Tri Colored Paint?

Question

I see this in Answers quite a bit about a Tri Colored Paint. I have owned Paints for over 20 years and never seen one that had three colors on it's body (but that does not mean it does not exist). Are you refering to a bay paint? Black legs, brown body, white spots, black mane and tail? Can some one please clarify this for me? Or send me a picture of one?

Answer 1

Tri colored would be a slang expression exactly as the others have said - a bay, buckskin or dun Paint. Meaning they have three (tri) colors - black points, body color of a different tone and white spots.
It certainly isn't an expression used in the Paint world! I would say its an old fashioned term. Almost like saying a horse is a strawberry roan (APHA calls them red roans) or an albino (now we know that they are cremellos or maybe perlinos since true albinos don't seem to exist in horses) As you've probably noticed, unless you're a Paint person most people don't even know the difference between overo, tobinao or tovero (and it doesn't mean they have 3 colors!)
Hope that helps. I have a bay overo mare, and I've had many people mention that she is tri colored.

Answer 2

I agree with you it is a new slogan I have seen I actually had someone call my bay tobiano a tri-colored and at first thought aussie (as in dog) came into my mind. I guess the color slogans come to every animal sooner or later. Here are some ads I have seen for Tri colored paints seem to be mostly bays and always tobianos or toveros or loud overos never minimals:
http://www.alliancefarm.com/paintg2.html
http://horsetopia.horse-for-sale.org/classifieds/ad207254

Answer 3

Yep - I grew up knowing them as calico paints - but that's a tri-colored paint - black legs, mane/tail (may have some white too) brown or tan body (as in buckskin) and white spots.

Answer 4

Tri-colored paints are often bay paints, but they can be other multi colored + white combinations, like a buckskin or dun paint, they are referred to as tri-color since there are more than just bay paints that have more than three colors.

Answer 5

Yes, it is a bay paint. Black points, mane and tail, red and white spotting.

Answer 6

Yes, its just a Bay, Dun, or Buckskin colored Paint. Only in referrence to darker points. Also- don't forget the Roan colored paints that also have darker points.


And to the person who answered that it's a Tovero!!!! Pardon, but what the F-ck are you thinking? Tovero is relating to pattern- edge's are lacey but white crosses over the back or edge's that are lacey but in the Tobiano pattern. I have a Sorrel Tovero stallion- and he is in no way Tri-colored.

Answer 7

My donkey is tri colored, black spots, brown spots, red around the eyes and white. The pics really dont do him justice to show them tho. All I can say is at the last open horse show we were at, he placed 6th out of 25 pinto arabs in the color class :)

But I haven't seen it on horses before.

Answer 8

If the mane color is different from the two body colors, it is a tricolor. Yours does sound that way. A dun sometimes has a mane and tail that look more brown than black. I would consider a dun paint a tricolor.

Answer 9

I have a tri paint her body is white the spots are brown her tail is blk,with a black & white forlock

Answer 10

I know according to the APHA, there is no classification as a "Tri-Colored" paint, but I am not sure about the other breeds, such as Saddlebreds, Half Arabs, TN Walkers and Racking horses, they might allow the tem Tri Color, but as far as I know not in the APHA.

http://www.apha.com/breed/coatcolors.html