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Sooty with DP can cause dappling. S+ does, too.

So, this is a copy/paste because I feel like I might be too tired to be fully coherent, but I LOVE Dapples and have posted a lot about this, so finding it in my comments section was easy enough~

Sooty (sty), S+, and silver (Z) all cause dapples on horses. The dapples from S+ are a little bit different to Sty and Z, but they are more consistent. If you have a horse with sooty or silver and they don't have dapples, you can just generate a new image seed until you get dapples.

Just because the vast majority of my herd are sooty and S+, and I'm actively trying to keep silver and introduce champagne (forgot they had unique dapples too!), doesn't mean I know everything there is to know about dapples...I HAD forgotten the champagne thing after all~! But yes, if you have a horse with these mentioned genes, generate a new image seed for 100hbs to try and get dapples on them if they don't have any. It is luck of the draw, so dapples could pop up in the first one or the tenth one. I just consider them happy accidents, and if I want to make sure dapples are near-certain I select for S+

These are examples of dapples on Sooty horses, no S+


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5L TroubledGhost


Dancing In Moonlight

In comparison to S+, no sooty


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SH7770994

This one here is silver and sooty


Pony BN

Sooty and S+


SH 5916063


UE Dappled Delights

And silver mixed in~


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Bring Your Own Saddle


Hunka Hunka Burnin Love

So, TL:DR, sooty, silver, champagne, and S+ cause dapples~! Champagne and S+ cause slightly different dapples. If you have a horse with these genes, you can generate a new image seed for 100hbs until you have visible dapples.