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> > A friend recently bought a breed stock paint mare at
the auction. The question is that the picture as a
foal shows FOUR WHITE SOCKS.  The mare only has two. 
Can foals be born with socks and then change to solid
? The blaze on the mare's head is exactly the same as
the foal picture.>>  

Do you mean a breeding stock (aka solid horse)
registered with the American Paint Horse Association
(APHA)?  If so, are you talking of the picture on the
APHA registration papers? How old is the foal in the
picture? Young foals tend to be lighter on the legs
and underbelly as a form of camouflage making white
markings difficult to decifer to the novice eye. White
markings have a definate crisp outline when meeting to
the main body color (sometimes you have to wet the
hair to see the line). Pictures can distort this
however. 

If your freind is sure that the horse in the picture
has four white socks and her's does not AND the
picture is on her horse's APHA registrtion papers.
Then the papers do not match the horse and you should
have her horse DNA'd. 

It used to be a common practice at the auction barns
to sale an unregistered horse with a set of papers
that match, to increase it's value to the buying
public. That practice has dwendled due to many
registries requiring DNA - but it still happens.

~Nat~
Buckeye, AZ

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