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So, I was using my DHH--Exceptional Producing Cream--this evening, and found some odd outliers that did indeed carry a copy of Cream but the rest of their gene set had me scratching my head.

This filly is a Buckskin with a copy of Sooty--nothing too surprising here.

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This one is a Palomino, but since she's also homozygous Ssty, there's no classic golden coat to be seen.

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Here's her twin, another homozygous Ssty Palomino.

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This was the first one that made me blink. When I first saw her I thought, "What's a Bay doing here?" The gene test reported her as a Buckskin, however, so I though, she must have either homozygous Sooty, or maybe a copy of DP.

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Sure enough, she's heterozygous DP, with no Sooty in sight.

Ah, at last, a classic golden palomino shines forth.

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Yet another Buckskin. Perhaps one copy of Sooty? Nope, no darkening genes at all.

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Last but not least, one that isn't visibly a cream carrier, but one of my very early experiences in Hunt and Jump was a Smokey Black mare, so I knew what I was seeing. It takes two copies of Cream to lighten the coat of a black horse, and this one also carries roan, so she's technically Smokey Blue Roan.

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Thanks, Ammit, for the varied results of this herd helper. It's been a lot of fun.