The story of the American Cream breed begins with a horse named Old Granny, a mare auctioned at a farm sale in Story county, Iowa, in 1911. Old Granny was a cream colored draft mare of unknown ancestry, born sometime between 1890 and 1905.
She has left her stamp on the horse world as the founder of a breed of horses distinctly and consistently resembling her in color and type. By mating her offspring to other well-known draft breeds, the type and quality have been improved while the color has been maintained.