They are said to be from America where they have disappeared 10,000 years ago, when they returned led by the Spanish conquistadors, and they gradually spread throughout the world.

In recent centuries, it is mainly men who have categorized and horses that have created so-called races of horses involved in repeated selections.

The horses are two castes one reserved for horse racing and the other to draft horses for the work force.

After the engine décuplée of farm draft horses disappeared from the landscape and were regarded as "useless" and sold for slaughter. Were often forgotten and the local breed of horses which fail completely disappear.

Race horses then held pride of place.

Currently, the movement calls for sustainable development "in the saddle" so to say the draft horses which take a little place they had yet to 60 years.

The animal can be a big help to the man who returned to save him from death.