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Evensong Paso Fino Farm
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When Christopher Columbus made his second voyage to the New World, he brought with him a select group of twenty-five horses. These horses had to be relatively small, but powerful enough to carry the heavily armored Conquistadors. The horses he selected came from the Spanish provinces of Andalusia and Cordela. This breed was a mixture of the Andalusian, the Spanish Barb from North Africa, and the Spanish Jennet (now extinct as a breed). The Spanish Jennet not only possessed an extremely comfortable saddle gait, but also was able to pass the gait on to its offspring. The result of the blending of these horses was a relatively small, but powerful horse with an incredibly smooth gait. The Conquistadors called them “los caballos de paso fino”, which translates as “the horses with the fine walk”.
Over time the Paso Fino was interbred with other European horses and disappeared from North America as a distinct breed. Their influence can be seen, though, in the lineage of the Spanish Mustang, not to be confused with the feral mustangs managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
However, Latin breeders in South America and the Caribbean Islands prized these wonderful Paso Fino horses and developed this breed into what we call today the mo
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