Comments on: Horse Color White Patterns – Paint and Pinto

By: tanner

tanner — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 23:17:22 +0000

Paints are a breed, not just a colour registry. They have a specific bloodline and pedigree. I own a solid bay roan Paint gelding, no white pattern, and has APHA papers and a pedigree. Pinto is a color, just like bay chestnut, or black, that can act on any coat color and in combinations . Pinto patterns consist of Tobaino, Frame Overo, Sabino, Splash White, and dominant white. A horse can have frame, sabino, and splash, and it’s actually more common than you think. Pinto is NOT a breed, Paint is, just like an ApHC, or an AQHA.

Sorry Jenna, I am with Jessica.

By: pintolover2831

pintolover2831 — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 17:21:12 +0000

In reply to anie. -_-

By: pintolover2831

pintolover2831 — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 17:18:09 +0000

Why does my pinto gelding have blue eyes, when his half sister, also a pinto, does not?

By: jenna

jenna — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 01:53:10 +0000

In reply to Jessica. Your info on the color patterns is correct, However a paint is not a breed, it is a colored registry. In order for you to register a Paint the parents must have quarter horse blood or thoroughbred. However once you register your quarter/thoroughbred as paint, you can then bred this horse to another registered paint, and the APHA will not require prof of quarter/thoroughbred blood for registering the offspring. The pinto registration is the same way. there are many breeds that fall under pinto, saddlebred, arabian, miniature horse ect.. you must prove your horses lineage. once you register a pinto and breed to another pinto, the PtHA will not need to see any lineage. Most people will not bother getting the actual breed registration and will just get the pinto or paint registry. And thats why so many people think pinto and paints are breeds.

By: anie

anie — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:40:20 +0000

you are so smart

By: Desiree

Desiree — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:56:12 +0000

I have several issues with this site. For one, a Paint Horse is a breed; it has a breeders resigtery. Pinto is used to describe any other horse(that has paint coloring) that is not the Paint breed. The first horse they have listed as a Tovero is NOT Tovero. Its’s Tobiano. You can tell because the markings on the head are not consistant with Tovero requirements listed here: http://www.apha.com/breed/pdf/ToveroDec97.pdf. Tovero paints are often Medicine Hats, not Tobianos. The last horse (the foal) they have listed as a Tobiano is actually a Tovero. Rabiacano is NOT a form of pinto. Its a distant form of roan. And the last horse they have listed is not just Sabino, its Maximum White Sabino, there is a gene that conrtolls which the horse gets. Sabino is actually controlled by 2 genes. Sa1 and Sa2. Sa2 is hidden and is not shown in a solid horse, however the horse can carry it and can pass it on to its offspring (who then have the Sabino pattern). Pintaloosa is actually a combination of Lp( one of the appaloosa patterns) and any Pinto pattern.

By: Erryn

Erryn — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:02:40 +0000

Paige, A much better example of tobiano… and a classic example of rabicano.. well done.