Err... question

[Gaagii]

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I wanna call it 'reverse sooty' but am unsure if that'd be correct.

[BlackOak2]

I wanna call it 'reverse sooty' but am unsure if that'd be correct.

A reverse sooty could mean a couple different things and it all depends on how you want to define reverse sooty using sooty, such as: sooty is a darkening of the body, so reverse sooty would be a lightening of the body. Obviously, you don't mean this.
I think what you mean by reverse sooty is that normally, sooty appears to mostly come from the bottom of the horse up, thereby reverse sooty would be from the top down... but I've come across just as many that come from the bottom as that come from the top. So I don't know if calling one a sooty (from the bottom up) and the other reverse sooty (from the top down), would really be relevant.
But I still like the name.

So the reason these horses look a little different from some of the other sooty's is because they are also affected by a strong pangare. Pangare, on your horses, lightens the body to a fairly strong degree, then on top of that here comes sooty, making a pseudo-black out of an already uniquely light-colored horse.

The stud, Hurricane, would be a bay pangare with extreme sooty from the top down. And in fact the sooty may be progressive (getting darker with age).

The dam, Chief, is the same style of bay pangare but her sooty, though extreme is not progressive (it does come from the top down). Once it came in, it stayed but didn't darken any more as she aged.

However, their offspring, The Mighty Patrol, is a brown (so neither parent carries two bay genes, they both carry just one, the other gene is either a brown or a negative, no agouti), but she has also inherited that strong pangare and also a very strong, extreme version of sooty. But considering she's already this dark as a pseudo-black, I doubt that it's progressive. She would be a brown pangare with extreme sooty, from the top.

[Gaagii]

I wanna call it 'reverse sooty' but am unsure if that'd be correct.

A reverse sooty could mean a couple different things and it all depends on how you want to define reverse sooty using sooty, such as: sooty is a darkening of the body, so reverse sooty would be a lightening of the body. Obviously, you don't mean this.
I think what you mean by reverse sooty is that normally, sooty appears to mostly come from the bottom of the horse up, thereby reverse sooty would be from the top down... but I've come across just as many that come from the bottom as that come from the top. So I don't know if calling one a sooty (from the bottom up) and the other reverse sooty (from the top down), would really be relevant.
But I still like the name.

So the reason these horses look a little different from some of the other sooty's is because they are also affected by a strong pangare. Pangare, on your horses, lightens the body to a fairly strong degree, then on top of that here comes sooty, making a pseudo-black out of an already uniquely light-colored horse.

The stud, Hurricane, would be a bay pangare with extreme sooty from the top down. And in fact the sooty may be progressive (getting darker with age).

The dam, Chief, is the same style of bay pangare but her sooty, though extreme is not progressive (it does come from the top down). Once it came in, it stayed but didn't darken any more as she aged.

However, their offspring, The Mighty Patrol, is a brown (so neither parent carries two bay genes, they both carry just one, the other gene is either a brown or a negative, no agouti), but she has also inherited that strong pangare and also a very strong, extreme version of sooty. But considering she's already this dark as a pseudo-black, I doubt that it's progressive. She would be a brown pangare with extreme sooty, from the top.

Thanks, very informative.

Yeah didn't mean literal 'reverse' sooty - as in ligthening horse.