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The Icelandic Horse
Islands kystvagt 75 år The Icelandic horse makes an interesting theme for a stamp collector. No other breed of horse has reached Iceland´s shore since its ancestors accompanied the first Viking settlers from Norway nor has any Iceland horse shipped abroad since, either for sale or participation in equestrian events, returned home, thus ensuring no admixture to the Viking strain. It is often conjectured that Icelanders would never have maintained a foothold on their island without the horse: the only form of land transport for over a millennium, thus earning the Icelanders´ appellation of most faithful servant. It is also conjectured that the isolation of the Icelandic horse is one of the reasons that it retained some of the qualities that have disappeared in other European species during the last four centuries. Today the stock in Iceland totals around 80.000 horses. The Icelandic horse has multiple and sometimes quite unusual blend of hues and colours, not to be found in any other breed of horses in the world. Although the horse is small, with an average height of 145 cm, it is classified as a horse and not a pony as it is often wrongly termed abroad. The Icelandic horse matures slowly and it is not ready for breaking in until at the age of 4 years. It can easily reach an age of 30 years. The Icelandic horse is strong and persevering and an excellent family horse because of its often friendly and gentle character. The Iceland horse can master five gaits illustrated on these stamps. These are the gaits and the horses' colours. FET is the walk and the color is RAUÐJARPUR, a word formed from red + bay, which translates as a chestnut or bay. Mane and tail are dark. BROKK is the trot and the horse´s color is RAUÐSKJÓTTUR, basically a chestnut with white spots. SKEIÐ is the pace, a gait for short distances only. The color is often translated as buckskin. Mane and tail are both dark.

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