types of horses to buy

Question
Hi,
I have raised miniature horses for years and have past experience with quarter horses.  I bought a white filly this summer for my daughter.  Unknown background, poor conditions.  The filly has dark eyes and some dark spots on skin but fur is completely white.  She seems to prance when she walks and lifts front legs high.  I am wondering what kind of horse she is and is there a way to get her registered?  We would like to start showing and like gaited pleasure, western pleasure, and hunter jumper as well as want to do a lot of trail riding on our property.  That being said, I love a variety of horses like blue roans, cremellos, leopards, and paints with blue eyes.  Is it alright for me to have this kind of variety for a breeding program?  Should you have just one horse that you are showing with with the different events or should we have both quarter horse types like the paints and appaloosas for hunter/jumper and then the TNW horses for gaited pleaure and for trail riding?  One more final question.  I would love to get a leopard with blue eyes.  How can I achieve that combination?  I would so appreciate the help with these questions!  Thank you, Kimberly  

Answer
Kimberly,
I don't know if there would be a way to reg. your new horse, unless you new her parents, unless you wanted to register her as a pinto.  You could contact the pinto association to get more info on the qualifications for registration.  I really wouldn't be able to give you a definate on her breed unless I saw her, or a picture of her.  You are more than welcome to send a picture if you wish to my e-mail address horsequote@yahoo.com .  If she picks her feet up realy high in the front, I would be tempted to say she might be a racking horse, or saddlebred.  If this is the case gaited pleasure would be acceptable.  I would keep her out of the hunter ring because hunters must have very flat kneed action, which it doesn't sound like she has (very little movement in the front end).  If you want to breed larger competition horses, there is nothing wrong with breeding multiple breeds, just be careful that they can be registered, either sport horse, or color.  I am not very good with genetics and color matching and such, but I do have a cremello myself, a mare whom I have bred and with the cremellos (which is a ressesive color gene), you will most times get a washed out version of the other colored parent.  So say I bred my mare to a bay, I would get a chestnut, or if I bred her to a chestnut I would most likely get a washed out palomino, etc.  I am not sure about the psosiblities with the roans and apps, and Paints are pretty well just a crap shoot!
I hope this helps, please let em know if I can be any further assistance.
Samantha