Pure Spanish race

The Pure race Spanish or PRE ( Pura Raza Española ) is a Cheval of old stock, of Andalusian origin mainly . For this reason, the second name of this equine race is Andalou .

These horses were used as horses of prestige in many course European where they were then called " genêts" of Spain, Spanish jinete who mean riding, and like mounting for the guards of herds.

Currently, they excel in Dressage of high school, in particular with the Andalusian royal school of equestrian art and also in raising of competition. They also have the favor of the riders of Cirque and spectacle. They are often used as mounting with the cinema for their pace and their good temperament.

History

The presence in Spain of horses is attested as of prehistory, inter alia by cave paintings. The ancestor of PRE is the Sorraia. For the Portuguese historian Ruy d' Andrade, Spanish tribes would have used horses as of the fourth millenium before Jesus Christ.

The Celtic merchants phenicians and people supported a mixing of the races, with the contribution of blood of the the Middle East and Egypt.

In antiquity, the lightness and the handiness of this horse made a mounting of appreciated war of it. On the other hand, with the Middle Ages, the development of the heavy armours made prefer more massive horses, until the development of the firearms at the 15th century, period when the Spanish horse knows a renewal of popularity.

During the Rebirth, the horse of Spain is a horse of prestige, used in high school. Spanish blood also will take part in the creation of other races, like the Lipizzan and the horse Lusitanian, and will be brought in many European breedings to bring blood and lightness.

At the 19th century, the breeding declines and only some monasteries Chartreux continue the breeding and maintain the genetic inheritance of the race.

Nowadays, the PRE one is used in traditional raising and in Doma will be occupied, like in Tauromachie. He is also appreciated like horse of spectacle or excursion.

Characteristics of the race

The most widespread dresses are the gray. The chestnut horse was regarded as a defect. Indeed, a very old belief claimed that the horse chestnut horse was coleric. However, a Spanish Royal Decree of December 2002 specifies in the description of the characteristics of the dresses that: “The gray and the chestnut horse are the dominant dresses, and the other acceptable ones”. The dress of the majority of the gray PRE horses is cleared up while viellissant. The framework is compact, although elegant, the dry members, the short guns. The head is broad and expressive, with a slightly convex chamfer, the hairs are long and floating. The paces are raised, with a natural aptitude for the piaffer and the passage. The height with the garrot lies between 155 and 165 cm. In fact the horses are regarded as most intelligent.

External bonds

the Andalusian the site of the Iberian horse: Pure Spanish Race and Lusitanian

Category: Equine race

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