What kind of horse is this? I can’t give many hints without giving it away. I will say they weren’t imported to the USA until 1996.
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I think that’s a Gypsy horse / Gypsy cob…
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The Gypsy Vanner Horse is a beautiful breed envisioned by the Gypsies of Great Britain. This horse was selectively bred for over half a century from a vision to create the perfect horse to pull the Gypsy caravan. In 1996 the first Gypsy Vanner Horses came to North America and the Gypsy Vanner Horse Society was established as a registry for the breed. At that time the breed did not have a name, and the name Gypsy Vanner Horse was chosen, because the breed was a Gypsy’s “vanner horse”, bred to pull the colorful caraVAN.
https://vanners.org/the-breed/
Can’t fool you English girls!
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This smaller breed has been documented since roughly 2000 BC.(How’s that for an old horse.)
I did a term paper in college on this animal. A+
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That explains why the horses in ancient statues look so funny!
For example the Flying Horse of Gansu, the proportions look so different from a normal horse today…
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Horse breed: the Mongolian horse.
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