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The Appaloosa horse
Appaloosas commonly have a leopard spotted skin, pale sclera (the bit of the eye around the cornea) and vertically striped hooves.
The story of this popular horse is not completely known. There is proof that mottled horses were being bred in a good many nation-states in Europe, and archeologists have found cave pictures which have been dated back to 18000BC clearly showing spotty horses that may be related to the appaloosa we know today. It is possible that the spotted coat was originally a type of camouflage, much as the striped pattern on a zebra.
The present-day Appaloosa descends from horses shipped to America by conquistadors. These were acquired by the Nez perce people, who skillfully turned them into the marvelous horses that we know and love nowadays.
The appaloosa was in the first instance referred to as the "Palouse horse", even though bit by bit its name has changed into the present-day rendering, "Appaloosa".
The mustang horse
The mustang is a very well known horse and due to its unique place in history, is held by many as a live symbol of the historic and adventurous enthusiasm of the Wild west.
Although Mustangs are routinely called 'wild' horses, the more correct phrase is 'feral' horses as most so-called 'wild' horses inside America are bred from horses that were originally domesticated horses shipped to Mexico and the u.s. by the colonists.
Almost all of these imported horses were of Andalusian or Arabian breeding stock, although they also had amongst them all possible colours and many breed types.
Many of these independent horses went wild or were acquired by the indigenous tribes, and soon spread all through the whole of the u.s.
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