TRIPLE B HORSES        

Here at Triple B Horses, we can guarantee you COLOR!

Our mares & stallions have been researched & hand picked for their 

ability to pass on their awesome traits, their fantastic color and their beauty.

Our ladies, blended with just the right sires, will produce Intelligent Minds and 

Beautiful Bodies for you to work with, train & enjoy!

We are excited to announce the opening of

TRIPLE B's Stallion Station!  

We will have 3 magnificent boys for you to choose from and each one's 

lines loaded with goodies from Grand Champions to Producers, 

not to mention LOADED WITH FANTASTIC COLOR!  

Please visit our Mares page for information concerning our LADIES, and 

Please visit our  Stallion page for a preview of the BOYS! 

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Color?

Like everything else, color is an opinion and I prefer no chestnuts or sorrels...

I say I can guarantee you color due to the fact that my stallions 

WILL NEVER PRODUCE A SORREL.  That is just one of my color 

guarantees.  The other, I have a Painted Dun Stallion who is 

HOMOZYGOUS for the Tobiano gene as well as carries no

red factor, he is considered HOMOZYGOUS BLACK, so he will never 

produce a red horse but always produce one splashed 

with white...

Our stallions, & our mares, when bred to our stallions, will never 

produce a sorrel / chestnut foal.  However...we can always produce 

diluted red based horses such as Dunalinos, Palominos and or 

Cremellos, diluted black based horses such as Dunskins, Buckskins, 

and or Perlinos, and we can produce black based or cream based 

Smokies when bred to our double diluted Perlino stallion.  We may 

also produce the Dun factor 50% of the time & babies splashed 

with white 100% of the time when bred to our Painted Dun Stallion.  

Our other young Buckskin stallion is also HOMOZYGOUS black and will also 

NEVER PRODUCE A SORREL / CHESTNUT foal.   

Now, A DISCLAIMER, all of the above is based upon our own 

knowledge of the DNA our stallions and mares carry and 

ALL THE COLORS LISTED ABOVE MAY BE FURTHER MODIFIED 

BY THE DUN GENE, CHAMPAGNE GENE, BRINDLE GENE AND 

OR THE GRAY GENE.

I love the color coat genetics involved with breeding.  It is a very 

important part of our breeding program.  Please do not get me 

wrong, sorrel / chestnut horses are very beautiful, as are most

animals I meet.  It is just not what I wish to produce from my 

breeding program.  

There is a vast amount of information concerning color coat genetics.  

What I list below is just a very small portion and is meant only to give you

a glimpse into the coat colors, as well as THE EXCEPTIONS!

HOMOZYGOUS -  The horse carries two copies of the DOMINANT

gene and will pass to the foal a copy of that DOMINANT gene which 

dominates the coat color or pattern, along with any other modifying 

color genes.  Example: Homozygous Tobiano means the foal will get 

a dominant Tobiano gene from the parent and will display 

that coat color or pattern from that dominant gene.

HETEROZYGOUS - The horse carries only one copy of the DOMINANT

gene and may pass on the dominate or recessive version of the gene to 

the foal.  The resulting foal may or may not display the color and or pattern.

Example:  Solid Paint Horses that display no patterns.

RED FACTOR - The horse carries the red factor (gene) which means that 

the horse may produce red based horses or black based horses.

NO RED FACTOR - The horse carries no red factor and will only produce

black based foal colors.

CREAM - The horse may carry one or two copies of the cream dilution gene 

which will dilute the coat.  One copy passed to the foal gives you a red based 

Palomino, or a black based Buckskin  or even a Smokey Black coat color.  Two 

copies (HOMOZYGOUS) passed to the foal gives you a red based Cremello, or a

back based Perlino or even a Smokey Cream.

DUN - The horse may carry one or two copies of the dun dilution gene.  One copy

passed to the foal will give you a Dun dilution, with or without a Dorsal Stripe, with 

or without Dun shading along the withers, girth area, forelock cob webbing, and or

the primitive stripes along the legs.  Two copies of the dun gene (HOMOZYGOUS)

produce a DUN who will always pass a copy to the foal. 

AGOUTI - This gene determines the location of any black pigment on the horse.  

This gene also does not always present itself physically so the only way

to know of it's existence and it's form, is to test the DNA.  A horse may be 

HOMOZYGOUS, or HETEROZYGOUS for both the DOMINANT and or 

RECESSIVE forms of this gene.  If this gene is present as homozygous 

recessive, the horse's black pigment will be spread uniformly all over the body.  

If the gene is present with one dominant and one recessive form, or both dominant, 

the horse will have black points.  Remember that a copy will be passed to the foal

in whatever form from the parent.   

Other coat modifiers such as the Champagne gene, the Roan gene and the Gray

genes will further dilute the color of the horses coat.  The Gray gene is DOMINANT 

and will over-ride all other coat colors.  Then you have the very rare Brindle pattern, 

the Silver gene and the Pearl gene.  The genetics fascinate me and I so enjoy seeing 

all the beautiful coat colors!

The APHA member magazine Paint Horse Connections has a wonderful article on 

the EXCEPTIONS.  This is just a sneak preview and you must purchase a copy of 

the February 2011 PAINT HORSE JOURNAL to finish the article, TALK ABOUT A TEASER!  

We are very appreciative of the Managing Editor, Ms. Jessica Hein, for her assistance 

in obtaining the beginning of this very educational article!  Thank you Ms. Hein!

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Slipped Away By Irene Stamatelakys  REPRINTED WITH THE PERMISSION OF THE PAINT HORSE CONNECTION (painthorsejournal.com)

Sometimes a Paint registered as solid might actually be

a tobiano—at least in its genes. 

When Wendy Davis first laid eyes on Majors Twister, a

2000 solid black mare, she knew from the get-go that the mare was a tobiano in disguise.

“There was no question about it,” recalled Davis, who raises Paints with her husband Wes in

Sonningdale, Saskatchewan, Canada. “I knew it because along the bottom of her feet there were little

paw prints and by the way the white comes up the legs. Seeing her, and knowing her parents, 

I definitely knew she was tobiano.”  

Registered as a solid Paint-bred, Majors Twister is actually a “slipped” tobiano—a genetic tobiano who doesn’t meet the

necessary color requirements to obtain Regular Registry status. She has produced tobianos when bred to an overo stallion,

proving that she does in fact carry the tobiano gene.

But to the inexperienced eye, the mare looks solid, although 

she has stockings up to her knees.  “It’s quite amazing,” Davis said. “You look at her and you say,

‘who knows, eh?’ But I know because of her spots. She’s got those paw prints by her feet, and 

that’s not overo. And she has that white strip down her face, and that’s not overo. I knew her foals 

would be tobiano.” Davis’ hunch was right.  Majors Twister was bred three times to Salt Pepper, 

Davis’ overo stallion, producing two tobianos and one overo. Parentage verification, required by 

the APHA,  approved the mare indeed produced tobiano offspring. 

She’s not the only “miracle” mare. Every year, the APHA’s Registration Department sees 

about a dozen cases where solid or “non-tobiano” parents produce tobiano foals.  

Then there’s the case of the homozygous tobiano that produces a solid foal.

Sired by a homozygous tobiano stallion, Justa Badgers Will is registered as a solid Paint-bred—he lacks the contrasting coat

color required to obtain Regular Registry status. Courtesy Wendy Davis, Courtesy Rosanne Brackney

Take for example Justa Badgers Will. “He was the very first foal 

from my homozygous stallion,” said Rosanne Brackney of Zillah, Washington, “so I was very 

shocked he came out solid. I had the stallion tested before I bred him, and I had [the colt] tested too 

and it showed he did have one tobiano gene.”  Why does tobiano spotting vary so widely, from 

nearly all white, with just a medicine hat, to nearly all dark, with hardly a spot? Why do some 

horses that test homozygous for the tobiano gene produce solid foals? What are the factors that

influence the amount white in tobiano Paints?  

Find out by reading the rest of the article “Slipped Away” in the February 2011 Paint Horse Journal. For information

on how to subscribe to the Journal or to purchase the February 2011 issue, contact the Journal Circulation

The following links will help you to understand more about the genetics involved with color. 

Please visit the color calculator chart for probabilities on foal colors, of course it helps if 

you know the genetic make up of your horse...

http://www.animalgenetics.us/CCalculator1.asp

http://www.vgl.ucdavis.edu/services/index.php

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