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Description

A visual guide to White Patterns

Other Visual Guides:
EquusBallator Visual Guide: Chestnut
EquusBallator Visual Guide: Black
EquusBallator Visual Guide: Bay
EquusBallator Visual Guide: Seal Bay
EB Visual Guide: Bay Double Dilutes/Modifers
EB Visual Guide: Black Double Dilutes / Modifiers
EB Visual Guide: Chestnut Double Dilutes/Modifiers
EquusBallator Visual Guide: Appaloosa
EquusBallator Visual Guide: Coat Mutations

Tobiano - nT/ TT
The tobiano pattern is characterized by white crossing the horse's back between the withers and the dock, as well as by areas of color on the head, chest, and flanks. Most tobianos have normal face markings like stars and blazes, and they almost always have four white feet. The most minimally marked tobianos appear to have only 4 stockings. Will affect mane colour. Some might show clusters of uncolored spots around the edges of the white markings, called cat tracks. Tobiano markings tend to have smooth, crisp edges.

Frame overo - nO (OO is a dead foal, lethal white syndrome)
Frame overos are characterized by having a dark topline between the withers and dock, with blocks of white on their sides and necks. Frame overos usually have large blazes or facial markings.The feet are usually dark, but may be white if combined with other pinto patterns. If a horse is homozygous for frame (OO) it will die shortly after birth. Will affect mane colour.

Sabino - nSb/ SbSb
Sabino is a pattern that comes in many forms. In its minimal form, it only manifests itself as small socks and a star or blaze. More extreme sabinos will have white patches, often with roaned edges, going up their sides from the underside of the belly. The most extreme sabinos will look entirely white or nearly so, often retaining a few patches of color along their toplines, particularly on the ears or in the mane.
Sabino may cause a white/silver tail, called Gulastra plume. If showing a plume, a horse will have no other sabino markings.
Sabino is also the cause of reverse blazes or ‘badger face’ markings.

Splash - nSpl/ SplSpl
Splash white horses look as if they've literally been splashed with white paint from the underside or dipped in white paint. Homozygous splashes will have more white than heterozygous splashes. Splash markings tend to have smooth, crisp edges.

Rabicano - nRb/ RbRb
Rabicano is usually manifested as a sprinkling of white hairs radiating out from a horse's flank, sometimes spreading across the barrel and onto the shoulder. Rabicanos also have a white-topped tail, known as a coon tail or skunk tail.

Dominant White/White spotting - nW/ WW is a dead foal (lethal white syndrome)
Most dominant white horses tend to be heavily patterned or nearly all white, even though the amount of white on the coat can vary. Like frame overo, dominant white is lethal in its homozygous state.

Chart/Template by Enharmonia
Coloring by Fargonon

Description

A visual guide to White Patterns

Other Visual Guides:
EquusBallator Visual Guide: Chestnut
EquusBallator Visual Guide: Black
EquusBallator Visual Guide: Bay
EquusBallator Visual Guide: Seal Bay
EB Visual Guide: Bay Double Dilutes/Modifers
EB Visual Guide: Black Double Dilutes / Modifiers
EB Visual Guide: Chestnut Double Dilutes/Modifiers
EquusBallator Visual Guide: Appaloosa
EquusBallator Visual Guide: Coat Mutations

Tobiano - nT/ TT
The tobiano pattern is characterized by white crossing the horse's back between the withers and the dock, as well as by areas of color on the head, chest, and flanks. Most tobianos have normal face markings like stars and blazes, and they almost always have four white feet. The most minimally marked tobianos appear to have only 4 stockings. Will affect mane colour. Some might show clusters of uncolored spots around the edges of the white markings, called cat tracks. Tobiano markings tend to have smooth, crisp edges.

Frame overo - nO (OO is a dead foal, lethal white syndrome)
Frame overos are characterized by having a dark topline between the withers and dock, with blocks of white on their sides and necks. Frame overos usually have large blazes or facial markings.The feet are usually dark, but may be white if combined with other pinto patterns. If a horse is homozygous for frame (OO) it will die shortly after birth. Will affect mane colour.

Sabino - nSb/ SbSb
Sabino is a pattern that comes in many forms. In its minimal form, it only manifests itself as small socks and a star or blaze. More extreme sabinos will have white patches, often with roaned edges, going up their sides from the underside of the belly. The most extreme sabinos will look entirely white or nearly so, often retaining a few patches of color along their toplines, particularly on the ears or in the mane.
Sabino may cause a white/silver tail, called Gulastra plume. If showing a plume, a horse will have no other sabino markings.
Sabino is also the cause of reverse blazes or ‘badger face’ markings.

Splash - nSpl/ SplSpl
Splash white horses look as if they've literally been splashed with white paint from the underside or dipped in white paint. Homozygous splashes will have more white than heterozygous splashes. Splash markings tend to have smooth, crisp edges.

Rabicano - nRb/ RbRb
Rabicano is usually manifested as a sprinkling of white hairs radiating out from a horse's flank, sometimes spreading across the barrel and onto the shoulder. Rabicanos also have a white-topped tail, known as a coon tail or skunk tail.

Dominant White/White spotting - nW/ WW is a dead foal (lethal white syndrome)
Most dominant white horses tend to be heavily patterned or nearly all white, even though the amount of white on the coat can vary. Like frame overo, dominant white is lethal in its homozygous state.

Chart/Template by Enharmonia
Coloring by Fargonon