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Your horse has to be 4 or younger, color tested, and with no living foals. You can use the GMT tokens, which do not expire, to add genes you'd like to pretty up a foundation horse, to enlarge or shrink the amount of white factor, make an inconsistent horse consistent, and so forth. If you breed a foal and it misses, for instance, White 3 from its sire or dam, if it passes all its other testing, you can color test it, take it to the GMT Lab and add the White 3 on the allele from that parent for a single token, regardless of the usual price. The rarer the gene, the more tokens it will take to put it onto a foundation horse. The allele from the sire is found on the left, the allele from the dam is on the right.

If you want to change a horse with genetic results ee aa (chestnut, if we ignore all the dilution genes for a moment) to a bay because you are collecting bays and not chestnuts, it would take at least two GMT tokens to make the switch. One to change one of the e's to E (red to black), and one to change one of the a's to A (it takes at least one dominant agouti allele to make a bay. If both agouti alleles are recessive, the Ee would create a black. If you want to make sure this horse always passes on the dominant E and A, then it takes four GMT tokens so that its gene test results become EE AA.

Not all genes can be found in the GMT lab. Nexus for instance isn't there. Ice is, at present.

Huh, this is all so interesting. I am very glad they don't expire because I think I will hold on to them while I figure out what I want to breed for. And I need to do a lot more reading on all of these incredible gene combinations. A big thank you to all of you! Baya, SandyCreek Acres, and Abbey Road, you are all so helpful.