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The mustang
The mustang is a very well-known horse that is recognized by many as a symbolic representation of the influential and cowboy spirit of the Wild west.
Even though Mustangs are regularly referred to as 'wild' horses, the more accurate name is 'feral' horses as all free-roaming horses living in America are related to horses that were by origin domesticated animals brought to America by the early settlers.
Mostly, these foreign horses were of Andalusian or Arab breeding stock, but also had amongst them all possible colours and many people types and breeds.
It is believed that some of these brave horses got loose or were stolen by the indigenous inhabitants, and swiftly spread right through the whole of america
The Appaloosa
Appaloosas typically display a mottled skin, white sclera (the section of the eye around the cornea) and vertically striped hooves.
The background of this well-loved horse is not fully understood. There is plenty of evidence that mottled horses were being bred in many nations in 'the old world', and archeologists have found cave pictures dating back to 18000BC illustrating spotty horses that could well be be the origins of the appaloosa we know today. It is possible that the spotted coat was by origin a type of camouflage, much as the striped pattern on a zebra.
The present-day Appaloosa descends from horses shipped over to Mexico and the u.s. by spanish conquistadors. These were passed to the Nez perce tribe, who adeptly bred them into the extraordinary horses that we love nowadays.
The horse was originally called the "Palouse horse", although slowly its name changed into the contemporary version, "Appaloosa".
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