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Distal spots and lacing

Would you say this horse is minimal tobi with his distal spots or could there be another white pattern responsible for it? I also noticed something like lacing on the belly - but only at second glance... :flower http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/pc/cat/1103/display/19245243" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

TwinCreeksFarm Mon, 01/04/2010 - 17:11

What's the breed? I do not think tobiano on this one. This happens on a lot of horses where tobiano is not involved, such as my warmblood. All 4 white feet and ermines. I'm pretty sure it's thought to be a trait of sabino, and some people even tend to theorize that the ermines are a sign of a suppression gene. Ask ACC about it!

However, it does crop up from time to time as a minimal tobiano. This one just looks a little too normal for me, though.

dakotakdq Mon, 01/04/2010 - 17:54

I have bred 3 buckskin colts, all from diff and minimal purebred QH and they ALL have those black spots, what do they mean?

Fledgesflight Mon, 01/04/2010 - 18:23

Countercanter (at least I think it was her) came up with the "white suppressor" theory regarding relatively low whites with ermines- On what should otherwise be a more loudly coloured horse through breeding.

NZ Appaloosas Mon, 01/04/2010 - 19:05

Speaking of that theory...has anyone ever noticed ermine spots in a chestnut? Our socked standy is bay, and the other standy is also bay (without a lick of white anywhere on her).

Diane

accphotography Mon, 01/04/2010 - 20:07

Oh yeah. They're just a lot less visible on chestnuts, especially the chestnuts with the paler legs. But clip em up and wet em down... hoo boy!! *said in her best Kentucky hick accent*

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Of course she's also got spots all over her face (related?) and is suspected to carry three patterns and yet is still fairly minimal. Her foal may tell us alot.

Krickette Mon, 01/04/2010 - 22:18

Nike's a bay with nothing special going on and he has them. Don't remember if he has them on all 3 or not though.

NZ Appaloosas Tue, 01/05/2010 - 22:09

I know I've seen them on bays/blacks (heck, got one in the back paddock, our standy lawnmower)...it occurred to me, while reading the previous, that black seems to be a white-pattern suppressor and that I could not remember ever seeing ermine spots on a chestnut. Of course, not "doing" chestnuts might have something to do with that... :rofl

Diane

accphotography Tue, 01/05/2010 - 22:12

I do believe black suppresses white... but I think that suppression is different from the one causing ermines and distals... JMO.

accphotography Tue, 01/05/2010 - 23:15

I think it even says that agouti carrying black bases show more white than their black counterparts as well.

Slenderhorse Wed, 01/08/2014 - 18:24

<p>Forgot to add that she is a dark chestnut</p>