Dad, get me (mini) horses

When you say the horse, everyone is sure to give them a beautiful, large and noble animal klusajici blooming meadows with billowing mane around the head. There are rough estimates that the world is about 60 million 400 breeds of horses. The vast majority of them are among the great horses Kohoutkova with height above 148 cm. Extreme may be Shirsti stallions measuring 190 to 195 centimeters.

Small horses weighing up to 400 kg do not exceed a height of 148 cm. In the subconscious of most people is that they are the smallest horses, ponies with their average level of 135 cm block. Few, however, knows that the world there is a large miniature horse, which is called the American miniature horse.

A bit of history

American miniature horses vznikli selecting small individuals of different breeds and breeding are the result of work of lasting 400 years. The first mention of the small konica comes from the middle of the 18th century. They were bred primarily for children nobility, and served as royal gifts. Not all horses are pets aristocracy. The rest worked hard in the mines of northern Europe and Central England. Miners them preferred the traditional ponies, because they were poslusnejsi, smaller and more cost uvezli.End of the 19th century some of them were exported to America in order to work mainly in mines Apallacskych mountains. This was until 1950, when they were last replaced mining mechanization. You purchased the remaining farmers in order to achieve the smallest size. In the 80 years of the last century began, some American miniature horse breeders imported from England, Holland and Belgium. In the veins of those present, therefore, circulating blood and the Shetland pony, Arabian horses, the English thoroughbred, Quarter Horse breed, and even draft horses. That describes the history of the American breed mini horses perhaps the only breeder of the rocking horses in our country, Ms. Marcela Filip, whose Tikitano farm (www.tikitano.cz) located close to Prague.

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