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Named for the region where they were bred, the Onega Horse wasn’t a breed, but a variety of Karelian Pony, which is a type of Russian Pony. According to the DAD-IS they are considered extinct as of 2006.
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Named for the region where they were bred, the Onega Horse wasn’t a breed, but a variety of Karelian Pony, which is a type of Russian Pony. According to the DAD-IS they are considered extinct as of 2006.
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Also called Obvinskaya, the Obva Horse was a strain of Western Siberian pony. According to the DAD-IS they are extinct as of 2006.
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Also called Karel’skaya, the Karelian Pony is named for the Karelia region in Northern Europe between the Gulf of Finland and the White Sea. According to the DAD-IS they are extinct as of 2006, but we were able to find examples of animals in the Karelia region.
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Named for the region of Romania where they were bred, the Ialomita Horse was a type of local horse found in the historic region of Walachia.
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Also called Dobrogea, the Dobrogeana was not a breed as much as a variety of Romanian Horse, named for the Dobrogea region from which they came. It looks similar to the Local Moldavian, only smaller in stature. This strain is extinct.
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There are not many that remember the Manx Ponies, they have fallen out of living memory. This now extinct breeds was probably part of the Celtic Pony family which is native to several of the British Isles. This strain, located on tiny Isle of Man has escaped attention for centuries and is not as well documented as many of the other variations.
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Also called the Barock-Reitpferd in Germany, the Baroque Riding Horse is not a breed but a type that includes several breeds. They are distinct because they retain the distinct features of their ancestors, gaining traction during the Baroque era.
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The Bourbonnais Horse is not strictly a breed, but rather a variety of Percheron that was bred in Allier, central France. They were later absorbed into the Percheron studbook in 1966. Essentially breeding them into extinction.
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