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There are five recognized color patterns for the
Appaloosa, but not all spotted horses are actually
Appaloosas. The coat configurations are as follows:
blanket, which has white hair over the hips, which
may or may not have dark spots; marble, when the
coat is a red-or-blue roan, with dark coloring at
the edges of the body and a white, frost pattern
in the middle; leopard, a white coat coloring with
dark spots; snowflake, with dominant spotting over
the hips; and frost, which is white speckling on
a dark coat. All Appaloosas have mottled skin on
the nose and genitalia, and tend to have white sclera
around the eyes. Often the hooves have dark vertical
stripes on them.
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