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The blackout was a special 1 day event for "Black Friday" (the first shopping day after Thanksgiving in the U.S., so called because it's usually a day when retail store sales are especially profitable, in the "black"), announced at the top of the Create a Horse page.

It meant that if you had a Red Dun herd helper, for instance, all the horses created that day would be E? aa or black. Bay herd helpers would be the same. However, Champagne, for instance, was not affected, and none of the pattern genes were changed.

The real basic color for all horses was Black (or Grullo if Dun). No Red based horses could be made, no matter what the name and usual result of the Herd Helper might have been.

I'm still thinking about that. The most "classic" champagne I'm aware of is Dom Perignon, but I'm certainly no expert.