It looks Sabino to Me!

It looks Sabino to Me!

All this time you thought Arabians did not come with flashy white patterns, but we were misinformed. Many of the horses of Abbas Pasha were in fact Sabinos.

Welcome to my Sabino and Rabicano page. I chose to include this page for two reasons. First, I was lied to about 'pinto' arabians, and I wanted to keep others from remaining ignorant, and second, some of the horses listed on these pages are in fact Sabino or Rabicano.

Let me first distinguish what a Rabicano (Rab-ih-caw-no) is:

Rabicano is the main gene responsible for 'roan' Arabians. It is most often represented in the flanks as roaning and as bars and spots of white on the tail-head. This pattern does not produce white skin with its markings. It may not even show up until the horse is a couple of years old.

Rabicano may also be spelled Rubicano, or pronounced 'Rub-uh-can-oh' or 'Rube-uh-caw-no'. The proper spelling and pronunciation, as best I have found is Rabicano. It is a Spanish word, and it was first used by them to discribe raoned horses.

Currently geneticists are unsure what connection, if any exists between Rabicano and Sabino.

Pictured is the Tail-Head of WSF Ms Baraca, purebred 25% Egyptian Arabian mare, 11 years of age.

THERE ARE SOME SABINO / RABICANO HORSES FOR SALE ON THIS SITE.

THEY ARE AS FOLLOWS:

HPA CAJUNS DANDY

sabino and rabicano gelding

CHADESEA ROSEFOR ASAN

rabicano black filly

There is more information available on these horses on the sales page.

So what is Sabino and how does it differ from other 'types' of overo, or 'pinto'? Sabino (Suh-bee-no) is another spanish word. Geneticists do not understand the genetics of Sabino.

Sabino can be a great mimic of other types of white patterning. Sabino is catagorized as overo. This means that it is not a dominant, specific pattern, such as tobiano.

Tobiano produces perpendicular markings and when alone does not affect the head. It always produces four white legs, and almost always crosses over the topline somewhere between the back of the ears and the tip of the tail. The face will usually have at most a star, unless another pattern is involved as well. Tobiano is like bay or gray or True Roan, it WILL be expressed if it is present, and it must have been found in one of the parents. (Note, bay does not affect chestnut carriers, no black to affect.)

Sabino can produce horses that technically fit the Tobiano description, but that is extremely rare. Sabino markings tend to have 'lacey' edges rather than crisp, clean lines. The spots will generally be found on the lower portions of the horse. For example it often produces lots of leg white, high stockings over the kness/hocks, disconnected leg markings, belly spots/flecks, throat or chin white, ect. Sometimes it produces extreme markings such as medicine hats. Sometimes it mimics the frosted appaloosa markings and blankes portions of or all of a horse with extremely roaned or frosted looking areas. Some Sabinos have odd colored spots inside their white markings, such as facial medallions, and ermine spots on the corronets.

The most common markers are 'apron' blazes that start as a small star at the top and widen toward the bottom to include the whole muzzle, high leg white (above knees/hocks), and belly spots.

I must mension here that homozygous (pairing of the same gene) Sabinos are in no danger of the dreaded Leathal White Syndrome of Overos. LWS only affects homozygous Frame Overos.

Frame is the pattern which causes a horse to look out-lined in color with a white central region that runs mostly parallel to the ground. Frame overos generally have alot of facial white as well.

While a Sabino may have blue eyes, they are not common. Frame Overos usually have at least one blue eye. Called Wall Eyes, Frames will usually have pink skin close to a blue eye, while a Sabino usually does not.

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