garrano
The Garrano, sometimes called the Minho, an ancient breed, descended from the same stock as the famous Sorraia.
Garrano
The Garrano is an ancient breed of horse from Portugal, they are mainly used as a pack horse, for riding, and for light farm work.
Breed History ...
Garrano Horse
Origin: Portugal - Garrano do M inho and Traz dos Montes.
Height: 10-12hh.
The Garrano, sometimes called the Minho, an ancient breed, descended from the same stock as the more-famous Sorraia.
The Garrano is small in size. It stands 15.2 to 16 hands high (61-64 inches, 155-163 centimeters). It comes in shades of gray, bay and brown. Its head is handsome with slightly dipped outline. Its eyes are vibrant, and its ears are active.
The Garrano blood is thought to run through the veins of the Asturian & Galacian horses of northern Spain as well as the mighty Andalusian which occasionally displays a concave profile as proof.
Features
Average height 10 - 14 hands ...
Garrano
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The Garrano is an ancient breed of horse from Portugal, mainly used as a pack horse, for riding, and for light farm work.
Breed history ...
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The Garrano and the more famous Sorraia are both ancient breeds that are descended from the same stock and have developed along different lines according to their habitat.
Sorraia and Garranos Horse
The SORRAIA and the similar GARRANOS of Iberia are regarded as indigenous Iberian horses, probably thousands of years ago their forebears were the first horses to be domesticated in Europe.
It is thought to have developed partly from the Garrano pony of Portugal. The ponies are hardy and rugged. They have a size between a pony and a normal horse, and have a short body and a strong-legged.
The exact ancestry of the Asturian horse is unknown, but many believe that it developed from crossing the original Sorraia saddle horse of Iberia with the Garrano pony of Northern Portugal and Spain which is also a direct descendant of the ancient ...
It is thought by some that the Astrurian developed as a cross between the Garrano pony of northern Portugal and Spain - a direct descendant of the Celtic pony - and the Sorraia, the original saddle horse of Iberia, ...
Garrano - bay, brown, or dark chestnut
Gelderland - chestnut and gray with frequent white markings
*German Riding Pony - no distinct type
*Gidran - usually chestnut, but all colors common to Arabs appear in the breed ...
The Pyrenean Tarpans are known by various names depending on the country, in France they were called Navarre Pony, in the Basque region as Pottok, in Poland they are the Konink breed type, in Spain, Asturian; Portugal they are known as Garrano.
The Galiceno developed in Mexico from horses imported to South America by Hernán Cortés, mostly thought to be Portuguese Garrano and the Galician Pony of Spain. It is thought that some Sorraia blood was added at some point in history.
The Asturcon is a cross between Sorraia horse of Iberia, Garrano of northern Portugal and Celtic pony, though their ancestries are not known for certain.
By contrast, the Garrano, a primitive Iberian pony found in the mountains in the north of Iberia, is typically around 12 to 12,3 hh in size. It is also brown or bay in color and of different conformation.
Bay, black, chestnut, grey; height 15.3; Use: Racing
Minho: See -- Garrano Missouri Fox Trotting Horse (USA)
Sorrel; height 14 to 16; Use: Pleasure, Trails, Working with stock
Mongolian Wild Horse (Mongolia) ...
Three are Portuguese, the Lusitano, Sorraia and Garrano, and the remaining 14 are Spanish.
The Galiceño has been in the New World since the Spanish conquistadors brought horses to the continent in the early sixteenth century. The Galiceño descended from the Galician of northern Spain and the Garrano of Portugal.
The word criollo means "Spanish horse" and it is likely that the original Spanish horses taken to South America were a mixture of Sorraia, Garrano, and Andalusian breeds.
 See also: Pony, Sorraia, Ponies, Black, Bay
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