Basque Mountain Horse

Basque Mountain Horse

Other names
  • Basque: Euskal Herriko Mendiko Zaldia
  • Spanish: Caballo de Monte del País Vasco
Country of origin Spain, France
Distribution Basque Country
Traits
Height
Breed standards
On Gorbeia
Mare and foal on Gorbeia

The Basque Mountain Horse (Spanish: Caballo de Monte del País Vasco, Basque: Euskal Herriko Mendiko Zaldia) is a breed of horse from the Basque Country of Spain and France. It is listed in the Catálogo Oficial de Razas de Ganado de España, the official catalogue of livestock breeds of Spain, in the group of autochthonous breeds in danger of extinction.[2] The original breed standard of the "Euskal Herriko Mendiko Zaldia / Caballo de Monte del País Vasco", officially approved on 21 July 1999 and published in the Boletín Oficial del País Vasco, the official bulletin of the Basque Country, was repealed in 2015 and replaced with a new one.[3][1]

At the end of 2013 the total number of breeding animals recorded in the herdbook was 4556.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 María Aranzazu Tapia Otaegui (30 November 2015). ORDEN de 30 de noviembre de 2015, de la Consejera de Desarrollo Económico y Competitividad, por la que se aprueba la reglamentación específica del caballo de monte del País Vasco (in Spanish). Consejera de Desarrollo Económico y Competitividad. Boletín Oficial del País Vasco 241 (5312, 30 November 2015): 1–11. Accessed July 2017.
  2. ↑ Raza equino caballar Caballo de Monte del País Vasco: Datos Generales (in Spanish). Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino. Archived 13 June 2014.
  3. ↑ Miguel Fernández Rodríguez, Mariano Gómez Fernández, Juan Vicente Delgado Bermejo, Silvia Adán Belmonte, Miguel Jiménez Cabras (eds.) (2009). Guía de campo de las razas autóctonas españolas (in Spanish). Madrid: Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino. ISBN 9788449109461. p. 459–60.
  4. ↑ Raza equino caballar Caballo de Monte del País Vasco: Datos Censales (in Spanish). Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino. Archived 13 June 2014.

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