Composite Dilutes
  Nugget's Summer Ray, Tennessee Walking Horse stallion. By a palomino, out of a champagne. Owned by Stephanie Clatterbuck - Culpeper, Virginia Website . |
| This is an "Ivory" Champagne, a horse having both a Cr and a Ch gene. This horse is a palomino champagne (chestnut base + cream gene + champagne gene). Both the champagne and the cream gene dilute the red pigment, creating a horse that is lighter than either one alone. Ivory champages are often mistaken for cremellos, as they are very light. Note the freckled skin in the second photograpy. |
 FDS Champagne For Milady,Tennessee Walking Horse mare. By a bay, out of a gold champagne. Owned by Stephanie Clatterbuck - Culpeper, Virginia Website . |
| This mare is an Amber champagne, a bay with a champagne gene. She also has an unusually light mane. The champagne diluted her red body to a golden color, and her black legs and mane to a lighter color. Her legs are pretty light for an amber champagne, but you can see that they are darker than the body (look at knee/fetlocks). |