Festivo MR genetyped for chestnut!

Festivo is now genetyped EeAACC which confirms he is the carrier of the chestnut genes and will therefore bring down chestnut colour to his offspring!! (see below).
The mares with the following genetic formulas will very likely have chestnut offsprings if crossed with Festivo MR;
Bay heterozygote mare (EeAA) or (EeAa)
Black heterozygote mare (Eeaa)
Chestnut heterozygote mare (eeAA) (eeAa) (eeaa)
Grey heterozygote mare (Gg) (gG) (gg)
He can exclusively bring down bay, grey and chestnut to his offspring, if crossed with a mare of basic colour i.e black, chestnut, bay or grey mare. If crossed with a mare with C or D colourgenes all the diluted creme colours (palomino, perlino, buckskin etc) are possible. So far Festivo MR has 7 registered offspring, bay, grey and chestnut, the mother to this chestnut filly is grey. He will have several offspring 2011.

Short info on chestnut colour in the PRE race;The chestnut colour was present among the first spanish horses in the book 'Libro registro caballos españoles' (Spanish Horse stud Book) that was initiated in the 16th century. The colour was rejected in the beginning because of the general belief that a chestnut horse had a fiery temperament. This theory was deducted until the 17th century when science discarded the theory of correlation between colour and temperament. As the PRE horses were bred for the king it was considered dangerous to provide a horse of this colour, which naturally reduced the breeding of the chestnut PRE. This colour has later gone through phases of popularity and there are horses which bred exclusively for the colour. As a result there is a limited amount of chestnut PRE's that maintain also the excellent race standards in conformation and movement. The PRE chestnut is therefore in need of quality breeding horses with very high race standards. A stallion like Festivo MR is able to attain not only the exclusive colour but most importantly the quality of conformation, temperament, movement and class to the offspring.

Different shades of chestnut;
The deer like (alazán cervuno), white legs and limbs (deslavado), golden (dorado), with white hairs interspersed (entrepelado), the browish-grey (garbanzo), vinous (guinda or vinoso), light golden (limón), liver chestnut (oscuro), light (pálido), dirty brown (piel de vaca) and cocolate chestnut (tostado).
Festivo MR, see his page here