Rare Colors

Still learning the ropes to the game x3

What colors are rare in the breeds(I'm mostly training but the breeds I'm trying to learn about are Akhal-Tekes, Welsh Pony, Gypsy Vanner, Chincoteagues, and Arabs) and how does the stats, color, markings, age, gender affect the sale pricing of the horse?

It's a little different for every player and breed of horse. I think mostly you'll learn with experience. There's an unwritten rule of $10k per 100 stats ($100 per stat - sale price) but that's just a starting place. I use that same price point for stud and brood fees on my prized horses.

Rare colors tend to be any of the genes such as silver (ZZ or Zz), flaxen (ff), cream (CrCr or Crcr), pangare (PP or Pp), sooty (StySty or Stysty), and certain markings, such as solid (++), overo (Oo), splash (SpSp or Sp). Different colors and genes are available for each breed... for example, you can't have a Friesian with paint markings - they only come in two colors. You have picked out some colorful breeds.

You can play around with colors and breeds here:
Custom Horse Creator
You'll only be charged the 15 credits if you actually create the horse. You can play with colors all you want.

This is another really helpful resource, but it can take months to really get the hang of it all.
Equiverse Genetics Guide

Demure+

Thank you :3

For Arabians specifically:

They only come in three base colors: black, chestnut, and bay
Bay is, I believe, the least popular but also the most common color

They have three modifers/patterns: sabino, rabicano, and flaxen
Flaxen is the rarest and most desired (especially homozygous flaxen), followed by sabino and then rabicano (though both white patterns are equally pretty!)

They also come in grey, and to most people non-grey is better than grey.

As far as how: stats, color, markings, age, and gender affect the sale pricing of the horse:

In general, the higher the stats the better. People will pay more for a horse with higher stats than they will for one with lower, given that everything else about the two horses are equal. There is a general 'expected' stat goal for foundation horses (roughly 700 by retirement) so the closer a foundation is to being able to meet or exceed that goal, the more people will pay for it. There's much more variability in lined horses of expected stats but again, 'higher the better'!. It's also important to keep in mind that while high stats are best, high stats in the specialty area are what is truly important. A racing horse with 200 strength stats is going to be a terrible show horse, and will be hard to sell.

When it comes to color and markings, the horses that sell best are those with desirable colors for their specific breeds. Referring to the arabian specifics from above, a bay horse that's going grey will probably take much longer to sell than a flaxen chestnut sabino with similar age/stats

Age ties in with stats a little when it comes to what is expected by X age. A 0 year old foundation with 100 stats might easily reach 500 stats by age 15, but it's worth much less than a 15 year old foundation that already has 500 stats. 

Gender doesn't seem to matter a lot except when it comes to geldings. They have no breeding value, and therefore aren't worth as much as a stallion/mare. For example, I hecked up and gelded an 800 stat colt and sold him for ~25k compared to his ungelded full brother who sold for 150k

I hope that helps! :)