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The Three Known Portuguese Horse Breeds

One of the famous Portuguese exports in the equestrian world, the Lusitano horse breed that is now the favorite in many countries that have a tradition of equestrian sport. Apart from Portugal, you will see a flourishing breed Lusitano horses in France, Brazil and Mexico. Needless to say, the main European countries have the same traditions, as well as in Italy, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, Spain, Netherlands and United Kingdom.

You can also see how they in the U.S. and Asian countries like Thailand and the Philippines and in Africa and Latin America. Also, what is the best Portuguese Lusitano breed horses and one of the best thoroughbreds in the world? It is the royal status and behavior and field, it’s not so much a game for the princely nobility and royalty from all over the planet, especially among the elites in Europe, where the equestrian and prominent play as a pastime makes the rich and famous. not start the Lusitano horse as it is today, but is rather a product of the crossing with foreign horses in the Iberian peninsula by the conquest of Carthage introduced armies, Rome and Arabia in the last two thousand years.

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Horse Breeds – American Quarter Horse

The American Quarter Horse is the first breed of horse native to the United States. The breed evolved when the bloodlines of horses brought to the New World were mixed. American Quarter Horse Foundation has races from Arab, Turkish and Barb. Selected stallions and mares were crossed with horses brought Colonial America from England and Ireland in 1600. This combination resulted in a compact, heavily muscled horse that evolved into fill the colonists passion for short distance races.

The amazing force behind a Quarter Horse to these large animals is short distance on a direct celebrated faster than any other horse with the fastest walking Running Horse, the name American. The name for this race many times in the course of the years until 1940, when a register was established to consider the race officially as the American Quarter Horse Association will receive.

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