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The name Ojo de Agua, meaning 'the eye of the water', was based on the natural spring on the property that produced 1,800,000 liters of water per day. In 1878, several Thoroughbred mares were imported from England to start the farm's breeding program. [3] Gay Hermit was the first stallion imported to stand stud at Haras Ojo de Agua. [4]
Figure (also known by the name of one of his owners, Justin Morgan), the foundation sire of the Morgan horse breed; Gunrock, used in the 1920s at UC Davis to breed horses for the U.S. Army Cavalry; Hollywood Dun It, all-time leading reining sire and Quarter Horse; Incitatus, Emperor Caligula's favorite horse; may have been proposed as a senator
The Criollo (in Spanish), or Crioulo (in Portuguese), is the native horse of the Pampas (a natural region between Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay, in South America) with a reputation for long-distance endurance linked to a low basal metabolism.
The Thoroughbred, as it is known today, was developed in 17th- and 18th-century England, when native mares were crossbred with imported stallions of Arabian, Barb, and Turkoman breeding. All modern Thoroughbreds can trace their pedigrees to three stallions originally imported into England in the 17th and 18th centuries, and to a larger number ...
Colonial Spanish horse is a term for a group of horse breed and feral populations descended from the original Iberian horse stock brought from Spain to the Americas. [1] The ancestral type from which these horses descend was a product of the horse populations that blended between the Iberian horse and the North African Barb . [ 2 ]
The Spanish government has set the minimum height for registration in Spain at 15.0 hands (60 inches, 152 cm) for males and 14.3 hands (59 inches, 150 cm) for mares – this standard is followed by the Association of Purebred Spanish Horse Breeders of Spain (Asociación Nacional de Criadores de Caballo de Pura Raza Española or ANCCE) and the ...
The Spanish name Llanero translates as "horse of the plains". [1] The DAD-IS database and the University of Oklahoma Encyclopedia (2007) [1] refer to the breed as Llanero (without diacritical mark), while CAB International, [2] the Delachaux guide [3] and researchers from the teams of E. G. Cothran [4] and J. L Canelón [5] refer to it as "Venezuelan Criollo".
2001 population: 650; [11]: 57 semi-feral; 20,000–22,000 unregistered horses, known as faco or del país; [15] Spanish equivalent of the Garrano [7] Catalán extinct since the first third of the twentieth century [10]: 445 Garrano [1] population >950; [13] semi-feral; Portuguese equivalent of the Caballo de Pura Raza Gallega [7]