Horse Ancestry and Colonial Spanish Historical Provenance

I just learned that Juras lab will include Barb horses in their horse ancestry reports by request only.
Here is the Equine Phylogenetic Tree I would like to see for CS and free roaming horses. Ancestry reports organized by historical provenance would be illuminating if BLM and CS horse ancestry reports for all DNA on record were run through this tree…

1493-1812 North African Barb – Moors and Jews targeted by the Doctrine of Discovery

• Moroccan
• Ethiopian
• Tunisian
  

1493-1812 Central Asian
Saracens, Jews, Arabs targeted by the Doctrine of Discovery

• Turkomen
• Ahkele Teke
• Kyrgyzstan riding horse
• Arabian

1507+ Castilian Regency After Queen Isabella died, King Ferdinand basically bought his regency of his grandson from his Castilian rivals with trading perquisites to New Spain

• Galiceno

1507-1540 Caribbean and Gaited- Early Colonials Spanihs expeditions to both NOrth and South America were mounted from horses bred in the Caribbean. The gaiting gene was prized by the Vikings that wintered on the shores of Iberia at the same tie they were settling Iceland.

• Venezuelan Criollo
• Paso Fino
• Peruvian Paso
• Columbian Paso
• Brazilian Marchador
• North Sea – Icelandic, Shetland, Norwegian Fjord

1507-1540- Horses shipped from Lisbon to New Spain and Buenes Ares due to embargo on exporting war horses from Spain

• Argentinian Criollo
• Sorraia

1600 Basque shepheds move north with Onate

• Garrano

1650-1680 Persian The first Duke of Albuquerque fought in the Persian GUlf in 1500. In 1650, his descendant was appointed Viceroy of New Spain and brought his family horses with him.

• Kurdish
• Caspian

1700 Basque shepherds move WAY north after the Pueblo Indian Revolt of 1680

• Garrano

1700-1740 Central European horses from the Alps were preferred by Charles III for his California Mission expeditions

• Noriker
• Alpine horses- French, Swiss,
• Lipizzaner

1740-1812 Hapsburg Spain Wealthy Spanish landowners import a wide variety of horses for a wide variety of purposes.

• Andalusian
• Lusitano
• PRE

The brief French invasion of Mexico 1861-1867 did not appear leave any notably viable populations of breeding stock. More research into the horse ancestry of Veracruz horses will tell us more! I have found that:

• the Spanish Expeditionary Force of January 1862 included 173 cavalry
• On 15 April 1866, the 1st Mounted Company of 70–80 horsemen (formed from Regiment “Impératrice Charlotte”) arrived in Veracruz
• On 16 July 1866 the 2nd Mounted Company of 70–80 horsemen (formed from Regiment “Roi des Belges”) arrived in Veracruz.

Other

I don’t have documentation of how many, if any, heavy horse were imported into New Spain.

• Great Horse Ardennais, Barbant

1725-1821 Russia claimed the entire West Coast of North America, from Alaska to San Diego

• Siberian Yakutian
• Mongolian

Most breed registries as we know them were founded AFTER 1812, the date of the Mexican War of Independence

Thoroughbreds are the oldest, best documented registry, so their genetic profile is recognizable. American harness, draft and gaited breeds in the USA organized in the 1900’s are also based on registered TB sires bred to local mares. Sport and stock horse registries organized after WWI are generally registered TB sires bred to local mares. That includes mares from the 1.5 MILLION free-roaming horses from the USA that were rounded up and sent to Europe during WWI.

• Thoroughbred

And no one was riding these–

• Przewalski

Perhaps if enough of us ask, we can make a historical record of Colonial Spanish horse ancestry in North America (Mexico, USA and Canada) happen!