page_title: Splashed white
section_title: Minimal splashed whites
hierarchical_section_title: Splashed white / Characteristics / Minimal splashed whites
caption_attribution_description: Icelandic foal with a blaze and blue eyes. Probably a splashed white since white markings this large as well as blue eyes are rarely caused by other factors in Icelancid horses.
context_page_description: Splashed white or splash is a horse coat color pattern in the "overo" family of spotting patterns that produces pink-skinned, white markings. Many splashed whites have very modest markings, while others have the distinctive "dipped in white paint" pattern. Blue eyes are a hallmark of the pattern, and splash may account for otherwise "solid" blue-eyed horses. Splashed white occurs in a variety of geographically divergent breeds, from Morgans in North America to Kathiawari horses in India. The splashed white pattern is also associated with congenital deafness, though most splashed whites have normal hearing. Splashed white can be caused by multiple variants across two different genes, for which genetic testing is available.
context_section_description: Breed registries for which minimum or maximum white markings are a factor in registration have created imaginary lines to simplify the selection process:
  From the ear, to the eye, to the corner of the mouth, to the chin groove,
  the knee on the foreleg, and
  the hock on the hindleg.
  White markings extending past these lines are considered "pinto", "paint" or "colored" while white markings which do not cross these lines are not considered to suggest these traits. However, horses without "excessive white markings" can still have the potential to produce "high white" or distinctly spotted offspring. Splashed white horses have produced generations of "solid" horses, followed by an errant, classically marked splashed white. Discreetly marked splashed whites are responsible for some families of cropout American Quarter Horses.
  The minimal expression of the splashed white pattern can include few or no white markings at all.  When only minimal markings are present, other qualities can belie splashed white. Stars and snips may lopsided, off-center, or otherwise strangely placed. Blazes are usually blocky or straight-edged, and bottom-heavy. Splashed white blazes may also be crooked or skewed to one side. Sabinos with a bold blaze almost invariably have white on the lip or chin, and this is not the case for the facial white of a minimally marked splash; the upper lip typically remains colored. Leg markings in a minimally marked splashed white range from hind coronets to high-whites on all four, or marked hindlegs and unmarked forelegs. While sabino leg markings are often tapering with distal patches, the leg markings on a splashed white usually have crisp borders.
  The most reliable identifier of the splashed white pattern is one or more blue, or parti-colored eyes.
caption: Bright blue eyes and a skewed blaze that does not reach the lip suggest splashed white genes are present in this Icelandic foal.
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