| The Smoky Cream color is the result of the action of two cream genes on a black horse. Where one cream gene on a black produces a Smoky Black, two of them create the Smoky Cream! See the Color Chart to learn more about the color possibilities the cream gene creates. Click Here to see the characteristics of the different cream colors, to include the difference between cremellos and perlinos. |
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An Akhal Teke. Possibly a smoky cream. We have heard that Dr. Philip Sponenberg thinks so.
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A Missouri Foxtrotter that that Dr. Sponenberg believes is a smoky cream. | 
This is an illustration of smoky cream from Dr. Sponenberg's landmark book, Equine Color Genetics. |
This owner of this darling week-old colt, Gerd Eriksson, wrote to Dr. Sponenberg and asked his opinion of its color. He told her that based on the photos and his pedigree, it's a smoky cream that will go grey. | 
This is the same colt pictured to the left, showing the white above his eyes where he is starting to go grey. Grey will overpower any other color present, and double dilutes are no exception. |
A Lusitano described elsewhere as a "pale dun" which MAY be a smoky cream.
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This is a Tennessee Walker colt. Sire is Calta Coppernicus TWHBEA # 888848.
Dam is Trailmasters Spice TWHBEA # 876077.
Smoky cream colt, tested at UC Davis as Ee aa CrCr or EE aa CrCr.
Owned by Kyya Grant, Bitterbrush Walkers
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DJ S Blue Casper
This is a Smoky Cream Miniature colt. Owned by Colette Mitchell. Results from UCDavis tested "E a Cr". | 
Same Miniature colt as to the left. |
Bleu SmokenDun
Smoky Cream Dun colt. Genetically tested "EE aa CrCr" plus he has the dun gene.
Owned by Carmen Robinson, Rockin R Ranch
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AQHA Smoky Cream filly previously owned by Jennifer Dunham
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Totentinkers Brianna
This 1998 Irish Cob mare is DNA tested at UC Davis, EE aa CrCr (Pearl: N/N). Carries sabino and tobiano genes also.
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This site is not intended to give the visitor a complete education in the science of equine genetics, but merely to explain the cream gene in layman's terms, and thus help dispel some of the myths associated with it. If you have questions about these horses and their coloration, please visit the Cream Gene Facts page, or our Color Discussion Board.
The American Quarter Horse Association had a rule on its books, 227i (formerly known as 227j), that disallowed registration of purebred Quarter Horses with two cream genes. The organization that has gotten the AQHA Rule 227i eliminated has an email list you may join:
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