Does she have appy in her or just strange markings?

[Icarus]

Thats a true and true Tobiano with a lil' Sabino thrown in for good measure The Sabino is was caused that pretty lady's blaze and milk chin, and the slightly ragged edges on her markings.


TRUE Tobiano is supposed to have a completely solid face, in addition to the regular Tobiano markings-stockings, solid chest, etc. I've only seen one horse in real life like that, a lovely mare.


There's a Pintaloosa across the street from me. He started out as a regular paint horse, a Tobiano, but has gotten progressively more grayish-fleabitten white with a spotted rump. He gets a little more funky each passing day, it seems. I inquired on him, but he's a hellish little devil and I'm on the market for broke horses

 

[LauraM]

TRUE Tobiano is supposed to have a completely solid face, in addition to the regular Tobiano markings-stockings, solid chest, etc. I've only seen one horse in real life like that, a lovely mare.

A horse I had for 18 years.... he was the love of my life.

 

[Icarus]

TRUE Tobiano is supposed to have a completely solid face, in addition to the regular Tobiano markings-stockings, solid chest, etc. I've only seen one horse in real life like that, a lovely mare.

A horse I had for 18 years.... he was the love of my life.

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Jumping bareback, never ceases to amaze me! (I nearly shot myself out of the saddle trying to post for the first time in years the other day )

 

[ducks4you]

I don't even TRY it--too old, I'll BREAK!!
for your old friend, Laura

 

[Bunnylady]

spots in the colored areas? White spots or colored spots?

I'm not very saavy on the genes of horses unless it refers to palomino...

Please forgive me if I'm hijacking!

Laura's pony showed classic Tobiano markings (though the blaze came from another pinto gene, probably Splash). If he was, say, a blanket app in addition to pinto, the colored patch in the loin area would have been (at least partly) replaced by a white area with chestnut spots. If he was a varnish roan (a type of appy) the colored areas would have been a mix of colored and white hairs, and he might have wound up varnishing out to completely white in his old age. If he had been a leopard type of pintaloosa, then there would have been clusters of spots in the loin area, on his chest, and on his head (the colored areas of a Tobiano pinto) and he'd have been completely white everywhere else. (He looks like he was a great guy, BTW!)

Most appaloosas have the classic characteristics of mottled skin, striped hooves, and visible sclera on their eyes, but not all do. Not every horse with watch eyes, striped hooves and/or mottled skin is an app, either; there are other colors and patterns that can cause them (though not usually all in one horse). A lot of miniature horse people seem to love seeing just how many different things they can get going on in one horse; there are lots of mini pintaloosas of every type. (If I went hunting, I could probably find pictures galore, but I am reticent about posting pics of animals that I don't own. Some people don't like for you to do that!)

 

[LauraM]

Jumping bareback, never ceases to amaze me! (I nearly shot myself out of the saddle trying to post for the first time in years the other day

I don't even TRY it--too old, I'll BREAK!!

LOL........I was a LOT younger back then!

hugs for your old friend, Laura

Thanks.

 

[Horsiezz]

Well , here is my 1 year old miniature stallion Cash. His sire is tri colored and has the almost the exact same markings as him. His mother is a gray blankets appaloosa. Both miniatures of course. WE have no idea what to call him.
He has:
black and white markings,brown on nose and around eyes,and highlighted in the man and tail, a white blaze,black/white markings on body,and if you look closely he has white appaloosa markings on his legs,like streaks and dots on the black. Is he a tobiano? Overo? Pintaloosa? Is he a tri color? We dont know what to call him.!

Side 1.

Side 2.

Face.
Thanks!

 

[w c]

There are different (originally Spanish, I think) terms for paint/pintos depending on whether they appear to be a solid color horse with white areas on the color, or a white horse with color areas. Sometimes a pinto or paint looks similar but the patches are due to various different genes, such as the sabino gene. There is also a 'splashed white' gene that can make a horse look 'pinto/paint'.

The original photo looks like a pinto/paint, not an Appaloosa or Appaloosa part bred.

Interestingly, the 'Appaloosa' color patterns appear in quite a few other breeds in addition to the American Appaloosa.

For example an Austrian draft breed, the Pinnzgauer, and my friend came back from a trip to China practically in hysterics because, 'They have Appaloosa's over there!' They don't generally - the color patterns crop up all over the world in different breeds and regions. I am not sure I remember right but it seems to me an appaloosa-like color pattern was even found in horses buried at prehistoric sites. Not meaning the 'Appaloosa breed' is that old, but that the color pattern cropped up all over the world. The Appaloosa is indeed a breed, but the apaloosa like colors crop up all over the world in other horses that have nothing to do with Appaloosa breed.