Traits

Name: Champagne

Base Genotype: CH_  (on the same locus as Cream and Pearl)

Skin Color: Turns skin pink, regardless of base coat. May cause freckling or mottling. 

Eyes: Turns both eyes to a light honey brown or unsaturated green, unless a horse has an eye color gene such as Oracle, Arcane, or Tiger eye. If an eye color gene is present, the designer has the option of choosing both eyes to take on the eye color gene, or just one (heterochromia).

Description: Champagne lightens all pigments in the coat, and is an Dominant gene. This means that one copy of champagne (CHn) is all that is needed for this gene to be visible. If combined with another dilution copy on the same locus, such as pearl (CHprl) or cream (CRn CH_ or CRCR CH_) it will cause the horse appear as a double dilute very similar to double cream. Champagne has several names for it's variations, which can all be searched on for real-life references: 

• "Gold Champagne" : a chestnut horse with champagne
• "Amber Champagne : a bay horse with champagne
• "Classic Champagne" : when a black horse has champagne

Design Guidance: Champagne lightens the horse to an extreme degree and should have a orange, brassy tone. It should be warmer and more saturated than Cream, and not as cool-toned as Pearl. Hooves may be light, dark, or striped.  Horses may have slighty different variations of the examples below, but not by much. Colorpicking is encouraged. Champagne does interact with Grim and Ember; see dilution guides on their respective trait pages.