What Color Pattern Is This Horse?

Paint Horses have many different color patterns. Can you identify this mostly white pattern? Answer our Just-for-Fun Trivia question.

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What color pattern is this mostly white Paint Horse?

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ANSWER: It’s a “medicine hat,” a pattern where the horse is almost entirely white except for color over his ears and perhaps around his eyes, on the chest, and at the tail base.

Prized by Native American tribes of the Great Plains, the medicine hat coloration was thought by some to indicate a horse with supernatural powers. The color over the poll was considered a “war bonnet,” and any color on the chest and flanks was thought of as “shields.”

[FOR PAINTS and other breeds: recreational-riding award programs.]

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