Foal colour question

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This is my foal aged 6 months. He is a deep red/sorrel colour but was a lighter chestnut at birth. His mum is palomino (dam cremello x sire black) and his sire is dark bay (dam bay x sire bay). He has got white flecks coming through on his back so wondering if he could be a palomino?! I don't care either way as I love chestnuts too, just interested :-)

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When horse is palomino it has a 50% chance of passing on the cream gene that makes it palomino rather than chestnut. Mum has clearly passed on her chestnut gene, but not her cream one. Agree with the others - foal is definitely chestnut, no chance of palomino.
 
How lovely ,like that shade of chestnut ..
Could someone explain as the dam was a palomino ( cremello x black) thought u had have cremello x chestnut to get a palomino ? Not a black ,,or does this depends on other factors
Also could the colt b carrying the Sabino gene if got white flecks n the shape of his facial markings
 
Black horses can either be heterozygous - Ee (one black gene and one red gene) and so can produce a red based offspring, or homozygous - EE (two black genes) and so no red based offspring - even if crossed with a chestnut - the red gene is recessive, so only shows if there are 2 copies - ee
 
And someone with a deeper understanding of colour genetics will probably give a more concise answer than me(!) but all horses are either red or black based, but other genes affect eventual coat colour (like the cream gene for cremello, palomino, buckskin etc., agouti for bay, tobiano, sabino, dun genes...I'm sure I've missed more!)
 
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