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The Iberian horse is a title given to a number of horse breeds native to the Iberian peninsula. At present, no less than 18 horse breeds are officially recognized [1][2][3]
List of commonly accepted Iberian Horse Breeds
[edit]Breed | Country Of Registry | Type [4] | breeding method [5] | Number (aprox.)[6] | Comments | |
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Mérens horse | France | big pony | >7.000 [1] | |||
Garrano | Portugal | big pony | semiferal | >950 [1] | ||
Lusitano | Portugal, other countries | Horse | 23,619 [7] | |||
Sorraia | Portugal | big pony | Feral | >100 [1] | [8] | |
Pura Raza Española (Andalusian horse | Spain , other countries | Horse | 199,852 | |||
Asturcon | Spain | big pony | semiferal | 2,319 | ||
Burguete | Spain | horse | Open field | 4,814 | Heavy work and meat horse. Has some mixture of Breton blood | |
Basque Mountain Horse | Spain | big pony | semiferal | > 600 [1] | meat horse | |
Pura Raza Gallega | Spain | big pony | semiferal | 1,526 | Under the term faco or del país there are a number (perhaps over 10.000) of closely related semiferal horses not on the Stud Book | |
Hispano-Arabe | Spain , other countries | Horse | 7,286 | Of mixed Spanish / Arabian horse blood | ||
Hispano-Bretón | Spain | big pony | Open Field | 14,902 | Work and meat. Of mixed Breton-native blood | |
Jaca Navarra | Spain | big pony | semiferal | 1,020 | ||
Losina | Spain | big pony | semiferal | 754 | ||
Mallorquín | Spain | Horse | 320 | |||
Marismeño | Spain | big pony | semiferal | 1,051 | ||
Menorquín | Spain | Horse | 3,125 | |||
Monchina | Spain | big pony | Open field | 782 | ||
Pirenenc Catalá | Spain | Horse | Open field | 7,133 | Still not on FAO list but recognized in Spain since 2012. The type has partly blood from french heavy races | |
Pottoka | Spain , France | pony | some semiferal | >2.600 [1] | ||
Retuertas | Spain | big pony | feral | 60-140 | First described in 2005 [9] No official status yet |
Procedures have been started to include another breed ( the Serrano horse )[10]. It's a very scarce (less than 40 indivuduals) mountain big pony variety
</ref> --> Iberian horses are thought to be one of the oldest types of domesticated horses. Modern Iberian breeds tend to be of a Baroque horse type that resemble their most famous member, the Andalusian horse, in conformation. There are no purely native cold blood (heavy / work) horse breeds from the iberian Peninsula , both for ecological/economical (alternate work animals -oxen and mules - were easier to maintain in the peninsular conditions) and military (during the middle ages the Iberian Peninsula chavalry was of the lighter type) reasons. In fact, even at the mid XX century, the mule stock trebled the horse stock, with the negative impact on the availability of breeding mares.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f 'FAO breed list', accessed March 15, 2012, cites 3 portuguese and 20 spanish breeds
- ^ 'R.D. 2129/2008', accessed March 13, 2012, which is the offical spanish list. Only fomento and en peligro de extinción sections, which are the iberian breeds, list 15 breeds. The remaining breeds are of well known foreing blood, or like the deporte español are recent developments
- ^ Both lists are divergent, partly because the spanish list is more actual -last changed February 2012- and partly because FAO list as different entities two Mallorquin horses -in spanish and catalan- as different breeds. The FAO lists also lacks another breed, Troton Español, which is bred solely in Mallorca
- ^ Following classifications apply for the Type column based on horse height:
- pony: pony, usually under 130 cm - 12h3)
- big pony . pony usually in the 130 cm -150 cm range (12h3 - 14h3). Know in Spain as jaca (port. faco)
- horse . Standard height above 150 cm
- ^ Following classifications apply for the Breeding:
- ^ For spanish breeds, unless otherwise noted, we took the most actual data in 'the Spanish Official Breed Catalog on-line' (in spanish), accessed March 15,2012. Data thus are from 2010 or 2011. Those gotten from FAO are data from 2001
- ^ 'Fundaçao Alter Real', in portuguese, accessed May 16,2012
- ^ Oelke, Hardy. "The Sorraia Horse, General Information". Sorraia Folheto Informativo. Retrieved 2012-03-16.
- ^ The Retuertas horse; the "missing link" in the iberoamerican horse breed origin?, Vega-Plà et al 2005, available at eeap.org
- ^ [http://www.asambleamadrid.es/Resources/Ficheros/C5/Diarios%20de%20sesiones/Diarios%20de%20sesiones%20%20Legislatura%20VIII/VIII-DS-850.pdf 'Proceedings of the Regional Parlament of Madrid' (in Spanish)
- ^ In Andalusia only was forbidden till the XIX century to breed mules, which were imported from elsewhere
External links
[edit]- The Origins of Iberian Horses Assessed via Mitochondrial DNA
- International Andalusian & Lusitano Horse Association
- Andalusian Horse Link
- Lusitano Horse Link
- Report on DNA of Spanish horses
- Info on Jaca Navarra (Spanish) (Google translation)
- OSU Losino page
Category:Types of horse Category:Horse breeds Category:Horse breeds originating in Spain