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Strelets
Ukraine
- Animal
- Horse
- Type
- Oriental horse
- Origin
- Ukraine
About the Strelets
The Strelets Arab or Strelets Horse is an extinct Ukrainian breed of light cavalry horse. It was bred in the nineteenth century at the Striletsky State Stud in Luhansk Oblast of Ukraine, from Arab and a variety of other stock. Numbers were gravely reduced by the events of the Russian Revolution and the Russian Civil War, and the breed came close to disappearing. The surviving stock – consisting of two stallions and a few mares – was taken to the Tersk Stud in the North Caucasus and used as the basis of the new Tersk breed of riding horse.
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Photo credits8 photographs on this page
- Strelets — Wikimedia Commons contributor · Public domain · file page
- Novoolexandrian Draught — Star61 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file page
- Ukrainian Riding Horse — Укрпошта · Public domain · file page
- Akhal-Teke — Artur Baboev · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file page
- Arabian horse — OliverSeitz · Public domain · file page
- Kurdish horse — Dûrzan cîrano · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file page
- Muniqi — Internet Archive Book Images · No restrictions · file page
- Polish Arabian horse — Alina-Arabians · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file page
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