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I had never heard of MH being caused by Frame until I went on US and Canadian Forums. We have not had Frame until recently, there was NO Frame in GCs until recently, and yet we have had MH all over the place!! Sabino, IME is what actually causes MH...... Splash helps it, both of which we have in spades!
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[quote="Monsterpony"]I think what appears to be a medicine hat in the Isabella picture is actually a flower in the horse's browband.[/quote]
Nope, the flower is in front of the ears if you look close. If you compare this color and the color of the ears of the horse in the last link below, they are very similar. I guess they are roaned by sabino.
Here are some links with horses showing the Medicine Hat pattern - all of them tested positive for frame - tobiano does not exist in that breed - so the opposite situation as in the Gypsy breed. Horses with splash and sabino alone never show that Medicine Hat pattern - at least in this breed. Lots of white yes, but no MH or War Bonnet possible then:
http://www.manyponies.com/maresfillies/…" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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http://www.manyponies.com/geldings/scoo…" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.manyponies.com/stallions/com…" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.manyponies.com/articles/medh…" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.manyponies.com/stallions/dan…" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.manyponies.com/stallions/spe…" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.manyponies.com/images/dreame…" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Here are 2 mares that would consider medicine hats that I owned, they were both positive for Frame and tobiano, but I'm sure they carried more that just that, probably sabino and splash as well.....pics are on the pedigrees.
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http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/itsjust…" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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[quote="tjuri"]Here are some links with horses showing the Medicine Hat pattern - all of them tested positive for frame - tobiano does not exist in that breed - so the opposite situation as in the Gypsy breed. Horses with splash and sabino alone never show that Medicine Hat pattern - at least in this breed. Lots of white yes, but no MH or War Bonnet possible then:
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Obviously there is a lot of combinations that can get the MH markings, it's more just that the top of the head/ears seem to be the last to lose the colour?
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[quote="rabbitsfizz"]I have no idea if they were related to the Cream ponies that pulled Queen Victorias children's various carts at London and on the Isle of Wight. She donated some to London Zoo and they were still at Whipsnade Zoo around twenty years ago, as they were interbreeding with the Prjwalsky's horses, which did not please the curator at all!![/quote]
This reminded me of Bill and Ben the world's oldest horse twins who gave pony rides at the London Zoo . They are both Cremello. They were born in 1983 so I really doubt any Hanoverian Royal Cream link. ^_^ They are very cute though.
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I once heard that a zoo put Mongolian Wild Horses and Zebras together in the same exhibit and had lil baby hybrids, I'd want to see what them and the pony zebroids looked like :P
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Horses and Zebras do not breed without a lot of "help". There was a white (grey?) stallion running wild in South Africa for a number of years at the turn of the last century, but he never bred with the Zebras, and even Zebras of different types will not normally interbreed....
The Cream ponies at Whipsnade have been around more than a century, they were at London Zoo before Whipsnade existed.
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[quote="tjuri"]
I'd love to see photos of Medicine Hats that tested negative for frame, if you have some to share that would be nice.[/quote]
It's not a little ear hat but I consider V a medicine hat. Not tested but both parents are neg and she's DNA verified so good as:
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Shows just how much tobiano and splash alone can take off the body :P If the splash had put up a bit more of a fight on the head it would be completely bald too.
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Oh that just reminded me of a cob I took pictures of in England. She'd be tobi/splash/sabino. She's a medicine hat isn't she?
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[img]http://inlinethumb10.webshots.com/6025/…] [img]http://inlinethumb59.webshots.com/46586…]
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Peruvianpasogal is right.
The American Cream Draft got the champagne gene from a mare called Old Granny who was found in 1913. She had no known pedigree or background. Champagne has been furthest traced in American Saddlebreds in the mid 1800's. Either it originated in Saddlebreds, or in horses used to develop Saddlebreds.
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Ahh thank you. I knew it started with an N but couldn't remember enough of how to spell it to get google to find it.
It was used to help develop the Standardbred and it also thought to be the source of gait in most, if not all north american breeds, including the gaited Morgan lines. The Narragasset Pacer was probably developed using a combination of English and Spanish bloodlines.
Resurrecting this thread
Resurrecting this thread because a few pages ago there were some lovely paintings and discussions on Hanoverian Royal Creams. I think I just found the holy grail of HRC paintings and I have to share it with you all. I just wish it was higher resolution so we could see the details!
http://www.myartprints.co.uk/a/lacretel…
This was painted during the 1800's.
that stallion looks like a
that stallion looks like a smokey cream? just a darker one... I think the second (dilute) stallion was done up in the same colour for simplicities sake.
almost reminds me of these two pearls : http://www.newdilutions.com/pearl/Gypsy… / http://www.newdilutions.com/pearl/Iberi…
but it doesn't seem to look the right colour still for pearl?
And I know this was an older thread but I recently read it and just re-read it and a question came up: How do we absolutely 100% positively know that the champagne mutation started "in" America? If it could be traced with the Narragasset pacer horse, how do you know it isn't traced back farther?
I'd like to think that a spanish horse at some point carried champagne or some mutation. It honestly seems the most logical thing.
Every time I find more about
Every time I find more about the creams the more I have no idea what caused them. They really do look like double creams or cream pearls. I need to post my grayscale comparison pics.
As far as champange, the fact that it is exclusively in the American breeds is a pointer to that being the main scenario. Also a change in environment is a catalyst for mutation. Much like how speciation occurs much faster in animals introduced to a new environment or island.
In the few centuries since horses were reintroduced to the Americas in the 1500's, new mutations such as Lethal White Overo and Dominant Curly developed which are both non-KIT mutations exclusive to American breeds. The numbers for these traits increased through selective breeding by humans.
Most American breeds, like the Cream Draft, used local horses of no or mixed pedigree in their development at some point where champagne could have easily been introduced.
Could champagne have mutated in Europe? Anything is possible since gene testing didn't exist back in those days, but IMO the evidence is leaning closer towards it first occurring in the Americas.
EDIT: Link to comparison photos.
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There are heaps of Gypsies with those sort of markings, they seem to be really popular right now