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Published: 2013-05-28 23:45:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 629; Favourites: 30; Downloads: 3
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An interestingly marked TWH gelding at the Shelbyville Fun Show, this was on friday in the youth class. The other half of his face was plain without any markings
I just really like this horse ^^ he is a performance horse and a really nice looking gelding ^^I do not own this horse so I cannot give a backstory on him, just say he's super pretty, possibly a splash? more likely sabino though with the breed.
feel free to reference as long as you show me the finished product ^^
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if he was I would have never seen his pretty face xD
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omg *grabby hands*I WANT THIS HORSE! xD lol,.he;s gorgeous.
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lol me too xD he had the most pretty markings ever
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yeah,he's gorgeous X).what was your fave horse there?
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it's hard to choose he was one of them, then there another horse who's name I can't remember but is sired by a horse named Elvis 
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My guess is that the partial white face is due to the sabino gene, because if it was a splash, the one eye that has white around it would be blue
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yeah it just doesn't have the jagged markings of a usual sabino. plus the horse has a black marking around the eye. I just really confuses me lol
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a lot of people get the sabino and splash gene confused, since they are so similar. I know i do sometimes ^^ for example , below is a link to a horse which I thought at first was a minimally marked splash. But then I did some research and found out that this particular horse was actually a sabino. From one side, the horse looks like a splash... The genetics confirmed that this particular horse, a bay Arabian stallion named Khartoon Khlassic, was a sabino...not a splash (since the splash gene does not exist in the Arabian breed as far as we know, but the sabino gene does).
Link: [link]
The conclusion I have come to? Horse genetics are awesome and you never know WHAT you are gonna get when it comes to horses!
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ahh yeah, I've seen that stallion before ^^ very pretty, I'm also quite in love with a TWH stallion with markings similar here [link] he was the one I called the panda horsie when I was little xD
I have never seen a splash TWH so sabino is probably right. They do come in a lot of colors but sabino is the most common markings
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wow! what a horse! splash and sabino are so closely linked together because they are both considered a part of the overo gene. The overo gene is common for causing blue eyes in pinto-colored horses...including splash-white and sabino horses. It could be too that the TWH horse carries BOTH the sabino-splash gene (a combo of both...nSb-nSpl)...that MIGHT explain the "eye liner" (the black around the eyes and the black lip markings...usually you see this in splash-white).
Of course, I'm no expert when it comes to horse genetics and colors. I study the heck out of the subject since its so fascinating to me, but I learn new things every day ^^
For example: dominant white horses are very rare...and normally can be distinguished from gray colored horses by the pure white hair and pink skin...and from cremello/perlino horses from the pure white hair and dark colored eyes (where as a double cream dilute will have blue eyes). BUT...again as I was doing some research into the Arab horse color genetics, I found a dominant white PURE Arabian horse...with an almost fully blue eye and the other eye had brown and blue flecks. Another thing I discovered is that the dominant white gene, in the Arabian, is a "miracle" color...no one knows where it comes from! Its call the "nonsense gene" for both parents do not have to be carries of the W gene to produce a foal that carries the W gene. Interesting huh??
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