Is a pinto a color or a type of horse?

Answer 1

The American Paint Horse Association registers only a specific line of horses that are built like the Quarter Horse but exhibit Paint markings - which are: Tobiano, Overo, and Tovero. The Pinto Horse Association registers almost any breed that exhibits these markings. They will reqister horses from Miniatures up to draft horses. The term 'pinto' is used to describe any horse exhibiting the Paint horse markings whereas a Paint horse is a horse registered with the APHA and exhibit the conformation of a stock horse.

Answer 2

"Pinto" is a term for a horse with a painted coat. In other words, a coat with two or three colours. Pinto just applies to a horse breed that has the colour of being painted. For example, you might have an Arabian horse, but it has a black and white coat, which makes it a Pinto. This is used to differentiate between the painted horse breed called, Paint.

Answer 3

The pintos at my barn that are trained to ride english tend to be a bit more high strung than other horses but oddly enough the pintos trained to ride western are much more laid back than the other horses.

Answer 4

a pinto is a horse marked with 2 colors in a irregular pattern.

Pintos are white and any other color in 'patches' rather than 'spots' like the Appaloosa.

Pintos can be of any breed, but Paint horses are of the American Quarter Horse, American Paint, or Thoroughbred bloodlines only.

Pintos are unregistered Paints.

Answer 5

Five characteristics of a pinto all have to do with color markings. There are 2 main catagories of patterns. The first is called "tobiano" and the second is called "overo". There is also a sub-group called "tovero". The tovero pattern is a combination of both tobiano and overo patterns. Tobianos usually have less white on the face which can have a star, stripe, snip, narrow or wide blaze. Usually there is white on all 4 legs and their tails can be two-toned. They can come in almost every color with these white markings listed above. The overo usually has what is called a bald face, meaning his whole head can be white but usually the ears have color. Both main groups and the sub-group can have one or both blue eyes. All three groups can be predominantly dark (chestnut, bay, gray, black, ect) or mostly white with the colored spots being very small in diameter. The same goes for the "tovero" but quite often the "tovero" is a maximam white with less dark color. The biggest difference between a pinto and a paint is that paints are a breed with specific bloodlines and a pinto is a color. Some people register their paint horse as a pinto also.

Answer 6

A pinto horse is one which features splashes of white on its coat. It can occur in almost any breed. It should not be confused with a Paint horse, which is a specific breed in itself.

Answer 7

yes the pinto is known as a breed of horse the pintos colouring it determent by different words like skewbald, piebald, tobiano and overo

Answer 8

They are just pinto in america, skewbald or piebald in english ways.

Pinto is both a colour and breed.

Answer 9

Pinto is a color, Paint is a breed