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Ob Ponies, also known as Priob ponies, are from the Khanty-Mansi national district near the lower areas of the Ob and Irtysh rivers in western Siberia in Russia.

The climate they are from is severe with extreme cold, deep snow, and a lack of grain foods. Ob Ponies are used chiefly as pack animals in the winter. During the summer months they do not work and are left free to graze the marshes.

Ob Ponies live long lived and fe ...

Old English Black, or Old Kladruby, are an extinct horses developed in Britain.

During the Norman Conquest of 1066, the brittish took some of the Great Horses from the mainland Europe across the English Channel and crossbred them with native mares. Eventually, a distinct breed developed that was known as the Old English Black Horse.

Despite the name, they were not a color breed. For a long period of time, bays and brow ...

Oldenburg horses were developed in a small area near surrounding the province of Oldenburg, Germany in the 16^th century. They horses are multi-talented horses commonly used in dressage, endurance riding, general riding, hunting, and jumping activities.  

Oldenburg horses were originally developed as a strong carriage horse. They were developed from Spanish, Neopolitan, Barb, Thoroughbred, and Hannoverian horses. The ...

Orlov Trotters are Russian horses known for greet speed and endurance. They were developed in the 1800’s with the help of Count Alexei Orlov, who operated the Khrenovskoy Stud Farm situated somewhere near Bobrov, a small town in Russia. Count Orlov cross breed local mares with English, Danish, and Arabian stallions to development of the Russian Trotter.

Through the 1800’s Russian nobles frequently rode Orlov Trotter and enjoyed ...

Orlov-rostopchin Horeses (also called the Russian Saddle Horses) started their developed in eighteenth century Russia when Count Alexei Orlov bred Arabian stallions with royal Spanish and Danish mares, as well as English Thoroughbreds, Dutch Friesians, and other breeds, to produce the Orlov Trotter in the late 1700s.  

But in addition to his Trotters, Count Orlov also used some of his same foundation Arabians to produce a saddl ...

Ostfriesen and Alt-Oldenburger horses are representatives of a group of horse breeds primarily from continental Europe called heavy warmbloods. The breed has two names because the same horse was bred in two marshy regions in the most north-western part of Germany: East Frisia and the former grand duchy of Oldenburg. The name "Alt-Oldenburger" - alt meaning "old" - simply distinguishes this horse from its descendant, the modern Oldenburg, wh ...