Colours and dilutes

Dilutes and special
Star Andalusians are taking a special interest in the many new and reintroduced colours in the PRE. For more than 30 years the only colours accepted into the Spanish
stud book have been bay,black and grey.
In 2002 the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture
made a dramatic change in this law and after spending so many years trying to eliminate all other colours,they accepted them back into the main studbook.

There was a time not so many years ago that as a breeder your worst nightmare was to find your precious PRE mare had given birth to a chestnut foal!
Chestnuts were amongst many of the colours that would simply not be allowed to be registered in the main studbook.

As most of these diffrent colours
were almost eradicated from the breed they are now quite rare,so the chestnut or dun/buckskin foal that was almost worthless less than ten years ago is now worth a considerable amount more.Buckskins have never been banned from the main studbook,as in Spain they are regarded as a type of bay,but they have not been very desirable.Palomino purebreds have not been registered untill 2002 as they come from the chestnut gene

coat colours

Fortunatly many of these rare and interesting colours have survived often hidden by the grey gene and we are seeing studs being created in Spain that are totaly dedicated to breeding PREs with colour and type,bloodlines are being discovered that still carry cream,rabicano, the ver rare pearl gene and chestnut.

So Slowly we are seeing more of these beautiful and original colours of the PRE come back,this can only be a good thing. Now we can see the the Spanish horse as it would have looked in the royal courts of europe many centuries ago,you only need to look at
paintings by some of the old masters to see the wonderful array of colourful Spanish horses that were often given as gifts to Kings and Queens.

We are very lucky to have two cream carrying boys,two pearl carrying fillies and a pearl carrying mare,pregnant to a double pearl stallion.
Watch our slideshow to see examples of many diffrent colours in the PRE horse.

Star Andalusians PRE Stud