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The Appaloosa
Appaloosas ordinarily show a mottled (or 'spotty') coat, white sclera (the bit of the eye around the cornea) and vertically striped hooves.
The story of this well-loved horse is not fully understood. There is some evidence that spotted horses were being bred in quite a few nations in 'the old world', and we know of cave paintings which have been dated back to 18000BC clearly showing mottled horses that may be the origins of the modern appaloosa. It is very likely that the mottled coat was initially a type of camouflage, serving a similar purpose to the stripes on a zebra.
The present-day Appaloosa is descended from horses shipped over to Mexico and the u.s. by conquistadors. These were somehow acquired by the Indigenous people known as the 'nez perce', who adeptly bred them into the excellent horses that we know right now.
This fine horse was first known as the "Palouse horse", but slowly its name changed into the contemporary adaptation, "Appaloosa".
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