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  • i own 3 and they are very good horses, i matain a herd of 30 florida cracker cattle with them

  • I love my FL Cracker horse <3

  • long live the florida cowboy! and long live the cracker horse!

  • They also use to call these horses Marsh Tackies.

  • Some fine lookin horses.

  • Very interesting video .Enjoyed comments also .Wish more video like this on each breed .Thanks .Wolveseyelash

  • Surprised the news piece didn't mention that these horses are smooth gaited when showing the person riding along, as one of their special qualities. I'm glad that there are still some smooth gaited riding breeds preserved. I hope they retain the smooth gaiting with the breed and not let only trotting genes take over.

  • I should mention it! It`s still interesting.... There are also Icelandic horses also very smooth gaited and Tennesse Walking Horses.

  • In 1970 Mrs. Zona Bass and Mrs. Zetta Hunt, daughters of pioneer cattleman James Durrance, donated five heifers and a bull -- descendants of their father's original herd -- to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services on behalf of the Florida Cattlemen's Association. The old cracker cattle of this ranch were regarded by many in the industry as the purest of the pure. With this small herd, the Department was intrusted with the preservation of the breed.

  • viva espana

  • The ancestors of today's Cracker Horses were introduced into what is now Florida as early as 1521 when the Spaniard, Ponce de Leon, on his second Florida trip, brought horses, cattle and other livestock. Such introductions were continued well into the next century by other Spanish explorers and colonists and by mid-1600 cattle ranching and horse breeding was well established.

  • These horses look very much like my Paso Finos.

  • Descended from escaped or liberated horses brought to the New World during the Spanish explorations and conquests, Cracker Horses carry mixed blood. North African Barb, Spanish Sorraia, Andalusian, Spanish Jennet and other Iberian breeds contributed to their genetic base. This makes them very similar to the Spanish Mustang, Criollo, Peruvian Paso and Paso Fino, which also developed from horses introduced by the Spanish into the Caribbean Islands, Cuba, and the Americas.

  • The Sorraia breed as we know it was established in the 1920's. There is no history of them before that time. They were purchased off of farms near the Sorraia river. The PRE and PSL are modern breeds as well. So, those breeds did not contribute to any Spanish breeds in the Americas unless so stated.

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