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| x Rein |
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Reins are items of horse tack, used to direct a horse or other animal used for riding or driving. Reins can be made of leather, nylon, metal, or other materials, and attach to a bridle via either its bit or its noseband.
Reins are used to give...
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A bit used in equestrian activities is a piece of metal or similar synthetic material that is placed in the mouth of a horse or other equid and allows a rider to control the animal. It rests on the bars of the mouth in an interdental region where...
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| x Appaloosa |
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The Appaloosa is a horse breed known for its preferred leopard-spotted coat pattern and other distinctive physical characteristics. While there is evidence of leopard-spotted horses dating back to the Paleolithic era in Europe, the Nez Perce people...
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| x American Quarter Horse |
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The American Quarter Horse is an American breed of horse that excels at sprinting short distances. Its name came from its ability to outdistance other breeds of horses in races of a quarter mile or less, where some individuals have been clocked at...
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| x Trakehner |
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Trakehner is a horse breed. The Trakehner is generally of a lighter type than most other warmbloods. The name derives from Trakehnen, the site of the Main Stud (de:Gestüt Trakehnen) in Prussia (since 1945, Yasnaya Polyana, Kaliningrad Oblast).
The...
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| x Akhal-Teke |
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The Akhal-Teke, 'Ahalteke' in the Turkmen language, (pronounced [ahalˈtеkje]) is a breed of horse from Turkmenistan, where they are a national emblem. They are noted for their speed and for endurance on long marches. These "golden-horses" are...
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| x Thoroughbred |
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The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word "thoroughbred" is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed. Thoroughbreds are considered...
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| x Peruvian Paso |
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The Peruvian Paso or Peruvian Horse is a breed of light pleasure saddle horse known for its smooth ride. It is distinguished by a natural, four-beat, lateral gait called the paso llano.
Smooth-gaited horses, generally known as Palfreys, existed in...
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| x Standardbred horse |
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Standardbreds are a breed of horse best known for their ability to race in harness at a trot or pace instead of under saddle at a gallop. Developed in North America, the breed is now recognized worldwide for its harness racing ability. They are...
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| x Paso Fino |
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The Paso Fino is a naturally-gaited light horse breed dating back to horses imported to the Caribbean from Spain. Pasos are prized for their smooth, natural, four beat, lateral ambling gait and are used in many disciplines, but are especially...
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| x Arabian horse |
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The Arabian or Arab horse (arabic: فرس ) is a breed of horse that originated in the Middle East. With a distinctive head shape and high tail carriage, the Arabian is one of the most easily recognizable horse breeds in the world. It is one of the...
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| x Groningen Horse |
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The Groningen Horse is a Dutch horse breed developed for light draft and agricultural work. It is closely related to heavy warmblood breeds like the East Friesian and Alt-Oldenburger. The breed was nearly lost in the mid-20th century because a...
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| x Kinsky horse |
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The Kinsky horse or Equus Kinsky Europe's original sport horse was bred until the middle of the 20th century in Bohemia, a part of the modern-day Czech Republic. At one time it was the most prominent breed in that part of the world.
Kinsky horses...
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| x Konik |
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The Konik (Polish: konik polski) or Polish primitive horse is a small horse, a kind of semi-wild pony, originating in Poland. The Polish word konik (plural koniki) is the diminutive of koń, the Polish word for "horse" (sometimes confused with kuc,...
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| x Friesian horse |
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The Friesian (also Frisian) is a horse breed originating in Friesland, a province of the Netherlands. Although the breed's conformation resembles that of a light draft horse, Friesians are graceful and nimble for their size. During the Middle Ages,...
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The Alter-Real is a breed of horse that originated in Portugal. Their name comes from a combination of their home village of Alter do Chão and the Portuguese word for royal, or real. They are an Iberian breed and are considered Baroque horses. They...
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| x American Paint Horse |
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The American Paint Horse is a breed of horse that combines both the conformational characteristics of a western stock horse with a pinto spotting pattern of white and dark coat colors. Developed from a base of spotted horses with Quarter Horse and...
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| x Icelandic horse |
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The Icelandic horse is a breed of horse developed in Iceland. Although the horses are small, at times pony-sized, most registries for the Icelandic refer to it as a horse. Icelandic horses are late-developers, but are also long-lived and hardy. In...
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| x Mangalarga Marchador |
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The Mangalarga Marchador is a breed of horse. There are over 350,000 registered Mangalarga Marchador horses in Brazil and others registered in countries outside its Brazilian homeland. As an Iberian breed, descending from the Andalusian horse...
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The Clydesdale is a breed of draft horse derived from the farm horses of Clydesdale, Scotland, and named after that region. Thought to be over 300 years old, the breed was extensively used for pulling heavy loads in rural, industrial and urban...
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| x Waler horse |
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The Waler is an Australian breed of riding horses that developed from the horses that were brought to the Australian colonies in the 1800s. The name comes from their early breeding origins in New South Wales, they were originally known as New South...
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| x Morgan horse |
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The Morgan is one of the earliest horse breeds developed in the United States. Tracing back to the stallion Figure, later named Justin Morgan after his best-known owner, the breed excels in many disciplines, and is known for its versatility.
The...
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| x American Saddlebred |
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The American Saddlebred, formerly known as the American Saddle Horse, is a breed of horse that was developed in Kentucky by plantation owners. Today, in the horse show world, they are most commonly seen under saddle in Saddle seat style riding, and...
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The Belgian horse, Belgian Heavy Horse, Brabançon, or Brabant is a draft horse breed which comes from the West-Brabantian region of Belgium. They are one of the strongest of the heavy breeds.
Colors normally are a type of light chestnut sometimes...
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| x Percheron |
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The Percheron is a breed of powerful rugged draft horse that originated in the Perche valley in northern France.
Like many old breeds, the Percheron ancestors were crossbred between the "Forest Horse" native to northern Europe and the Arabians...
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| x Hanoverian |
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A Hanoverian is a warmblood horse originating in Germany, which is often seen in the Olympic Games and other competitive English riding styles, and have won gold medals in all three equestrian Olympic competitions. It is one of the oldest, most...
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The Lipizzan or Lipizzaner (Slovene: lipicanec), is a breed of horse closely associated with the Spanish Riding School of Vienna, Austria where the finest representatives demonstrate the haute ecole or "high school" movements of classical dressage,...
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| x Nez Perce Horse |
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The Nez Perce Horse is a spotted horse breed of the Nez Perce tribe of Idaho. The Nez Perce Horse Registry (NPHR) program began in 1995 in Lapwai, Idaho and is based on cross-breeding the old-line Appaloosa horses (the Wallowa herd) with an ancient...
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| x Tennessee Walker |
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The Tennessee Walker or Tennessee Walking Horse is a gentle and comfortable riding horse. The breed was originally bred in the Southern United States to carry the owners of plantations around their lands. Their unique four-beat "running walk" is...
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| x Shire horse |
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The Shire horse is a breed of draught horse (BrE) or draft horse (AmE). It is the tallest of the modern draught breeds, and a stallion may stand 18 hands or more (about 180 cm). Their weight is frequently in the region of a short ton (910 kg or...
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| x Suffolk Punch |
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The Suffolk Punch, also historically known as the Suffolk Horse or Suffolk Sorrel, is an English breed of draught horse. The breed takes the first part of its name from the county of Suffolk in East Anglia, and the name "Punch" from its solid...
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| x Welsh Cob |
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The Welsh Cob (Section D) is the largest of the Welsh horse breeds, not less than 13.2 hands high (137.2 cm), with no upper limit in the breed rules. They are part of the Welsh Breeds (which also includes Welsh mountain pony (Section A), Welsh pony ...
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| x Gypsy Vanner horse |
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The Gypsy Vanner (USA), also known as a Gypsy Cob (USA and UK), Coloured Cob (UK), Irish Cob, or "Tinker Horse", is a breed of horse which is usually of Tobiano coloring and has many draft horse characteristics. There is no exact known history of...
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| x Asturcon |
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The Asturcon, also known as the Asturian Pony, is an ancient breed of small horse local to Asturias, Spain.
The ancient breed's ancestry is not known, although it is thought to have been from crosses between the Sorraia, Garrano, and the ancient...
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| x Colonial Spanish |
The Colonial Spanish Horse is a foundation type of horse descended from the original Iberian horse stock brought from Spain to the Americas. The ancient form of the breed was once called the Jennet or Spanish Barb. The term encompasses many strains...
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The Hackney Horse is a recognized breed of horse that was developed in Great Britain. A stud book has been maintained for this breed since 1883 by the Hackney Horse Society, which has its headquarters in Norwich, England. In recent decades, the...
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The Oldenburg is a warmblood horse from the north-western corner of Lower Saxony, what was formerly the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg. The breed was built on a mare base of all-purpose farm and carriage horses, today called the Alt-Oldenburger. The...
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The Cleveland Bay is breed of horse originating in Great Britain during the Middle Ages, named after their coloring and the Cleveland district of Yorkshire in England. It is a well-muscled horse, with legs that are strong but short in relation to...
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| x Selle Français |
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The Selle Français (SF) is France's most important sport horse. It is renowned primarily for its success in show jumping, but many have also been successful in dressage and eventing.
For English speakers, the pronunciation of the name is close to ...
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The Holsteiner is a breed of horse originating in the Schleswig-Holstein region of northern Germany. It is thought to be the oldest of warmblood breeds, tracing back to the 13th century. Though the population is not large, Holsteiners are a dominant...
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| x Anglo-Arabian |
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The Anglo-Arabian horse is a Thoroughbred (prefix Anglo) crossed with an Arabian horse. The cross can be made between a Thoroughbred stallion and Arabian mare, or vice-versa. It can also be a cross between a Thoroughbred and an Anglo-Arab, an...
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Developed on the Barbary Coast of North Africa, the Barb is a desert horse with great hardiness and stamina. Due to the amount of cross-breeding, it is difficult to find a purebred Barb today. The Barb generally possesses a fiery temperament and an...
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j:For the Portuguese music theorist, please see Vicente Lusitano.
The Lusitano is an ancient Portuguese horse breed, that until the 1960s shared its registration with the Spanish Andalusian horse. Both are sometimes called Iberian horses, as they...
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| x Canadian Pacer |
The Canadian Pacer is a horse breed of which only small numbers remain.
In the Canadian Provinces, French mares were crossed with Dutch and English stock. The bloodlines of the Canadian Pacer are not exactly known, but are thought to be descended...
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The Canadian Horse is a breed of horse developed in Canada. Although previously relatively unknown due to its rarity, the Canadian Horse has influenced many other North American breeds, including the Morgan, American Saddlebred, and Standardbred....
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| x Missouri Fox Trotter |
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The Missouri Fox Trotter is an American breed of horse with a unique four beat gait. It was bred in the Ozark Mountain foothills, and used by settlers who valued its smoothness.
The breed is best known for its unique gait, known as the fox trot,a...
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The National Show Horse, (NSH), originated as a cross between an American Saddlebred and an Arabian horse. It is now established as a separate breed, since the founding of a breed registry in August 1981. Registered animals today may be the...
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| x Quarab |
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A Quarab is a cross between an American Quarter Horse and an Arabian Horse.
The Quarter horse is known for speed and tractability, and the Arabian for its agility and stamina. Both breeds are highly intelligent. This cross is an attempt to integrate...
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The Russian Don is a breed of horse developed in and named after the steppes region of Russia where the Don River flows. Utilized originally as cavalry horses for the Cossacks, they are currently used for under-saddle work and driving.
The first...
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The Irish Sport Horse (ISH) (US: Irish Draught Sports Horse), also known as the Irish Hunter, is mainly the result of a cross between the Irish Draught and the Thoroughbred. It has been given recognition as a separate breed,. It is commonly bred...
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The Tersk is a breed of horse, developed in Russia in the 1920s.
The Tersk was first developed in the 1920s and 1940s at the Tersk and Stavropol Studs in the Northern Caucasus mountains in Russia. Marshal S. M. Budyonny (who the Budyonny breed is...
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The Karabakh horse (Azerbaijani: Qarabağ atı), also known as Karabakh, is a mountain-steppe racing and riding horse. It is named after the geographic region where the horse was originally developed, Karabakh in the Southern Caucasus, an area that is...
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The Galiceno is a horse breed from Mexico, bred from horses brought from Spain by Hernán Cortés. They are used mainly for riding and pack work. Although small in stature, they are generally considered a horse, and are ridden by both children and...
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| x Sorraia |
The Sorraia is a rare breed of horse indigenous to a region on the Iberian peninsula known today as Portugal. The Sorraia is known for its primitive features, including a convex profile and dun coloring with primitive markings. Concerning its...
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| x Carthusian horse |
The Carthusian horse, also known as the Carthusian-Andalusian and the Cartujano, is a type of horse that is a side breed of the Andalusian, rather than a distinctive breed in itself. It is generally considered the purest Andalusian strain and has...
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| x Vlaamperd |
The Vlaamperd, SA Vlamperd or Vlamperd is a very rare horse breed developed in the Western Cape region of South Africa. It was a cross between the Friesian, Thoroughbred, Hackney, Cape Harness horse, and assorted heavy warmblood breeds on smaller...
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A Fouta, also known as a Foutanké, is a breed of light horse from Senegal in West Africa. It is a composite of the Fleuve and M'Bayar breeds.
The M'Bayar is a pony breed from the Baol region of Senegal. It is thought to have evolved from the Barb....
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A light horse breed found in the Senegal area of western Africa. It was formed by crossing Barb horses with the local pony breed, and is the origin of the Fouta.
While most Senegalese horses are relatively lightly built, owing to their common...
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| x M'Bayar |
The M'Bayar is a pony] breed from the [[Baol region of Senegal. It is thought to have evolved from the Barb, and, along with the Fleuve, helped to develop the Fouta breed. The M'Bayar is usually bay or chestnut in color.
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The Messara (also known as Cretan horse) is a light riding and draft horse found on the island of Crete off the coast of Greece.
The native mountain-type Messara pony exists on the island of Crete since year 1000 or longer. The name comes from the...
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