About the horses began to be mentioned in the annals about three thousand years ago. The ancient rulers in letters or oral messages transmitted through messengers, certainly congratulated each other on the acquisition of a good horse or with the appearance of a thoroughbred in the stables, foals. A valuable thoroughbred horse was considered to be a four-year-old horse. The dust moths were blown off from him, and how proud the owner was with his trotter, riding it on horseback, and can not be passed. In a word, horses in ancient times were an integral part of the lives 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 and common. Simple horses worked, they plowed the earth and carried loads, and thoroughbreds participated in races, knight tournaments and wars. Some horses are 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 can not be counted. Nevertheless, there are four main suits 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, an Arabian steed. A true 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 Arabian breed keep the tail very high in the gait. 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 Akhal-Teke. Its history is three thousand years old. Akhalteke people are incredibly hardy and giddy. 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 a special breed of a heavy horse was brought to the Vladimir stud farm. The Vladimir-Suzdal land required for plowing small but numerous sites and for horse-drawn carriages 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 famous Orlov trotter, a horse for easy harness. He walks fast, trotting out his neck, 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. Derived by 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.