Talk:Sabino horse

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OK, is this guy an overo or a sabino or some combination of both?

Here's the photo in wikipedia, following it is a poorer-quality photo that shows the roaning:

My opinion - I see four sabino traits - the lip/chin spot, belly spot, roaning, jagged leg markings. Of course the other photo shows the markings better, but there is only a requirement of one recognized marking to be registered as a sabino. Sabino is a recognized overo marking - see the Paint Horse page

This is a photo of my stallion (a moderate sabino overo)- he has a lip spot, chin spot, belly spot, roaning, lightning strikes (jagged leg markings), throat splash. It's hard to get some of those characteristics to show up in photos of the "whole horse" and still have a nice picture. Lmocr 04:03, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

It's so weird that the overos and the sabinos are totally different genes, yet lumped together. I guess a horse, in theory, could have both genes, yes? Do you think it is OK to list this horse as a "Sabino Overo" then? This is not my horse, I just took the photo because I saw the horse and realized he was a pretty good example of a horse that at least is not a Tobiano. I figured that he was also a gelding, so no one is going to claim that I am using Wikipedia to promote my own stuff (after all, I don't have Paints...)