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Question

Can someone explain whats the difference between a Paint Horse and a Pinto. Thanks!!!

Answer 1

A paint is an acual breed- a pinto is a color ex. There could be a Pinto (breed of horse) !

Answer 2

Paint is a BREED
Pinto is a COLOR

Not all paints are pintos - to be a paint one or both parents must be registered paint.

Simply put: The Paint Horse (registered by the American Paint Horse Association) is limited to horses of documented and registered Paint, Quarter Horse, or Thoroughbred breeding. The difference in eligibility between the two registries has little to do with color or pattern; only bloodlines. While most Paints can be double registered as Stock or Hunter type Pintos, the Pinto Horse Association (PtHA) also allows for the registration of miniature horses, ponies, and horses derived from other breed crosses, such as Arabian, Morgan, Saddlebred, and Tennessee Walking Horse, to name a few.

Answer 3

Pinto Is Reference To A Color Pattern, Common In Many Breeds Such As Arab, Quarter Horses, Ect. Some Pinto's Are Registered Doubbly, Throught Their Breeds Standard Registration, As Well As PtHA(Pinto Horse Assc.). A Pinto Similer To A Paint. A Paint Is An Actual Breed. Paints Are Normally Registered With The APHA, Or PHA (American Paint Horse Assc. Or Paint Horse Assc.) Paints Have Been Crossed With Different Breeds, Yet Depending On Dam And Sire They Can Be Registered As A Paint, Or Pinto. Paints Are Often Bred With Arabs, Where They Can Be Doubble Or Even Tripple Gegistered Depending On Color, Dam, Sire, Ect.

Answer 4

Without getting too technical......
A Pinto has a pattern to their color. The edges are smooth. I guess you could say they are a white horse with color in a recognized pattern (head, neck, chest, shoulders, rump)
The Paint horse has NO real pattern to the markings. It's almost ANYTHING GOES!!! They are a colored horse with white. The edges are jagged & uneven.
Tobiano paints are like a Pinto as far as color being in more of a "pattern". The Overo paint , all bets are off. They are AWESOME!!!!
Also, as I believe someone else explained, paint is a color, Pinto is a breed.

ON THE 6th DAY, GOD CREATED QUARTER HORSES
ON THE 7th DAY, HE "PAINTED" THE GOOD ONES!!!!

Answer 5

Hi I'm not an expert either. But I do have and do raise some quarter horses and paints.
The Pinto Horse Association and the American Paint Horse Association, both with their headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas both register part-colored equines. The Pinto Horse Association registers any breed of horse or pony that meets its color requirement, dividing them into stock type, hunter, pleasure type, and saddle type. It has a similar classification for ponies. The American Paint Horse Association registers the offspring of horses with Paint, Quarter Horse, and Thoroughbred registration papers. Pintos and Paints are descendants of the Spanish horses brought to America in the 16th century. Until the 18th and 19)th. centuries, a part-colored strain was evident in Europe, in horses derived from Spanish blood. The name "Pinto" comes from the Spanish word pintrma, meaning "painted," and in the vernacular of the western cowboy this became "paint." Part-colored horses, or even spotted ones, were also called calicos There are two types of coloring: ovate and tobiano. Ovaro is a basic solid coat with large, irregular splashes of white over it. Tobiano is a white base coat with large, irregular patches of solid color. It is difficult to accord the Pinto breed status, in the accepted meaning of the word, because of the lack of consistency in type and size.

Answer 6

The Paint Horse (registered by the American Paint Horse Association) is limited to horses of documented and registered Paint, Quarter Horse, or Thoroughbred breeding. The difference in eligibility between the two registries has little to do with color or pattern; only bloodlines.

While most Paints can be double registered as Stock or Hunter type Pintos, the Pinto Horse Association (PtHA) also allows for the registration of miniature horses, ponies, and horses derived from other breed crosses, such as Arabian, Morgan, Saddlebred, and Tennessee Walking Horse, to name a few. In essence, the Pinto horse is a color breed in contrast to most other breeds which are defined by their genetic ancestry.

Answer 7

Paints have all quarter horse, thoroughbred, or paint breeding

pintos are colored horses accepted for reigstration by the pinto horse association.

Answer 8

Pinto is a coat color pattern and a color registry open to ANY equine displaying variations of piebald and skewbald (overo and tobiano). No coat pattern - no registration period!

Paint is a breed - American Paint Horse Association APHA. Open to any horse of parents registered with the APHA. Or to any horse with one APHA parent and the other being AQHA(registered American Quarter Horse) or Thoroughbred (registered with the Jockey Club) No other crosses are acceptable. An APHA horse can be any variation of piebald or skewbald, or a solid. Parentage determines registration ability not coat pattern. However a solid is considered Breeding Stock and subject to limited APHA showing in breeding stock only classes.

AQHA(American Quarter Horse Association) allows horses with excessive white to be registered as both AQHA and APHA - and that is why I no longer raise either breed - We now have appys.

Answer 9

a paint is a breed and a pinto is a colour.

Answer 10

here this is more simple
a paint and pinto are the same thing. they are ussually more likely to be called pinto in english and paint in western.
there ar two types of paints/pinto
piebald- black/white
skewbald- brown/white