The American Paint Horse is a breed of horse that combines both the conformational characteristics of a western stock horse with a pinto spotting pattern of white and dark coat colors. Developed from
American Paint Horse at show
Solid Paint-bred foal. Sire was a sorrel and white tobiano, dam is a black and white tovero. Foal is a solid Chestnut.
Overo refers to several genetically unrelated pinto coloration patterns of white-over-dark body markings in horses, and is a term used by the American Paint Horse Association to classify a set of pint
American Paint Horse
…Paints come in a variety of colors with different markings and different underlying genetics, these are grouped into only four defined coat patterns: overo (includes frame, splash and sabino), tobiano and tovero and solid. Breeding Stock Paints can sometimes showcase small color traits, particularly if…
Frame overos have sharply defined, irregular, horizontally oriented white patches. As here, they are often bald-faced and white patches seldom cross the topline, creating a "frame" of non-white coat.
A splash overo with some minor sabino traits
A Sabino, called "sabino overo" by some registries