"Doc" is a 2001 AQHA registered perlino stallion. "Perlino" is a relatively scarce color that is described in full on the color page of this site. The perlino color is produced by having two cream dilution genes on a bay horse. This means that he will always pass along one of those cream genes to his foals. If he also has two black and two agouti (the one that makes black horses into bays) genes he would pass one black, one agouti and one cream to each foal....making each foal a buckskin. If he's bred to a mare that also has a cream dilution gene he could sire another perlino like himself. And if the mare is gray the foal will be buckskin but may turn gray as it matures if the mare passes along the gray gene to her foal. We intend to test Doc as soon as possible and will update the information when we get the test results back.
So far Doc has sired only buckskin foals out of mares of various colors. You can see some of these foals on "The Foals" page and can link to them below.
Docs pedigree can be accessed by clicking on the link above under his photo. Once there, if you see a horse in his pedigree that you wish to trace back further simply click on that horse's name. Remember to use the back button to return to this site.
Doc is approximately 92% foundation bloodlines. This means that his pedigree goes back almost entirely to horses that were first registered with AQHA when it was formed and that he has very little Thoroughbred blood in his ancestry. Foundation bred horses tend to be a bit smaller than many of todays QH's with the larger percentage of TB bloodlines that many of them have.
One very popular foundation stallion was a horse named Poco Bueno. Unfortunately it has been found that Poco Bueno is most likely the starting point for a genetic mutation that affects the connective tissue in horses and is called "HERDA". More information on this can be found on the "Genetic testing" page. Doc has no crosses in his pedigree to Poco Bueno so should be clear as a possible carrier of this condition. We are having him tested and will post the results as soon as we have them.
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