Hoof Color
For registration and identification purposes, hoof colors should be recorded as follows:

• Dark hoof - black or dark in color. Normally, there will not be a marking above a dark hoof.
• White hoof - white or light in color. Normally, there will be a marking above a white hoof.
• Parti-colored hoof - a hoof that shows white and dark areas in stripes or larger areas.
• Normally, there will be a marking above a parti-colored hoof.

Patch of White Hairs: Can be large or small and is found on any portion of the legs, especially on the heels or coronet. The words "solid" or "mixed" can sometimes be used when describing a patch of white hairs.

Heel: One or both heels are white.

Coronet: The area immediately above the hoof (one inch or less in width) is white.

Pastern: The white covers the entire pastern.

Sock: The white extends up to and includes the entire ankle.

Stocking: The white extends up to and includes the entire cannon bone. It extends to the bottom of the knee on the front leg and to the bottom of the hock on the hind leg. If any white extends onto or above the knee on the front leg or onto or above the hock on the hind leg it should be so described.

Ermines: Sometimes coat color spots are present in the white marking. Usually they are found on a white coronet, however, they can occasionally be found in other parts of the marking. These spots should be described as to their color and location. If only one spot is present its exact location should be noted.

Irregular Leg Markings: If a white leg marking is too irregular to fall into one of the previously described classifications then a combination must be used to describe that marking.

Leg markings from left to right: Coronet, Pastern, Sock, Stocking, Stocking.