Scientific name:
Equus

Natural spread:
Kaspische region

although actually a small horse, the race is called pony because of its low stick-measurement of only 100 to 120 cm. Noble, Oriental animal of pretty proportions. Head drily and exactly or easily concave. The powerful hindquarters shows an easily falling croup. The extremities are dry, the hooves steel-hard. Some anatomical peculiarities (additional) Molar, form of the shoulder blade, primitive skull-construction, reminds on the high age of the race. All colors besides Schecken.

Experts call the Kaspische pony the prehistoric type 4. Digs produced bone-findings from the Mesolithikum. A seal of Darius the Big (about). 500 v. Chr.) if a team shows. Also the Greeks knew a small race in the antique Medea, south from the kaspischen sea. it was apparently brought from the area of Kirmanshah into the Elburs-Gebirge by trunks where it outlasted in its original form. Until 1965, there are not any wide sources. The rediscovery of the race, that one held for extinct, is due to the American Louise Firouz, that between 1965 and 1970 approximately 25 Kaspier on its farm near Teheran could bring. A Stutbuch was positioned, exports in other countries followed. in 1972, the first ponies reached to England where the biggest stud farm is at present. By the political confused in Persion, the continuance was decimated strongly.