Breeders of the NEZ PERCE HORSE
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PEITRE
Akhal-Teke
GOLD BAY
1991
THE NEZ PERCE TRIBE

PEITRE(PETER) , the youngest purebred stallion standing at stud is 15.3 hands tall and, as you can see, gorgeous. His large, beautiful eyes have the classic hooded lid. His small lovely head ties in correct with his long elegant neck. This stallion can run. At a gallop, his ground-eating stride is comparable to the Cheetah. This stallion is the eye catcher! Behold his beautiful sheen! His long smoothe muscling body. His good sized feet and the length of his belly compared to his very nice top line. This horse has had a very busy breeding season. A popular stallion, PEITRE, exhibits the radiant quality of the ancient TURKOMEN horse. The English Thoroughbred, The Trahkener are direct results of the infusion of this oriental horse blood. The founding sire of the Thoroughbred breed, The Byerley Turk is thought to be an Akhal-Teke. The Darley Arabian, also a founding sire of the Thoroughbred represented the Muniqui strain or northern Arabian horse that was the race horse of Arabians and was taller and more angular than the Arabian of today. The Muniqui Arabian was the result of crossbreeding of Arabs and Turkomen horses.

First imported to America in 1979, The Akhal-Teke breed numbers approximately 150 in America and number about 2000 world wide, with the most living in their native country of Turkmenistan, north of Iran, and east of the Caspian sea. The capital of Turkmenistan is Ashkabad, the people are Turkmen and their ancestors invented the saddle, the stirrup and pants originally invented to ride horses. Alfalfa hay is native to Turkmenistan. Flat racing on the track with horses also originated in Central Asia by the ancestors of the Turkmen. Once almost exterminated by the conquering Russians the Akhal-Teke were never bred in large numbers.

The important developments in the history of mankind which led in Europe to travel on horseback and to mounted warfare had their origin among the people of Central Asia. One fact alone has endowed the horse with historical significance: the horse enabled the Eurasians to travel overland from the Atlantic to the Pacific in the old world, permitting contact between distant civilizations, and facilitating the exchange of ideas and inventions which is a fundamental requisite of human progress. Everything that man reveres as the triumph of the human spirit has been bought somewhere, at some time not only with human blood and tears but also with the sweat of horses


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