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PIE NOIR [3 records]

Record 1 2008-05-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
  • Horse Husbandry
DEF

A horse whose coat consists of large irregular and clearly defined patches of white and of any other colour except black.

CONT

A black and white pinto is a Piebald, and white with any other color (as in bay, chestnut, etc.) is a Skewbald.

CONT

Skewbald: brown shades, either bay or chestnut and white, with the white predominant and considered the ground colour.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
  • Élevage des chevaux
DEF

(Cheval) à robe fauve et blanche.

OBS

Robe composée de plaques blanches et de plaques alezanes, grises, etc.

CONT

Pie, de grandes taches irrégulières sur un fond blanc forment les robes pie.

OBS

Le cheval pie peut avoir des taches noires(pie noir) aussi.

OBS

cheval pie; pie : généralement employés comme équivalents et synonymes de «pinto».

Spanish

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Record 2 2008-05-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
  • Horse Husbandry
DEF

A horse whose coat consists of large irregular and clearly defined patches white and black hairs.

CONT

Piebald: black and white, with white generally predominant, and considered the ground colour.

CONT

A black and white pinto is a Piebald, and white with any other color (as in bay, chestnut, etc.) is a Skewbald.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
  • Élevage des chevaux
DEF

Cheval à la robe blanche avec des plaques noires.

OBS

Cheval pie, noir et blanc, dont la couleur de fond(qui domine) est le blanc.

Spanish

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Record 3 2003-08-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
  • Horse Husbandry
DEF

... a horse whose dual-colored coat pattern is comprised of white areas combined with another of the basic coat colors common to horses, making each Pinto unique.

CONT

There are two recognized Pinto color pattersn: Tobiano (Toe-bee-ah'-no) and Overo (O-vair'-o). The Tobiano patteern appears to be white with large sports of color, often overlapping on animals with a greater percentage of color than white. ... The Overo pattern appears to be a colored horse with jagged white markings usually originating on the animal's side or belly, spreading toward the neck, tail, legs, and back.

CONT

The words "Pinto" and "Paint" both refer to horses with a light and dark coat pattern, but actually the terms have different meanings beyond the coloration. Basically, Pinto horses can be of any breed, so long as they sport the colourful coat. Paint horses come from parents that are purebred, registered Quarter Horses or Thoroughbreds, and that sport the light and dark coat pattern.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
  • Élevage des chevaux
DEF

[...] cheval marqué de larges taches blanches quand sa robe est d’une autre couleur ou, à l'inverse, un cheval blanc marqué de taches de couleur :pie alezan, pie bai, pie noir, mais aussi pie aubère ou pie palomino [...]

CONT

Si elle est faite de grandes taches blanches et noires, le Pinto est «overo», si les taches sont blanches et d’une autre couleur que le noir, il est «tobiano».

Spanish

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