1 Title 2-3 Imprint/Contents 4-5 INTRODUCTION What is meant by a breed and a type; what is meant by hotblood, coldblood and warmblood; difference between a horse and a pony; a horse's origins and evolution. 6-7 TYPES Horse types: hack, hunter, cob, harness horse, heavy horse. Pony types: native pony, show pony, part-bred ponies, working hunter pony, polo pony. 8-9 COLOURS Bay, bright bay, brown, black, chestnut, liver chestnut, red roan, strawberry roan, blue roan, iron grey, dapple grey, flea-bitten grey, yellow dun, skewbald, piebald, spotted, palomino, buckskin (US colour - Bob), cream, albino. Eye colour: brown eyes, wall eyes. Hooves: blue, white, striped. 10-11 MARKINGS Leg markings: sock, stocking, coronet, pastern, ermine marks. Face markings: star, stripe, blaze, snip, white face, lip marks. Flesh marks: white on underside of belly and flanks. Eel stripe. Whorls: where the hair direction changes. 12 HORSE BREEDS 13 HOTBLOODS - AN INTRODUCTION 14-15 Arab - Worldwide 16-17 Thoroughbred - Worldwide 18 Anglo-Arab - Worldwide 19 Barb - Africa, Spain, USA Akhal-Teke - Russia 20 COLDBLOODS - AN INTRODUCTION 21 Ardennais - France heavy horse Boulonnais - France, heavy horse 22 Percheron - France, heavy horse 23 Suffolk Punch - UK heavy horse 24-25 Shire - UK heavy horse Clydesdale - UK 26 Brabant - Belgium Noriker - Austria 27 Friesian - Holland Dutch Draught - Holland 28 WARMBLOODS - AN INTRODUCTION 29 Swedish Warmblood - Sweden Selle Francais - France 30-31 Dutch Warmblood - Holland Hanoverian - Germany Holstein - Germany Trakehner - Germany 32 Gelderlander - Holland Oldenburgh - Holland 33 French Trotter - France Camargue - France 34-35 Przewalski's Horse - Mongolia 36 Irish Draught - Ireland Hackney Horse - UK 37 Cleveland Bay - UK 38 Andalucian - Spain Lusitano - Portugal 39 Lipizzaner - Austria, Hungary etc 40 Morgan - USA Criollo - Argentinia 41 Quarter Horse - USA 42 Pinto - Worldwide Palomino - Worldwide 43 Appaloosa - USA 44 Tennessee Walking Horse - USA American Saddlebred - USA 45 Missouri Foxtrotter - USA Standardbred - USA trotter (harness) 46 Mustang - USA Waler - Australian 47 PONY BREEDS 48 Dartmoor - UK Exmoor - UK 49 New Forest - UK Connemara - Ireland 50 Welsh A, B - UK 51 Welsh C, D - UK 52 Fell - UK Dales - UK (harness) 53 Highland - UK 54 Fjord - Norway Icelandic - Iceland 55 Haflinger - Austria 56-57 Rocky Mountain Pony - USA Pony of the Americas - USA American Shetland - USA 58 Caspian - Russia Chincoteague and Assoteague - USA 59 Boer - South Africa Basutou - South Africa 60 Australian Pony - Australia Falabella - Argentina miniature pony 61 Shetland - UK Hackney Pony - Europe 62-63 Glossary and horse societies 64 Index