Talk:Akhal-Teke

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[edit] Photo request

I added a request for a photo for this article to Wikipedia:Requested pictures. Tempshill 17:39, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Better photo?

I don't think the photo is a good example of the horse's usual colour. --Dandelions 20:37, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

The photo is not good, for one thing it is distorted and doesn't show the horse's true conformation, it makes the animal look poorly proportioned. But it's hard to find good photos that can be released with a license usable on wikipedia. Montanabw 03:58, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bucephalus claim

I have never heard of Bucephalus being described as an Akhal-Teke. I would like to request a citation for this for I believe it is false.

Please remember to sign your posts! I will remove the statement. Everyone wants to claim Bucephalus. However, Bucephalus is described as everything from an Akhal-Teke to an Andalusian, to a Friesian to an Arabian, to ... you name it. Bottom line is that he could not be any of these things as none of these breeds were known as such in the time of the Ancient Greeks. This assertion is per Deb Bennett's book Conquerers: The Roots of New World Horsemanship. Bennett argues (with the PhD to back it up) that none of the modern breeds are "pure" forms of any ancient breed, the earliest pedigrees can be traced to about the A.D. 800s. Basically, Bucephalus would probably have been some type of ancient oriental prototype (the prototype that gave rise to the Akhal-Teke, the Arabian and the Barb), possibly crossed on a northern European prototype, depending on where he actually came from, which is not stated by the ancients. Montanabw 18:19, 26 December 2006 (UTC)