Amber Champagne

Often mistaken for buckskin, Amber Champagne can be easily identified by the tell-tale skin, eye color, mane, tail, and the chocolate brown points. Amber is Champagne on a bay basecoat. Further in detail, Amber is the result of one or two champagne genes on a bay (black + agouti) base coat. Amber Champagne tends to have a golden tan body with brown points. The legs are often lighter than the mane and tail. Most of the time, the mane and tail will have "frosting" of some kind, that is, lighter hairs along the edges.

The eye color starts out blue, as with all known Champagnes, and usually ends up amber to brown.

An Amber foal's coat color is often darker than the adult; the skin starts out the usual bright pink, becoming a more subdued pink color as the horse ages and develops more and more freckles.

The shades of Amber and Classic Champagne can be often very close to each other. One slight way to tell the difference is that the point color on a Classic is a different shade of the same color as the body, while the point color of an Amber Champagne are usually a different color from the body (brown as opposed to a golden tinge).