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Don,-Russian-Don history

The Don Horse, the oldest continuously bred Russian riding horse, traces its origins back over 200 years to the steppes of Southern Russia. The powerful Don River gave its name to the grassy, treeless plains that bordered and fed it, to the Cossacks who inhabited the area and to the remarkable breed of horse that developed from this symbiotic relationship between a people whose lives came to depend on horses and the horses who thrived in the harsh conditions of the arid steppes. In this semi-nomadic region, passing herds of horses left their genetic mark on already diverse local equine populations of the Nogai type. Preexisting breeds that most influenced the development of the Don breed included Karabakh, Persian and Turkmenic breeds, later Arabian horses (often introduced to the Don Cossacks� herds as war booty), and, lastly, the thoroughbred, then identified as "English pure bred."

The Cossacks trace their heritage back to the sixteenth century, when runaway serfs (slaves) settled parts of southern Russia. These peoples, who achieved their freedom at some risk, eventually became called Cossacks, after the Mongolian word "Kazak," meaning a lightly armored warrior on horseback. They lived semi-nomadically, loosely overseeing their horses that ran free in huge herds. The Don Cossacks did not become farmers and were not rooted to the land; their life determined the kind of horse they most valued and they played a major role in defining the traits of their horses.

The Don Cossacks earned their reputation as fearless combatants and superb riders riding superb horses. They inhabited a large buffer zone on Russia�s southern border that frequently brought them into conflict with their Turkic and Tartaric neighbors. By the mid-eighteenth century these fierce Russian warriors began to serve officially in the Russian army. 60,000 horse-mounted Cossacks from the Don region served in the Napoleonic Wars. When he assessed his disastrous invasion of Russia, Napoleon allegedly made special note of the superior skills of the Cossack regiments.

The first private stud farms devoted to the breeding of Don Horses appeared at the end of the eighteennth century. The Don Horse became well known as a distinct breed in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. By mid-century over half the horses in the Don steppes were direct descendants of the original Don horses; that number dropped by half by the end of the century. Crossbreeding of Don mares to Streletsky, Orlov-Rostopchin and especially English-bred stallions refined the Don conformation at the expense of some of its warmblood characteristics. The Don Horse became the favored all-purpose breed of military horse, used for work under saddle and in harness, not only by the Cossacks but also the entire Russian army. Throughout the nineteenth century Cossack regiments, almost exclusively mounted on Don Horses, enjoyed special prestige in military circles. They were among the tsar�s most loyal defenders during the 1917 Russian revolution.

If the warrior spirit of the Cossacks is now largely a memory, the Don Horse has survived mostly intact into the twenty-first century. World War I demonstrated that the days of mounted soldiers had passed. The decimating losses to the Don during the war and the subsequent civil war delivered a crushing blow to the breed; only a few hundreds of horses survived. A systematic government-sponsored breeding program centered in the Rostov area revived the breed in the thirties and forties and the Don continued to serve in the Russian military until the cavalry was disbanded in 1954.

1948 marked the official separation of the Don from the related Budenny (a.k.a. Budyonnny) breed, an Anglo-Don cross.

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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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