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Is this a faint snip?
http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y267/mango_tango_...
You can see a small white line on his left hand side on his muzzle. It's a definate small line of white, it's not just a couple of hairs. I onlt ask this because my friends fancy show horse is registered and she has a couple of white hairs and it's called a star on her papers.
Soz it's like just above his muzzle.
It's not a scar he was born with it.
It is a marking, not a scar. I'm not looking to register it on his papers I just wanna know what it is. I circled it on the pic and made the pic brighter so you can see it. It's like 2mm wide and 2cm long.
I know what it looks like when a scar heals with white hair, this is not one.
That's him with his winter coat, you can see it...
I know where a star is located. I was just using my friends horse as an example because she has the same little marking, though in a different spot (ha a star!). I was just saying it was a snip cause it was near his nose. OK is it a faint stripe?
Discolouration? He's chestnut, it's white as snow and it's not a scar (ha I contacted the stud and he's always had it! I may not have been there at his birth but they were!)
I'll take better pics tomoz and repost...
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
It would be easier to see this if you had photographed it with the light on the spot..........but from what I can see, it looks like what would be called either a 'few white hairs' or a 'faint strip' - 'above left nostril' on a Thoroughbred's papers. If it was between or below his nostrils it would be considered a snip.
- matakibudLv 41 decade ago
It could be, if he was born with it, otherwise its probably an old scar. I had horse that had a white stripe above his left eye kinda like a blaze or star outline so I thought he had a star, but I was told by his former owner that it was a scar from when he got run into the fence as a baby, so it wasn't used as an identifying mark on his papers.
Source(s): 25 years riding, showing and training horses - 1 decade ago
You can barely make it out... i bet when your horse has it's winter coat you can't see it at all... if you register your horse and mark it as a snip someone might argue that this horse isn't the horse registered b/c it's such a barely there marking... email a picture of the horse to the association you are registering him through and see what they say... I don't think you want to be DQ b/c someone might say the horse doesn't match the papers (you know what I mean).
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Not a marking.
It is a discoloration of the hair because there are no markings in that area...
stars are located in between the horse's eyes.
Snips, now... can be between the nostrils all the way down to the bottom of the upper lip.
So yeah.
Source(s): hope this helps MERRY CHRISTMAS - Anonymous1 decade ago
No I wouldn't think so. I agree with the scar theory, my friend's bay QH has a white line on his chest due to an old barbwire injury.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
It almost looks like from the picture that it could have been a scar... I don't think its worth registering in my opinion.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
no...I can't see anything...???? it looks like a scar
- 1 decade ago
no. markings are very bold and defined. i had to look very hard to find it.