Английская Википедия:Asturcón

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a small black horse dragging a loaded wooden sled on grass

At the Fiesta del Asturcón in the Sierra del Sueve in 2015

The Asturcón is an ancient Spanish breed of small horse or pony from the autonomous region of Asturias in the northern part of the country. It has been documented since Roman times:Шаблон:R it has an unusual ambling gait, which was described by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia. It is of Celtic type, and shows similarity to the Pottok and Losino of Spain, the Garrano of Portugal, and the Dartmoor, Exmoor, Fell, Highland, Shetland and Welsh breeds of the British Isles.Шаблон:R

History

The Asturcón has been known and described since Roman times; it is mentioned in an epigram of Martial, and by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia, where he describes its characteristic ambling gait.Шаблон:R The Latin word asturco was later used for other similar small horses with ambling gait.Шаблон:R

At about the time of the Spanish Civil War, the population of the Asturcón separated into two distinct parts, one in the sierras of Sueve and La Vita, and the other further to the west, in the sierras of El Palo, Шаблон:Ill and Tineo. The two populations are genetically distinct.Шаблон:R

A breeders' association, the Шаблон:Lang, was formed in 1987;Шаблон:R at the time there were 23 mares registered in the stud-book. At the end of 2003, there were 1181 head registered, in the hands of 94 breeders.Шаблон:R In 2007 the Asturcón was listed by the FAO as "endangered-maintained".Шаблон:R

The Asturcón is thought to have given rise to the extinct Irish Hobby, and has been used in attempts to re-create that breed.Шаблон:R

Characteristics

The Asturcón is a small horse: height at the withers is usually in the range Шаблон:Val, and never exceeds Шаблон:Val.Шаблон:R With an average weight of some Шаблон:Val

In the early twenty-first century the only coat colour admitted for registration in the stud-book was black, with no marking other than a small frontal star. There was a small population of bay Asturian horses of Celtic type, but they were not registered in the Asturcón stud-book.Шаблон:R In the breed standard published in early 2012 by the Government of Asturias, the permitted coat colours are black, bay and chestnut, still with no marking other than a small star.Шаблон:R