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Article: Bashkir Curly horses: a hardy and gentle breed.(The horse barn)
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- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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The American Bashkir Curly horse dates back to 1898, when Peter Damele and his father were riding horseback in the Peter Hanson Mountain Range in the remote high country of central Nevada, near Austin. There they discovered three horses with tight, curly ringlets covering their entire bodies. Since then, Curly horses have been found on the Damele Range and many Curlies in the United States can be traced to that herd.
The Bashkir Curly gets its name form the ancient Russian breed the Bashkir, from which the modern Curly was believed to have descended. However, the American horses may have been incorrectly named. Research done by Shan Thomas indicates that the ...