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A coat pattern is a patterning of white markings on a horse's coat, such as pinto or applaloosa markings.It is maintained as a separate type from coat color because white patternings are superimposed upon the base coat color. In other words, a horse with the Tobiano (TO) gene may have spots...
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| x Appaloosa |
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The Appaloosa is a horse breed known for its preferred leopard-spotted coat pattern and other distinctive physical characteristics. While there is evidence of leopard-spotted horses dating back to the Paleolithic era in Europe, the Nez Perce people...
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| x Overo |
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Overo refers to several genetically-unrelated pinto coloration pattern of white over dark body markings in horses. Overo is a Spanish word, originally meaning “like an egg."There are at least three genetically different different spotting patterns...
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| x Piebald |
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A piebald is an animal, such as a horse or ball python, that has a spotting pattern of large unpigmented (sometimes expressed as white) areas and normally pigmented patches (black in the horse pictured). The colour of the animal's skin underneath...
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| x Rabicano |
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Rabicano, also called white ticking, is a horse coat color characterized by limited roaning in a specific pattern: interspersed white hairs most dense and originating from the flank and the tailhead. Rabicano is distinct from true roan, which causes...
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| x Sabino horse |
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Sabino is a group of white spotting patterns in horses that affect the skin and hair. A wide variety of irregular color patterns are accepted as Sabino. In the strictest sense, "sabino" refers to the white patterns produced by the Sabino1 (SB1) gene...
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| x Tobiano |
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Tobiano is a spotted color pattern commonly seen in Pinto horses, produced by a dominant gene. The tobiano gene produces white-haired, pink-skinned patches on a base coat color. The coloration is present from birth and does not change throughout the...
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| x Pinto horse |
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A Pinto horse has a coat color that consists of large patches of white and any other color. In nations using British English, the term used to describe this pattern is "coloured". The distinction between "pinto" and "solid" can be tenuous, as so...
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| x Skewbald |
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Skewbald is a color pattern of horse. A skewbald horse has a coat made up of chestnut (or any color besides black) and white patches, on top of either pink or dark skin. Other than colour, it is similar in appearance to the piebald pattern. Some...
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| x Varnish roan |
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Varnish roan describes a horse with coloration similar to roan, but with some changes in color over the years, though not to the extreme of a gray. This type of roaning only occurs in conjunction with the Leopard complex. Varnish roans are born with...
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