Tobiano? and what do you think

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Is he a tobiano? I think he is but wanted a second opinion! Also what do you think of him?

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I don't know much about coloureds but isn't a Tobiano when the horse has the solid colour along it's back, and there is a name for when their back is white.
He is lovely.
 
Yes, that is tobiano. When the white doesn't cross the back that is an overo, splash overo (as I understand it) is when the topline is dark and the rest looks as if the horse has been dipped in a vat of white paint. This is a frame overo:
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This is Gamblin Man, a splashed overo:
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www.apha.com/breed/index.html
 
Hmmm. I am a very sad person, I will also be a very tired one, it is 2.30am here and I have spent hours reading about paint horse patterns. It seems that my horse is not a pure 'frame' overo but also has sabino too, all hinges on the legs, and spots, and edges of the white patches.........told you I was sad.

That Gambling Man is an amazing looking creature isn't he? Actually, there is another photo of him from the other side on there. Want to see more (page 2)?

www.coloredhorses.com/PPnew.html
 
Yes he is very similarly marked to my boy and both CHAPS and BSPA have defined mine as a bay skewbald tobiano. A tri-coloured is when they have three colour patches on the body, so a black mane and tail with a bay/white body is a skewbald tobiano.

This is my tobiano

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and this is Cairo who is a classic sabino (was used as a perfect example in Model Horse Mag)

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Very nice horse you have.
 
Yes he is definitely tobiano
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. Tobianos always have the same coloured markings as a solid horse on their head (ie. normal solid colour with blaze, star or snip etc) along with patches rather than splashes over their body.
 
[and this is Cairo who is a classic sabino (was used as a perfect example in Model Horse Mag)

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Famous horse! Has he got a model after him then? Love them both, but Cairo especially, what a lovely colour he is, how on earth do you get a saddle up there?
Do you ever take him in coloured classes? It's odd to think of a Clyde as a coloured horse, I was reading about them last night and over here the fashion is to breed them as solidly coloured as possible it seems.
 
Thank you, he is my OH's pride and joy. Saddle is easy - I sort of hoist up and push it over, he is only 16.3 but I am under 5'. Treeless saddle is great as it is light, but the western is huge and very heavy, keeps me strong.

He does the occasional local coloured class for fun, but as he is 21 (getting on for a clydie) and one eyed he does not do that well, though he won his last class - this picture was taken on the day before setting out, hence the heavy horse bridle, ribbons and looking very clean (ok only two entered). He could be registered with BSPA or CHAPS if he were younger as a coloured. Chancer the Stinker is my show horse.

Many people breed the larger type that are solid colours, but I personally prefer the smaller sabino clydes. No model as yet!
 
Good luck with your show.

This is the short term plump and muscled up Chancer - got another two weeks of producing him for the WCC and ASS champs then he can go back to being a lighter and less muscled up baby again until March when I will start putting him into show condition.

Should have seen him last night after the rain and mud we have again - all brown, all over.
 
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