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Louise Firouz (née Laylin), was an American-born, Iranian horse breeder and researcher who rediscovered and helped to preserve the Caspian horse, a breed believed to be the ancestor of the Arab [clarification needed] and other types of what are called "hot-blooded" (agile and spirited) horses, and previously thought to have been extinct for 1,300 years.
The breed was created in 1965 by Louise Firouz, an American living in Iran, from a base stock of a small number of small horses found in the Elburz Mountains in Amol. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 2011, the remains of a small horse dating back to 3400 B.C.E. were found at Gohar Tappeh , Iran, giving rise to claims that today's Caspian originates from ...
The following list of horse and pony breeds includes standardized breeds, some strains within breeds that are considered distinct populations, types of horses with common characteristics that are not necessarily standardized breeds but are sometimes described as such, and terms that describe groupings of several breeds with similar characteristics.
This drawing by Gustave Moreau depicts a famous Persian hippomancy scene. The history of horses in Iran goes back to Greek sources from ancient Persia, which mention horse worship and the practice of hippomancy. Today, Iranians breed several breeds of horse, most of them Arabian, [1] in particular the Koheilan and Saklawi lines.
This horse had only a minor influence on the Thoroughbred breed, producing among its few notable descendants the mare Fair Ellen, dam of an Epsom Oaks winner and runner-up in the 1826 Epsom Derby. Wellesley Arabian was also a source of inspiration for Swiss-born painter Jacques-Laurent Agasse. He was featured in several engravings in the early ...
The Kurdish horse (Kurdish: ئەسپی کورد; Hespê Kurd; Persian: اسب کرد; Asb-e Kord) or the Kurd horse, is a horse breed of the Kurds. The horse is native to Greater Kurdistan. It is considered one of the main horse breeds native to Iran, alongside the Caspian, Turkoman, Assil (also known as Persian-Arab) and Dareshuri.
"Al Khamsa" (الخمسة) is a designation applied to specific desert-bred bloodlines of the Arabian horse considered particularly "pure" by Arabian horse breeders, who sometimes also describe such lines by use of the Arabic word asil, meaning "pure".
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