Comments for Paint Ponys

Comment on how tall will be my paint horse colt be? by Tonja K

Tonja K — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:13:51 +0000

My vet says they tend to be closer to their moms height. My 14h mare bread to a 16h stallion, I was hoping the colt would hit 15h but the vet says not to hold my breath.

Comment on how tall will be my paint horse colt be? by ponygal10145

ponygal10145 — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:53:52 +0000

Theres a cowboy method that (if hes of good breeding) is normally pretty accurate. It’s more for two year old though so I’m not sure how well it will work for your boy. take leadrope and maesure from his shoulder to where his hoof starts, then measure from the same point on his shoulder up his back and that should give you a good estimate.

Comment on how tall will be my paint horse colt be? by zakiit

zakiit — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:02:27 +0000

The difference in height between his withers and his rump are all perfectly normal. Horses will continue to grow like this until about the age of 6 or 7 which is why it is vital to limit work of any intensity as his bones and muscles will still be soft and easily strained.

Next year his front end may overtake his rump, and the year after that …. He will even out eventually.

Do you have the sizes and or pictures of his parent? If he has more of his mother’s features he is likely to be somewhere in the region of her height, but if the stallion is the dominant gene he might go to his height or somewhere in between. It does depend a bit on who has the dominant genes and if there is a difference between the height of the stallion and mare he might grow to somewhere in between or taller.

Comment on What is the difference between a paint and spotted saddle horse? by Dusty P

Dusty P — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:21:19 +0000

What some are telling you here is accurate in that the Paint horse registry is for stock (Quarter Horse)/Thoroughbred breeding and types of horses and the Pinto registry is for the others, so you see a lot of Saddlebred/Tennessee Walker types of horses in that registry.

What a lot of people don’t understand, or fail to communicate, is that the paint and pinto genes are one in the same. Neither the Paint or the Pinto is a color or a breed, it is the spotting pattern that is created by a gene some horses carry. The registries for Paints and Pinto are strictly what is known as color breed registries (while they are not a color, they still fall in this catagory for simplicity), with Paint registering the stock horse types and Pinto registering the other types as I stated above.

A “color” is your base color, such as bay, chestnut, palomino, etc.
A “breed” is a pure blood breed, such as Quarter Horse, Thoroughbred, Arabian, etc.
Paints and Pintos carry the gene that creates the spotting pattern on your base color (bays, chestnuts, palominos, etc). Hence you see bay Paints or Pintos, chestnut Paints or Pintos, etc.

Paints and Pintos are not a breed OR a color! A registry does not necessarily make a horse a particular “breed” unless it’s a blood breed registry.

Comment on What is the difference between a paint and spotted saddle horse? by HorseReport HGS

HorseReport HGS — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:29:13 +0000

Well since i have owned paints and SSH ill give you a personal definition.

a spotted Saddle horse is actully a Tennessee Walker but with pinto genes. ( people im right they do flat footed, running walk and canter jsut like a TWH)
many SSH are commonly double registered with TWHBEA but the SSH association only accepts horses with specific pinto markings.

Paints or APHA’s are descendants of the spanish ponys of cortez. THey are realted to Mustangs, Nokotas, and Quarter Horses hence there similar apperance to QH. The paint horses are diffrent from the SSH becasue they are not gaited and are not TWH’s.

hope that helped.

Comment on What is the difference between a paint and spotted saddle horse? by Mrs.Edward Cullen

Mrs.Edward Cullen — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:21:42 +0000

okay a paint is a spotted AQHA a pinto is any other breed that is spotted a spotted saddle horse is a spotted TWH

Comment on What is the difference between a paint and spotted saddle horse? by Rosi M HPTS

Rosi M HPTS — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:35:18 +0000

“Paint” or APHA registered horses are those horses that have either TB or QH conformation and bloodlines. They are an actual registry.

Spotted Saddle Horse is a pinto with American Saddlebred bloodlines, high “parky” movements, conformation of a SB and the colouring of a pinto. Clarence Selzter bred them for decades in Montebello, CA.

Comment on What are the differences in skills that quarter horses have opposed to paint horses? by snl

snl — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 02:03:25 +0000

they are practically the same because they are both stock horse types. paints can sometimes be more flighty than quarters because they can have TB bloodlines, but it really just depends on the breeding. they can show in all of the same events. at the show level, paints tend to be slower and have lower heads than quarters in western pleasure. and quarters tend to have more “cow sense” but not always. so really they are almost the same except for the markings and breeding

Comment on What are the differences in skills that quarter horses have opposed to paint horses? by erin v

erin v — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:47:39 +0000

Quarter horses and Paints are basically the same as far as ability goes. They have a lot of the same blood lines and offer the same classes at their respective breed shows. Yes Paints are a different breed, but in order to be a registered paint the horse must have one paint parent and the other has to be a QH a TB or another paint; or be a QH or TB that is a crop out (is born with color even though neither of it’s parents are colored). Because of the registration requirements the two breeds are pretty much the same. If you want a Paint that is a hunter under saddle prospect, reining prospect, etc look for the same bloodlines you would want in a quarter horse bred for that event.

In my personal experience the paints that have one QH or TB parent and one paint parent seem to have better minds and confirmation than those that have color on both sides. My theory is that there are a lot of breeders out there going for color and not worrying about quality and when start getting too much color on the papers after a few generations color is all you get. Don’t get me wrong I love paints, I own 3 of them but soundness of mind and body is much more important to me than coat color.

Comment on What are the differences in skills that quarter horses have opposed to paint horses? by Sabrina

Sabrina — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:15:34 +0000

There really isn’t a whole lot of difference between quarter horses and paints in the way they’re built and what they’re used for. Paints have been heavily crossbred with quarter horses, so many paints are built and can perform just like any quarter horse can. However, paints have been crossbred with thoroughbreds too, so there are also a great number of thoroughbred type paints that excel in hunt seat, jumping and other pleasure riding disciplines that thoroughbreds excel in. The quarter horse stud book isn’t open to crossing with thoroughbreds. You can’t cross a quarter horse with a thoroughbred and call it a quarter horse. The foal would be an “appendix quarter horse”, which is something slightly different.

In short, Paints can do all the same things that quarter horses can, but sometimes they’ll show some thoroughbred lineage.