Strange Pearl

[JJay]

Any guesses? Obviously a Pearl...But what else?

[Malakai10]

Any guesses? Obviously a Pearl...But what else?

Are you sure that horse isn't a classic cream?

[JJay]

I thought pearls had dark eyes while creams had blue?

[Andraste]

This is a little more difficult since we just have the one picture and can't inspect the horse's pedigree (looking at the parents can sometimes help determine colors).

From what I can see though, this horse is either Classic Cream (Black + Cream + Champagne), Sable Cream (Brown + Cream + Champagne), or Amber Champagne (Bay + Cream + Champagne). Cream only lightens the eyes when there are two cream genes present - otherwise all palominos and buckskins would have light colored eyes.

As far as I know, pearl doesn't effect eye color anymore than cream does. To simplify it, the main difference between pearl and cream is that cream is dominant (one gene is enough to show up) while pearl is recessive (need to have two pearls or pearl and a cream gene for it to show up).

The fact that this horse has dark eyes with the champagne gene indicates, to the best of my knowledge, that it is not a carrier of the tiger eye gene.

[Malakai20]

I thought pearls had dark eyes while creams had blue?

Pearls do have dark eyes. Only double cream have blue eyes; green eyes if the horse has the tiger eye gene.

Your horse is too a=dark for pearl and looks more like a classic cream, AKA: one cream and one or two copies of champagne. Take a close-up picture of the horse's muzzle; if there are dark spots then your horse is a classic cream.