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Don't worry, it's not a stupid question at all!

Like Bandit said, Brindle cannot be bred from. It's a random chance thing, however having a brindle parent (ONLY parent, no further in the lineage) apparently raises the chances a bit more. Still, it is a very rare occurrence and always a happy surprise. I've been playing for over a year and have only bred 1 brindle. Some people get three in a season!

To tell if a horse is brindle, you see it in the name (phenotype - how a horse appears) and see the word "Mosaic" after the WF (genotype - the genetic code of the horse). To search brindle horses, you cannot do so by colour name. The search doesn't seem to like that. Rather there is a box you can unclick to exclude all non-brindles.

There’s a better chance but some players breed 50+ Brindle crosses a year and may only get 1 Brindle foal.

Currently I have 3 foundation Brindle studs with about 330 breedings between them, the oldest is 12 I believe.

1has 90 foals no Brindles, 120 foals 2 Brindles, 130 foals 1 brindle.

I have 3 foundation Brindle mares (plus 2 now deceased)

I have 1 lined stallion, 1 lined gelding and 1 lined mare all from the above stallions crosses with non Brindle mares.

ETA: I love Brindles and collect them whenever I can but unlike other genes I do not require a foal to get it to stay intact or I’d have no lined breeding stock left lol

All of my Brindle Lined foals have only had one Brindle parent, but Brindle is so rare (I’d say at best, maybe 1/500 foals, probably more like 1/1000). Brindle past a Foundation Breeding is even more rare, with maybe 2 or 3 of them in the game each season. These are this years bred (not created) foals that have been color tested Brindle:

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Of the 44 foals as of this writing, three are Bootstrap/uneven generation, two are Gen 3, one is gen 4 and the rest are gen 2.