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The Spanish reintroduced the horse to America after 1492. They took with them two kinds of pack horse, the Jennet and the Jaca (aka Garrano/Villano) and two kinds of saddle horse, the Sorraia (aka Marismeno/Spanish Mustang) and the Barb (aka Andalucian/PRE). Post 1492 Conquests used horses from Stock farms set up in Jamaica (Pizzaro to Peru in 1515) and Cuba (Cortez to Mexico in 1519) [from Enc.Brittanica]. These horses either escaped, went lame or were left behind rather than reshipped back to Spain and from them derive many indigenous American horses.

See also Horses of the Conquest by Scotsman Robert Cunninghame Graham and for some more Equine diversion watch HorseTV

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