Huçul
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Names: Huçul, Huzul. I will call it the Huzul for now so I don't have to keep copying the name with the accent mark! I also found this listed as the "Hucul or Carpathian Pony." I will have to look into the part about this being the Carpathian Pony. (Well, I have now found it listed as the Carpathian Mountain Pony, so evidently it really is the Carpathian Pony, but will leave this comments for now!)
Origin: Comes from Carpathian Mountains of Poland, Russia, and Rumania. One source says they may be a mountain variety of the Konik. Some are considered more or less pure descendants of the Tarpan, but others, of finer type, have Arab blood. Some Huzuls are now living in England.
Breeding: Breeding area and studs--Rumania (Romania?): Buchovina, Carpathians; Stud Luczina near Radautz. Presumably of Oriental origin based on the old native breed, actual origin unknown. Systematically, and almost exclusively, pure-bred since the end of the last century (1800s) apart from a small admixture of Oriental blood.
Description:
Body: Short neck. Fine back-line, good barrel; powerfully developed, broad hindquarters.
Color: Brown, dun or bay.
Head: Refined, suggesting Oriental.
Hooves: Healthy, very sturdy, small.
Legs: Clean, broad cannons, well marked tendons and joints, short fetlocks.
Size: A little smaller than the Konik at about 13 hands. 13.2 to 14 hands.
Temperament:
Features: Very surefooted, hard, tough mountain pony, extraordinarily economic.
Uses: Strong pack pony. Unsurpassed as pack horse and beast of burden.
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