BY AUDREY PAVIA
Paso Fino stallion Themisto de Milagro.
CHERI PRILL/STUNNING STEEDS PHOTOGRAPHY
When the Spanish came to conquer the New World in the 1500s, they did more than war with native cultures and ransack their gold. They also brought horses with them—special gaited horses that would go on to populate the Americas and become the ancestors of nearly all of today’s North and South American breeds.
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