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The Appaloosa
Appaloosas characteristically have a mottled (or 'spotty') skin, white sclera (the bit of the eye close to the cornea) and vertically striped hooves.
The breed background of this popular horse is not fully known. There is proof that mottled horses were living in a good many nations in Asia, and historians have found cave pictures which are as old as to 18000BC showing spotted horses that could well be be forefathers of the modern appaloosa. It seems likely that the spotted pattern was first a type of camouflage, much as the stripes on a zebra.
The modern-day Appaloosa descends from horses shipped over to Mexico and the u.s. by colonists. These were passed to the Indigenous people known as the 'nez perce', who proficiently engineered them into the extraordinary horses that we so admire these days.
This fine horse was in the first instance known as the "Palouse horse", even though over time its name transformed into the modern-day version, "Appaloosa".
The mustang horse
The mustang is an extremely popular horse which is acknowledged by many americans as a living and breathing symbol of the historic and adventurous excitement of the Old wild west.
Even though Mustangs are commonly known as 'wild' horses, the more accurate expression is 'feral' horses as all free-roaming horses present in Mexico and the u.s. are bred from horses that were initially domestic horses shipped to America by the settlers.
Almost all of these early horses were of Spanish or Arabian stock, but included a wide range of colours and many americans types and breeds.
A good number of these independent and clever horses escaped captivity or were bought by indigenous americans, and rapidly spread right through the whole country
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