Paint Horses For Sale
76What to Know About one of America’s Most Popular Breeds
Paint horses have been fashionable in this country for many years, due largely to their beautiful coat of many colors. Not as versatile or capable as many other breeds of horse, the Paint Horse Registry is based almost entirely on the color of the horse. Such as happens when animals are bred for such a superficial trait, the structure of the animal begins to degrade, and the capable ponies of yester year are now walking pieces of art (which is why many fine horse gifts feature the paint horse), and many do not live far into their teens due to a variety of hoof and limb issues. The Paint Horse Registry is also a closed book registry, which means though the issues plaguing the breed today are largely genetic ones; little or no new blood is offered to correct the problems.
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What to Ask When Buying a Paint Horse for Sale
I would always ask for radiographs on the horse’s coffin joint, fetlock joint, and tarsus/Carpal joint. Think that is too spendy try talking Navicular Syndrome treatment for five years, let alone the rest of the animals life. Even that won’t tell you what will happen in the future, just what is there today, and the radiographs are only as good as the vet and farrier reading them. Paint horses are prone to so many lower limb and hoof ailments that many are shod in therapeutic shoes from a very young age, even as early as yearlings for some corrective measures. I will want to know how many solid, non dun/palomino/buckskin horses are in the animal’s pedigree. Those animals were chosen based on their merits as bloodstock, not for a particular pretty color, and I turn my nose up at diluted (Palomino and Buckskin) Paint Horses, especially the cremello and perlino types. I will also turn down a “homozygous” pinto of any breed, such a horse was only bred for spots and not for anything else.
Options for Spots Outside the Paint Horse World
Many programs exist for lovers of Pinto Horses, in all sorts of disciplines and breed types not simply stock horse types. The Pinto Horse Association of America is a great place to learn all about Pintos, and I know some high percentage double registered Arabian Pintos that will reign circles around a paint horse, as well as cut cows with the best of them. Because all Paint horses are Pintos, but not all Pintos are Paint horses, there are more opportunities for showing, and more people to show with and against. Pinto World Championships are held in Tulsa Oklahoma, in or about June of every year.
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That is very true, all breeds have issues, but as a level four graduate in extreme lameness and a specialist in complex shoeing systems I can tell you beyond a doubt that your beloved Paint horses have by far more angular limb deformities and lameness issues than any other breed I service, not simply by volume, but in fact because of how they are bred. It is insane to breed horses that weigh upwards of fourteen hundred pounds and have 00 sized front feet on two distal phyalax that are two to four degrees positive plane. It is a breed epidemic, and those who breed for nothing but color for generation after generation are to blame. I am THE expert in this field, and my opinion on this topic is beyond reproach.
So are there ANY horses you suggest? For every breed I click on, the first "information" I get is negative and untrue. Why I shouldn't get this horse and all the cons and what to reconsider and how all these horses are either too expensive or will simply die at a young age for no explainable reason... Makes your input on these things very unreliable. As an experienced equestrian person, myself, and for all the other ones out there that are also commenting on your claims, it is easy to notice that your "facts" on all breeds are biased, poorly researched and simply ridiculous.
i want that black and white paint horse
Your facts about American Paint Horses if you are referencing those registered with the American Paint Horse Association (which I assume you are since you reference the Pinto Horse Association which IS solely a color registry) are misleading and erroneous. In fact, the APHA does NOT have a closed stud book. Nor is registration with the APHA based upon the color of the horse. The APHA allows for genetic outcross with the American Quarter Horse Association and the Jockey Club. Additionally, in order to ensure genetic purity, all horses must be DNA tested. Furthermore, foals that are born without the "fashionable ... coat of many colors" you mention are not only registerable with the association, they are allowed to race with their colored brethren and are also given a venue to compete in the show ring so that the resulting animals are recognized nationally for the quality animals that they are. These "colorless" horses often go on to compete against Quarter Horses in highly specialized areas like barrel racing, reining, and cutting, etc., in national venues such as the NRHA, the NCHA, and the NBRA.
Your "article" is sadly misleading when you point out "genetic" issues (particularly those of the leg and feet) arising in Paints from a closed stud book. Those that you mention typically arise from selectively breeding horses for specific events over a period of generations. Halter horses with posty hocks, reining horses with worn out hocks, catty little cutting horses with fine bones and tiny feet that lead to navicular changes, repetitive stress injury in barrel and race horses. What you fail to mention is that these trends and injuries occur in EVERY breed... including those that you claim to enjoy watching in the vast Paint CROSSES that compete at the Pinto Nationals. (We won't go into hybrid vigor here... that's a genetic discussion for a different forum.)
Your article bothered me years ago when I rain across it the first time. It bothers me still - sadly you've maligned a breed of horses that for the most part are a genial, mild-mannered breed represented by a group of people that welcome newcomers. I have exhibited this breed successfully at the national level - both within the APHA and the PtHA. Every breed has health problems - no breed is exempt. For you to represent the Paint horse in this manner is irresponsible and misleading to the public. Shame on you.
Romiegirl2010 23 months ago
You paint very strong stereotypes for this breed of horse. Not all Paints have lower limb problems and are not useful past their teen years. All horses, I don't care what breed they are, will have some type of issue. There is no such thing as a perfect horse and yes, some breeds are more predisposed to certain ailments (just like w/purbred dogs) but one should not shy away from owning one completely. You need to be smart in your shopping for a horse, no matter what breed it may be.