Even so, the Spanish horses were domesticated as well ... The Alpine herd roams roughly 75,000 acres of land in the Apache Sitgreaves National Forest known as the Black River watershed. (Joe ...

“Caramba! A black jockey and a black horse,” someone cried in Spanish. Indeed it was a scene the spectators had never witnessed before. The jockey’s name is lost to history. With so many ...

Consider this breed the Dalmatian of horses: It's known for its trademark black spots! Spanish explorers brought its predecessors to North America in the early 1600s, and it became a hit with the ...

A 1947 children's book inspired by local legend, "Misty of Chincoteague," suggests that the ponies are the descendants of Spanish horses who swam to the island after a Spanish ship wrecked off the ...

The discovery of a fossil horse tooth in Haiti has given surprising credence to the idea the horses escaped from a Spanish shipwreck off Virginia around 1750. Young Chincoteague ponies wrestle on ...

Feria del Caballo Español – a three-day horse-dancing festival of purebred Spanish horses – returned to the Industry Hills Expo Center over the Labor Day Weekend 2023. (Photo, courtesy ...

A 1947 children’s book inspired by local legend, “Misty of Chincoteague,” suggests that the ponies are the descendants of Spanish horses who swam to the island after a Spanish ship wrecked ...