The
American Paint Horse Association (
APHA) is a
breed registry for the
American Paint Horse. It is currently headquartered in
Fort Worth, Texas. It was founded in 1965 with the merging of two different
color breed registries that had been formed to register
pinto-colored horses of
Quarter Horse bloodlines. One of these organizations was the American Paint Quarter Horse Association (or APQHA) and the other was the American Paint Stock Horse Association (or APSHA).