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To me it looks shinier than the splash 1. Is there something that I am missing? What is the difference?

Aw ok. I was looking to see if there was a homozygous splash 2. They are gorgeous.

Generally speaking, Splash 2 produces more white than Splash 1.

Here is a heterozygous Splash 2 horse with Extensive White Factor.

http://hj2.huntandjump.com/horse.php?horseid=294775

Here is a heterozygous Splash 1 horse with Extensive White Factor.

http://hj2.huntandjump.com/horse.php?horseid=266443

Here is a heterozygous Splash 3 horse with Extensive White Factor

http://hj2.huntandjump.com/horse.php?horseid=305696

Of course, there will be other expressions of these genes with the same parameters I chose, but this will give you an idea of the effect of the three mutations. I tried to avoid horses with other patterns, and explicitly removed Frame from the searches, so there isn't a lot of complication with multiple white producing genes.

Sweet. I like all 3 splashes. I am thinking. How do you all figure out who to gmt?

Since I use to breed my paint gelding i loved breeding him over onto overo mares because he produced a 100 percent of the time the medicine hat paint.

I wished there was away to find one in the game. A medicine hat paint.

Splash 3 produces them on occasion. If you look at my stallion Proginoskes' foals there's a filly that has a high white factor and splash 3, only her ears are colored. Usually medicine hats are a combination of patterns - the colloquially term is tovero. Since tobiano tends to make the horse's legs and top line white, frame tends to makes the horse's sides white, and splash and Sabido tend to make legs, head, and belly white, different pattern combinations can lead to a mostly white horse.

I added splash 3 to my snowflake guy when it was on sale, and since its lethal with splash 2 I didn't both in my snowflake line. I'm saving splash 2 for my next KP stallion, just waiting for Friday the 13th to roll around. I'm adding it to KP because frame and the lethal kits are safe with splash 2 & 3.

Just like in the game, when you're breeding in real life it's a good idea to have genetic testing done on your horses. Particularly paints, since frame can hide easily and the foal actually comes to term and has to be euthanized. It's just sad all around. Also important (with stock breeds at least) is the 5-panel (tests for PSSM, HERDA, GBED, HYPP, MH) that the AQHA is now requiring for stallions. There are some nasty genetic diseases lurking around from several very popular sires, and it's cheaper and easier than ever to prevent them!

Speaking of Frame, you need to be careful with all horses, not just spotted ones. It is perfectly possible to have a solid colored horse with minimal or no white factor that carried frame with nothing for it to work on. Or to have one with large or extensive WF and see stockings that are much, much shorter than you would expect for that much white factor--and the only way you would know it had frame (short of the gene tesst) would be to pay close attention to the White Factor and realize you should be seeing much more than you do.

Wasnt Impressive the gray halter stallion that had severe bilateral Navicular Syndrome at like 4 years old? Get hoof radiographs with your prepurchase exam and a good vet to evaluate them.

I know hypp--evil disease. I must have him mixed up with someone else.... I don't breed and don't currently have horses and even if I did, in Aus we don't have quite the same saturation of US sires, so I'm not as up on this as those of you who are active in that world! I'm so glad we don't have genetic diseases (or really any diseases besides lethal gene combinations) in the game!

@best, I had a couple of Medicine Hat mares with the hat and shields early in the game. They aged out a long time ago. But I am sure there is still a chance to get one in the game.

Outside the game, I had a friend that I helped with her APHA breeding business for many years. One of her three stallions was a palomino minimal white Overo, cropout from a Barlink stallion on top and Joe Reed on the bottom. On his bottom side he was Three Bars on the top, and Versary Bars on the bottom, but it was way back 6 generations. He produced a lot of Medicine Hat and a lot of Tovero foals when bred to Tobiano mares also. He had 82% color foals with extensive white patterns. He always had me wondering if the Versary Bars skipped that many generations before throwing a paint colt. He is one of the reasons I find this genetics game so fun.