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I fell in love with a Gold Champagne with three darkening alleles and want to breed my own.

I just bought

BA1 GC Better Spicy
And have a few champagne mares.

TG1 GC Sparkling Cider

IM2 GC Perfect Impulse

TG1 GC Scrubbing Delilah

TG1 GC Moonlit Scrub

TG GC Scrubby Scrubby
and

TG GC CR Out with a Bang

A range of ages and generations, for sure.

The plan, other than buying a second Gold Champagne stud, is to initially breed for Red and for Champagne. My mares are a mix of Amber, Silver and Gold Champagne colors. Crosses to Gold Studs only will increase the chances of Gold and homozygous Champagne in the line.

My initial stud is Gold Champagne with homozygous sooty, any studs I breed out to or purchase will also have those genes. Three of my mares are Homozygous Sooty, two are Heterozygous, and one is homozygous S. Which means initially half will be 50/50 split between heterozygous sooty and Homozygous sooty and half the foals guaranteed to be homozygous sooty.

As I get good Gold Champagne fillies, cross them to dark Liver studs from my Chocolate Rhythm line. That line started with Rhythm of Four, Dark Chocolate and some Hopeful Hygge mares with a goal of developing quality Liver Chestnut, Chocolate Palomino and probably some dark Cremello color horses. The darker Liver Chestnut horses are more likely to be homozygous sooty.

I feel this is a reasonable and logical approach to developing a line with the color goal I have.