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The Appaloosa
Appaloosas characteristically have a mottled (or 'spotty') coat, colorless sclera (the part of the eye around the cornea) and striped hooves.
The history of this attractive horse is not fully known. There is plenty of evidence that spotted horses were established in a good number of nation-states in 'the old world', and historians have found cave pictures which have been dated 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 in the first instance a type of camouflage, similar to the zebra's stripes.
The present-day Appaloosa descends from horses brought to The usa by early colonists. These got into the hands of the Nez perce tribe, who proficiently turned them into the superb horses that we know at the present time.
The appaloosa was initially known as the "Palouse horse", even though gradually its name transformed into the present-day variation, "Appaloosa".
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