2011 Official Rule Book - New England Pinto Horse Association

REGisTRaTion
C4. Breeding stock Division Requirements
A. The Breeding Stock Division is provided to record the
bloodlines of animals with color documented in its pedigree
which is solid colored or which lacks sufficient body marking to
be registered in the Color Division of the Registry.
B. Qualifications
Solid color Horses, Ponies or Miniatures are eligible under
the following conditions:
1. Solid color animals with documented color breed
registered ancestry (within two generations).
2. Solid colored animals registered with an approved
outcross color breed.
3. Animals that have two or more Pinto characteristics.
4. Animals originally registered as Breeding Stock now
qualifying under the current Color division requirements
must be reclassified and are no longer eligible to be shown
in Breeding Stock classes.
C5. Color Patterns
A. General
1. The ideal Pinto possesses a 50-50 color pattern
distribution. However, the patterns and markings are
extremely varied and are found in many colors ranging
from the predominantly white to the predominantly colored.
2. An all-white horse, pony, or miniature, with a dark cheek,
cap, spotted face or colored area on body is a Pinto.
3. For registration purposes, only one pattern will be
designated on the Registration Certificate.
B. Tobiano (Toe-be-yah’-no)
1. Head Color Characteristics
a. Least amount of white
b. Dark eyes, but blue eyes are still possible
c. Can be solid dark or minimal normal white markings
and a white body
2. Body Color Characteristics
a. Cross the top line
b. Cover one or both flanks
c. Spots can be oval, round
d. Extend over neck and chest
e. Body can be almost solid color
3. Body White Characteristics
a. Body can be almost all white
b. Does usually cross back between withers and tail
4. Leg Color Characteristics
a. Usually white on all four (4) legs, at minimum below
hock and knees
b. Spots of dark color along the coronet band are often
found (Coronet Spots)
5. Color/White Edges
a. Crisp delineation between colored spots and white
b. Border between color/white can be pigmented skin
with white hair, i.e. shadow, halo bluish cast (blue
zone)
6. General Characteristics
a. Multi-colored tail hair
b. Small spots of color within larger white body white,
usually have a “blue zone” (Ink Spots or Paw Prints)
c. Must have at least one (1) Tobiano parent.
36 2011 PtHA Rule Book
Tobiano Pattern Examples