Rose Champagne- Basic Information

Rose Champagne is a common mutation coat dilution found on Dracian Warhorses, or crossbreeds with Dracian Warhorses. 

The gene responsible for this dilution is denoted RchRch or nRch.

The gene is dominant, but can be present with all other dilutions such as silver, cream or dun. It cannot be exhibited with regular champagne. While a horse may have both Rose Champagne and Champagne present in its genotype, regular champagne will not show up. Very similar to regular champagne, Rose Champagne dilutes black hairs. Similarities can be seen between the two genes, although Rose Champagne has a significantly pinker tinge to the fur than regular champagne.

Rose Champagne horses have dark, grey skin that is often dappled and speckled with even darker spots. This skin may be seen through the fur in low coverage areas such as the nose, around the eyes, or the groin. The eyes of the horse can be green, hazel, brown or gold/amber.

Apricot Rose Champagne is the name given to the colour of a chestnut horse with Rose Champagne dilution. These horses tend to have an orangy-pink coat, and will have light manes and tails, regardless of whether they carry the flaxen gene.

Violet Rose Champagne is the name given to the colour of a black horse with Rose Champagne dilution. These horses usually have a dark lavender to greyed violet coat with darker manes and tails.

Caramel Rose Champagne is the name given to the colour of a bay horse with Rose Champagne dilution. These horses appear similar to buckskins, but are dark and caramelly in colour. Their faces tend to be slightly dark, almost as if they have a dun mask, but this does not appear in all cases. This is exhibited on the example above.

Other forms of Rose Champagne are present when the types above are combined with the cream dilution.

An Apricot Cream Rose Champagne is a chestnut+rose champagne+cream
A Violet Cream Rose Champagne is a black+rose champagne+cream
A Caramel Cream Rose Champagne is a bay+rose champagne+cream

Double cream horses have Cremello in the phenotype, rather than Cream. These horses will be significantly lighter and will have blue eyes.

Single cream simply lightens the coat of the horse, as it does in regular champagne horses. 

Credits:
Group import lineart referenced from Cremello by Vikarus.