Daliboz

The Delibos (also Deliboz ) is a breed of Azerbaijan. He is also known as Delibos - Azerbaijanis, as the Kazakh of Azerbeijan or as the Azerbaijan horse.

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

Exterior

The Delibos has a short, dry head with a broad forehead and narrow nose. You have a heavy short neck. He has a long back, good back line. The legs are clean and well proportioned and the cannon bones are stronger than in other breeds. The average shoulder height is 1.52 m; the belts depth is 1.72 m and the cannon bone girth 19.4 cm.

Interior

In Azerbaijan, the Delibos is used for pastoral work. In race Delibospferde are just as fast as Karabaghen. They are unbalanced and their preferred gaits are the rack and through.

The Delibospferde are very powerful. You cope in the mountains 45 to 55 kilometers per day on a single charge 115-130 kilograms or 70 kilometers under a rider. The best times in races are 1:56 minutes to 2:55 minutes and 1.6 km to 2.4 km.

The core of the population of the race form at the time the descendants of the Tersk stallions Tselostat and Pygmalion; this creates danger of inbreeding. The stud Dashyuz has the typical Deliboz 140 horses and mares with a high proportion Tersk blood.

Breeding history

The Delibos goes back to the Azerbaijanis, he has almost completely displaced today. Through strong influence of Karabaghen and the independence of the Arab race has gone almost lost. There are efforts in Azerbaijan to breed the race again more pure.

The Deliboz emerged in the Azerbaijani rayon (similar to a county ) Qazax, Ağstafa and Tovuz and in adjacent areas of Georgia and Armenia.

In the thirties and forties the Deliboz horse was bred and refined with Arabs and Karabakh stallions from the local horse population. The breed spread to Westazerbeijan and is established since the 1943 years by any Governmental Cooperative breeding and to improve the quality of the horses of the Republic. Since fifties, the Azerbaijan - horses with Arabian and Tersk stallions are refined during the Karabagh was grown separately.