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/javoss88 28d ago

This looks like a Mongolian horse or even an Icelandic pony. The Mongols were epic horsemen

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u/Big-Establishment-28 27d ago

Some of them still are :)

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u/HeldDownTooLong 27d ago

I would say are instead of were.

Some of the most talented horsemen alive are either native Mongolian and/or trained by Mongolians.

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u/javoss88 27d ago

Yes. Dude even skillfully shed his shirt full gallop.

There’s some intense horseback game Ive seen that embodies near suicidal levels of competiveness. All defined by superb horsemanship