Sabino

Sabino is a group of white spotting patterns in horses that affects the skin and hair, visually recognized by mixing of white hairs at the edges of white markings, belly spots, irregular face markings, especially white extending past the eyes or onto the chin, white above the knees or hocks, and "splashed" or "lacy" markings anywhere on the body, but particularly on the belly.

At the maximum, heterozygous Sabino can cover the entire underside of the horse and speckle up over the topline. Homozygous Sabino can create a nearly pure white horse with small specklings of the base coat showing through, typically around the eyes, ears, muzzle and flank.

At the minimum, there must at least be some expression of Sabino on the body. This can be as simple as natural white with some mottled edges.

Sabino, when combined with other white markings, can make the edges mottled or speckled.


The geno code for Sabino is written as:
nSb or SbSb

Sabino Range and Minimum Expression

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