Horse Markings - Non-white Markings

Non-white Markings

• Bend-Or spots: Dark faint spotting, usually seen on horses with a Chestnut or Palomino coat color.
• Ermine marks: The occurrence of black marks on a white marking, most often seen on leg markings just above the hoof.
• "Medicine hat": An unusual type of Pinto or Paint coloring where the horse has dark ears and poll (like a hat on the head), but surrounded on all sides of the head and neck by white.
• Shield: A dark Pinto marking where the horse has a dark colored chest, surrounded completely by white on the shoulders, legs, belly and neck. Occasionally used to describe the rarer example of a horse with a totally dark head surrounded completely by white.