About horses began to be mentioned in the annals aboutthree thousand years ago. The ancient rulers in letters or oral messages transmitted through messengers, invariably congratulated each other on the acquisition of a good horse or with the appearance of a thoroughbred in the stables, foals. A very valuable gift was a purebred horse-four-year-old. The dust particles blew off him, and how proud the owner was with his trotter, riding it on horseback, and can not be conveyed. In a word, horses in ancient times were an inseparable part of the life of both noble masters and ordinary people. Then the horses' suits were already differentiated, black horses and gray horses in horses were especially appreciated for riding.
At all times horses were divided into thoroughbred andconventional. Simple horses worked, they plowed the earth and carried loads, and thoroughbreds participated in races, knight tournaments and wars. Some horses were famous for their famous owners. We will not list all of them, but we remember the horse named Butsefal, because it was the horse of Alexander the Great. Long life lived a faithful battle horse, and now the memory of him lives, there is even a city named in his honor. Let us recall Rosinta, who was a loyal friend of Don Quixote of La Mancha, served him faithfully. Rosinante also erected several monuments.
How many horse colors, countis impossible. Nevertheless, there are four main colors of horses: black, red, bay and gray. Each of them gives rise to a secondary: it is kauraya and solovaya, piebald and brown, karakova and chubara. In addition to suits, horses differ in breed - there are about two hundred of them. We will not list all breeds of horses, but we will tell about some.
The first horse on the list is, of course, Arabichorse. A real Arabian horse has several distinctive features: a slightly concave bridge of nose, large moist eyes, like all eastern beauties. The main sign of thoroughbredness is the following: all horses of the Arab breed in the gait very high hold the tail. This breed is extremely resilient, horses live up to 30 years and bring offspring even in extreme old age.
The next famous breed is the Akhalteke.Its history lasts three thousand years. The Akhaltekeans are incredibly hardy and frisky. The jumps are light and long. Appearance is characteristic: slanting eyes, long ears and, in contrast to the concave bridge of the Arabian horses, a hump in the nose. The suits of horses of this breed are very different, but the bay is predominant. Among the Akhaltekeans there is even an Olympic champion, the stallion Absinthe.
In 1946 at the Vladimir stud farm wasa special breed of a horse-heavy-horse is brought out. The Vladimir-Suzdal land required small, but numerous sites for the plowing and for horse-drawn carriage of strong, hardy horses. The mother material was selected local horses, and the father's gene pool was created from the Scottish Kleidesdale, best suited to their data for the removal of the Vladimir heavy truck.
The next world-famous breed is the famousOrlov trotter, a horse for easy harness. He walks with a quick trot, his neck arching in pictures, is indispensable in holiday trips. Can walk both native and crouching. On the move easy, fast and can go trot more than a dozen kilometers. Brought out through the most complex combinations of crossing Arab, Danish, Dutch and Mecklenburg breeds. The suits of Orlovian horses are usually gray or gray in apples. In addition to harness, Orlov trotter can serve as a beautiful riding horse. He has a lively temperament, but is obedient to the bridle.
