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Splash, also called splashed white or splash overo, is a pinto pattern. It can occur on any color. The white is usually bottom heavy with not much white on the back. Splashes look as if the pony was dipped feet first in white. Splash can be minimally expressed with only a snip or low socks. Splashes usually have one or two blue eyes. Splashes with dark tails often have a white tail tip. Splash is an incomplete dominant, meaning that a homozygous splash has more white than a heterozygous splash. A splash must have a splash parent in order to be splash.
Black silver dapple very minimal splash overo. Splash expression is limited to four white feet, blaze and lips, and one blue eye. Surfer Dude, Picture by Amanda Geci.
Chestnut splash with two blue eyes from 2001. Sired by the above stallion Surfer Dude. This foal had a similarly marked full sibling in 2002. Wild foal, Picture by Amanda Geci.
Minimal splash with one blue eye. Note her dipped in paint appearance. Sired by the above stallion Surfer Dude. Surfer Girl, Picture by and courtesy of Kim Porter.
Near maximum splash mare and her minimal splash foal. Historical reference from 1977. Wild mare and foal, Picture by Joseph Spies from Wild Ponies of Chincoteague.
Chestnut splash foal. Historical reference from 1970s/1980s. Wild mare and foal, Picture by unknown from an old postcard.
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