Appaloosa

Appaloosa is a horse breed that descended from the Spanish horse that was imported in the 18th century to North America. Their development should start from the Nez Percé in North America. Appaloosas are recreational or sport horses who enjoy especially in the Western region of large popularity.

Background information on the evaluation and breeding horses can be found at: exterior, interior and horse breeding.

Exterior

Appaloosa have a typical Western Horses Body in most square frame. These include a smaller, also heavily muscled horse to matching head with big, bright eyes and a straight nose line, a sloping, well muscled shoulder, a short, strong back and a sloping croup. These qualities enable the horses especially over a short distance to be fast and be agile, as was formerly particularly needed at the ranch work in America. Nowadays, as well as specialized types are grown, depending on the purpose for which you want to use them. Otherwise, the horses stand out for its characteristic color pattern stain.

The characteristic features, where you can also see many monochrome Appaloosa, are the " human eye" and blotchy skin to identify anywhere where it is not covered by fur, such as the nostrils, around the eyes or on the genitals. The striped hooves of dark crown margin be so caused. These features are also used as a criterion for the regular registration of the horses.

The patterns of tiger drawings:

The Tigerschecken can undergo a strong color change during their lifetime, ie, the color can brighten up, be so interspersed more with white hair ( " aufroanen " ), or they get white spots. The color of a horse can change more or less over time.

All basic colors are permitted except Plattenschecken (characteristic of Paint Horses = undesirable) and the mold. The mold has the property to cover the drawing of the Appaloosa and destroy to pure white. Previously mold had been crossed, but today the mold paint is excluded.

The breeding of Appaloosa Horses is indeed a color breed, but at least as places great emphasis on a correctness of the building and interior of the horse. From matings of two " colorful " Appaloosas not necessarily fall " colorful" foal, but also without foal features and without typical coat pattern.

Interior

The Appaloosa has perseverance, motivation and human relatedness to deal with. But especially qualifies him his peace and serenity, these properties make it suitable for families as well as sport horse.

Breeding history

Through pictures is known that spotted horses were known in the Old World for a long time. It is assumed that these horses arrived by the Spanish conquistadors in the New World, where they left behind by naturalizing their mark on the Mustangs of North America.

In the Palouse Prairie in Idaho the Indian tribe of the Nez Percé, who is the only known for having operated a systematic breeding horses lived. Derived from the breeding area, the Appaloosa also got its name. In a legendary escape the Nez Perce tried to escape in 1877, the destruction by the white man, but ultimately failed. On this trek much of the horse lost his life, leaving only a small population could be maintained.

From these small stocks were developed from 1938 a breeding population, which had grown at the end of the 20th century to over 500,000 animals. The breed remains one of the American Quarter Horse and Paint Horse to the top horses of North America and has spread their popularity beyond the borders back to the Old World.

In 1975, the first horses of this breed came to Germany. Your track was lost because there were only a few horses that could not be correctly classified. 1978 took a small group of admirers purebred Appaloosa Horse Club 's decision to establishment of the Appaloosa Horse Studbook Germany eV, which made itself the task:

• To capture existing in the Federal Republic of Appaloosa horses,
• To inform friends and Appaloosa breeders and to represent their interests,
• To make the Appaloosa breed known
• To obtain the earliest possible recognition of an independent breed association in Germany.

In 1994, the Appaloosa Horse Club Germany was founded, which today manages this breed in Germany.

The administration of the studbook in North America is in the hands of the Appaloosa Horse Club, based in Moscow, where a large information center has been created.

Requirements of this Mother Association in the United States allow for the introgression of Quarter Horses, Arabian and English Thoroughbred.

This has the quality of the Appaloosa breed sustainably improved, nowadays you will find next to leisure horses also specialists such as Halter, Western Pleasure, Reining Horses and Cutting lines at the Appaloosas, which are particularly suitable for use in the respective discipline in tournaments.