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  2. Appaloosa - Wikipedia

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    The coat color of an Appaloosa is a combination of a base color with an overlaid spotting pattern. The base colors recognized by the Appaloosa Horse Club include bay, black, chestnut, palomino, buckskin, cremello or perlino, roan, gray, dun and grulla. Appaloosa markings have several pattern variations. [3]

  3. Varnish roan - Wikipedia

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    Varnish roans are born with a dark base coat color, usually with some spotting. As the horse ages, white hairs increase over most of the body, and many spotted markings blur or fade. The varnish roan pattern often appears to spread from the white of any original markings. This color pattern is best known in the Appaloosa breed of horse.

  4. Equine coat color genetics - Wikipedia

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    Appaloosa or Leopard spotting gene. Produces coat spotting patterns, mottling over otherwise dark skin, striped hooves and often white sclera. Can also produce varnish roan. LP/LP: Fewspot or snowcap horse. LP/n: Leopard or blanket horse. n: No leopard complex. RFWD3 (Pattern 1) PATN1 n

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    The pattern of an appaloosa’s coat markings also varies widely, from the appealingly named “few spot leopard” to “marble”, “frosted blanket” – and “solid”, which has no spots ...

  6. Leopard complex - Wikipedia

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    One of many patterns for which the leopard complex is responsible. The leopard complex is a group of genetically related coat patterns in horses.These patterns range from progressive increases in interspersed white hair similar to graying or roan to distinctive, Dalmatian-like leopard spots on a white coat.

  7. Horse markings - Wikipedia

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    Leopard complex: Responsible for a variety of patterns, typically leopard-type spotting, and is most closely identified with the Appaloosa breed. Pinto : A horse coat color that is distinguished by one of several possible broad spotting patterns, as opposed to the smaller spots typical of the Appaloosa.

  8. Equine coat color - Wikipedia

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    Tobiano: Spotting pattern characterized by rounded markings with white legs and white across the back between the withers and the dock of the tail, usually arranged in a roughly vertical pattern and more white than dark, with the head usually dark and with markings like that of a normal horse. i.e. star, snip, strip, or blaze. Produced by the ...

  9. Horse genome - Wikipedia

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    One result of the mapping of the horse genome was locating the mutation that creates the Leopard complex (Lp) spotting pattern seen in breeds such as the Appaloosa. [2] Horses homozygous for the Lp gene are also at risk for congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB). [6] Studies in 2008 and 2010 indicated that both CSNB and leopard complex ...