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The Sardinian, or Sardinian Anglo-Arab, as it is also called, is an old breed that was established in Sardinia during the 15th century. Geographically, Sardinia is well situated for trade with North Africa, and has for centuries imported the North African Barb horses and Arabians, which would then subsequently be crossed with local stock. This formed the foundation for the breed, with a fixed type in the 15th century, and led to the formation of a stud of Spanish Horses by Ferdinand of Spain, near Abbasanta. The Sardinian comes in bay or brown and is around 15.2 hands high.
There is also a related breed called the Sardinian Pony. There is little hard fact surrounding the development of the Sardinian Pony, but it is thought that it developed from approximately the same early imports of Barb and Arabian stock to the island, as well as probably containing some Spanish blood. The first documented mention of the pony was not until 1845, and even since then they have remained largely unrecorded. They stand between 12 and 13 hands high, and come in brown, bay, black or liver chestnut.
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