Ineligible for Registration
- Horses showing paint, pinto, pony or draft horse breeding.
- Horses with excessive or misplaced white such as bald faces, belly spots, and/or stockings higher than below the knee or hock (see diagram below).
- Horses with the gray gene (horses with a questionable base color may be required to be DNA color tested for gray).
- Deceased horses.
- Horses with unknown or unregistered parent(s), except geldings and spayed mares expressing the Appaloosa coat pattern, mottled skin, white sclera, and striped hooves on legs without white leg markings.
- Parrot mouth horses, or horses with undershot jaws which have not been gelded or spayed.
- Cryptorchids or monorchids which have not been gelded, or the offspring of such stallions.
- Horses photographed with artificial coloring or artificial characteristics, or which are otherwise misrepresented.
- Horses with inherited genetic diseases such as HYPP (N/H or H/H), HERDA (N/HRD or HRD/HRD), GBED (N/G or G/G), MH (N/MH or MH/MH), PSSM1 (N/PSSM1 or PSSM1/PSSM1), IMM (N/IMM or IMM/IMM), or any other genetic disorder that the ICAA deems to be detrimental to the Appaloosa breed. Geldings and spayed mares may be registered if heterozygous for the recessive disorders HERDA (N/HRD) and/or GBED (N/G).
- Multiple horses born the same year from the same mare after one foal has been registered, with the exception of twins carried to term by the natural mother.
- Horses produced by any cloning process.
No face markings outside of red line or leg markings above red lines are allowed.
Ineligible
Gray Foal