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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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