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| | Dilute genes - cream, silver dapple, dun, champagne - New Rider Message Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | Cream is responsible for turning chestnut to palomino, bay to buckskin, and less common colours such as cremello and perlino. |
 | | Cream is known as an 'incomplete dominant' - which means that if a horse has one copy of the gene, the coat is diluted, and two copies means it's diluted further. |
 | | Black with one cream gene is known as smokey fl - often they appear to be fl, and the existence of their cream gene is known only when they inexplicably produce a palomino foal when put to a chestnut. |
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