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  Appaloosa

  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 of the American Pacific Northwest developed the...
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  Piebald

  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 its coat is both the natural color (under the black...
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  Pinto horse

  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-called "solid" horses frequently have areas of white...
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  Tobiano

  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 horse's lifetime, unless the horse also carries...
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  Overo

  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 which fall under the "overo" classification: frame...
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  Varnish roan

  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 a dark base coat color, usually with some...
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  Sabino horse

  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, for which there is a DNA test. However, other...
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  Rabicano

  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 evenly-interspersed white hairs throughout the...