Trakehner is a horse breed. It is the purest of the warmblood breeds, due to the fact that it is the only warmblood breed that has a closed stud book. The Trakehner is generally of a lighter type than most other warmbloods. read full article…
Horse Breeds Category
Gypsy Horse (Irish Tinker Horse, also known as Irish Cob, Piebald (in Ireland), or Gypsy Vanner (in USA)) is a breed with its origin among the traveling Gypsies of the British Isles. A mix of draught horse and pony breeds gives quite a large variation in size and appearance, but the typical horse measures 12.0 - 15.3 hands (hand equals 4 inches) and the larger variation—the Drum Horse—reaches 16.0 hands and over. read full article…
The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known as a race horse. While carefully bred racehorses had existed throughout Europe for centuries prior to this time, the breed as it is known today developed during the 17th century in England when English mares, began to be were bred to imported Arabian stallions. This addition of verifiable Arabian blood coincided with the creation of the General Stud Book of England and the practice of official registering of horses. Today all modern Thoroughbreds trace to these imported stallions. read full article…
Breed History
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 named after) had great input on the breed. read full article…
The Tennessee Walker, otherwise known as the Tennessee Walking Horse, Garrett Walker Horse, and other variations upon these themes, is a singularly tractable and comfortable riding horse. The breed was originally bred to carry the owners of plantations around their lands. Their unique four-beat “running walk” is especially comfortable to ride, making the breed a well-suited trail companion. The breed is rarely seen in any of the sport horse disciplines; however, they are good for long-distance riding because of their stamina and easy temper, and are also seen in Western riding disciplines and under harness. read full article…
The Tarpan, Equus ferus ferus, was the Eurasian wild horse. The last specimen of this species died in a Moscow zoo in 1875.
Polish farmers often crossed the tarpan with their domestic horses. The result was a small horse breed, the Konik. Such animals, as the Konik, and also the Sorraia Horse preserved in Portugal, are now being used to breed back the Tarpan, and to fill in the niche that was left vacant by their extinction in the wild. The Hucul pony living in the Carpathian mountains is arguably the most direct descendant of the Tarpan. read full article…
The Suffolk Punch is one of the breeds of draft horses. The Suffolk Punch has a powerful arching neck, strong upright shoulders, a short strong back, wide hipbones, and a high tail. Due to their extreme draftiness, the clean legs of the Suffolk Punch appear short. The Suffolk Punch has an average height of 16.1 hands, but many stallions stand 17 or more hands. It can weigh 1,700 to 2,000 pounds. All the animals of this breed are chestnut-colored, with shades ranging from light golden to dark brown. Some white markings occur, but they’re less prominent than in other breeds. The Suffolk Punch is the emblem for Ipswich Town F.C. read full article…
Standardbred harness racing horses are so called because in the early years of the Trotting Registry, the standardbred stud book established in the United States in 1879 by the National Association of Trotting Horse Breeders, only horses who could race a mile in a standard time or better, or whose get (offspring) could race a mile in standard time or better, were entered in the book. read full article…
Spanish Mustangs are sometimes confused with the American Mustang, feral horses descended from both Spanish horses and other feral horses escaped from various sources that currently run wild in protected areas of the American west, currently managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). read full article…
The Sorraia is an ancient type of primitive horse from Spain and Portugal (Iberia Peninsula), which has influenced many light modern horse breeds. read full article…