My first Papo horses : The cremelloes .

When I saw that Papo has a cremello mare and foal, I just HAD to have them, because my old icelandic mare, Albina, is a cremello.

For those who don`t know already, allow me to explain, that "Cremello" is a colour and not a breed, even if there are in USA a tendency to breed for a specific colour and call it a breed

A cremello, sometimes called a pseudo-albino - is a chestnut (red) horse that is homozygote for the creme-gene.
If it has only one creme gene, it is a palomino, and if it has no creme gene it is a chestnut.
Crossing two palominoes will give a cremello foal in 25% of the cases.
Crossing two cremelloes will always give cremello foals.
They have pink skin, blue eyes, cream fur and amber hooves, - very stunning, - if you like it
I have put a picture of Albina at the bottom if this page , - very unusual, isn`t she ?

Untill recently these horse were considered ill in many countries, and often they were banned from the studbooks
Much superstition flourished : They were blind! They had bad hooves! They were stupid ! They were ill and their offspring would also be ill, or at least be carriers of this horrible disease

But going a bit longer back in time they were highly valued, Queen Victoria had 4 cremelloes in front of her carriage when she was really showing off !

Actually their hooves are just as good as other hooves, and they are certainly not blind ! Perhaps their eyes are a little more sensitive to very bright light than dark eyes are.

For breeding of palominoes they are excellent, as they will ALWAYS have palomino foals with a chestnut mate.

(PS: Of course other colours horses can also be homozygote cream and have blue eyes etc, They look slightly different, but that is too much to start bragging about here )

Enough of this, here they are, the Cremelloes from Papo


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I like them very much even if their eyes are almond shaped with black eyeliner, and the hooves are dark, they should have been amber.

Here is Albina, my 20 years old cremello Icelandic HORSE
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Very interesting!! I have a book, with horses in this colour I think, I'll have to take some pictures of them, they are amazing - some people find them scary looking, with their clear blue eyes, but I think they're beautiful.
Congratulations on these two Papo cremello, they are really nice Susanne and I LOVE Albina, so pretty

They are beautiful Susanne! As well as your Albina. :)

Just a couple months ago I had someone offer to give me a cremello Connemara gelding. He was beautiful and it was very tempting, but I said no. And it was meant to be that way because right after we got Freddie. And he was meant to be.

-Kristie

Congratulations for your Papo horse, I loved a lot to read about it, I love this kind of text supporting the pictures and as you know I see in Albina a very beautiful animal!!!

Thankyou, my wonderful three Musketeers , for your kind words

I will tell Albina that you like her, and I am sure she will say : "Of course ! "

...Uh Sue i think Albina has a human intellect!

Sergey wrote:

...Uh Sue i think Albina has a human intellect!

Yes, she is very smart

No, seriously, her blue eyes look almost human, don`t they ?
Perhaps that is why some people do not like the look of her eyes , - just like they are scared of monkeys/apes, because they look human

Humans are scary spirits!

Albina is very very pretty! OMG what beautiful eyes she has :)

About the Papo horses, I love the coat but I don´t really like the sculpting work.




Not all cremellos are nearly white, there are several shades Here is my own cremello mare:

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I don´t want to ecplise your post, Susanne, I only want to show a different cremello shade :)

What a beautyfull model horse, Sylvia

I would think it is a BEC ( Blue-eyed Cream) with bay basic colour ( Perlino ?), they are much darker ...but I only know from Iceys, of course

Congrats Susanne! At first when I saw the eyes of cremelloes I don't really like it & until Albina photo appeared I began to think should I buy?

WONDERFUL, Ken

I can make you a horseman yet

I think cremellos are beautyful, and contrary to what supestition says, they are very gentle. At least that is what everybody who really knows them say.
Papo was very brave to make such an unusual model

SUSANNE wrote:

What a beautyfull model horse, Sylvia

I would think it is a BEC ( Blue-eyed Cream) with bay basic colour ( Perlino ?), they are much darker ...but I only know from Iceys, of course

It´s a cremello :) Perlinos have darker manes than body, and legs are usually darker than the body too

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Here you can see a dark cremello: yellowish body and dark blue eyes :)

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You have a beautiful horse. Thanks for sharing. The Papo horses are great too. Thanks for sharing.

Thankyou for the pictures, Sylvia

Thankyou to Amy from Albina, she LOVES compliments
Yes, those Papo-horses, - I begin to like them more and more.

But I will not collect them ! I will not collect them ! I willl not ....
As you can see, I am trying very hard to convince myself

Good luck at convincing yourself. It doesn't work too good for me.

SUSANNE wrote:

Thankyou for the pictures, Sylvia

Thankyou to Amy from Albina, she LOVES compliments
Yes, those Papo-horses, - I begin to like them more and more.

But I will not collect them ! I will not collect them ! I willl not ....
As you can see, I am trying very hard to convince myself

It was the most convincing thing I've read in the last years!! :)

It sounds hard Susanne!