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No, Paint is not just a color. It is a breed that is basically a painted Quarter Horse, Appendix QH, a percentage of Thoroughbred blood is allowed too. A crop-out AQHA can be registered a Paint, when the white markings extend outside the acceptable AQHA breed qualifications either on the face or the legs. Paint, aka APHA, aka American Paint Horse Association, is very much a BREED, and one of the largest breed associations in the USA, I think it falls 2nd to AQHA, haven't checked lately. Now Pinto, that is a true color. A registered or nonregistered PINTO can be of any breed, ANY mix of breeds, ranging from a pinto Arab to your backyard mutt horse. It's a color. Paint is not a color, it's a breed. But it is often loosely used to call a pinto marked horse a paint, and that's where the confusion comes in. Paints are colored QH's. There is no Arabian, TWH, ASB, etc., in a true Paint horse.
No, Paint is not just a color. It is a breed that is basically a painted Quarter Horse, Appendix QH, a percentage of Thoroughbred blood is allowed too. A crop-out AQHA can be registered a Paint, when the white markings extend outside the acceptable AQHA breed qualifications either on the face or the legs. Paint, aka APHA, aka American Paint Horse Association, is very much a BREED, and one of the largest breed associations in the USA, I think it falls 2nd to AQHA, haven't checked lately. Now Pinto, that is a true color. A registered or nonregistered PINTO can be of any breed, ANY mix of breeds, ranging from a pinto Arab to your backyard mutt horse. It's a color. Paint is not a color, it's a breed. But it is often loosely used to call a pinto marked horse a paint, and that's where the confusion comes in. Paints are colored QH's. There is no Arabian, TWH, ASB, etc., in a true Paint horse.
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