Mangalarga Marchador

The Mangalarga Marchador (also Mangalarga Mineiro ) is a Brazilian horse breed that originated in the state of Minas Gerais, and not with the resultant in the state of São Paulo breed Mangalarga (also Mangalarga Paulista ) may be confused.

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

Exterior

A compact horse. The back is short with a long croup; the ideal formula for this is: neck, back, hip bone to the ischial must have the same length. The shoulder is sloping, the joints are dry. It required strong elastic cuffs. The Height of the stallions at 147-157 cm (ideal 152 cm) and at the mares 140-154 cm (ideal 146 cm). It come before all coat colors.

Interior

A friendly and gentle horse that is also suitable for beginners. The horses are straightforward and strengthened in itself.

Breeding history

The Mangalarga is a Brazilian horse breed Marchador, which goes back to the race Alter Real of Coudelaria, Landgestüt ' Alter Real, which in turn on the flight of the Portuguese royal court before Napoléon ( November 1807 - January 22, 1808) arrived to Brazil. These were then crossed with Berber horses and mainly originating from the Iberian Peninsula working horse breeds that had already come to colonial Brazil.

According to tradition, gave King John VI. of Pordem Barao, Baron ' of Alfenas, Gabriel Francisco Junqueira, 1812 a breeding stallion of the breed Alter Real. This Junqueira started his own horse breeding by ordinary mares the ranch, farm ' Campo Alegre in the south of the province of it - the states were called at the time of the monarchy provinces - Minas Gerais crossed. These crosses came from a new type horses, because of their soft gait as Sublime - were called - this should have been the name of the stallion.

These comfortable horses aroused much attention and soon the owner of the Fazenda Manga Larga in Paty do Alferes, Rio de Janeiro province, some Sublime - led copies for his own use one on his farm. The outstanding features of these horses - especially their physique, their performance and their gait - made ​​name for herself even at the Imperial court, where you are in relation to the farm from which they came as Mangalargapferde she was referring to.

In the further breeding of these horses then was systematically on these soft transition, the Marcha, the gait of a related gait bred. For the time being still put every breeder, establish its own criteria. 1928 published the zootechnicians Paulo de Lima Corrêa an in-depth study to identify the description of the Mangalargapferderasse. Two breeders that are enthusiastic for Correa's proposal, Dr. Celso Torquato Junqueira and Renato Junqueira Neto, called a Mangalargazüchterrat laying down the mares and stallion selection criteria into being joined the following breeders: Eduardo Ralston, Gabriel Jorge Franco, Paulo de Lima Corrêa, Agusto de Oliveira Lopes, Celso Torquato Junqueira, Renato Neto Junqueira, Humberto S. Pereira Lima, Saulo Junqueira Franco, Antonio Uchôa Filho and Antonio Junqueira Franco. Thus, the first step in the direction of a Mangalargapferdezüchterverbandes was made ​​. A studbook has been prepared.

On September 25, 1934, the Associação Brasileira dos Criadores de Cavalos was because Raça Mangalarga ( ABCCRM ) founded and taken the stud book immediately put into production in São Paulo. In the 30 years before it had come in search of better land to a significant change in location of a large part of the Junqueira family in the state of São Paulo. On new ground with the other terrain, with a different cultural background and where even the deer hunting proceeded differently, the Junqueiras decided their horses through new hybrids to adapt to the new circumstances. Intersections with other gear such as Morgan horses, American Saddle Horse and Hackney a new breed of horse, the Mangalarga ( Paulista ) was born.

The diversity of horses led the mid-1940s to different views of the breeders in São Paulo and Minas Gerais, especially as the pace was concerned. The breeders in Minas consisted primarily to the fact that the Marcha TRIPLICE Apoiada would be maintained as a breed characteristic. The generally known until then only as Mangalarga horse breed had the breeding changes made in São Paulo accordingly be divided into two breeds. The Mangalargas with the features of the original breeding history in Minas Gerais were from then officially Mangalarga Marchador set while the horses with the accrued in São Paulo Anglo-American hybrids retained the original name Mangalarga. However, these names have remained purely official: On Brazilian farms and stud farms we speak only of Mangalarga Mangalarga Paulista and Mineiro.

Associação Brasileira dos 1949 Criadores do Cavalo Mangalarga Marchador ( ABCCMM ) was established as a breeder association for the Managalarga Marchador.

This is without doubt one of the most outstanding horse breeds in the world wrote Bonnie L. Hendricks 1995 International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds (Oklahoma, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995).