This message is from: Michele Bigelow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FWIW
A Pinto horse can be any breed with color, however the white MUST have
pink skin underneath, and the black/brown/palomino/gray/whatever color MUST
have black skin underneath the coat. It also must be a certain size patch
of skinI forget how big - a couple inches or so.
The Pinto horse registry will register any horse as pinto regardless of
breeding, except draft horses
(which includes Icelandic's - but we are trying to change this as they now
accept some gaited horses for registry). They are classified as 4 types -
hunter, stock, pleasure, saddle.
My trainer has a 100% pure Davenport Arab Stud that is also registered
pinto. He has met the color requirement. He does not have any other breed
of pinto in his breeding to give him the coloring.
A Paint Horse is a QH or QH/TB cross with appropriate color markings as
described above. No other breed can be considered a Paint Horse, but are
welcome to be considered a Pinto.
Michele
experience is rather narrow here - I was curious
whether they came in 'pinto' colors or whether the
existence of pinto markings on a horse called an
Icelandic REALLY meant it was a cross - as is the case
with pinto Arabs and pinto Saddlebreds. The only
way you get 'pinto' coloring in these breeds is to
introduce a pinto horse of some kind(not an Arab or a
Saddlebred) into the mix, as pinto did not exist in
the original breed. Mostly this has been accomplished
in the past by introducing a pinto QH(which is again a
cross: Pinto/Quarter Horse mustang/QH) into the mix
way back and then breeding for color with the
resulting offspring.
