about horses began to mention in the annals of about three thousand years ago.Ancient rulers in letters or oral messages transmitted by couriers, certainly congratulated each other on the acquisition of a good horse, or with the appearance of the stables thoroughbred offspring, foals.Particularly valuable gift was considered a thoroughbred horse-four-year.With him was blown off dust particles, much as the proud owner of his trotter, leaving on top of him, and you can not pass.In short, the horse in ancient times been an integral part of the lives of noblemen and the common people.Then we have distinguished suit horses, particularly valued for riding crows and gray dappled horses.
At all times, the horses were divided into normal and pedigree.Simple horses worked, they plowed the earth and carried loads, and participated in a thoroughbred horse race, knightly tournaments and wars.Some horses are famous because of their famous owners.All the list, we will not, but the horse named Bucephalus remember, because it was the horse of Alexander the Great.Long life lived faithful warhorse, and now his memory lives, there is even a city named in his honor.Recall and Rocinante, who was a devoted friend of Don Quixote de la Mancha, served him faithfully.Rocinante also erected several monuments.
How many horse colors, impossible to calculate.However, there are four basic color of the horse: black, red, gray and bay.Each of them gives rise to the secondary: it Kaur and Nightingale, piebald and buckskin, Braun and Chubarov.Also suit different horse breed - there are about two hundred.All breeds of horses, we will not list, but some of the tell.
first horse on the list - is, of course, Arabian horses.This Arabian horse has several distinctive features: a slightly concave nose, large eyes moist, as in all oriental beauties.The main symptom purebreeding the following: all the horses in the Arabian breed gait highly hold the tail.This breed is very robust, the horses live up to 30 years and produce offspring, even in old age.
Next famous breed - Akhal-Teke.Its history has three thousand years.The Akhal-Teke is incredibly hardy and frolic.Jumping from them light and long.Physical characteristic: slanting eyes, long ears, and, in contrast to the concave nose Arabian horses, small hump on the nose.The suits horses of this breed are very different, but dominates bay.Among the Akhal-Teke have even Olympic champion stallion Absinth.
In 1946 Vladimir stud was bred special breed of horse-heavy truck.Vladimir-Suzdal land required for plowing small but numerous stations and horse-drawn carriage for a strong, hardy horses.Parent material the choice of local horses, and his father's gene pool was created from the Scottish Clydesdale horse, is the best suitable for their data to derive Vladimir heavy truck.
following the world-famous rock - the famous Orlov trotter horse for easy rides.He walks frisky trot, picturesque arched neck is irreplaceable in holiday travel.Able to walk both indigenous and crotch.On the move easy, rapid and can pass at a trot than a dozen kilometers.Bred by complex combinations of crossing Arabic, Danish, Dutch and Mecklenburg rocks.Suits horses Orlov usually gray or gray apples.In addition to rides, Orlov trotter can serve as an excellent riding horse.It has a lively temperament, but obedient to check.
