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The reason she looks like that is that she's older and completely varnished out. Judging by the color of her remaining spots, most of her body was black when she was young (a less pronounced blue roan, so effectively black. Same color as those spots.) She would have had a white blanket on her rump and those remaining spots were inside that blanket. As an appy ages, all the solid colored parts of their body slowly fades--varnishes--to white. All that remains dark is the actual spots. How much they varnish and at what rate depends on what varnish genes they have. These genes are hidden, and snowflake is an extreme form of varnish.

Here's an older but not completely varnished appy. See how her solid bits are all frosty looking, almost roan, in comparison to her spots? That's varnish

LC2B Fivetissimo

thanks I didn't realize the spots inside the blankets didn't varnish with the rest of the horse. ^_^