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Some characteristics of a Tovero colored horse include: Dark pigmentation around the ears, sometimes called a "Medicine Hat" or a "War bonnet" Dark pigmentation around the ears, expanding to cover the forehead and/or eyes. Isolated "shield" dark markings completely surrounded by white, particularly on the face or chest. One or both eyes blue.
"Medicine hat": An unusual type of Pinto or Paint coloring where the horse has dark ears and poll (like a hat on the head), but surrounded on all sides of the head and neck by white. [5] Shield: A dark Pinto marking where the horse has a dark colored chest, surrounded completely by white on the shoulders, legs, belly and neck.
In other contexts, "solid" may be used to describe a horse with no white markings. Medicine hat: An uncommon pattern, the poll and ears are dark, surrounded completely by white, a true "medicine hat" pinto or paint usually has a predominantly white body, sometimes with dark coloration by the flanks, chest, and above the eyes.
If two horses with the frame overo gene are bred together, there is a 25% chance the foal will have lethal white syndrome. [4] Splashed white or splash overo is a group of patterns that tend to have white on the underside, as if a horse ran through white paint with its head lowered.
The white head, tail, and lower portions of this foal are typical of splashed white. The impression of the pattern is like the horse has been dipped in white paint. Splashed white or splash is a horse coat color pattern in the "overo" group of spotting patterns that produces pink
Horses who are heterozygous for Sabino-1 (SB1/sb1) generally have a distinctive white spotting pattern of irregular, rough-edged white patches that usually include two or more white feet or legs, a blaze, spots or roaning on the belly or flanks, and jagged margins to white markings. [10] [11] Horses homozygous for the Sabino 1 allele (SB1/SB1 ...
This Thoroughbred stallion (W2/+) has one form of dominant white.His skin, hooves, and coat lack pigment cells, giving him a pink-skinned white coat. Dominant white (W) [1] [2] is a group of genetically related coat color alleles on the KIT gene of the horse, best known for producing an all-white coat, but also able to produce various forms of white spotting, as well as bold white markings.
This horse's dorsal stripe is most likely caused by non-dun 1. Less distinct primitive markings can also occur on non-dun horses, even in breeds which are not known to have any dun individuals. The most common primitive marking found is a dorsal stripe. [1] Most non-dun horses do not have darker primitive markings, but some do.