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Hello MF2! I've just recently started out as well and am doing drafts too! I'm not going for a specific colour just yet, but I do love the bays and what the sooty gene can do. Currently my stable is a bit dark, so I bred one of the RS to another of the same kind and luckily got a Perlino, which does look quite nice. I think I'll just keep breeding for the sooty gene on purpose, but I do have my eye on those satin horses...

My favorites are liver chestnuts and any color of loud appaloosas and splash with preference to dark colors

I breed for mostlt KP, GP, DP and satin, but I also have lines of brown and wild bay. And pretties like ice, ice2, ice9, ice10 and ice13, snowflake and nexus.

KP is Kit Promoter. It's a fantasy gene based in real markings that come from somatic mutations (these can happen when a gene "breaks" somewhere along the fetal developmental process, or may have something to do with heat or pressure on the fetus before birth...many have no known cause). A KP horse has "clouds" of roaning on its body. They may cover most of the body of there may only be the tiniest wisp. KP is available in the GMT lab. For a horse to "show" KP markings and be registerable in the KP Breeders Club, it must be homozygous for the hidden gene (KP doesn't show up on the color test) and also have patterns at both Kit alleles, like Tobiano, roan, Sabino or white. It can be the same pattern twice or any two different patterns as long as the combination isn't lethal. This is one of my KP stallions. You can see his clouds along his top line and across his Appy blanket.

GP refers to Gulastra Plume. It's a real marking traceable back to an Arabian stallion, Gulastra, who threw bay foals with white tips to their tails. The specific gene responsible has not been identified, and several things like Splash can cause a white tail tip, so the gene is considered "Hypothetical" by our game goddess. Again, you can buy this gene in the GMT lab. It is a hidden gene again and needs to be homozygous to be expressed. It's only expressed on bay based horses (agouti horses) so bay, wild bay, brown, and can be seen with cream, dun and champagne dilutions. It may be present underneath silver or splash but obviously won't be seen in those cases. It may be present but unexpressed in perlinos (bay with a double cream dilution). This is one of my GP stallions, who is also DP.

DP is Dense Pheomelanin. Pheomelanin is red pigment, so DP makes red pigment darker. DP is also a hidden gene and can be purchased in the GMT lab, but unlike the other two it is also naturally occurring as a random gene in the game. It affects all horses with red pigment, so agouti based horses and chestnut based horses, but not horses that are black or Grullo. DP is most easily noticed on chestnuts, red duns and palominos. This is because the Liver Breeders Club takes horses with those 3 base colors that also have 3 or 4 darkening alleles. In this game horses have two genetic loci for darkening--sooty and DP. Each has two allele spots. As long as any 3 of those 4 allele spots codes for a darkening gene (Ssty, S+ or DP) then that red horse will qualify for the Liver club. 4 darkening alleles on a chestnut horse can make the horse look almost black, and is commonly called a black chestnut, but the game will still call it a liver chestnut. Below are a black chestnut stallion, a liver chestnut and a chocolate palomino.

And obsidian--the white tail tip can also happen with Splash, which is freely available in the game and makes the horse look like it was dipped in white paint. The Splash may be extensive and come well up onto the belly of the horse, or minimal and just do the hooves and very tip of the tail, or anywhere in between. I like a medium splash where I get 4 tall white stockings and part of a tail....but that's my personal preference! Splash can also give horses blue eyes......so black splash with blue eyes is one of my very favorite colors in the game!