Rabicano is an uncommon pattern featuring interspersed white hairs over the base coat. In its most minimal form, rabicano may appear only as a concentration of white hairs at the top of the tail, sometimes referred to as a “coon tail” or “skunk tail.” In more pronounced cases, the pattern begins with white hairs at the flanks and may spread outward to other parts of the body. Rabicano may occur on any base coat color and in combination with other white patterns or modifiers, including gray. Rabicanos have often been misregistered as roans, although the two traits are genetically distinct and can usually be distinguished by their visual characteristics. True roan is characterized by an even mixture of white and colored hairs across most of the body while the head, mane, tail, and lower legs remain darker. True roan is extremely rare in the Thoroughbred breed, with only a small number of documented individuals worldwide, most (if not all) tracing their ancestry to the stallion Catch A Bird. The inheritance of rabicano is not well understood and has not yet been formally studied.