Grade Horses
Grade Horses are a way to breed colors into your favorite breed. For example, someone may want to breed leopard Clydesdales but the leopard gene is not present in the breed. Through breeding selection, creating a leopard Clydesdale is possible. This is done by selective crossbreeding.
When crossbreeding reaches 95% of a single breed horses revert to Grade {Purebreed Name}. Grade horses are labeled as “Grade” before the breed name to indicate the horse has lineage that is not completely pure and may have genes not allowed in the breed registry.
With grade horses, you may breed certain colors (or markings) into breeds but grade horses cannot be registered with a breed registry nor will they ever produce purebred offspring. Grade horses may only register with a club and will receive grey stars.
Art
Previously, art layers for grade horses was made on a rolling basis, meaning some grade horses used generic base art as a placeholder until the new art layer was complete. Breed art is now made with all colors and patterns available on launch. Any missing grade horse layers for breeds on the old artwork style will not be updated, instead these breeds will have their missing layers added when their artwork is updated to the new style.
Wild Type Breeds
Two breeds are currently excluded from this “Grade” designation, Brumbies and Mustangs. These are considered wild-type breeds and have previously been allowed to have color and patterns bred back into them. Both these breeds are always able to be registered into their Breed Registry and will never have “Grade” listed before their breed.
