I Kayla J. R, am writing you, the National American International Livestock Exposition in order to attempt to persuade you to include our personal favorite breed of horse into your Exposition. This is our reasoning: The different patterns and the different colors will give a larger variety of choices for the judges. The different patterns may even have their own categories. Each and every paint has its own little history and own attitudes. Not only that, but they have a very pretty body type with obvious muscles. If you add them to your show, they need not have the World Championship Paint Horse Show, resulting in more money left over for the horses real needs such as food, tack, water and supplements. Read on to learn some great information on the Paint Breed.
             In 1519 a Spanish explorer Hernando Cortes sailed to North America with some conquistadors and horses only to leave behind a great legacy-which was the bloodstock that would provide the foundation for a variety of different, distinct, American-bred horses. A Spanish historian Diaz del Castillo who traveled with the entire expedition says that one of the sixteen war horses that carried Cortes and his men was a sorrel and white horse with spots on its belly. That spotted horse soon bred with Native American mustangs and laid the foundation for what is known today as the American paint horse breed.
             Near the early 1800's, the western plains were heavily populated with free-ranging herds of horses. These herds included a peculiar spotted horse. The spotted, flashy horses soon became a favorite mount of the American Indians because of the color and performance. The Comanche Indians, also known as the finest horsemen on the plains, favored the 'different colored horses and had a lot among their huge herds. The favoritism is exhibited in evidence by drawings of spotted horses on the painted buffalo robes that served as records for the Comanche's.
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