Don Horse
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Don Horse
This lovely looking horse has a good temperament and active agile paces making it an excellent all purpose riding horse.
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The Don horse is native to Russia and has roots dating back to the 18th century, when horses were released into the plains near the Don River.
Also called the Donskaya, the Don horse was developed on the steppes of the Don river and comes primarily from Russian steppe horses crossed with animals of Arabian, Karabakh, Akhal-Teke & Thoroughbred descent.
Origins ...
The Russian Don Horse serves superbly both in harness and under saddle. This breed was the mount of the famed and feared Cossack Cavalry. It was the Cossack's skill at breeding that made the Don such a rugged horse.
RUSSIAN DON HORSE
An under saddle and harness horse, the Russian Don Horse, got it start in the Cossack Calvary. This was the most feared, but famous of cavalries and made up of tough and rugged horses.
The Don Horse, the oldest continuously bred Russian riding horse, traces its origins back over 200 years to the steppes of Southern Russia.
The Don horse derives its name from the Steppes region of Russia, across which the Don River flows.
The Don Horse has a refined head with a straight or sometimes hooked nose, large nostrils, and expressive eyes. The neck is lean and often straight. The withers are not prominent; the shoulders are quite straight, giving the Don a rather short stride.
An improved Don horse.
Spirited & enduring, robust & undemanding.
Competition jumper & steeple chaser.
Advanced educational horse ...
The first type of Don horse, generally called the 'Old Don,' evolved from semi-feral Russian steppe horses and Oriental breeds such as the Karabakh, Turkmenian, and Arabian that were brought to Russia as a product of Cossack raids.
Budyonnys were bred from Don horses, Chernomor horses and thouroughbreds around 1920. The founder of the breed, marshal Semyon Budyonny, wanted to create a breed of cavalry horses that were enduring, fast and easy to keep and feed.
The development of the Don horse of Russia also witnessed an instrumental role by Karabakh horse in the 19th century. In the present scenario, the breeding of Karabakh horse takes place chiefly in Azerbaijan.
It also influenced the development of the Russian Don horse in the 19th century. At present, the Karabakh is bred mainly in Azerbaijan, but most of the horses are Karabakh-Arabian crosses, not pure Karabakh horses.
In 1936, the local government decided to import Don, Orlov Trotter and Anglo-Don horse to cross with the local breeds. However, the crosses did not result in quality animals through the second generation.
New Kirgiz horses are well adapted to highland conditions. They are used for stock work and meat and milk production. They are short-legged and massive and they have a strong constitution. In type and conformation they closely resemble Don horses.
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They were the Mongolian, the Arab, the Karabair, and the Akhal-Teke. Kazakh breeding was far from finished, however, until the 20th Century when the Russian Kazakh horses were crossed with the Thoroughbred, the Orlov Trotter and the Don horse breeds.
Karabakh has played an important role in formation of the Russian Don horses. In 1836 Russian general Madatov's heir sold all his horses, including 200 Karabakh mares, to a horse-breeder in Don.
 See also: Don, Chestnut, Bay, Stallion, Thoroughbred
  
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