Breeds of Horses - r

Racking Horses come from the Southern United States, mainly Alabama. They are known for a distinctive sugarfoot gait.It is believed that they are related to Tennessee Walking horses. An Alabama business person created this horse and worked diligently to maintain them for years to come.

Their ancestors were first bred on southern plantations prior to the American Civil War. They could be ridden comfortably for hours because of thei ...

Reliable sources for local breeds in Hessen did not exist. There was no state breeding as it was all based on the local farmers in the former centuries. The princely stables bred with imported breeds according to the period's fashion and for their own use only, creating no unique breed type. The only exception was the Beberbeck stud which existed until 1929 and had a good name for noble half-breeds.  

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Retuertas horse (also known as Caballo de las Retuertas or Caballo de las Retuertas de Donana) are a rare horse indigenous to the Andalusia region of Spain. They are believed to closely resemble the ancient Iberian horses that populated Spain before being domesticated. They are now now found only in the Donana National Park in the provinces of Huelva and Sevilla, and in The Biological Reserve "Campanarios de Azaba" in Espeja (Salamanca prov ...

Rhenish German Coldblood (also known as Rheinisch Deutsches Kaltblut, Rheinisch-Westfälisches Kaltblut, Rhineland Heavy Draft, and Rhenish-German Coldblood) are a heavy draught horse from the Rhineland area of western Germany. They were bred in the second part of the nineteenth century, principally at the Prussian state stud at Schloss Wickrath in Wickrathberg, now part of Mönchengladbach in North Rhine-Westphalia.  

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Riwoches are very small dun-colored horses from an isolated region of Tibet in 1995. Previously unknown to science, these small horses may be an evolutionary link between prehistoric wild horses and modern domestic horses, though they could also be a domesticated variety that reverted to a small size and primitive coloring.

They were discovered in 1995 in an isolated, 27 kilometres (17 mi) long valley reached only by crossing a 5,000 ...

Rocky Mountain Horses were developed in the 1800’s in the Kentucky, US. Rocky Mountain horses have a brown shaded coat with lots of shine to their frames, making them simple to recognize. They are  a very stable-yet-surefooted horse with a unique four feet gait and a long bushy tail. Many farmers found great joy in owning one or two Rocky Mountain Horses so that they could easily utilize their strength for pulling plows and helping on the fa ...

Rottaler horses were originally bred in the Rott valley of Bavaria, and were used as the foundation for the Bavarian Warmblood. Systematic breeding in the region dates back to 1558, when the first duke, Albrecht IV, imported popular Neapolitan and Spanish stallions.  

In keeping with the times, Rottalers were expected to be versatile enough to pull the plow during the week and the carriage to church on Sundays. Throughout the ...

Russian Heavy Draft horses originated in Russia and the Ukraine. They are considered to be a younger style of horses, one that began in the middle of the eighteen hundreds. The state studs were noted as Khrenov and Derkul and were mated with local mares, as well as the Ardennes breeds. The Russian Heavy Draft was once even used in the Paris Exhibition in 1900. In very little time at all, the breed was introduced to newer blood lines, such as ...

Russian Trotters originated from the cross-breeding of native Russian Orlov Trotter horses with imported American Standardbred stock around 1890. The breeding goal was to develop a Russian racing horse that could compete with American Standardbred horses. While Russian Trotters were very successful, they were eventually bred to their original styles of Orlov Trotters and Standardbred variations around the middle of the nineteenth century. ...