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Chronology of the discovery of the pearl gene
Using date-stamped email. Other input is requested!
This table is "fleshed out" by more details below it.
| (Need date) |
"Spud" is suspected of being a previously-unknown dilution |
| Oct 17, 2001 |
Barlnk Peachs N Cream is suspected of being champagne (Carolyn, who
contacted you about her? Or did you run across her somewhere?) |
| Oct 17, 2001 |
Carolyn Shepard sends the ICHR list a picture and pedigree
of Barlnk Peachs N Cream, a "palomino" with only "sorrels" in her pedigree,
thinking she must be champagne, based on her appearance, but unable to
justify it by her pedigree. |
| Nov 15, 2001 |
Barbara Kostelnik writes to the ICHR list that she's found an Iberian foal,
by Q,
that looks champagne (Majodero, a Lusitano/Andalusian cross). With the
help of his breeder, she begins investigating whether he and his sire might
be champagne. |
| 2001-2002 |
Barlnk Peachs N Cream is "tentatively" registered with the ICHR as Gold
Champagne (#0044) |
| May 2002 |
Raleighs Barlink is brought to the attention of Carolyn
Shepard |
| July 27, 2002 |
Barlink article published
in Champagne Horse Journal by Carolyn Shepard (is this date correct?) |
| May 2003 |
Celeste Plitz discovers an unexplained-dilution son of
Bravio at Suzan Sommer's
Ranch
(Tequila). |
| ~Oct 2003 |
Champagne Horse Journal publishes Carolyn Shepard's
article "Champagne Delusions", in which she
mentions "Spud factor". |
| Nov 15, 2003 |
Carolyn Shepard speculates in a private email to Barbara Kostelnik that Majodero may carry
a previously-unknown dilution gene, similar to Barlnk Peachs N Cream. |
| Apr 14, 2004 |
Barbara Kostelnik starts the newdilutions list specifically to study
then-unknown
dilutions
(and the list has ended up being mostly about this
specific dilution.) |
| Aug 5, 2004 |
Deb Morgan replies to Barb's question about Champagne in
the Peruvian Paso, saying that she has pictures and pedigrees
of an unknown dilution factor in the breed (which Deb knew
wasn't champagne!) |
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We all shared pictures and
pedigrees of many horses of the previously-unknown, recessive dilution on
the newdilutions list during these intervening years. Owners of
Iberian horses
of the new dilution voted to call it "pearl". |
| Oct 2006 |
UCDavis announces it has discovered the
location of the "Barlink" gene, and has a test for it, calling it "apricot".
This is said to have happened within a week of Carolyn Shepard suggesting
they look for it at the cream locus, about which they have never commented. |
| Oct 2006 |
Carolyn Shepard joins Barbara Kostelnik on
her road trip to Acton, CA to see Guindaleza R. Carolyn pulls hair from
Guindaleza, and sends it to UCDavis,
which discovers that "Barlink" and "Pearl" are the same gene. |
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Here are a few emails that "date-stamp" when certain communications occurred
concerning the then-unknown dilution gene.
(I hope to undo the separation between Iberian and Paint to make a
better-flowing story, some day.)
Iberian (Andalusian/Lusitano)
Barb finds an Iberian foal that looks champagne:
ICHR @ YahooGroups Message
#10826
Thu Nov 15, 2001 12:49 pm
"B.A.Kostelnik" <bak@one.net>
bakostelnik
subject: oh, boy....
http://www.raineyvalleyfarm.com/sale_barn/majodero.htm
They're calling this foal of Q's an Isabella. I wonder if that
is in the
French sense, or if he later shed out to pale yellow with a
white mane &
tail. You better believe I'm writing this breeder IMMEDIATELY...
;-) In
fact, I just did.
BarK
Carolyn Shepard
first said "unknown dilution" in relation to Majodero On
7/15/2003, Carolyn wrote in a private email to Barb K.:
"(His owner had Majodero) color tested at UC Davis. He's a smoky black. She
sent a copy of the report. Most interesting...... He's aaEeCrcr. So he's got
some other dilution in there. And I don't know what it is. Shades of Barlnk
Peachs N Cream. Maybe the purpose of the ICHR is to discover additional
dilution genes that nobody ever knew about before. What should we call this one?
The Epoca Factor?"
Also in regard to Iberians: Celeste Plitz first saw Tequila at Suzan Sommer's
ranch -- UPDATE: I believe it would have been May 2003. She apparently
received pictures from that visit in January 2004, and so I'm guessing she would
have started sending pics of Tequila to the lists, etc. sometime soon after
that. (from searching through old emails/posts) I think he was only
the second unexplained Iberian dilution I had heard of, at that time.
I see that I started the newdilutions list on April 14, 2004 -- Barb
(webmaster)
American Paint Horses
Carolyn Shepard finds an unexplained "Palomino" that looks champagne...
Message # 9038
"Carolyn Shepard" <equine-ea@tcsn.net>
Wed Oct 17, 2001 8:01 pm
Here's the little "palomino" with three generations of "sorrel" in her
champagne pedigree. This would have been a pedigree tracing nightmare if I
hadn't known that Billy Van (sire of Pieface) was a champagne. This is her
yearling picture. She's four now. I asked for more pictures.
cs
Carolyn Shepard begins to see a pattern of unexplained dilutions among the Barlink
Ranch's horses:
Message #16377
"Carolyn Shepard" <equine-ea@tcsn.net>
equineea
Tue May 14, 2002 3:43 pm
subject: You heard it here, first.....
Hey, guys. In this job, I get to see a lot of interesting
horses.
Occasionally, I will notice a "trend." Remember Barlnk Peachs N
Cream?
The mare I gave the tentative ICHR registration number to? She's
44T on the
stud book page. Well, she's from two chestnut parents. She had
some rather
convincing photos, and just not knowing what to do with her, I
gave her a
"tentative" number which means she has to "prove" herself before
she gets a
"real" number. I even paid for her DNA parentage verification.
She passed.
I was wondering if she was some kind of mutant......
Well, then - someone sent me a photo of a cremello foal, and
they were
wondering if it was champagne. One parent was palomino, the
other chestnut,
and closely related to the dam of Barlnk Peachs N Cream. Hmmmmm.
Then I
was sent photos of ANOTHER cremello foal, with a palomino sire,
and a dam
related to the dam of Barlnk Peachs N Cream.......... Okay.
That's a
"trend." Something is going on here!!!!!
Anyway, photos of skin were traded, stories were traded. We
waited for
the cremello foals to get dark skin, and turn into palominos.
They didn't.
I talked to Wendy Bockman. She informed me that UC Davis has
"found" the
cream gene, and they are working on a test for it!!! <snipped
here>
cs
Her article (Microsoft document) about it is stamped July 27, 2002.
Pasos
Here's the first time I heard about the phenomenon in the
Paso breeds; in this case, it was Peruvian Pasos where it was
first noticed, and I found out about it through Deb Morgan.
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Deb Morgan
writes to Barb K on Thu, 05 Aug 2004: As far as
Champagne, in the Peruvian Paso breed,... I have not,
yet, found evidence that it exists (but am still
looking).
However, what does seem to exist is the non-cream
factor which makes palominos appear to be cremello,
chestnuts appear to be "palomino", etc... being mistaken
as champagne... but do not fall under all the criteria
for being a champagne (i.e. neither parent being
champagne, etc.).
A couple of Peruvian Paso "Cremellos" were proven to
be, genetically, palomino (only one Ccr gene) via
testing at UC Davis... though they had cremello
coloring, pink skin, amber or hazel eyes (blue at
first), even some mottling, etc.
Will be contacting some others who have "cremellos",
etc., though parentage shows they cannot be cremello
(such as progeny from chestnut x buckskin, bay x
palomino, etc. who produced so called cremellos/perlinos).
Some of these are darker than cremello... more akin to a
"dark" perlino with metallic sheen. Will also seek out
"palominos" who should not be, genetically, palomino.
The above is an email written by Deb Morgan.
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