Strelets Arab

Strelets Arab
The Strelets stallion Bivouac, winner of a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1867
Conservation statusextinct[1]: 118 [2]
Other names
  • Ukrainian: стрілецька
  • Striletska
  • Streletsky
  • Strelets Horse
Country of originUkraine
Uselight cavalry horse
Traits
Height
  • 154–160 cm[3]: 507 
Colouroften grey

The Strelets Arab or Strelets Horse is an extinct Ukrainian breed of light cavalry horse. It was bred in the nineteenth century at the Striletsky State Stud in Luhansk Oblast of Ukraine,[a] from Arab and a variety of other stock. As with other Russian horse populations, its numbers were gravely reduced by the events of the Russian Revolution and the Russian Civil War, and it came close to disappearing. Two stallions and a few mares survived, which was judged to be too small a number to allow the breed to be recovered. Instead, they were taken to the Tersk Stud in the North Caucasus and used as the foundation stock in the development of the new Tersk breed of riding horse.[4]: 258 [3]: 507  The Strelets also contributed to the development of the Don[5]: 80  and Kustanai breeds.[4]: 312 [6]: 294 

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