Use : Feral.
Height : 13 hh.
Colours : Mouse dun with dorsal stripe.
Identifying Features : Broad head, short thick neck, long strong back, narrow quarters, short strong legs.
Name means wild horse.
The Tarpan, Equus ferus ferus, was the Eurasian wild horse.
The last specimen of this species died in captivity in Ukraine in 1918 or 1919.
Polish farmers often crossed the tarpan with their domestic horses. The result was a small horse breed, the Konik. Such animals, as the Konik, and also the Sorraia Horse preserved in Portugal, are now being used to breed back the Tarpan, and to fill in the niche that was left vacant by their extinction in the wild.
A semi-wild herd now roams in a forest in Poland.
Paralumun New Age Village