What color?

[BlackOak2]

He is a red-base.

Thank you so much! Yes, I see that your horse is the same color, only it has a slightly different zonal darkening. I hope that your arguments will be enough to convince my friends. I even thought it was bronze, or varnish roan. but no, it's definitely not them, I compared them, they give a completely different result.

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By the way, what can you say about zonal darkening with apples?

Is it not the influence of the silver gene? I just realized that zonal darkening in the game exists in more than four types! (WOW)

Apples? That's out of my expertise.

Or did you mean appies?

I don't know about darkening areas... sooty darkening in real life. But on the game there are, two general types:
Static Sooty - it comes in at some point kind of suddenly then doesn't change thereafter
Progressive Sooty - it starts to appear and progressively darkens throughout life.

Our pseudo-black horses are usually progressive style. Like this one:



Our statics are generally responsible for the zonal types, like these brilliant versions:





As for how they work...
Progressive usually has three distinct expressions (not always, but usually).
First is whole body. Like the pseudo-blacks, it will cover the entire body.
Second is top down. The darkening will appear first along the topline and darken like it's reaching downward toward the ground.
Third is bottom up. Like the top down, this one reaches up like a shadow from the ground rising.

Static is a little different. Insofar that it can really appear just about anywhere and in almost any size. Although arguably it doesn't usually offer a type of expression as that chestnut static, hitting two different areas like that, entirely unconnected like they appear to be, could probably be considered extensively rare. The static is usually in one area and covers like a blob. Rear end, topline is often a static area we see. And then front half, neck area is one that pops up often (often confused with dun darkening). Then the underside, almost like a reverse pangare. Those are the most obvious expressions.
But there is another interesting part to the static and perhaps also the progressive, though I've only so-far, seen it in static. The sooty that only, or only appears to, affect the mane or also tail. Sometimes this style will also affect the lower legs, like the feathers.

That just about exhausts my knowledge of sooty.

And by the way, I come across the same issue as well. Knowing you're right, but not having the facts to back it up is... aggravating, irritating and just SO depressing. Which is why I have so many pages of notes.