Country of Origin: Iran
Use today: Caspian horses excel in carriage driving, particularly scurry driving where speed and handiness is a bonus. 
Color: All solid colors are common. 
Height: 10 to 12 hands.
 Profile: In 1965, Louise Firouz, an American living in Tehran, Iran, discovered a small Arabian-like horse in the Elborz Mountains that she named Caspian. Through bone, blood and DNA testing, archeo-zoologists proved the horses were direct descendants of the miniature Mesopotamian horse of anti...
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