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The Appaloosa horse
Appaloosas generally have a mottled coat, pale sclera (the bit of the eye next to the cornea) and striped hooves.
The background of this distinctive horse is not fully understood. There is plenty of evidence that mottled horses were present in a number of countries in Europe, and we know of cave paintings dating back to 18000BC clearly showing spotted horses that might be the origins of the horse we know today. It seems likely that the mottled pattern was in the first instance a type of camouflage, much as the zebra's stripes.
The modern-day Appaloosa descends from horses shipped to America by spanish conquistadors. These were acquired by the Indigenous people known as the 'nez perce', who expertly turned them into the incredible horses that we admire nowadays.
The horse was originally called the "Palouse horse", even though slowly its name transformed into the contemporary interpretation, "Appaloosa".
The mustang horse
The mustang is a desirable horse which is seen by many as a symbolic representation of the romantic and cowboy spirit of the American wild west.
Although Mustangs are ordinarily called 'wild' horses, the more accurate phrase is 'feral' horses as most so-called 'wild' horses in Mexico and the u.s. are related to horses that were by origin domesticated horses brought to Mexico and the u.s. by the spanish conquistadors.
Almost all of these early horses were of European or Arab stock, but also included a wide range of colors and many americans breeds.
A few of these sturdy horses escaped captivity or were stolen by the indigenous inhabitants, and rapidly spread through the whole of america
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