Sabino

Mar 11, 2024

An unusual Clydesdale

A friend recently shared a picture of this Clydesdale mare, Olde Tyme I. M. Nina ("Nina"). Her trainer, Jen Hemphill of Rolling Thunder...

Jul 5, 2021

An overview of the sabino patterns

This post gives an overview of this complex group of patterns and gives a brief explanation of how they have been named. Perhaps no other...

Jul 4, 2021

Terminology - the generic sabino

The convention the author of this blog follows is to use "sabino" (lowercase with no number) as the generic term for those patterns...

Jul 3, 2021

Terminology - it's all "white-spotting"

This is not a more specific term than sabino, but rather a generic term for the absence of pigment cells. In genetics, mice are used as a...

Jul 3, 2021

Terminology - Dominant White

Rumors of the demise of this term are misleading. It's still widely used in the research community. The hunter mare pictured above...

Apr 11, 2014

Reminder – deadline for W20 samples

The deadline for submitting samples for the W20 Project is coming up, so send them soon if you want your horse included! I wanted to post...

Mar 24, 2014

The W20 Project

A project to raise funds and collect samples is underway to better understand the W20 variant in the W-series of patterns. I mentioned in...

Mar 16, 2014

"W" is for white-spotting

One way of looking at the inclusion of sabino phenotypes in the W-series is to assume that it refers to "white spotting" in general,...

Mar 13, 2014

A family of diverse colors

Tobiano, roan, sabino and dominant white are all mutations that involve the same gene - KIT - which is important for understanding how...

Mar 12, 2014

So what happened to all the sabinos?

What are the differences between dominant whites and sabinos? In terms of phenotype, they do not look different. As I mentioned in the...