Sorraia horse
Sorraia horse is a Portuguese horse breed which is believed
to be very close to the existing pre-historic Iberian horse. The name of this
breed, “Sorraia”, is due to its discover in Portugal
which was
done by Dr Ruy D'Andrade (1945) in the valley of the river the Sorraia. The
river Sorraia is an affluent to the river Tagus and is the result of the merge
between the river Sor and the river Raia (Sor-Raia). Existing rock engravings
demonstrate that even before the last Ice age there was a horse extremely
similar to the Sorraia horse in the Iberian Peninsula. Numbers of Sorraia horses
are very low. There are just a few studs dedicated to this breed. Thus, Sorraia
horses tend to have high levels of inbreeding.
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