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Yours does have a bit of that brown/reddish hue. I saw a couple others similar to yours when searching for the silver black tattoo. But, I think, even the space without the heavy dappling is considerably lighter than yours or the others I saw. At first, I wondered if it was the homozygous pangere, but I've reconsidered that theory.

As far as I'm aware this is just a natural variation in expression--a little like flaxen manes and tails can be blondeish, reddish, pinkish or silvery. If you rerolls you should be able to get a more traditional silvery color.

A good test when you are questioning these color variations is to see if the color changes when rerolled. If it does, it's a natural variation. If it doesn't, its genetic in some way!

Very interesting! I knew there was some variability - I've seen it, especially in roans. But I didn't realize it could effect overall hue as much. I did try rerolling her and saw some of the variation. Thank you!

Thanks, Windward. You've been playing a lot longer than I have. I remember seeing the recollection that once there were only horse heads on the game, but I didn't realize that at one time there was only a silhoutte. How this game has grown!

I started playing a long time ago but I stopped after about 2 or 3 years and only started playing again a few months ago. So there are a lot of people here who've been playing for a greater number of years than I have. I don't think I have the original horse silhouette saved anywhere though. You could add your own image to a horse back then so there were people who did photo manips or drew/painted images with a tablet to make their own custom images for their horses.

Also, I remember that purple was one of the original color names for horses and the Purple Corn Roans and Purple Corn Roan Duns were 2 of the most desirable colors. Corn referred to the dark spots you sometimes see on roans. When the dynamic horse heads were introduced, the purple horses no longer existed any more, I think they became Brown instead. And corn was dropped from the name since you were able to see the dark spotting on the roans. We've come so far with the horse images and genetics since Ammit keeps putting more hard work into making them look so wonderful! When I decided that I wanted to play HJ again, I was absolutely blown away by how lifelike the horse images were.

A history gallery would be really interesting. I'm not on HJ1 any more but I know some of the people there have been playing since the game first started, so I wonder if some of them have images stored away on their computers. I don't know if the original forum is still functional but I bet a lot of older announcements are archived on there if it's still around. I don't remember the URL though, I just know it was totally separate from HJ and was a different website.