The Mangalarga is a horse breed that was originally developed in Brazil by Francisco Gabriel Junqueira, the Baron of Alfenas, when he began breeding Alter Real stallions from Portugal with local Colonial Spanish mares on his lands in Baependi County at Minas Gerais State.[1]
Thus work of Junqueira also developed the Mangalarga Marchador breed that differs from the Mangalarga due to the influence of different bloodlines and a focus on different traits. However, at the beginning, there was just one type of horse, the "Mangalarga Horse". However, today the two breeds are different from one another and each has its own studbook and breed associations.[2]
A 2013 study found that the Mangalarga Paulista had one of the highest inbreeding coefficients among all horse breeds.[3]
References
^Pavia, Audrey (23 October 2020). "Horses of South America". Horse Illustrated Magazine. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
These are the horse breeds considered in Brazil to be wholly or partly of Brazilian origin. Many have complex or obscure histories, so inclusion here does not necessarily imply that a breed is predominantly or exclusively Brazilian.
