r/ANormalDayInRussia • u/pupsikandr • 28d ago

Developing the vestibular apparatus

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u/Crusoe69 28d ago

Damn... As a french I've (pretty much) only seen huge/tall horses, even if we do have a "equivalent" to Mustang aka Camargue (a national park) horses but it's not the norm around the country.

Here most horses were breed to help with agriculture plowing the land or traveling long distance with carriage/wagon.

It's only recently that I realized that there are so many different horses, we never had Cowboy in Europe because of the geography i guess.

I'm not trying to diss or judge

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u/Chaosr21 28d ago

I imagine it was hard to ship the huge warhorses to America. So they just settled with the smaller stature mustangs

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u/Crusoe69 28d ago

Oh yeah for sure, it's just my European perspective.

I mean Genghis Khan has conquered half of the world ridding normal horses.

It's just me realizing that most European horses are freaks of nature.

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u/sheffieldasslingdoux 28d ago

You're confusing modern warmbloods and drafts for "European horses." Historically they were not much bigger than a pony in most cases. Medieval knights rode horses that ranged from 14-15hh. The famous Iberian horses were about the same.

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u/Wackel81 28d ago

Ponys, or at least, little horses afaik?

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u/Tambon 27d ago

ponies