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The Appaloosa
Appaloosas customarily display a mottled skin, pale sclera (the part of the eye close to the cornea) and vertically striped hooves.
The history of this distinctive horse is not fully recognized. There is plenty of evidence that mottled horses were found in very many nations in 'the old world', and there are cave drawings which have been dated to 18000BC showing spotty horses that could well be be forefathers of the modern appaloosa. It is possible that the mottled pattern was originally a type of camouflage, serving a similar purpose to the striped pattern on a zebra.
The present-day Appaloosa is descended from horses carried to The u.s. by early settlers. These were acquired by the Nez perce tribe, who skillfully engineered them into the tremendous horses that we love at the present time.
Appaloosas were originally known as the "Palouse horse", although bit by bit the name has changed into the present-day form, "Appaloosa".
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