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Nice!

It’s the combo of splash/extensive white/wrong warp/ hearts. If the wrong warp wasn’t there this foal would be mostly white with the hearts.

yeah, That should give a similiar foal. what a beauty though!

I'm considering making some embryos, so that I have more chance of duplicating him. I know that will be expensive. Are there instructions somewhere how it works? And which is cheaper hb wise, to clone or to make embryos?

The cost of cloning does vary depending on how many fancy genes the horse has, but even at the cheaper end I think it's more expensive than embryo breeding. If you want to make embryos, you'd have to wait until next month since the dam has already been bred this season, and then pull or flush eggs. You can pull a few eggs and then flush her near the end of breeding season to potentially get more eggs than you could flushing alone. An egg pull costs 3000hbs (gives you one egg) and an egg flush costs 30,000hbs (gives you 8 to 14 eggs randomly). You have to wait five days to pull another egg or flush her. Egg pulls don't put her foals-this-year count up to one but an egg flush does and then you can't pull or flush any more eggs that season. Then you pull straws from the stallion for however many eggs you have that you want to use. You need to make the embryos one at a time by selecting which straw and which egg you want to combine. That costs 2,000hbs per embryo. Then you have to go to the implant embryo tab and select a surrogate mare to implant the embryo in to make a foal. Use mares you don't want to breed for their own genetics, because this will put the surrogates' foal counts up to 1 and they can't be bred again that season. It costs 4,000hbs to implant an embryo to get a foal. So, in total, if you pull an egg, pull a straw, use them make an embryo, and implant it, it costs 9,500hbs. It might be different if you do a flush because the amount of eggs you get is random but it still costs 30,000hbs. Cloning always costs at least 1 GMT (I think it would be a lot more for a horse with paid genes), which costs 125,000hbs, so embryo breeding is cheaper.

Thank you, Lynn, you explained very clearly. I think I'll try that, depending of course if I haven't destroyed my dpo.