Check out this beautiful horse...strange coloring
Jan 20, 2015 0:50:34 GMT -6
Nugget and whitealice like this
Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2015 0:50:34 GMT -6
Okay, saw this on Twitter which led me on a hunt looking for more info
It's not only the pale coloring but it looks silky
It's to perfect to be real!!
Looking at the bottom of tail, I can't tell if it's been Photoshopped or not
Plus the sun hitting it just right, but still...different looking
Akhal-Teke: The world's most beautiful horse?
"The Akhal-Teke's history is shrouded in mystery. It was bred and jealously guarded by the Turkmenistan tribesmen, in the remote rocky deserts of Kara Kum. It may be the progenitor of the modern Arabian and Thoroughbred breeds, or it may be related to the breed that provided the foundation blood lines. The Akhal-Teke's relationship to the now-extinct Iranian horse breed the Turkoman Horse is unknown, but they share many similarities.
The Akhal-Teke was "discovered" by the modern era in 1881, when Turkmenistan was swallowed by the Russian Empire. The Russians created the first studbook in 1941; previously the breed had been closely tracked by the Turkmenistani tribes, but only through an oral tradition.
Unfortunately, when the Soviet Union ordered that all horses be slaughtered for meat, the Akhal-Teke was nearly snuffed out. At one point, only 1,250 horses remained, and the breed continues to suffer genetic difficulties due to the combination of a limited gene pool and the understandable reluctance to bring in new blood by cross-breeding the Akhal-Teke with outside breeds."
It's not only the pale coloring but it looks silky
It's to perfect to be real!!
Looking at the bottom of tail, I can't tell if it's been Photoshopped or not
Plus the sun hitting it just right, but still...different looking
The Akhal-Teke comes in several coat colors, any of which can display the special metallic shimmer for which this horse breed is famous. But the best known and most popular is the so-called "golden horse," which includes buckskin, palomino, cremello, and perlino coat colors. In these pale golden coat colors, the breed's unreal sheen seems to take on an otherworldly glow and radiance.
Akhal-Teke: The world's most beautiful horse?
"The Akhal-Teke's history is shrouded in mystery. It was bred and jealously guarded by the Turkmenistan tribesmen, in the remote rocky deserts of Kara Kum. It may be the progenitor of the modern Arabian and Thoroughbred breeds, or it may be related to the breed that provided the foundation blood lines. The Akhal-Teke's relationship to the now-extinct Iranian horse breed the Turkoman Horse is unknown, but they share many similarities.
The Akhal-Teke was "discovered" by the modern era in 1881, when Turkmenistan was swallowed by the Russian Empire. The Russians created the first studbook in 1941; previously the breed had been closely tracked by the Turkmenistani tribes, but only through an oral tradition.
Unfortunately, when the Soviet Union ordered that all horses be slaughtered for meat, the Akhal-Teke was nearly snuffed out. At one point, only 1,250 horses remained, and the breed continues to suffer genetic difficulties due to the combination of a limited gene pool and the understandable reluctance to bring in new blood by cross-breeding the Akhal-Teke with outside breeds."
