American Cream Draft

American Cream Draft: The American Cream is a rare draft horse of consistently cream color and medium to heavy build, the only draft horse breed developed in the USA. It is a unique draft breed because of its cream coloring, which is not seen in most other draft horse breeds. Due to its small number of registered animals, the breed has been listed at a "critical" status by the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy. Genetic research, conducted by E. Gus Cothran of the University of Kentucky, has established that the American Cream Draft is not merely a color variant of the Belgian breed, but unique in type as well as color. Neither a cremello nor a palomino, the color is caused by a dominant gene known as the champagne gene.

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