Splashed White is another white pattern that can look similar to Overo and Sabino, because of this it's also usually grouped in with those patterns and given the generic term, Overo. 

  • Facial markings on Splashed Whites can be bottom heavy and may involve just a snip. Larger markings tend to give the horse an "apron" marking.
  • Leg white may be more blunt than with other patterns. It's common for the hind legs to have marking while the front legs do not. But any number of legs may have white, ranging from low coronet white to full leg white.
  • Belly spots are common, even on horses that don't have very large facial markings or high leg markings.
  • It's as if the horse was dipped in paint, starting with the legs and nose. The horse is white from the bottom up, arranged in a horizontal pattern. When the body is marked like this, its common for the head to be extensively and sometimes completely white with just the ears having colour. 
  • The line between the white and colour is usually very sharp and crisp. 
  • Blue eyes are very common.
  • Some splash horses are born deaf - but this is not true of ALL splash horses.

As with all patterns Splash does come in a minimal form, at times it could be as minimal as a small faint snip on the nose.

Through research, it is believed that Splash is controlled by an incomplete dominant. Meaning the white patterns will be different depending on the dosage of the gene (like cream). It is believed that horses with one splash gene (heterozygous) will have minimal markings that do not extend as far up onto the body and that horses with two splash genes (homozygous) are the ones that have the unique horizontal body pattern

>> Examples of splash


 

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