Almost All Modern Horses Descended From A Few Oriental Stallions
Thanks to horse breeding practices, nearly all modern horses, whether they are champion racehorses or ordinary plow horses, trace their lineage back to the same male ancestor
Garant 20, a purebred black Akhal-teke stallion. (Credit: Artur Baboev / CC BY-SA 3.0)
Nearly all modern domestic horses, from 2014 Triple Crown champion, American Pharoah, and ghostly Lipizzaner stallions performing horse ballet in front of spellbound crowds, to carriage horses pounding the pavement in New York City, descended from only a few “Oriental…
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