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Pinto Mania

Filed Under : All by Anaconda Carter

Aug.7,2020

A pinto horse has a coat color that consists of large patches of white and any other color. Many breeds of horses carry pinto patterns. Pinto coloring, known simply as “coloured” in nations using British English, is the most popular in the United States. While pinto colored horses are not considered as a “breed,” several competing color breed registries have formed to encourage the breeding of pinto colored horses. The word “paint” is sometimes used to describe pinto horses but today, it is specifically used for the American Paint Horse; a pinto colored horse with identifiable American Quarter Horse or Thoroughbred bloodlines.

Archaeologists have found evidence of horses with spotted coat patterns on the Russian steppes before the rise of the Roman Empire. Later, spotted horses were among those brought to the Americas by the Conquistadors. By the 17th century in Europe, spotted horses were quite fashionable, though when the fad ended, large numbers of newly-unsellable horses were shipped to the Americas, some of which were sold while others were simply turned loose to run wild. The color became popular, particularly among Native Americans, and was specifically bred for in the United States, which now has the greatest number of pinto horses in the world.

One of the first traited coats Amaretto introduced was the Pinto, which you could get by breeding any horse with a starter horse or by breeding together two starter horses.
Pintos come in six splashy colors. Even thought they are now considered “Out To Pasture” they can still be bred from existing lines.