on the color list i made the comment that splash whites were overo and they got their panties in an uproar about that, saying splash white was in no way overo. ?? you could look that up in the archives mic. Some person who breeds splash was saying it is a whole different dna marker etc and they are two specifically different colors. I pointed out that the color pattern is identical, color over the back etc. But if you want to say they are the same hey, that just makes sense. makes sense to me !
in the twh breed the registry was open for a while, accepting gaited horses with unregistered parents. So they have a snob thing there that the first really truly pinto twh was Dusty Sally. and since tobiano has to have a tobiano parent you can trace your horse back and if it goes back to Dusty Sally its a real pinto twh, whereas if it doesnt it traces back to one of those horses when the books were open. My stonewall is overo sabino but he has a tobiano parent. on the rfdtv show they were saying the pinto spontaneously ocurred in one paso herd in one particular area of the world, and that the farm in alabama and the farm in fla imported studs to intoduced color into the breed. dont know why tobiano is prevalent since tobiano can have overo, but maybe it is dominant? and maybe the overo ones had lethal white? but the person on the tv show said at the first two farms that bred for pinto they had a practice of breeding pinto with solid and i dont know if that may have contributed to a lack of overo. Breeding a tobiano to solid every time. Makes you wonder since icelandics have such ancient registry books that they havent traced back to the first tobiano yet like the TWHBEA has... I think the first tobiano cane from roan allen line, and I know he was sabino. in sshbea they will only register an overo if it has a tobiano parent but i cant figure why... Janice -- even good horses have bad days sometimes.
