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The Appaloosa
Appaloosas classically have a leopard spotted skin, colorless sclera (the part of the eye around the cornea) and vertically striped hooves.
The breed background of this unusual horse is not totally understood. There is plenty of proof that mottled horses were living in many nations in Asia, and there are cave pictures dating back to 18000BC showing spotty horses that might be the origins of the appaloosa we know today. It seems likely that the spotted skin was first a form of camouflage, serving a similar purpose to the stripes on a zebra.
The modern Appaloosa descends from horses shipped over to Mexico and the u.s. by early colonists. These were acquired by the Indigenous people known as the 'nez perce', who masterfully engineered them into the amazing horses that we so admire nowadays.
The horse was initially called the "Palouse horse", although slowly the name transformed into the present-day form, "Appaloosa".
The Mustang Horse
The mustang horse is a very popular horse and is seen by many as a living and breathing symbol of the historic and cowboy spirit of the Old wild west.
Although Mustangs are usually known as 'wild' horses, the more accurate name is 'feral' horses as almost all so-called 'wild' horses living in The usa are bred from horses that were initially domesticated horses shipped to The usa by the spanish conquistadors.
The majority of these foreign horses were of Spanish or Arabian stock, but also had amongst them all combinations of colours and many americans breed types.
It is thought that some of these independent and brave horses went wild or were taken by aboriginal americans, and quickly spread through the whole of america.
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