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American Paint Horse. The American Paint Horse is a breed of horse that combines both the conformational characteristics of a western stock horse with a pinto spotting pattern of white and dark coat colors. Developed from a base of spotted horses with Quarter Horse and Thoroughbred bloodlines, the American Paint Horse Association (APHA) breed ...
The American Paint Horse Association ( APHA) is a breed registry for the American Paint Horse. It is currently headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. [ 1] It was founded in 1965 with the merging of two different color breed registries that had been formed to register pinto -colored horses of Quarter Horse bloodlines.
Overo is a Spanish word, originally meaning "like an egg". [1] The most common usage refers to frame overo, but splashed white and sabino are also considered "overo". [2][3] A horse with both tobiano and overo patterns is called tovero. Frame overo, splashed white, and sabino are three separate pinto patterns, genetically unrelated, that are ...
American Paint Horse [2]: 435 Paint Horse: American Quarter Horse [2]: 435 Quarter Horse [2]: 497 American Saddlebred [2]: 435 American Shetland Pony [2]: 435 American Sorraia Mustang [2]: 435 of Iberian origin, in the Colonial Spanish horse group; no connection to the Sorraia has been demonstrated [2]: 435
A pinto horse, with patches of white and of another color. A pinto horse has a coat color that consists of large patches of white and any other color. Pinto coloration is also called paint, [1] particolored, [2]: 171 or in nations that use British English, simply coloured. Pinto horses have been around since shortly after the domestication of ...
The Florida Cracker Horse is a gaited breed known for its agility and speed. The Spanish first brought horses to Florida with their expeditions in the early 16th century; as colonial settlement progressed, they used the horses for herding cattle. These horses developed into the Florida Cracker type seen today, and continued to be used by ...
The Pinto Horse Association of America (PtHA) registers horses, utility horses, ponies and miniature horses of various pedigrees with certain kinds of pinto coat colors. The word pinto is Spanish for "paint." In general terms, pinto can apply to any horse marked with unpigmented pink-skinned, white-haired areas on its coat.
Tovero. A Tovero colored mare with two blue eyes and a black "shield" on her face. The Tovero (also known as Tobero) [1] coloration is a mix of tobiano and overo colorations in Pinto horses and American Paint Horses. The genetics of pinto coloration are not always fully understood, and some horses have a combination of patterns that does not ...