By wstern | December 31, 2011 - 6:26 pm - Posted in Horses
q.h.luvr asked: I know that every animal is different in their abilities but in general, what are the differences in skills that quarter horses have opposed to paint horses? My last question was like this but I think people misunderstood it, I’m well aware that they are different breeds thanks 
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it depends on the horse itself, conformation, willingness to work, etc. thats with ANY breed of horse
Quarter horses can be used for all around, they can do Western Roping, to Show Jumping. Quarter horses come in these different groups.
Appendix
Stock
Appendix Quarter horses look more like Thoroughbreds, they are used for speed, and usually have long legs, and a long neck, when a well designed head.
Stock Quarter horses usually have big strong hind quarters, and short legs, good for steer hearding, and Western events.
Paints are mainly used for Western, and ranch work.
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.
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.
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