Coat Patterns

The AQPA accepts all colours & patterns

Paint Coat Patterns

Tobiano – Head is usually marked like a solid coloured pony and can have the usual face markings. Generally has white legs and white crossing backbone. Body patterns are usually regular and distinct often round or oval and will usually have dark colour on one or both flanks. Tobiano may be predominantly solid or white. Must have one tobiano parent.

Overo – Head is usually marked with a blaze or bald face. White patterns are irregular shape with jagged edges along the side of the pony. Will usually have four solid coloured legs and the white pattern is usually framed by contrasting coat. Usually white pattern dose not cross over back between the withers and tail. Tail is normally one colour. Must have one overo parent.

Sabino – Head is usually marked with a blaze or bald face. White markings can be irregular and common on the lips and bottom jaw. One to four legs will have white markings that are shaped upwards towards a point or high stocking that can extend to elbow or stifle. May have white on belly or ticking through the coat. Edges to white markings may be broken or speckled. Sabino gene is recessive so nether parent may display sabino markings.

Tobero – Pony displaying colour patterns of both tobiano and overo. One parent must be tobiano and other overo.

Splashed White – Head is usually marked with bald face and wall or blue eyes. Body is usually dark at the top and white at the bottom with all four legs having white markings. Tail is usually partially or all white. Pony may be deaf. One parent must be splashed white.

Ticking – Pony displaying white hairs throughout the coat particularly at the base of the tail, flanks, rib cage, under the jowl and over the cheeks. Ticking may be minimal and hardly visible or very pronounced so pony appears highlights, either irregularly (frosted) or all over (roan). Ticking is different from roan as head and legs are also ticked. Colour is often associated with the Sabino coat pattern.

Pony may also have a combination of paint patterns; Sabino and Overo or Sabino and Ticking etc.