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The first Shires were imported to the United States in 1853, with large numbers of horses being imported in the 1880s. The American Shire Horse Association was established in 1885 to register and promote the breed. [11] The Shire soon became popular in the United States, and almost 4,000 Shires were imported between 1900 and 1918.
{{Infobox horse breed | image = Shire.jpg | image_caption = Shire horse | image_alt = A tall black horse with four white legs, standing in harness, with shafts of a cart visible | features = Tall draught horse.
Conversely, even in modern times, the Shire horse breed standard counts excessive white, body spotting, or roaning as a fault, especially in stallions. [27] This pattern, informally labeled “draft-type sabino,” appears to be dominantly inherited, but it does not result in a sabino-white phenotype when homozygous. [29]
The following list of horse and pony breeds includes standardized breeds, some strains within breeds that are considered distinct populations, types of horses with common characteristics that are not necessarily standardized breeds but are sometimes described as such, and terms that describe groupings of several breeds with similar characteristics.
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This horse is gray, not white. Its hair coat is completely white, but its underlying skin, seen around the eye and muzzle, is black. Genetically white horses have unpigmented pink skin (except where a horse with a W allele may have some darker pigmented areas) and unpigmented white hair, though eye color varies.
The Old English Black (also known as Lincolnshire Black) is an extinct horse breed. During the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066, the Normans may have taken some of the Great Horses from Europe across the English Channel and bred them with native Horses. [citation needed] Eventually, a distinct type evolved that was known as the Old English ...
A skewbald horse, chestnut with white patches. Skewbald is a colour pattern of horses. A skewbald horse has a coat made up of white patches on a non-black base coat, such as chestnut, bay, or any colour besides black coat. Skewbald horses which are bay and white (bay is a reddish-brown colour with black mane and tail) are sometimes called ...