Snowflake

SnS_ No. 1

36" x 60”
acrylic
2014
Fig. 5 Snowflake   
18” x 18”
ink
2014                           
Here is an example of a horse with the snowflake allele. Snowflake, or SnS, creates small white spots. They may be present just over the hips or spread over the whole body. When the spots spread over the whole body, the head usually remains dark, with very few spots. This horse’s genotype is written SnS_ (Gower, 105).

The presence of the snowflake allele is indicated here by a pattern created from plaster decorations in the Alhambra in Spain.

Gower, Jeanette. Horse Color Explained a Breeder's Perspective. North Pomfret, VT: Trafalgar Square, 1999. Print.