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The mustang horse
The mustang is an extremely wellknown horse and due to its unique place in history, is revered by many people as a symbolic representation of the romantic and pioneer excitement of the American wild west.
Even though Mustangs are routinely called 'wild' horses, the more appropriate phrase is 'feral' horses as almost all free-roaming horses present in The u.s. are bred from horses that were initially domesticated animals brought to The u.s. by the conquistadors.
Mostly, these foreign horses were of Andalusian or Arabian origins, but had amongst them all conceivable colours and many people types and breeds.
A few of these independent and brave horses were set free or were taken by indigenous peoples, and soon spread throughout the whole of the u.s.
The Appaloosa
Appaloosas typically have a mottled coat, pale sclera (the bit of the eye around the cornea) and striped hooves.
The history of this well-loved horse is not completely known. There is plenty of evidence that spotted horses were being bred in a good many nations in Asia, and historians have found cave pictures which have been dated back to 18000BC clearly showing mottled horses that may be forefathers of the modern appaloosa. It is quite likely that the spotted coat was first a form of camouflage, similar to the stripes on a zebra.
The modern-day Appaloosa descends from horses carried to Mexico and the u.s. by early colonists. These were somehow acquired by the Indigenous people known as the 'nez perce', who skillfully bred them into the tremendous horses that we know and love these days.
The horse was by origin referred to as the "Palouse horse", even though over time its name changed into the present-day version, "Appaloosa".
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