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:

same horse

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...)

[edit] Sabino is common in Hackney Horses & Hackney Ponies

Here is a Hackney Horse filly and her dam. The filly, has high white on all 4 legs, the full blaze, white lip, white between her jaw bones, small white markings on her belly and two white markings on her right hip. Both parents have a partially white lower lip and low stockings, but no other body markings, except for ermine marks on their coronet bands. Both parents have produced other get with sabino expression.--Panachehh 20:52, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Here is a photo of Panache Sorceress at 1 month of age:

Filly at 1 month of age

Good contributions, but I removed some commercial comments on this page. Please be careful not to "advertise" on Wikipedia, but your images are nice. Don't use galleries, either, I fixed the wiki markup to a more standard form. Montanabw 21:44, 23 April 2007 (UTC)