Height: Around 1.53m. Color: Bay, dark bay, gray, black, chestnut. The Turkoman has a long head with a straight profile; long ears; large eyes; wide forehead; slender nose; a light, sometimes "stag-like" neck; sloping shoulders; a straight back; long, sloping croup; slender barrel; very slender, long, solid legs; and small hooves. It has thin skin, thin hide; the mane and tail are fine, silky, and not very thick. Distribution: lran (everywhere, but especially in the northeast, Aqqala and Gombad-e-kavus regions); Turkmenistan. It is intelligent, lively, has great endurance, and is fast. It is an excellent galloper. The Turkoman is a saddle horse, prized especially for speed racing, which is very popular in Iran, in Gonbad-e Kavus. It is very rare, with around 400 horses in 2004, having sometimes undergone too much crossbreeding with the English Thoroughbred.

The ancient Turkoman, which has influenced many other horse breeds, is extinct, but there are still horses called by this name in Iran.The lomud and the Akhal-Teke are sometimes also called Turkoman horses, the name designating a type of Eastern horse different from the Arabian. Like them, the modern Turkoman descends from those ancient Turkoman horses. But the latter has sometimes been crossed with English Thoroughbreds in order to increase its speed, and So one sometimes speaks of the "Turkoman Thoroughbred." Herds have been returned to the wild.

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