Rabicano is a horse coat color that appears to be a type of partial roaning. Horses with the rabicano pattern usually have white hairs intermingled with the base coat color in limited areas, not the entire body. This roan-like effect that is caused by a genetic modifier that creates a mealy, splotchy, or roaning pattern, usually limited to the belly, flanks, legs, or tailhead areas, or any combination thereof. Horses exhibit a diverse array of coat colors and distinctive markings, and a specialized vocabulary has evolved to describe them. ... Roan is a type of coat color in horses (and, occasionally, in other animals, such as dogs or cattle) that is a mixture of white hairs with a base coat of another color. ... Binomial name Equus caballus Linnaeus, 1758 The horse (Equus caballus, sometimes seen as a subspecies of the Wild Horse, Equus ferus caballus) is a large odd-toed ungulate mammal, one of ten modern species of the genus Equus. ...
Unlike a true roan, most of the horse's body will not have white hairs intermingled with solid ones, nor are the legs or head significantly darker than the rest of the horse.
Rabicano is thought to be a dominant gene, according to the equine geneticist Sponenberg. See Equine coat color genetics. There are currently two theories of equine coat color genetics: Dr. Ann Bowlings and Dr. Phillip Sponenbergs. ...
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