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The Gypsy Cob, also known as the Traditional Gypsy Cob, Irish Cob, Romani Cob, Gypsy Horse, or Gypsy Vanner, is a breed of domestic horse from the British Isles. It is a small, solidly-built horse of cob conformation and is usually piebald. It is associated with Irish Travellers and English Romanichal Travellers.
Xena's horse Argo was portrayed by a palomino mare named Tilly. In today's horse breeding the palomino color can be created by crossing a chestnut with a cremello. [2] Palomino is a Spanish word meaning juvenile pigeon (the diminutive of paloma, pigeon) and its equine usage refers to the color of such birds. [3] [4]
Originally, when imported to the United States, Ardennes horses were eligible for registration with the now-defunct National French Draft Horse Association of America [9] or French Draft Horse Society. This organization published a stud book and registered six individual French draft breeds as belonging to a single breed, combining the ...
A vardo (also Romani wag(g)on, Gypsy wagon, living wagon, caravan, van and house-on-wheels) is a four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle traditionally used by travelling Romanichal as their home. [ 1 ] : 89–90, 168 [ 2 ] : 138 The name vardo is a Romani term believed to have originated from the Ossetic wærdon meaning cart or carriage. [ 3 ]
The fair is billed as the largest traditional Gypsy Fair in Europe, and is held outside the town of Appleby where the Roman Road crosses Long Marton Road. Horses are washed in the River Eden and trotted up and down the 'flashing lane'. There is a market selling a variety of goods, including those traditional to the Romani and Irish traveller ...
As of 2000, there were 222 registered horses, a number that increased to 350 as of 2004. Of these, 40 were "tracking horses" – either purebred American Creams that did not meet color requirements or crossbred horses that mix American Cream and other draft blood, but still meet the physical requirements for the registry. These tracking horses ...
The American Paint Horse is a breed of horse that combines both the conformational characteristics of a western stock horse with a pinto spotting pattern of white and dark coat colors. Developed from a base of spotted horses with Quarter Horse and Thoroughbred bloodlines, the American Paint Horse Association (APHA) breed registry is now one of ...
Regulations prohibit horses with too much white, and buckskin, palomino and cremello horses from being registered. There is no height requirement, but Hanoverian horses are generally 15.3–17.1 hands (63–69 inches, 160–175 cm) high. In order to be incorporated into the studbook, stallions and mares must pass rigorous testing. The goal of ...