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KP gives the horse a 'clouded' look, as if you took a huge Roan paintbrush and swiped at them randomly. I think it needs two KIT genes present to be expressed.

Gulastra Plume turns the tail silvery/white. It usually leaves the mane dark. You see a pretty similar look in some Splash horses that have a white patch on the tail, but GP is its own thing.

No idea on GMT, I seem to remember reading that to add a gene, it needs to be a possibility from that breeding that the particular horse just didn't get.

I think that's how it works with other genes but I'm not sure an out these two. You can't search for the genes so I'm not sure.
RipshinCreekFarm: does that mean I need to buy two copies per foundation?

It depends if the horse in question is lined or a foundation. If the horse is foundation (having no game horses in its pedigree), any genes can be added. If the horse is lined, their can only be changed to whatever their parents had. Say a lined horse had KitKitr. If you wanted to add another kit gene or remove the roan, you'd only be able to choose from the parents' genes, so you could only change the sire's trait to whatever else he had, and you could only remove the roan if the dam's other kit allele wasn't roan. On the bright side, gene alterations only cost 1 GMT whatever the gene in lined horses.

for KP and GP specifically you'd need two of each gene for it to express, but KP does need two Kit genes (even if they're just w20) and for GP you need a bay base. It won't show on chestnuts or blacks.

Awesome! Thank you RoseFlute! That's what I was trying to find out. So it would be say two copies of sabino or tobiano to be able to show, then I would need to add KP twice through GMT. Did I understand that right?

Yup! but keep in mind, when you go to breed him, make sure the mares don't have potentially lethal combinations. Foundations can be fine with combinations of w1 and s1 with high white factors, but their foals are not impervious to the danger in the combinations. Tobiano should be fine, but it has the chance of obscuring the KP clouds.

You can totally still go for sabino, just be careful who you breed them with. :)

Yes, the white can cause a white factor of over 100%, which is lethal.

Thank you Confluence! It's gonna take awhile to get up the funds but I'll get there!