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The mustang horse
The mustang horse is a wellknown horse that is seen by many horse lovers as a symbol of the romantic and cowboy spirit of the American wild west.
Although Mustangs are commonly referred to as 'wild' horses, the more accurate word is 'feral' horses as almost all free-roaming horses present in The usa are bred from horses that were first domestic horses shipped over to The usa by the conquistadors.
Mostly, these foreign horses were of European or Arabian stock, but included all conceivable colours and many types and breeds.
A good number of these independent and clever horses escaped captivity or were taken by local aboriginals, and quickly spread throughout the whole of the u.s.
The Appaloosa horse
Appaloosas customarily have a mottled (or 'spotty') coat, colorless sclera (the section of the eye around the cornea) and striped hooves.
The breed background of this popular horse is only partly understood. There is some evidence that spotted horses were found in very many geographical regions in Asia and europe, and there are cave drawings which are as old as to 18000BC illustrating spotty horses that may be the origins of the horse we know today. It is very likely that the mottled pattern was originally a form of camouflage, serving a similar purpose to the striped pattern on a zebra.
The present-day Appaloosa is descended from horses carried to America by conquistadors. These were somehow acquired by the Nez perce people, who expertly engineered them into the excellent horses that we so admire nowadays.
This wonderful horse was initially referred to as the "Palouse horse", although bit by bit its name transformed into the modern-day version, "Appaloosa".
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