This post first appeared on March 1, 2012
It can be really hard to get good shots of horse eyes, so I was really pleased to get a number of good shots of this Pintaloosa mare and her partially blue eyes. The placement of the blue segments certainly give her an unusual expression. This first image shows how her left eye has a blue section towards the upper front of her eye. The apparent shape is accurate – none of the bluish area is glare – since it is consistent across a number of images.

Here is her right eye, with a blue section on the lower side. Notice how a thin line wraps up along the back edge, and how uneven and inconsistent the blue area is. (The blue coloring on the left eye was uniform.)

Here she is looking forward with her mismatched eyes, one with a blue bottom and one with a blue top.

Here are some full-body shots of her, showing her varnish roan (leopard complex) and tobiano patterns. The varnish mark on the top of her tear bone is particularly noticeable in the first picture, and the mark across the nasal bones in the second one.