Gypsy horses, a breed, a type, or just some horses that the gypsies have?
Many people ask us to tell them about the registry that the gypsies have for these horses. Well, since most true gypsies, or Romany folk as they are known, don’t read nor write, they therefore don’t write down blood of a horse. Records are kept much like the Native Americans kept their history records, by word of mouth and stories told. As for the thought that only a registry with papers makes a breed, consider this… British and Irish Gypsy horses have been bred for generation after generation by a small, unique group of people on a few small and unique group of islands just west of Europe. Geography alone goes a long way toward ensuring breed type in this situation. The oral history on blood of horses is accurate, this can only be experienced and appreciated by getting to know the people who “created” this breed of horse. We can tell you for sure that, in spite of the lack of papers, the gypsy cold-blooded horses (“traditional”) are a definite type, that breeds true. They have been
