Camargue for sale

The Camargue horse originates from the Quanternary Sea native the Solutre horse. The Camargue prefers marshy land and is very resistant to lack of a stable, bad weather, and harsh conditions. General characteristics of this special breed of horse include its use as mainly a saddle horse in rustic and hard terrain. Adult Camargue horses typically carry a coat that is of a pale grey color. Adults can weigh anywhere between 300 kilograms and 400 kilograms, with a height of somewhere between 1.35 meters and 1.45 meters.

Foal Camargue horses are generally born in the spring and summer months, between April and July. They typically born with a white blaze marking on their forehead, and with a body color of darker grey or black. These horses have most always been used as a saddle horse, though in some cases for leisurely riding as well.

Camargue horses are always gray. This means that they have black skin underlying a white hair coat as adult horses. They are born with a hair coat that is black or dark brownin colour, but as they grow to adulthood, their hair coat becomes ever more intermingled with white hairs until it is completely white. They are small horses, generally 1.35 to 1.50 m high. Despite their small size, they have the strength to carry grown men. Rugged and intelligent, they have a short neck, deep chest, compact body, well-jointed, strong limbs and a full mane and tail.

In England, there is currently only one breeding herd. They reside at Valley Farm, in Woodbridge,Suffolk. Valley Farm is also the home of the British Camargue Horse Society, which represents the Camargue Breed in Britain by maintaining a stud book for British-bred Camargue Horses and registering ownership of Camargue Horses in Britain.