Kirgiz

The Kirgiz horse comes in various colors, predominantly bay and gray. It is also slow to mature; it reaches maturity only after 12 years.
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New Kirgiz Horse
Also Known By: Novokirgizskaya (Russian)
This breed was developed in the state and collective farms of Kirgiz by crossing local horses with the Don and the Thoroughbred.

New Kirgiz
This breed was developed in the state and collective farms of Kirgiz by crossing local horses with the Russian Don and the Thoroughbred.

Early in the 20th century a need for larger animals grew for larger scale agriculture and the Kirgiz horses were crossed with English Thoroughbred & Don horses. The resulting animals formed the foundation for the New Kirgiz breed.

New Kirgiz horses have a medium-sized clean-cut head with low neck, well-defined withers, straight and level back and heavily muscled croup. The top-line is level. Legs are clean-cut with tendons well defined. Sickle-hocked legs often occur.

NEW KIRGIZ HORSE
When farms in Russia crossed local horses of the Thoroughbred and the Don, they ended up with the breed called New Kirgiz.

The Kirgiz is an enduring mountain horse. This horse is capable enough to withstand harsh weather conditions that could be grave to other horse breeds. The horse needs some help to sustain in the biting cold of their habitat.

New Kirgiz - bay, brown, chestnut, gray, black
*Nigerian - any common color
Noma - N A
Nonius - black and bay
Nooitgedacht - N A
Noric/Noriker - bay, chestnut, rare leopards ...

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At one time the Kalmyk was spread as far out as Altay, where they were crossbred with the Kirgiz horse.

Kazakh and Kirgiz crosses were also involved, though less successfully.
Of the 657 mares used in the original experiment to produce the Budenny, 359 were Anglo-Don (a Thoroughbred cross), 261 Anglo-Don x Chernomor, and 37 Anglo-Chernomor.

See also: Stallion, Don, Thoroughbred, Bay, Saddle