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Common names of animal species are written either in title case or sentence case depending upon the taxonomic group (shown below). In title case, the first letter of every important word is capitalized (e.g., Grey Currawong, Duke of Burgundy), except for words that follow a hyphen (e.g., Brown-headed Spider Monkey).
In most cases, bloodlines of horse breeds are recorded with a breed registry. The concept is somewhat flexible in horses, as open stud books are created for recording pedigrees of horse breeds that are not yet fully true-breeding. Registries are considered the authority as to whether a given breed is listed as a "horse" or a "pony".
American Quarter Horse is a good example of a multi-word name in all title case, and which is the full official breed name. We also have articles with lower case "horse" in the title, not because the word "horse" is necessarily in the breed name, but because of the need to disambiguate titles in wikipedia.
Most breeds are known just as their breed name (Morgan, Arabian, Thoroughbred, etc.) and if the word "horse" must be added to avoid disambiguation issues on wiki, then the gang at WPEQ decided proper form generally should be "Xyz horse" However, there are a few exceptions, and those are when the word "horse" is in the official breed name, most ...
Additionally, many horse breed registries include the word "horse" or "pony" in their name. Where "Horse" is an integral part of the breed name, such as American Quarter Horse (as no one calls the breed an "American Quarter"), the word should be capitalized. Where it it not, as in Arabian horse (where people often call the breed simply an ...
The rule is simple: capitalize only those words in a breed name which would normally be capitalized in a normal English sentence. Remember that editors writing in articles not about breeds and so not specially interested in them may need to mention a breed and need guidance from the MOS.
The best horse name for your female or male horse or pony is on this list of cute, classic, popular, funny, and rare name ideas, like Seabiscuit and Goldie. 156 Popular Horse Names From Stately ...
The Manual of Style, at MOS:LIFE, [a] calls for capitalisation of standardized breeds and cultivars (not breed groups/types, landraces, crossbreeds, hybrids, colour variants of breeds, etc.). When appended to the name of a standardised breed or cultivar as natural disambiguation, the species name is not capitalised: Siamese cat, Hass avocado.