markings: https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/splash.html The most interesting part of Cocoa's test results is that she has two pinto patterns. The first wasn't too much of a surprise, splashed white 1. Her sire is well documented to have SW1. Cocoa also has a blue eye which is common for ponies with SW1. The second is White 20 or W20. She's currently the only Chincoteague tested as having W20. It primarily acts as a booster to another pinto pattern or puts minimal white markings on a pony. Splashed white: www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/splash.html White 20: www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/splash.html Cocoa has three things that aren't testable but we can see them. The first is sooty which darkens and adds black hairs to a pony's coat. Her dark chestnut coat likely comes from her having sooty, it's common in her sire's family. The second is flaxen. The light hair in her mane and tail is flaxen, which also came from her sire. The last is white suppression and it's keeping SW1 and W20 from putting a lot of white on her. It's also causing her star to be odd shaped. We know that suppression is genetic but not the how. It could have come from either parent. Sooty: https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/sooty.html Flaxen: https://www.thecolorfulchincoteague.com/flaxen.html
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