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User Login Email: Password:    » Forgot Password?  » New Member Sign Up Visitors Online: Today's Visits: Yesterday's Visits: Horses Menu Home Horses For Sale Welcome to Akhal-Teke ! You are here: Terrific-Horses.com > Horse Breeds > Akhal-Teke Book Search: Akhal-Teke Description The Akhal-Teke is one of the most unique and oldest horse breeds in the world. These horses were raced and bred 3,000 years ago around the oases of the Turkmenistan Desert, centered in Ashkabad, north of Iran. Its stamina and its resistance to high temperatures are extraordinary. In 1935 these incredible horses completed a ride from Ashkabad to Moscow, which is a distance of 2,580 miles in 84 days. There was 600 miles of desert and much of it crossed without hardly any water. This amazing accomplishment has never been equaled.Among the Turkoman people racing is prevalent. They fed their horses a high-protein diet of dry lucerne when accessible, pellets of mutton fat, eggs, barley and quatlame (fried dough cake). At night the horses were wrapped in heavy felt to shield them from the cold desert nights and from the high tempatures of the midday sun. The Akhal-Teke of today is a racehorse, a long-distance performer, and the Russian sports horse in the dressage and jumping disciplines. The Akhal-Teke stands on average 15.2 hh. Google Ads

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