Hello and welcome to Curly Horses Canada. My name is Norma McDonald and I have very severe allergies and asthma as do both my daughters. In 2008 I stumbled upon the American Bashkir Curly Horses and wondered if this could be a viable solution to returning to the sport that I had enjoyed for over 25 years.
So I delved into their history and here is a synopsis of what I found:Curly Horses were orignally discovered by white men in the mustang herds of eastern Nevada, in the late 1800s.
These Curlies were rounded up, along with other mustangs, and trained to be ranch horses. They proved in many cases to be easier and faster to train than the other mustangs - also hardier, able to survive even the fiercest winters that did kill many of the other wild and domestic horses. The ranchers began breeding from the Curlies to improve their ranch stock. From these Western Curlies come many of today's Curlies, bred in different directions for different uses.
Curly Registry (ABCR) was the original registry, founded in the early 1970s to help preserve and protect curlies. The ABCR has recently added restrictions on the registering of Curly Horses with them. The website address for the ABCR is
http://www.abcregistry.org/ .
http://www.abcregistry.org/ .
International Curly Horse Organization (ICHO) is to preserve, protect, promote, register, and research the Curly Horse and its unique characteristics.
Curly Sporthorse International (CSI)
