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Second one doesn't have an A gene, wouldn't that make is smokey black, not buckskin?

Opps, missed that, and that he was Champagne. Sorry! Was more concentrating on the varnish stuff for her.

SS is non sooty, StyS or SSty the horse has one sooty gene, StySty and they are homozygous.
VV is non varnish, VrnV or VVrn the horse has one varnish gene, and VrnVrn are homozygous.

I am not sure, but I believe that in the sequence of the genes, for the game, the first listed gene is from the sire, and the second is from the mare.

Like in this sequence l have listed below.

ee AA CprlCcr Dd gg ff SSsty pp Zz chch SaSa | KittoKit SpSp PAX3+PAX3+ VVrn LL rbrb OlwO IiIi WF: Extensive PATN: Minimal

It belongs to this horse, who is a 3rd generation foal in my barn.

http://www.huntandjump.com/horse.php?horseid=3460506

You can look at the sire and see that the first gene of each set is from the sire, and the second set is from his dam. Look at the first set (ee), which makes him red based, even though his parents are black based, they are not homozygous for black, so both the sire and the mare threw their e gene instead of their E gene.

For the second set (AA), the sire is homozygous AA, so it doesn't matter which one he threw, but the mare is aA, and threw the A, making the foal homozygous for Agouti, like his sire.

In the third set (CprlCcr), the sire threw his pearl gene (CPrl) intsted of just a cream gene (Ccr), which he has, and the mare threw her cream gene (Ccr) instead on her non creme gene (C), so the foal got CprlCCr.

So, you can continue to go back and forth looking at the sire and dams genetics to match with the foals, and see how it played out.

Foundations are more or less the same, except that they don't show parents, since you create them, but think of the genes the same way, as if from parents that are not listed. Don't know if that makes it easier to understand, but I hope it helps somewhat.