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Hey Pine!

That is just how homozygous sooty looks on wild bays. A DP wild bay is a blood bay--blood red coat color. The first horse below is DP dp S Ssty. The second is his sire and DP DP S S with GP affecting his tail color.





I have heard that the dark chocolate color of sooty wild bays is a bug and they shouldn't really be that dark. I love it though so I hope it's a good long time before Ammit decides to fix it!!!

On your stallion, I think his mane and tail colors are definitely affected by his White 2. I saw that you also posted him in the Tales of Tails thread...there seem to be several patterns that can alter tail color this way including Rabicano, tobiano, splash, GP and White 1 and 2. Mane color tends to reflect whatever is the body color at the crest of the neck, but I quite like the variation in the tail colors in the game! It can be quite unpredictable! I'm guessing he is another sooty wild bay, since A+ will mask A or At.

I think I remember Ammit saying the red wasn't right.

I can't really speak to that except to say that I know blood bay is a real color--my OTTB was a blood bay and while he was a true bay rather than a wild bay, the shade of red in the game isn't too far off his shade of red in the spring once he got his new coat in. Not chestnutty, not coppery, but truly red.

Thanks KC! I was sure it was with the dark color (which I also quite like!) but then when Abbey questioned it I second guessed myself!