Equestrian World

The Horse in the World (second part)

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North and Central America:
Canada: 385 000 horses, 4,000 mules
United States: 5.3 million horses, 28,000 mules, donkeys 52 000
Mexico: 6.3 million horses, 3.3 million mules and donkeys
Total: horses - 14.1 million Mules - 3.8 million Donkeys - 3.8 million
The quarter of a mile, still used as a mount for the Cowboys, became the most numerous race in the world!

South America:Argentina: 3.9 million horses, 180,000 mules, donkeys 95 000Brazil: 6.2 million horses, mules 1.4 million, 1.2 million donkeysColombia: 2.6 million horses, 622,000 mules, 595,000 donkeysTotal: Horses - 15.7 millionMules - 2.8 millionDonkeys - 4 millionIt is in South America (Peru) that the population is the fastest growing equine.

Europe: Belgium: 350 000 horses, 15,000 mules, donkeys 16 000 - Britain: 184 000 horses, 10,000 mulesItaly: 285 000 horses, 10,000 mules, donkeys 23 000 - Former USSR: 4.5 million horses, donkeys 431 000 - Switzerland: 45 000 horses, 2,000 donkeys - Total: horses - 7 millionMules - 262 000donkeys - 183 000 - In England, the races were invented because of the thoroughbred and became the epitome of equine tradition.Africa: Ethiopia: 2.7 million horses, 630,000 mules, donkeys 5.2 million - Morocco: 155,000 horses, 520,000 mules, donkeys 1 million - Total: horses - 4.9 millionmules - 1.3 millionstupid-15500000 - Arabian horses from North Africa have all the characteristics of the breed (in the end, photos of Arabian horses of Haras de Bouznica, Morocco)Asia: Afghanistan: 104,000 horses, 30,000 mules, 920,000 donkeysChina: 8.3 million horses. 4.4 million mules, donkeys 8.8 millionIndia: 800,000 horses, 200,000 mules, donkeys 1 million - Mongolia: 2.7 million horsesTotal: horses - 15.5 millionmules - 5.1 milliondonkeys - 18.4 million - The horse is always a co-worker in some regions of Mongolia.Oceania: Australia: 220 000 horses - Total: horses - 382 000donkeys - 9000 - Before a late protection, wild horses Australian Brumby called, was almost extinct.

Haras Bouznica, Marrocos

Horse Racing

Horse Brumby

Quarter Horse

Horses in Peru

The Horse in the World

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The population equestrian
      After a sharp decline during the first half of the nineteenth century, the equestrianworld population was stabilizing in the 1980s and currently is around 62 million.Across Europe, there was a loss of more than one million horses between 1992 and2002, especially the large breeds of horse traction. There has been, however, arediscovery of these animals due to the increasing popularity of sports coupling in the old continent.
     In North America and South America, the equine population has grown, both for its extensive traditional use in cattle, the greater the interest in saddle horses forleisure.
Across America there are also herds of free horses benefiting from the recent lawsof protection, this population has reached the 840 000 individuals in 2002.
     Brazil has the second largest population of horses in the world, estimated at 6.2 million animals, trailing only China, with approximately 10.2 million.
However, human action on the environment is destroying the habitat of manyhorses free. In Australia, the number of horses decreased by only 69 000 individualsin the decade between 1992 and 2002, 1.8 million in China, in Afghanistan and Ethiopia 200 thousand to 500 thousand.

Equestrian Competitions in Brazil - Rio Grande do Sul - Viamão

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Saturday and Sunday, from 22 to 23 October 2011, held the evidence of lehrs in Equestrian Santa Teresa.
Start: From 9 am on Saturday and Sunday
Final: + or - 6 pm.

Location: Beco do Soares, 3010, São Lucas, Viamão / RS

More informations in: http://www.hipicast.com.br/

WE AWAIT YOUR PARTICIPATION!!!

Equestrian Championships

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Trailers

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SECRETARIAT

SEABISCUIT

BLACK BEAUTY

Equestrian events in Porto Alegre - RS / Brazil

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League Valley of the Bells - August 06, 2011
Location: Hipica Santa Tereza
Time: Start - 8 am
Closing - 3 pm
Cancelled because of Rain!

Gaucho Schools - August 13, 2011 and August 14, 2011
Location: Porto-Alegrense Equestrian Society (SHPA)
Time: Start - 8 am
Closing: 5 pm

The Lipizzaners Stallions

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The Lipizzaners Stallions

Equestrian Equipment

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These are the equipment necessary for an equestrian competition:
Jumping Saddle:

Jumping Saddle
Header
Bridle
Breastplate

Lair
League Working
Shin Guards
Boleteira
Cloche
Saddle Protector
Blanket Jump

Jumping Saddle

Saddle Protector

Blanket Jump

Header

Bridles

Breastplate and Lair

League Working

Shin Guards

Boleteira

Cloche

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Here are some videos of equestrian events, dressage and cross cauntry.

Equestrian Event (Rodrigo Pessoa and Baloubet do Ruet)

Dressage Event (Edward Gal and Moorland´s Totilas)

Cross Country

The Spanish Riding School of Vienna in London(bonus)

Isabel

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The horse is by Isabel coffee with milk (tending to light yellow) with dark manes and extremities.

Alazão

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The horse is brown Sorrel, where the mane and tail are the same shade or lighter than the rest of the body.

Albino

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The Albino horse has no pigmentation, their hair, mane and tail are completely white, pink skin and eye color pink or light blue.

Pampa

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The Pampa horse has a coat with large meshes. To describe it, associates and word will pampa color of their coats:
pampa pampa-chestnut-brown or, if white is the predominant color;
brown or chestnut-pampa pampa, if the spots stand out more than the base coat.

Mouse

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The horse has the rat by a brownish gray, more or less dark, and usually dark manes. It is a very rare coat

Dapple-gray

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The dark gray coat is a mixture of white and black on the bottom of a pigmented coat. The horse can be dapple-gray horse, dark or light, according to the predominance of black or white.

Palomino

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The palomino horse, has the gold on the pigmented skin, with white mane and tail.

Brown

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The horse chestnut mane and tail is darker. Among the most common shades are burned brown and chestnut brown.

Morgan

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      In the XVIII century, Massachusetts, a stallion named Figurare controversial origin, said to be able to pull the heaviest loads and win races tied or mounted. With a extraordinároio genetic potential, it generated foals in his image.
       These animals have inherited the father's power and endurance, coupled with an unusual gentleness. Papidamente they earned such a reputation that came to be called Morgan, an allusion to the parent amiss: the Justin Morgan horse.
      Today, the Morgans are sought for all equestrian activities.

Characterístics:

Source: United States
Height: 1.40 to 1.52 m
Coat: Chestnut, Chestnut-golden, brown or black.

Friesian

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Originally the province of Frise, the Andalusian Friesian certainly received blood in the XVI century, during the Spanish invasion.
Able to both work on the saddle traction lightweight friesian is appreciated by all who seek a gentle horse, confident and beautiful.
Characteristics:

Source: The Netherlands
Height: about 1.50 m
Coat: Always black.

Anglo-árabe

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A great horse for jumping and dressage.
The British did not consider the Anglo-Arab as a race because some called purebred English and other half-blood Anglo-Arab (it is the cross between a thoroughbred mare and an Arabian stallion English)
More from the year 1942, the race was made official.

Characteristics:

Source: England
Height: 1.45 to 1.60
Coat: All colors are pure, especially the brown and Chestnut

Akhal-teke

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The Akhal-teke is the favorite mount of the nomads from the steppes of Central Asia because it has adapted to extreme climatic conditions facing them, without sacrifice.
For some scholars, this horse was created ni Turkmenistan during antiquity, circa 500 a. C.
The Akhal-teke, considarado is the ancestor of the Arabian horse, which inherited its strength and simplicity that are legendary.

Characteristics:

Source: Turkmenistan
Height: 1.42 to 1.52 m
Coat: presents with the silvery reflections.

Berbere

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Horse very suitable for hunting, for he has rusticiade, fraugalidade and resistance.
He contributed much in the formation of the first British horse racing, the thoroughbreds, because its speed is wonderful!

Characteristics:

Origin: North Africa.
Height: 1.40 to 1.50 m.
Coat: Chestnut, black, dark gray, dark brown and white.

Lipizzaner

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This horse is amazing because he was born black, moves to the dapple until finally, getting white!
     With their elegance, the best stallions are selected for the Spanish School of Vienna.
     The docility of lipizzaner, allied to their physical skills, made him ride in this unique institution, founded in 1729, and which preserves intact the traditions of classical riding
    The homogeneity of its coat offers even more elegance in the saddle.

Characteristics:

Origin: Austria
Height: 1.52 to 1.58
Coat: White and sometimes Black

Oldenbourg

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This brings together several horse breeds, such as the Andalusian, Berber, Thoroughbred, Hanoverian and Anglo-Norman, which are very good at sports and ski binding, making Oldenbourg, a great horse for sport riding a good horse to ride.

Characteristics:

Origin: Germany
Height: 1.62 to 1.72 m
Coat: All pure colors

Shire

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This horse is extremely strong, it can pull up to five tons!
His abilities are geared for traction and pull heavy objects and rations.
Characyeristics:
Origin: England
Height: sometimes more than 1.80 m.
Coat: dark brown; extremdades the members are usually white.

Kathiawari

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The race got the name of an Indian peninsula.
Horses kathiawari inherited hobustez , and rusicidade exepcionais resistance, and excellent into the saddle and to the work.
Characteristics:

Origin: India
Height: 1.40 to 1.50m
Coat: Chestnut generally

Appalosa

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Agile rugged, fast and tough, the spotted horses of the Nez Perce drew the attention of settlers, which was attributed to the French name given to these animals, La Palouse, a reference to the river of the same name, located today in the State of Oregon. Exceptional for riding long distances and crossing steep and arid regions, the horse of the Nez Perce were subjected to a rigorous selection process based on the strength, courage and spotted coats.
http://www.appaloosa.com.br/
Characteristics:
Origin: United States
height: not less than 1.40 m.
Coat: Marked partly or wholly by small dots or grids.

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Mustangue

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Race was very much used by cowboys, replaced by more Quarter Horse, for he had little apidae to work with livestock.
Left free, they reproduce rapidly in the desert state of the American West, as to be considered undesirable and brutally hunted. In 1970, the race was threatened with extinction, and created a law to protect him.
Characteristics:

Source: United States
Height: 1.40 to 1.50 m
Coat: All colors

BH - Brasileiro de Hipismo

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Formed in Brazil with the most important European lineages of jumping and dressage horses, such as Hanoverana, Holsteiner, Oldenburger, Trakehner, Westfalen Sela and French, by crossing one another or with magnificent examples Thoroughbred in South America
Horse light, nimble and large, taller than 1.65m.; courage, intelligence and elegance in movement.
Its features make it suitable for all forms of jumping, dressage, eventing, endurance, jumping.
http://www.horseonline.com.br/cavalosra%E7as.htm
Caracteristics: Brazil
Source: 1,65(female) and 1,68(male)
Coat: All colors and shades

Andaluz

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These horses are often called "Mount of Kings" because they are elegant, noble and docile temperament and very much alive.
His skills are docile, and with great ease to learning, lends itself to dressage, jumping and endurance.
http://www.horseonline.com.br/cavalosra%E7as.htm
Characteristics:
Source: Iberia
Height: from 1.60
Colour: generally dark gray

Àrabian Horse

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This undoubtedly is the most graceful of all race.
There is no doubt that it is the oldest race in the world, and no other can compare in conformation, balance and beauty. But it was not for these qualities that 3500 years for the Arabian horse was so popular: it was his extraordinary ability as a war horse. By speed, endurance, agility and intelligence.

http://assisbrasil.org/arabe.html
Characteristics:
Source: Arabia
Height: 1.42 to 1.51 m
Coat: All colors are accepted, the dark gray being the most frequent

Introduction

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Have you ever stopped to think that the world of horses is huge?
In this blog I will demonstrate the most famous sports cam horses (the principal) who are equestrian, dressage and cross cauntry.

Cross Cauntry

Dressage

Equestrian

Equine Therapy