Akhal-Teke, The
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Description: Breed history, characteristics and pictures.
Since the time of the earliest domestication of the horse, the Golden Horse of Central Asia has been prized before all other breeds. Bejeweled and decorated in gold and silk, he was ridden into battle by nomads and emperors and buried with honor in the tombs of kings, shamanesses, and warriors. Directly descended from the wild steppe horse, the Turkoman or Turkmene is the legendary horse from Fergana and Bactria where it was called the Bactrian or Turanian horse and used by the great leaders Darius and Alexander. In Chinese legends he was known as "the Heavenly Horse" and the "horse that sweats blood" and the Han Chinese felt it well worth 80,000 soldiers to obtain only 20 of these horses, such was their reputation . Five successive empires - the Scythians, Parthians, Ywati, Huns and Turkmen- invaded the area, laying waste to
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| Date | Creation Date: 29-sep-1994 Expiration Date: 28-sep-2014 |