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Snowflake is a non testable gene. In the GMT Lab or on Modified horses it shows up as "?"
It is a recessive gene and required 2 copies to express itself.
The horse also needs to be at least het for Appaloosa Gene (LP)
Foundation Creates can be het or hom snowflake though most people never know unless the horse is hom snow het appy or they have bred a horse to a hom snow.

Any foal with a homozygous snowflake app parent has to be at least heterozygous snowflake. It is also possible for a non-app horse to carry snowflake. There have been several such foundations discovered when they produced homozygous snowflake foals, although random snowflake carriers (with or without app) are fairly rare. The way to be sure if a horse is a homozygous snowflake app (as opposed to a heterozygous snowflake carrier) if you can't tell by looking, is to try to enter it in the snowflake breeders club (once Ammit has the clubs open again). Your foal doesn't appear to be homozygous, but the amount of white makes it a little hard to be sure.