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Perlino.

Description: This color is very similar to white, and propably usually not distinguished from grey horses or cremello horses. So there is no icelandic name for that color. A rare color combination.

The mare is perlino.
Nett from Reykjum.
The foal developed into a smoky black horse (and in that way showing it's creme gene).
C: Linda Bergström.

Another picture of Nett.
C: Linda Bergström.

Some genetics:

The perlino is caused by two Ccr genes on the C-locus, just like a cremello. The difference between a cremello horse and a perlino horse, is that the base color is chestnut in a cremello horse, but bay in a perlino horse. The Ccr changes all the red hairs in the bay coat into yellow hairs.

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