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Leg markings. Top row, L-R: Stocking, Sock or Boot, Fetlock or Sock. Bottom row, L-R: Pastern, Coronet, Partial Pastern. Leg markings are usually described by the highest point of the horse's leg that is covered by white. As a general rule, the horse's hoof beneath a white marking at the coronary line will also be light-colored ("white"). If a ...
An extensively expressed rabicano Arabian horse Classic rabicano markings on flanks and a skunk tail. Rabicano, sometimes called white ticking, is a horse coat color characterized by limited roaning in a specific pattern: its most minimal form is expressed by white hairs at the top of a horse's tail, [1] often is expressed by additional interspersed white hairs seen first at the flank, then ...
Horses described as Sabino can have varying amounts of white, from bold white face and leg markings all the way up to fully white coats. Sabino patterns often have speckling and roaning. The different white spotting patterns usually have some consistency in which areas of the horse are white and which are pigmented.
The frame pattern by itself does not produce white markings that cross the back, or affect the legs or tail. It does, however, often produce bald faces and blue eyes. [5] [7] [9] The term "frame" describes the effect of viewing a frame-patterned horse from the side: the white markings appear to be "framed" by a dark-colored border. [7]
The Corolla Wild Horse Fund is working on a DNA survey of the northern herd and has so far tested 150 horses. Data collected in the survey has enabled the nonprofit to determine lineage of the ...
Splashed white or splash is a horse coat color pattern in the "overo" group of spotting patterns that produces pink-skinned, white markings. Many splashed whites have very modest markings , while others have the distinctive "dipped in white paint" pattern.
Leg bars and "zippers": This horse's legs have been shaved. Also called zebra bars, tiger stripes, [6] or garters, leg bars are the most common accessory to the dorsal stripe. [1] Leg bars are most commonly seen on or above the knees and hocks, and reflect the underlying coat color. Leg bars on bay duns are black within the points, and reddish ...
White legs from the hocks and knees down; White crossing the back between the withers and the dock of the tail; White is arranged in a vertical pattern; Facial markings are similar to those of a traditionally solid-colored horse. i.e. star, snip, strip, or blaze. Extreme white facial markings suggest the presence of additional color pattern ...