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About the Criollo Breed
.The Criollo is the native pony from South
America, derived from the original Arab and Barb strains brought
to South America through Spain at the time of the Conquest.
Having suffered rigorous natural selection covering a period
of some three hundred years of wild life, their chief characteristics
and qualities of great hardiness and ability to live under exposure
have been attained.
At the time of the invasion, the Spanish cavalry ranked as the
highest to be found in Europe. In the formation of the Criollo,
the oriental blood brought by the Moors to Spain was more potent
than that of the horses existing in the Iberian Peninsula, by
reason of its greater purity and selection, which lasted through
eight centuries of Mohammedian domination, and in consequence,
it may be assumed, had considerable influence on the conquest
of the New World.
In the South American pampas, driven into a wild environment
following the destruction of Buenos Aires by the Indians, new
natural selection began to take place, resulting in much physical
perfection due to the severe struggle for existence. The weak
and organically unsound perished, while the survivors became
the progenitors of the Criollo breed. Such formidable disadvantages
as prairie fires, great changes of temperature, dust storms,
frosts and floods (not to mention wild dogs) had to be contended
with. No doubt it is to the advantage of the horse that he has
acquired the peculiarly helpful and characteristic colouring
of khaki or dun, which is similar to that of the sandy wastes,
straw, or burnt-up pastures or gravel of the countryside. In
short, the Criollo adopts protective colouring, as do many other
animals and plants in nature.
It is small wonder that the breed is outstanding in those virtues
that are so necessary to the real utility horse. The Criollo
has figured largely and successfully in many endurance tests,
both official and otherwise. It may be noted here that the two
famous horses “Mancha” and “Gato” were
Criollos, and that they, at the ages of 15 and 16, took part
in that epic of endurance when they carried Professor A.F. Tschiffely
from Buenos Aires to New York, overcoming incredible difficulties
and covering 13,350 miles at an average of 26.5 miles per day,
and achieving a record in altitude of 19,250 feet. An outstanding
incident of this amazing journey was that they travelled 93
miles across an Ecuador desert without water in temperatures
of 120 degrees.
Description: Dun, striped, skewbald or piebald. Medium-sized.
Weight, about 940lb. Height, 13.3 to 14.3 hands. Head, broad
at base, poll narrow, broad forehead with plenty of skull, but
narrow face. Neck, of medium size. Withers, muscular and clearly
defined. Shoulders, semi-oblique. Generous ribs, showing little
light under body. Back, short and deep. Croup, semi-oblique.
Forearms and legs, broad and muscular. Cannon-bone short with
tendons well separated. Joints clean and rounded. Chestnuts
small and only in the region of the hocks. Pasterns medium length.
Character and disposition, bright and active.
Having regard to the work which this horse has been called upon
to carry out in the past, and is in fact now doing in great
numbers in South America, it is not surprising that it has an
admirable framework on the best of legs.
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