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The Banker horse is a breed of feral horse (Equus ferus caballus) living on barrier islands in North Carolina's Outer Banks.It is small, hardy, and has a docile temperament. Descended from domesticated Spanish horses and possibly brought to the Americas in the 16th century, the ancestral foundation bloodstock may have become feral after surviving shipwrecks or being abandoned on the islands by ...
The Banker horse is a breed of feral horse living on the islands of North Carolina's Outer Banks.It is small, hardy and has a docile temperament. Descended from domesticated Spanish horses brought to the Americas in the 16th century, the ancestral foundation bloodstock may have become feral after surviving shipwrecks or being abandoned on the islands by one of the exploratory expeditions of ...
The Carolina Marsh Tacky or Marsh Tacky is a critically endangered breed of horse, [1] native to South Carolina. It is a member of the Colonial Spanish group of horse breeds, which also include the Florida Cracker Horse and the Banker horse of North Carolina. It is a small horse, well-adapted for use in the lowland swamps of its native South ...
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Extinct equids restored to scale. Left to right: Mesohippus, Neohipparion, Eohippus, Equus scotti and Hypohippus. Wild horses have been known since prehistory from central Asia to Europe, with domestic horses and other equids being distributed more widely in the Old World, but no horses or equids of any type were found in the New World when European explorers reached the Americas.
Banker was an Australian bred Thoroughbred racehorse that won the 1863 Melbourne Cup. The 1863 Melbourne Cup was the smallest field in the Cup's history with only 7 horses in total and Banker's weight of 33.57 kg was the lightest weight carried by any winning horse in the Melbourne Cup .
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