Ok color peeps, the more I research it the more confused I become mainly because I don’t think that all the info I’m getting online is correct! And what if the horse is both Sabino & Rabicano? Maybe this is why some of the online pics are so confusing…
Here is a site that explains the difference reasonably well.
http://www.grullablue.com/colors/white_patterns.htm
I am surprised you are having troubling distinguishing between Rabicano and Sabino. They have two totally different color patterns…???Sabino has the big high white socks (usually) and a blaze down the face, over the nose. (like Popeye K) if expressed fully.
Rabicano is a roaning of the flanks and a “coon tail” …grey hairs at the tail’s base (but never turning into a roan or grey).
Of course, both can be much less obvious, but, if expressed fully, the above charastics are totally different…
Mmmm, sometimes it’s hard to tell if all you have is some slight roaning.
However:
Rabicano will (nearly) always have at least some “skunk tail” even if it’s very very minimal. Rabicano will often put only some light flank roaning on. More expressive presentations can include the whole barrel. It really tends to stop at the shoulders. It doesn’t put actual markings on, ie pink skin.
Sabino is much more likely to put white markings on, ie pink skin. It can be the cause of some roaning as well. In a heavy form it can be a LOT of roaning, looking like very expressed Dominant White (distinguishing between Sabino and DW is often MUCH harder than sabino/roaning :))
Sabino doesn’t have to be high white socks of big face white 
There are some tested Sabino1 horses with just a little strip on the bridge of their nose, not even a little star LOL
And yes, when pretty highly expressed, they are very different. It can get funky when both are present, and can get REALLY funky to determine what’s what if, say, you have Tobiano present and the head of the tail is already white from that LOL
florida - I still owe you a phone call! :eek: :eek:
It’s easy to tell the “text book” examples of sabino & rabicano, not so much the minimally expressed (or maximum) ones. I found a Haflinger mare on Horsetopia that was listed as a maximum sabino but she was white with ticking.
STart looking up sabino TWHs and you can see a bunch of “lit up” Sabinos (that’s what they call it - lit up), and you can see how dramatic it can be, and how MUCH it can resemble the wilder presentations of Dominant White (ie Puchilingui)
I guess I should have been more specific in my OP. I’ve been researching my Haffie mare’s bloodlines & it appears that her grandsire is a sabino & many of his offspring are also but minimally expressed since the pangare gene could cover many bodymarkings.
