Welcome to The Iberian Horse Webring Home Page!

The Above is a picture of our Featured Iberian Horse.
Cha Cha Cordero in Spanish Bridle
Owned by: Moonstruck Meadows
Breeder of: Andalusian and Hanoverian Horses
Bouviers & Shetland Sheepdogs
La Center WA USA
www.MoonstruckMeadows.com

The Iberian Horse is made up of several horse breeds. The Iberian horses originates from Portuguese, Spanish horses. Andalusian (spanish), Lusitano (Portuguese), are different branches of the same breed. Testing has been done by the University of Kentucky to prove this through the blood testing and it shows there is not any differnace in the genetic markers or variability meaning (when related to biology -differing from the species norm: used to describe a species that tends to differ in some characteristic from a recognized or known type. taken from Encarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2004 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.)

The above could be the reason why so many of the different breeds show many of the charecteristics of the Iberian horse. What is interesting is that some horses in a breed may not show the charecteristics whiles others will.
It is said that the development of todays warm bloods is from selective breeding of the Iberian horses rather then outside influences (refer to Iberian Warmblood Registry of America for more information.

Other breeds that are known to hold Iberian markers are some Mustang breeds, Barbs, and many others that hold the spanish and portuguese genertic markers. Please see our links page and our webring page for more information on these Iberian Horses.

This page is a part of the Iberian Horse Webring and managed by the Webrings current Owner.