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Why cant you get piebald or skewbald thoroughbred horses2007-11-24 21:23:17

It's the only pinto colored TB I've ever seen. (pictures of)

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Just wanted to correct an answer above. The US JC will register horses of any color or pattern.

If a color is not recognized they'll register it as the next closest color...a buckskin would be registered as a bay.

Also a colored horse would simply be registered as the base color, with no mention of the pinto pattern except under the description of the horses' markings.

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I want to agree with several writers who stated that there are examples of full-blood thoroughbreds who are overo colored, either frame or sabino overos. Several have ended up being double registered as both Thoroughbreds and also as Paints, making them very marketable as stallions. (It used to be that APHA would take a registered Quarter horse or a registered Thoroughbred with excessive white and register them as Paints. They were called "Crop-outs".)

The overo gene can exist in solid colored horses. That is how the Paint breed first came into existance. Some times two solid AQHA horses would throw an overo foal. At that time foals with too much white were not eligable to be registered as a Quarter horse, but they were gladly accepted into the APHA registry. Things have since changed. Any color foal with two AQHA parents can now be registered as a Quarter horse. APHA will now no longer take foals that do not have one parent a registered Paint and the second parent either a Paint, AQHA or Thoroughbred. So therefore now days a Thoroughbred with excessive white can no longer be registered as a Paint as well.