When is a paint a tri-color?

My mare is a sorrel/dun overo. She has black or really dark brown in her mane and tail....it is not a lot but it is a handful or more. Could she be classified tri-color, even if the dark brown is just dark brown not black?

When is a paint a tri-color?
no she is not tri colored it would have to be on her body to be classified as one.
Reply:an example of a tri-colored paint would be a bay paint...meaning the main and tail is either black, or black and white....the spots are brown and white...and there can be black on the legs, etc.





A tri-colored paint is exactly as the name says it...three colored paint...if a paint has 3 totally different colors then it's considered tri-colored
Reply:I have a tri colored one but it wont let me post a photobucket picture here.


With yours i cant see the picture, to small and I'm blind LOL. With mine he is Buckskin/White/and Black.


From what i can see she is very pretty, post a bigger picture...please ")
Reply:If the mane color is different from the two body colors, it is a tricolor. Yours does sound that way. A dun sometimes has a mane and tail that look more brown than black. I would consider a dun paint a tricolor.
Reply:Bay and white or Buckskin and white are TRI COLOR, the rest are Bi Color.
Reply:The only way you can have tri color is for the horse to be a bay or buckskin....
Reply:If she has black, brown, and white, then yes a tri color. She is really pretty. I like her picture alot, nice pose!
Reply:yes
Reply:yes, and if your pic. is the horse then she is magnificent!!!!