Cremello Capital of Canada Baptiste Lake Morgans – A Foal’s Paradise By Larry and Marg Armfelt

We live on the west side of Baptiste Lake, 180 km north of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. We began our breeding program for purebred morgans in 1995. Our goal was to develop palomino Morgans with excellent conformation and personalities. We purchased Pal-A-Mor’s Golden Sun (Glori-Del Sir John X Correll’s Mae) and Sun Hills ShowDancer (Tiger Lily ShowTime X Day Dreamer’s Megan).

Assuming palomino X palomino would ALWAYS create palomino, we found that developing color was a little more complicated.

This story is about Baptiste Shadow TigerLily (Pal-A-Mor’s Golden Sun X Sun Hills ShowDancer). Assuming breeding a palomino to a palomino would result in a palomino foal, we were confused and delighted with the arrival Dancer’s filly, a white beauty with blue eyes. Shadow was Dancer’s first foal. She became Shadow because she was so tiny that she hardly cast a

shadow. In July of 1997, the Canadian Morgan Records, did not allow the registration of cremello morgans. Luckily for all concerned, by the fall of 1997, cremello color was accepted as an official Morgan color. Shadow is the first cremello filly registered at Canadian Livestock Records Corp. Her arrival changed our goal and changed the Morgan world. We sought cremello as well as palomino colored Morgans.

Our learning curve of genetics affecting color:

Palomino stud X Palomino mare = 50% chance of Palomino foal

or 25% chance of Chestnut foal

or 25% chance of Cremello foal