What is my horse's lineage?

[patandchickens]

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If it has Paint registry papers, it is a Paint, in the technical sense.

If it does not have the papers, but is pretty much that type horse (a stock-horse or stock-horse-TB-cross lookin' animal) then a lot of people would still call it a paint, at least in the broad sense.

A pinto is pretty much ANYthing with white areas on its body - there is a pinto registry, but the term is very commonly used as the 'umbrella term' for horses of that pattern regardless of ancestry, registry or breed type. Paints are pintos (in the general sense); not all pintos are registerable as paints.

Summary: some people get their knickers in silly knots about these things, thus, if you are speaking to a person about their own horse and they lean towards stock-horse pursuits, it's safest to call it a paint, whereas if you are speaking to a person about some third-party horse, it's generally safest to call it a pinto.

Or you can do like I do and just say whichever comes out of your mouth and roll your eyes about the whole semantic mess. Can't please everyone. You don't ride color or papers, you ride the horse itself, anyhow.

Pat, expecting everybody to jump up and down on me about this summary but I have to warn you, I really do not care

 

[lorieMN]

I think alot depends on which part of the country or in some cases which country you are in..I see some things on here,not only horses called one thing and we call it something else here,I know I can drive 200 miles south and some people I can hardly make sense of what they are saying,just because they grew up using different words for things than I did..

 

[Haviris]

Basicly a paint is a breed and would have APHA papers, Pinto is a horse w/ spots basicly (tobiano, overo, tovero, NO APPS), can be pony, miniature, or horse. I have 4 horses that would qualify as Pintos, and one of those is also a Paint.

Your horse can be registered Pinto http://www.pinto.org/ , but he can't be registered Paint (unless he's already got some papers floating around out there you don't know about, or his parents were). You've got a good looking boy! You can't ride the papers, but the pinto association does have an "on the trail" program that gives you awards for riding your horse! For that reason I've been toying w/ the idea of having my paint double registered w/ them, and also two of my minis and my pony (driving counts), but it gets expensive.

I guess once you know the difference it's not that complicated, alot of people refer to anything spotted as paint (I've even heard spotted donkey's refered to as paint, but the proper term for donkeys (and mules) is spotted), but there is a difference.

 

[olp_63]

he is SOOOOOOOO gawgeous!!!!!

 

[lorieMN]

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APHA also has an awards program for hours riding and driving..I dont know if its the same as pinto,I havent looked into pinto programs.

 

[Haviris]

It is, and my paint is already signed up! But it would be nice to get awards for driving my pinto pony and minis too! (to bad they don't except mules, or I would sign my spotted mule up too).