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• Well, I did learn somethings I did not know before. But, I did know wether it is a Paint or Pinto, both are very beautiful!!!

• great info thank you

• Paints and pintos are different, and people don't realize that. They aren't breeds either; they're types.

  • The article says that Paints are a breed, you're disagreeing with that?

    • Paints started out as pinto QH's that the breed registry rejected because Native Americans liked them or Native Americans acquired them because the QH people didn't like them because they thought they were inferior. This is ancient history. Paints became a registry recently for stock horse types that happened to be PINTOS but the QH registry would not have them. Paints were never a separate actual BREED from QH's. Lately the QH folks have reversed their rejection and accepted pintos (Paints) into their registry mainly because all the Paints had QH's in their background.

      • I have to disagree with you. Paints became a breed because the QH breeders tried to produce more white in the pleasure show horses to get the judges attention. You can't win if the judge doesn't see you. In A shows you have entries of quite a few sometimes they even have to run 3 or 4 classes than take the winners and go again to pick the end winner. So what happened was they came up with quality horses that couldn't be reistered in QH because of the white restrictions at the time. EX: white couldn't be larger than a quarter, couldn't go higher than the knee or hock, or beyond the eyes. So the American Paint horse Assoc was established.

  • A PAINT IS a BREED.

• Interesting article! Thanks for setting the pintos and paints straight for me.

• I always get annoyed when people mix these up! More people should read this article!

• Thanks for the article, I can point to it if I ever get into a dispute about this.
  Ugh, I had a 'riding instructor' once that INSISTED that 'pinto' was a breed and 'paint' was a color. I tried changing her mind, but decided it wasn't worth it.

• Thanks for the information. I definitely learned something today!

• In other words, there's no difference. Paint is a just a description that was already in use that the APHA took for coloured or painted/pinto quarter horses.

  • Paint is a breed, while pinto is a color. The word "paint" is just short for the word "American Paint," which is a breed. They say that pinto is a breed, when really pinto is a color breed. A color breed is a color that refers to any true breed. So no matter the breed, the horse could be any color.

    (Why do people fight over the strangest things?!)

• I love my pinto!

• I have a pinto that is a tobiono.... his name is scout I always got confused about the difference between a Paint and a Pinto.... I love my horse!!!