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The Breeds
Named, and where from. Every entry is one breed, one job or one place, with the terrain that explains it.
The Murgese is bred black or slate roan, on limestone pasture where the soil is thin and the water runs underground.
Photo: Murgese5 stehend Gang · Wikimedia Commons
4 entries in this section
- The MaremmanoHeavy, calm and durable, bred to carry a man all day over broken country rather than to look elegant doing it.
- The HaflingerChestnut with a flaxen mane, from the Alto Adige — small, strong, and a studbook with an unusually tight founder line.
- The MurgeseBlack, hardy, nearly lost in the twentieth century and rebuilt from a small number of animals.
- The Sardinian Anglo-ArabA deliberate cross for stamina, and one of the few Italian breeds with a military origin.
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