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Breton history

The Breton originated in the province of Bretagne (or Brittany) in the northwest of France. A demanding climate and land of rather poor quality characterizes this area. Such and environment contributed to the creation of a horse possessing qualities of great strength and durability. Brittany has a history of breeding distinguished horses, which goes back to the Middle Ages. The Breton horse is the result of evolution over hundreds of years, and a long period of selection carried out by breeders from old varieties of native horses.

Horses have been present in the Breton mountains from thousands of years; however, the debate over how they first arrived there still brews today. It was in the Middle Ages, around the time of the Crusades, that the Breton horse became sought after by military leaders, in part due to its comfortable gait. At that time the breed stood at about 14 hands. During the seventeenth, it was this horse that was sent to New France (Canada) by the king of France and the Canadian Hors still shows its influence.

Throughout the centuries, the Breton was crossbred with various foreign and native horses including the Boulonnais, Percheron and Ardennais as the requirements for horses changed. In the nineteenth century the Breton was crossed with the Norfolk Trotter which resulted in the most distinguished type of Breton, the Postier Breton. By 1930, crossbreeding was abandoned and selection within the breed has been the basic method of improving the breed since.

In recent decades, it has been a common tendency to increase the size of a draft horse to gain more power from it. The Breton, however, is an exception. The smart trot and ability to survive and work under often demanding conditions have led to the preservation of the Breton�s purity as a breed. Crossbreeding, successfully achieved with other breeds, reduced the unique qualities of the Breton. Buyers from such diverse areas as Africa and Japan converge on Brittany to buy horses for their native areas. When crossbreeding is attempted using Bretons, it is usually to improve or create another breed like the Freiberger breed of Switzerland

The Breton was originally bred in the four districts of Brittany, but now has spread far beyond its birthplace. Today, Breton horses are to be found all over France, particularly in the lower mountains of the Central Mountains and Pyrenees. Due to its quality and popularity, The Breton is the most numerous of the draft horses in France and has been widely exported around the world.

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Aegidienberger	Akhal Teke	Albanian	Altai	Alter Real
American Cream Draft	American Creme and White	American Paint Horse	American Quarter Horse	American Saddlebred
American Walking Pony	Andalusian	Andravida	Anglo-Arabian	Anglo-Kabarda
Appaloosa	Appendix	Araappaloosa	Arabian	Ardennes
Argentine Criollo	Ariegeois	Asturian	Australian Brumby	Australian Stock Horse
Avelignese Pony	Azteca	Balearic	Bali Pony	Baluchi
Banker	Ban-ei	Barb	Bardigiano Pony	Bashkir
Bashkir Curly	Basotho Pony / Basuto Pony	Basque Pony	Batak Pony	Belgian
Bhotia Pony	Black Forest	Boer	Bosnian Pony	Boulonnais
Brandenburg	Breton	Brumby	Buckskin	Budyonny
Burmese Pony	Byelorussian Harness	Camargue	Campolina	Canadian
Carpathian Pony	Carthusian	Caspian horse	Cayuse	Cheju
Chilean Corralero	Chincoteague Pony	Chinese Guoxia	Cleveland Bay	Clydesdale
Colorado Ranger Horse	Connemara Pony	Criollo (Uruguay)	Crioulo	Dales Pony
Danube	Dartmoor Pony	Deliboz	Dole Trotter or Dole Gudbrandsdal	Don, Russian Don
Dongola	D�lmen Pony	Dutch Draft	Dutch Warmblood	Egyptian
Eriskay Pony	Estonian Native	Exmoor Pony	Falabella	Fell Pony
Finnhorse	Finnish	Fjord horse	Florida Cracker	Frederiksborg
French Trotter	Friesian	Galician Pony	Galiceno	Garrano
Gelderlander	Gidran	Gotland Pony	Groningen	Gypsy Vanner horse
Hackney	Hackney pony	Haflinger	Hanoverian	Highland Pony
Hokkaido	Holsteiner	Hucul pony	Iberian, encompassing the Andalusian, Alter Real, Lusitano and crosses	Icelandic
Irish Draught	Irish Horse	Java Pony	Jutland	Kabardian or Kabardin
Karabair	Karabakh	Kathiawari	Kazakh Pony	Kentucky Mountain Saddle Horse
Kiger Mustang	Kiso	Kladruber	Knabstrup	Konik
Kustanair	Landais Pony	Latvian Harness Horse (Standard and Light Type)	Lithuanian Heavy Draft	Lipizzan / Lippizzaner
Lusitano	Mangalarga / Mangalarga Marchador	Manipuri Pony	Marwari	Maremmana
Misaki	Missouri Fox Trotting Horse / Missouri Foxtrotter	Miyako	Mongolian	Morab
Morgan	Moyle	Mule	Mustang	Murgese
National Show Horse	New Forest Pony	New Kirgiz	Newfoundland Pony	Noma
Noma pony	Nonius Horse	Nooitgedacht Pony	Noriker	Noric
Northlands Pony	Norwegian Fjord	Ob	Oldenburg	Orlov Trotter
Padang Pony	Paint	Paso Fino	Percheron	Peruvian Paso
Pindos Pony	Pinia	Pintabian	Pinto	Pleven
Poitevin	Polish Konik	Pony of the Americas	Pottok	Przewalski
Pyrenean Tarpan	Quarab	Quarter Horse	Quarter Pony	Racking Horse
Rocky Mountain Horse	Russian Don	Russian Heavy Draft	Russian Trotter	Sable Island Pony
Saddlebred	Salerno	Sandalwood Pony	Sanhe	Schleswiger Heavy Draft
Schwarzw�lder Fuchs	Selle Francais	Shagya / Shagya Arabian	Shetland Pony	Shire
Single-Footing Horse	Skyros Pony	Somali Pony	Sorraia	Soviet Heavy Draft
Spanish Mustang	Spanish-Barb	Spanish-Norman	Spiti Pony	Spotted Saddle horse
Standardbred	Sudan Country-Bred	Suffolk / Suffolk Punch	Sumba and Sumbawa Pony	Swedish Ardennes
Swedish Warmblood	Shagya	Taishuh	Tarpan	Tawleed
Tennessee Walking Horse	Tersky	Thoroughbred	Tiger Horse	Timor Pony
Tokara	Tori	Trakehner	Ukrainian Saddle	Vladimir Heavy Draft
Viatka	Vyatka	Waler	Walkaloosa	Welara Pony
Welsh Pony and Cob	Welsh mountain pony (Section A)	Welsh Cob (Section D)	Wielkopolski	Xilingol
Yakut	Yili	Yonaguni	Zebra	Zemaituka (Zhumd)
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