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I’m going back through the pedigree to see if I can find where the KP is from but man is that a pedigree!

A source for KP in that pedigree could easily be the Dark Star horses since several of her lines carry KP, including Skip Jack. I have a colt from his lines that's hom KP, so I know it's there. :)


BS Knife Of Dreams KP M

I looked and didn't see any others obviously KP in your filly's pedigree, but it can be very sneaky. A horse has to be hom KP and have two 'on' kit genes for it to show up. lol

Ok...

So

Dark Star noted in DS4 Palpatine’s notes that he’s a KP carrier. I know DS Dark Sun Rising was a KP carrier and he’s all over the place in the Foundation line of this girl’s pedigree on the sire side. So is KTF Arctic Shine who was also a foundation KP carrier...so on the sire side it could come from his sire line or his dam line (see below).

On her Dam side, I’m sure it’s coming from Happily use5g. It’s all over his sire side, again way way back and not apparently, on a quick scan, ever expressed. He’s got a lot of those same Dark Sun Rising lines running around.

So:

I think Happily is definitely a KP carrier. Think, don’t know, but I’m probably 99% sure. He’s on both sides of the pedigree so it may all be from him.

Whether DS Fault in our Stars or one of the mares in the sire line is a silent carrier, I’m just not sure. Without doing some test breeding, I wouldn’t want to speculate. Fault definitely could be a carrier, in the sense that it’s definitely in his foundation but that’s soooooo far back that it’s impossible to say without test breeding.

I hope that’s helpful. If you want to do some test breeding, I’m happy to get you some straws or eggs from Hom KP Horses, or put some up for breeding. They would be desperately uneven crosses, but with some luck and some GMT experimentation you could see who is definitely a carrier if they have at least 1 Kit pattern.

My hom KP stallion is w3 , lots of Happily's daughters are wM,
so yes please Cheers, I will take some straws if they are safe with kit M. Huge Thank you for the offer.

@supersarah, I have these 2 uneven breeding age boys (neither are BAed) if you would like to use them. I also have a 2yr colt.

12.3 A
NaF Why Not Old Money

12.7 Star
NaF Second Star Shot Currently ranked as 7th best producing KP stud this year.

They are both up in the KP chatroom or I can send you straws.

LOL that pedigree was a bit big for me to go through! But a lot of mine have Kp if my horses are back in there, and of course as said there is a lot of Kp in Darkstar lines too, but still a good find!

Straws are up for you. PM me if you want any more in the future.