American_Indian_Horse
American Indian Horse
American breed of horse
The American Indian Horse is defined by its breed registry as a horse that may carry the ancestry of the Spanish Barb, Arabian, Mustang, or "Foundation" Appaloosa.[1] It is the descendant of horses originally brought to the Americas by the Spanish and obtained by Native American people.[2] The registry was created in 1961 when some breeders of Colonial Spanish Horse bloodlines considered the Spanish Mustang breeders to be departing from the original "Indian horse" phenotype.[3] The organization was started "for the purpose of collecting, recording and preserving the pedigrees of American Indian Horses."[4] The registry also allows the "hybrids [sic] and descendants" of the original Spanish Colonial Horse to be registered.[5] Horses registered with other breed registries to be double-registered with this organization if the horses meet the conformation requirements.[1]