American Paint Horses are horses with a splash of color.

There are three main coat patterns. the first one is Overo. Overo colored horses have dark coloring across their back between their withers, a solid color tail, and at least one dark colored leg. Tobiano is the second coat coloring. Tobiano is the most common coat pattern. Tobiano horses have white legs, white across the back and between the withers, and the dock of the tail. there is also a third coloring, the combination of Tobiano and Overo. the third coat coloring is called Tovero. Tovero is the cause of breeding a paint that has Overo coloring with a paint that has Tobiano coloring. tovero is very rare. tovero coat coloring would be something like a mixture of a dark head with blue eyes.

The American Paint Horse is a breed that has a stock horse body type. American Paint Horses have midsized ears, musculer body's slopeing shoulders and head that has traces of quarter horse in it.

Paint Horse spots can be any shape or size. the spots can also be irregular. each paint horse has a certain amount of white with a combination of at least one more color. the colors in the equine spectrum are:black, bay, brown, buckskin, chesnut, dun, gray grullo, palimino, roan and sorrel.

The American Paint Horse is sometimes confused with the pinto. The way to tell the difference is that you have to look at the horses' registration papers. For a horse foal to be an American Paint horse it must have either the tobiano, overo or tovero paint horse markings and either the sire (father) or dam (mother) must be an American Paint horse, Quarter horse or Thouroghbred. the pinto is any specific breed with the pinto coloring, therefore the pinto can be a horse or a pony.

An American Paint horses' average height is 15-16 hands high. 1 hand is the same length as 4 inches.

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