Roan
This term is used with an animal has an intermingling of one color and white. Horse must have a darker head than the rest of its body. i.e. Strawberry or Blue Roan
Tobiano
- Minimum spots to have color: Solid head (described below) with at least one of the following: lower tail, flank, and chest front.
- Solid head with or without a normal white face marking.
- All four legs usually white from hock/knees/"wrist" down - can have white higher as well. Up to one solid leg allowed.
- Back is not a single color, white and color would cross.
- Spots are regular and distinct as ovals or round patterns.
- Tail may be one color, but is often two colors - usually white and either the body color or black (depending on the horse).
- May have blue eyes.
- Preferred Tobiano is to be equally distributed in amount of color and white throughout the horse- both equally acceptable is predominately colored or predominately white.
Overo
Frame Overo
- White begins from the middle of the neck on each side and the belly side, those markings are "framed" in with a colored chest front and around the neck.
- White markings will not cross the back between the withers (between the end of the neck and the start of the back) and the tail.
- Solid head with a large blaze or bald face.
- At least three dark legs, preferably all; allowed to have white leg markings like a solid/self horse.
- The tail should be colored
- One or two blue eyes usually, but both can be brown.
- White color on body is irregular (scattered or splashy).
- Preferred Overo to be predominately colored or predominately white.
Sabino (Calico Overo)
- Four white legs usually (some may have darker legs) that extend up to the belly.
- Usually has a lot of white on the head; minimum color: ears.
- Body markings irregular and splashy, usually starting on the belly and can then extend up the neck and back towards the rump.
- Blue and/or brown eyes.
- White markings usually ragged.
Splashed White
- Minimal white: snip that is often crooked and at least two white lower legs.
- Minimal color: ears, back, and neck and chest fronts.
- Usually have a lot of white on the head.
- Muzzle preferably untextured pink (180 or 202) if a lot of white on the head.
- Blue eyes or brown eyes; at least one blue eye is preferred if all else is equal.
- White gives the appearance of moving from the lower legs and up.
- Markings very definite, not ragged like in Sabino.
Tovero/Tobero
- A single equine would have at least two features seen on an Overo and at least two features seen on a Tobiano.
- One or both eyes are blue.
- Preferred Tovero/Tobero should be predominately colored or predominately white.
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