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Snowflake is 'hidden', the gene doesn't get listed in the horse's DNA color profile. Most players just refer to it as SNF.

In order for a horse to be snowflake and display the trait, it would need to be born from two parents that are either homozygous for the gene, one homozygous and one heterozygous, or get lucky and have two heterozygous parents both pass the snowflake gene down. It’s also only visible on Appaloosas, so any horse that misses the Appaloosa gene but came from snowflake Appaloosa parents could carry the gene. The only way to know for sure if your Appaloosa horse is a snowflake is to try to register it in the snowflake breeders club.

Snowflake can only be GMT’d onto foundation horses when the gene is for sale in the GMT lab. Currently it is not for sale,

Here's a few example of Homo and Hetero

Homo Snowflake

ATO Snow Warning


Homo Snowflake gelding

Hetero Snowflake


Het Snowflake pass SBA


Sells het Snowflake


$$ het snf

And it hasn't been mentioned but random creates have the chance to be het snowflake, even hom snowflake but it's rare.. I only last season found out one of my rank specials is het sf and he is in his teens!

So some people can go generations before finding out they have one in their lines then they need to go tracing them back to figure out the carrier.

Thank you guys for the info, it helps a lot!