Breeding Stock Paint

These two horses are registered paint horses, but they produced a solid foal, called a "Breeding Stock Paint"

A Breeding Stock Paint is a horse that is solid in coloration, but was born out of two paint horses.

A Breeding Stock Paint foal and his mother. His father was a sorrel and white tobiano, and his mother is a black and white tovero. He is a solid Chestnut.

To qualify as a paint horse, the horse must have a spot on it measuring at least two inches in any direction and the underlying skin must be pink. Scars, and pink skin on the private areas do not count. A horse can still be a paint, though it has no spots. If the markings on the face go past the eye, or if the markings on the legs go above the knees (on the forelegs) or above the hocks (backlegs) Then it could qualify the horse as a paint.

Breeding Stock Paint horses can still be registered as Paint Horses, but will not have a regular registration. They wont be able to participate in most Paint Horse classes at the Association shows. Typically there are three or four classes for Breeding Stock Paint horses to participate in at the Paint Shows.

If bred to another paint horse, a Breeding Stock can still produce a colored baby. Though they dont show it, they still carry the paint gene.