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Are you aware you can get genetic testing done for real? Then it's not just a matter of opinions, you know for sure. :)
https://www.vgl.ucdavis.edu/services/horse.php All you have to do is send them some hair samples plucked from the horse's mane & pay the fee. (Assuming you have access to the horse in question.)

As to the pictures, you have to load them on a picture hosting service - like photobucket or such. Then you can link from there to here. There's no way to upload straight from your computer.

Yes she's not my horse, I have a guess.. she's trying to determine what exactly to test for. I know she's an Araloosa (sp?) Her owner swears she changes color like 5 times a year. Her mother was a Leopard.. her full brother is a leopard. With everyone here who knows so much about genetics, I figured this would be a great place to ask. I have the owners permission to use her FB photos for this

Mother and Georgia as a foal :
Sire:

Full Brother:

These are other photos of her, but can't verify when. Owner doesn't remember exactly when taken

She looks like a bay varnish to me whether or not she is brindle, based on the foal picture compared to the adult ones. Beautiful horse.

Brindle is just a look. If a horse looks brindle it's brindle. I would guess the stripes are just temporary and will fade with age.

But she is a bay varnish appaloosa in color.

There is no understood genetic mechanism for snowflake in real life. It's a variant of varnish is all we know. She is not snowflake in any way.

PATN1 increases blanket size. She does not appear to have a copy. Dam is not a true leopard at all. Nor is the brother. Both were born with blankets and have varnished out to look leopard.

I would not bother to testher unless you wanted to know black/red status or agouti status. There is nothing really of question to test here.

This guy is also heterozygous for PATN1. I bet as he roans out more spots will appear, similar to how OP fillies mother/brother likely did.

@TawnyEclipse what would you test for though is her question.

I would test for all the things! But I'm strange that way (you should see everything I tested my mare for). Realistically, and the cheapest way, would be agouti and patn1 (possibly extension). To me, the dam looks chestnut which would make her Ee, hard to say about the agouti status so A?, we know she's LPlp and it would be interesting to know if she is het PATN1. And again, because I like testing. I would also run the 'arab' and 'stock horse' disease panels if the parents are not tested.

Agreed, neither patent appears to be classic roan, so she can't be classic roan. She's likely just an odd patterned varnish roan. There is some brindle in horses but its very rare and doesn't really look like her.