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The Appaloosa
Appaloosas commonly have a mottled (or 'spotty') skin, pale sclera (the part of the eye close to the cornea) and vertically striped hooves.
The breed history of this unusual horse is not fully known. There is plenty of evidence that mottled horses were found in a good many nation-states in Asia and europe, and historians have found cave drawings which are as old as to 18000BC showing spotted horses that could well be be forefathers of the modern appaloosa. It is quite likely that the spotted skin was initially a type of camouflage, similar to the zebra's stripes.
The contemporary Appaloosa descends from horses brought to The usa by early settlers. These were acquired by the Indigenous people known as the 'nez perce', who skillfully engineered them into the amazing horses that we admire nowadays.
This wonderful horse was first known as the "Palouse horse", although over time the name has changed into the modern-day variation, "Appaloosa".
The Mustang Horse
The mustang is a very well-known horse which is held by many people as a symbol of the historic and adventurous energy of the Wild west.
But Mustangs are often known as 'wild' horses, the more correct term is 'feral' horses as almost all free-roaming horses living in The u.s. are bred from horses that were initially domestic horses carried to The usa by the colonists.
Most of these early horses were of European or Arabian origins, but also included a wide range of colours and many horse lovers types and breeds.
Many of these independent and brave horses went wild or were taken by the indigenous inhabitants, and rapidly spread right through the whole country.
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