Barb horse

The head has many similarities to the Barb horse.

It was formed by crossing Barb horses with the local pony breed.

According to others it originated as a mixture of indigenous horses, barb horses and Spanish horses.

The Barb horses were valued by other Europeans, including the Italians, whose noble families established large racing stables.

The common stock was a mix of Barb horses (mostly) and other breeds that came to Brazil by the time of its colonization.

Their war horses were of various oriental types, including both Arabians and the Barb horse of North Africa.

A large part of the Java's heritage is due to the crossing of local stock with Arabian and Barb horses that were imported.

The World Organization of the Barb Horse, founded in Algeria in 1987, was formed to promote and preserve the breed.

Genetic evidence has not supported an hypothesis that the Sorraia is related to the Barb horse, an African breed introduced to Iberia by the Moors.

It is not known where the Barb horse developed; some believe the breed originated in northern Africa during the 8th century, about the time that Muslim invaders reached the region.

The earliest predecessors of the Lipizzan originated in the 7th century when Barb horses were brought into Spain by the Moors and crossed on native Spanish stock.

When the Umayyad Muslims invaded the Iberian peninsula in 711 AD, their invasion brought Barb horses, which were crossed with native Iberian horses.

The Abaco Barb is an endangered strain of the Spanish Barb horse breed found on Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas.

In June 2004, the ANPA, in cooperation with DFWP and DNRC, began housing four Spanish Barb horses at the park.

Once established with settlers on the Iberian peninsula, the Barb horse was bred with Spanish stock under 300 years of Umayyad patronage to develop the Andalusian (and the Lusitano).

When the Muslims invaded Iberia in 711 AD, they brought Barb horses with them that were crossed with the native horses, developing a horse that became useful for war, dressage and bull fighting.

Mitochondrial DNA studies of modern Andalusian horses of the Iberian peninsula and Barb horses of North Africa present convincing evidence that both breeds crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and influenced one another.

It was widely believed that the Pryor Mountains horses were direct descendants of the Barb horses brought to North America by Juan de Oñate's expedition to explore America north of the Rio Grande in the early 1600s.