I can never remember.
2007-01-07 01:01:19 · 9 answers · asked by poni_lvr 1 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
Pintos are spotted horses of ANY BREED. Pinto means "spotted". Pinto is a horse of white and any other color.
Piebald Pintos are black and white.
Skewbald Pintos are any other color and white: chestnut and white, brown and white, bay and white, buckskin and white, grulla and white...and so on.
Paints are a specific breeding of a registered horse. Only a registered Quarter Horse, Thoroughbred or Paint bloodline can be a registered Paint.
A Paint is a Pinto, but a Pinto is NOT a Paint. Meaning, a Paint horse is a registered horse with the Pinto Pattern. Pinto is just a pattern.
Then there are subcatagories of Pinto.
Tobiano is the most common pattern of Pinto. This is where you see more white than color. White will always be on all four legs below the knee, and will cross over the back of the horse. Usually, they have some sort of face marking: stripe, blaze, star.
Overo is more color than white. White will NOT cross over the back. At least ONE LEG will be dark color all the way down the leg. Usually their face markings is bald face, heavily covered in white often times creating the "glass eye" or blue eye.
Then there are Toveros (mixture of both Tobiano and Overo Patterns), Sabino, and so on.
Search the web, there are plenty of sites with pictures and descriptions of both.
2007-01-07 03:42:27 · answer #1 · answered by Lotsa Lops 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As there are already many on here that are giving you the definitions of the different paint markings (tobiano, overo, etc) I won't go into that and repeat it. However, your saying that paint is a breed and pinto is a color is very incurate on both counts. The paint and pinto genes are one in the same gene. Neither is a color. What this gene does is to create the spotting patterns that these horses have. There are several different genes that create this spotting pattern that classifies these horses as paints and pintos: the tobiano gene, the overo gene, etc. The Paint horse registry (APHA) registers horses with Quarter Horse and Thoroughbred backgrounds. It is not a blood breed registry, it is considered a color breed registry (even though Paint and Pinto are not a color, as stated above, they are still classified as a color breed registry just as the Palomino and Buckskin registries are). The Pinto registry registers the others so there are a lot of gaited horses, Half Arabians, etc in that registry. The Pinto registry is also considered a color breed registry. A horse registry does not make it a particular blood breed registry so the Paint horse itself is not a breed in that it is not a blood breed. Your "colors" are your base colors, such as chestnut, bay, black, palomino, etc. Your Paints and Pintos are carrying the additional gene (such as the tobiano or overo gene) or genes (such as a tobiano and an overo gene to create tovero) that creates the spotting patterns on these base colors. So you have a chestnut paint or pinto, a bay paint or pinto, etc. This seems to be two of the biggest misconceptions there are, that paint and/or pinto is a color and that one is a breed and one is a color. One is no more a breed than the other and neither is a color. They simply carry the genes necessary to create the spotting pattern that makes for them being called paints and pintos.
2016-05-23 02:44:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The dfiference is that Paint can only be in breeding a Quarter horse ,a Thouroughbred or Paints.
Pintos are every other breed.e.g.Shetland with splashy colour pinto not paint
Registered Paint 1/4 horse
Paint not Pinto
2007-01-07 03:38:50 · answer #3 · answered by powerraceygirl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Paint is a breed of horses that are of Quarter Horse,Thoroughbred or other registered Paint descent.Paints are stock type horses. Pinto is more of a "color" registry and horses of all breeds -including mini's- can be registered based on color characteristics.You can have a horse that is a Paint and also registered as a Pinto-but not all Pintos can be registered as Paints.
2007-01-07 01:54:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A Paint is a horse that is registered with the APHA. A pinto has the same color pattern, but isn't registered.
2007-01-07 06:04:14 · answer #5 · answered by hey_its_from_clare 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Paints are limited to horses of the right coloring (tobiano or overo) in registered paint, quarterhorse, and thoroughbred lines, while pintos can be any breed of the right color. Also, pintos can include ponies and minis while paints cannot.
2007-01-07 01:11:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pintos and Paints are the same excat thing. Pinto is just a fancy oo la la name for a paint. They usually use Pinto in a horse show insted of paint.
2007-01-07 01:06:53 · answer #7 · answered by .::emma::. 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
A pinto is a Mexican breed and the paint is a horse similar to a appaloosa but he is covered in different spots(he kind of looks like he was splattered in paint).
2007-01-07 01:23:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
One took a long time for some poor ranch hand to design, hold and paint, the other likes beans.
2007-01-07 01:04:48 · answer #9 · answered by pro1fit1 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋