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The Appaloosa
Appaloosas commonly show a mottled (or 'spotty') skin, pale sclera (the part of the eye next to the cornea) and striped hooves.
The background of this attractive horse is only partly understood. There is proof that spotted horses were found in very many countries in 'the old world', and historians have found cave paintings which have been dated back to 18000BC clearly showing spotty horses that could well be be the origins of the appaloosa we know today. It is quite likely that the spotted pattern was initially a form of camouflage, much as the zebra's stripes.
The modern Appaloosa is descended from horses shipped to Mexico and the u.s. by early colonists. These were passed to the Indigenous people known as the 'nez perce', who cleverly bred them into the wonderful horses that we admire these days.
The horse was in the first instance called the "Palouse horse", although gradually the name was changed into the modern-day alternative, "Appaloosa".
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