Could he be classed as a coloured?

[CastleMouse]

When Castle is clipped you can see his blue speckles on his body, but they aren't visible when he's got a full coat. He also has blue spots around his nose and sheath all year round, although they are more visible during the summer. Could he be classed as a coloured?

 

[eventing_chick]

I belive not.

 

[Tinkerbee]

hmm no dont think so
my old pony was like that when clipped/very wet
she was just plain old fleabitten grey

 

[Donkeymad]

I don't think so. Try looking up the CHAPS website. I think there are rules about sizes of patches of colour.

 

[BroadfordQueen]

they just look like fleabites to me, especially the ones by his stifle, so i dont think so

 

[Smash]

From some blurb about horse genetics

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the grey gene has the same affect on appaloosa pattern spots and splashes that it has on solid colored horses and eventually such appaloosas that carry the G grey gene will become completely white just as solid grey horses do, in those cases the skin under the white hairs is often visible and is pink in the blanket areas and dark where the spots or solid areas were, thus an all white horse with pink skin and a few oval spots of dark skin may actually be a few spot appaloosa that has turned grey


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A possibility perhaps?

 

[rema]

This is my new girlie and she is not classed as coloured.On her Passport she is grey and black!!.she has a fair bit more black on her other side!.They have to be a % of broken colour.

 

[kirstyhen]

Ive always thought that horses which are grey but have pathches when they are clipped are called historical piebalds/skewbalds. Dont know about registering them though.
Sorry to be no help!

 

[Thistle]

A friend of mine has a horse that is now pure white (looks albino but dark eyes) she used to have some dark splases when younger and is passported as a piebald.

 

[CastleMouse]

In the name, DOB, breeding etc. section his colour is down as grey, but in the markings section he's put down as spotted blue white.

 

[Santa_Claus]

for 'official' purposes i believe that a horse must have a coloured patch of at least 6cm in all directions. remember having long discussion about a friend's horse as it had a long white stripe down its back but although easily long enough wasn't wide enough for him to be classed as coloured, therefore he stayed a chestnut!

 

[CentrestageSHS]

I think it depends on what level you are showing at. I judged a coloured class at a local show before and we had all sorts of wierd and wonderful things turn up!! A fleabitten grey that was meant to be an appaloosa, a chestnut with flaxen mane and tail that was meant to be palomino and indeed a pure white pony that had freckles of dark skin that were visable but no dark hairs. I would say he could possibly be classed as a few spot appaloosa. Do you know about his breeding, is there any appaloosa in his family or is he from solid coloured stock? I think as there is quite a lot of dark patches together rather than all over him he does have a chance. I had a leopard spot appaloosa pony and as he got older his spots seemed to fade (he didn't have many to begin with) and he ended up looking a bit like a lipizzaner!! However you could only see his sports when he was bathed or clipped!!!!

 

[piebaldsparkle]

I fail to see how your girl is not classed as piebald.

 

[goeslikestink]

hes blue and white and he is a cloured he would come under skewbald skewbald covers any other colour but black

piebald is black and white , ro visa versa

and skewbald is any other colour except black

browns chesnuts palomino grey, ( blagdon which is blue which is grey) and also roan and white

 

[Enfys]

Castlemouse. I think you would have to have a chat with the Society people as suggested. We used to have an all grey horse come to our shows and he always went in the coloured classes, you could see his dark skin just like you can see Castles'. I believe his owner called him "Historical" well, just "faded" really as she once said to me.


Rema, your horse could be classed as coloured if you wanted her to be, possibly, according to the classification mad APHA, a tovero by the looks.CHAPS probably has different rulings She has Medicine Hat markings . She certainly wouldn't be barred from any coloured class that we used to run. I think she has gorgeous markings, I like white faces and coloured ears.
http://www.dreamstime.com/medicine-hat-paint-horse-thumb150950

 

[Patches]

I would say your horse is a coloured Rema but I do think they have to have a percentage of colour before they can be registered with CHAPS for instance.

Patches is registered with CHAPS. As she's aged, being blue and white, she looks pretty much grey - unless you know your colours. I can see her blue patches but they don't show up on photographs. However when she's wet she looks VERY coloured!

This picture was taken just after I bought her in 2005, seems funny seeing her with a long mane.

I wouldn't class Castle as a coloured. My grey mare Tweenie has spots like that when she's clipped and I've never argued with her classification of being a grey.

 

[Kermie]

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I would say your horse is a coloured Rema

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I agree. I wouldn't even have questioned whether she was coloured or not.

 

[rema]

To me she is a coloured but her old owner said she couldent register with chaps as not a big enough percentage of each!.