Sunday, April 17, 2011

Horse Breeds V

 Ardennes horse
This horse is from mostly three countries that are France, Belgium, Luxembourg. This horse was very muscular and strong enough to carry something heavy. The interesting part this that this horse was used in World War I.

Arenberg Nordkirchen

This horse is from Germany. There are only 13 of Arenberg Nordkirchen horses horses left in this horse. This horse is very special because it was in the Napolenoic Wars, World War I, World War II, and other special events. 

 Belgian Warmblood

This horse is from Belgium. This horse has very special skills which it can jump really high. This horse is known for jumping horse. This horse went to Olympic games and Asian game too. Even though it is know for jump horse but now days it be known as dressage horse.

 

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Horse Breeds IV

 Andalusian horse

This horse is from Spain. This horse is for dressage. This horse has perfect body shape to be dressage horse. Except that this horse is very heavy that you need to train this horse every day to make the horse lighter to ride easy. 

 

Appaloosa

This horse America. This horse skin is colorful spotted coat and this horse have a stiff hooves. This horse is easily noticeable. Also, the surprising thing is that in 1674, this horse was on painting of Louis XIV. 


 Arabian horse

 This is from Arab. This horse is has chiseled bone structure, muscular arched neck, and long tail. This horse is very interesting if you look at the skeleton of this horse. This horse has short back but long tails with long legs and it has only 5 lumbar vertebrae. The size of this horse is around 145 to 155 cm tall even though the size of the horse is between normal horse and pony, this horses are still used in dressage competitions. 

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Horse Breeds III

 American Indian horse

This is horse of Spanish. There are two color of this horse which are mostly black-white or brown-white. This horse skin looks like a cow skin which is pretty adorable. This horse is mostly used in farming or riding for fun. 

 American Quarter Horse

This horse is for America. This horse is mostly know as sprinting speed over the short distance and jumping because as you can see this horse has long leg with good muscular body. The speed of this horse is mostly 88.4km per hour.

 

American Saddlebred

This horse is from America. This horse is mostly for dressage. This horse has very good curves on their neck and good muscular body and the leg goes high up and stretching forward which shows beauty of powerful walk.   

Friday, April 1, 2011

Horse Breeds II

Akhal-Teke 

This horse is noticed for riding horse for racing. There body is skinny and legs are long that they can run faster. Also, they can be jumping horse. They are from Turkmenistan. 

Albanian horse

They are from Albania. This horse is used as carriage horse but they can also be riding horse too. Long time ago, this horse was still alive when Ottoman Empire was existing. This horse  a great deal of Albanian blood influenced the local horses.

Lusitano

This horse original country is from Portugal. This horse is for dressage. The muscles of the horse is very large. In 2010, Lusitano horse was in World Equestrian Game.