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The Appaloosa
Appaloosas characteristically show a mottled skin, pale sclera (the section of the eye next to the cornea) and vertically striped hooves.
The story of this well-loved horse is not fully known. There is some proof that mottled horses were found in very many nation-states in Europe, and historians have found cave paintings which have been dated to 18000BC illustrating spotty horses that may be related to the appaloosa we know today. It is very likely that the spotted skin was first a type of camouflage, much as the stripes on a zebra.
The modern Appaloosa descends from horses carried to Mexico and the u.s. by settlers. These were passed on to the Nez perce indian tribe, who proficiently bred them into the wonderful horses that we recognize nowadays.
This wonderful horse was by origin known as the "Palouse horse", although gradually the name has changed into the present-day variation, "Appaloosa".
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