Horse breeds are like wine: the pure vintage of a single kind of grape, beautifully grown and tended, is a thing of beauty. But some very fine wines are blends, and to ignore them would be to diminish the richness…
The Colonial Spanish Horse developed from animals first brought from the Iberian peninsula to the Americas during the conquest and establishment of the Spanish colony of New Spain in what today is Mexico.[7] As the conquest of Mexico progressed during…
The true Spanish Mustang is a direct descendant of the horses brought to the New World by the early Spaniards. Confused by many with the feral horses currently managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), there is a vast…
Over the past 500 years, since Columbus first took the ancestors of the Spanish Mustang to the Americas, they have evolved into the most hardy, intelligent and capable equines imaginable through natural selection and selective breeding. Apart from…
The Spanish Mustang helped shape the USA as we know it. Descended of the horse of the Conquistadors, Indian buffalo hunters and war ponies, to wild horse of the West, this breed has a rich and illustrious history that…