Horse lover for Christ

Horse breed Friday!

Todays horse breed is..........

 American Paint Horse

        ( one of my favorites)

In 1519, the explorer Hernando Cortes carried two horses described as having pinto markings on his voyage. This is the first known description of such horses in America. By the early 1800s, horses with Paint coloring were well-populated throughout the West. A favorite among American Indians, the loud-colored Paint horses were particularly well-liked by the Comanche Indian tribe. Evidence of this is found in drawings painted on buffalo robes. Throughout the 1800s and into the late 1900s these painted horses were called pinto, paint, skewbald and piebald. In the early 1960s, interest grew in preserving and promoting horses with paint coloring and stock horse builds. In 1965 the American Paint Horse Association formed, and today, the American Paint Horse is extremely popular in traditional stock-horse western events as well as a variety of other riding disciplines.

Info taken from horsechannel.com.  Well have to go, after all it is 11:00.

~Sarah

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6:27 PM, Dec. 1, 2007 .. Posted by WillowTree10

Oooo, those are pretty horses. It would be neat to have a horse.

WillowTree10

So Beautiful...

7:48 PM, Dec. 1, 2007 .. Posted by crochetcrazy

Oh, Paints are so Beautiful... Of course, every horse is beautiful! =^D Good Job!

~Renee
Romans 5:8