Neapolitan horse
The Neapolitan was bred in the Kingdom of Naples horse race that was considered the best for dressage purposes in Baroque and make its mark on the breeding of baroque horses in Europe. So are two of the six founder lines of the Lipizzaner on Neapolitans recyclable ( Conversano and Nepolitano ).
The historical background of the breed are the facts that Naples was part of the heyday of the Neapolitan to the Crown of Aragon, and thus from 1516 to Spain and a two-way export of horses with the Iberian Peninsula ( Andalusian and Lusitano ) could take place, and that in Naples one of the cavalry Europe radiating, founded by Federigo Griso riding school was.
The Neapolitan is often assumed to be extinct after 1798, the French army horses from Neapolitan family goods brought to France in the conquest of Italy and in 1861 with the deposition of the Bourbons all noble stud farms were dissolved. Lately, however, accepted by some, especially after findings of Mauro Aurigi that the breed genetically lives on after transition to peasant farms in Murgese. Also, it seems to have succeeded by extensive research to find in the 1980s some surviving specimens of pure breeding that led to a revival of the Neapolitan and finally 2003, a state re-registration as a race. The stock of the race consisted of 25 animals in 2008, four years later, 30 animals were recorded.