Island Life
by Marty Fancy
Title
Island Life
Artist
Marty Fancy
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The Shackleford Banks wild horses are a unique historic and cultural legacy.
Historical research and genetics testing indicates that these wild horses descended from a core group of the old type of Spanish horses. One genetic factor, the blood variant Q-ac, is believed to be contributed by the Spanish horses of 400 years ago. This genetic marker has been found in only descendents of those Spanish horses. Easily lost through genetic drift, Q-ac has been documented in the Puerto Rican Paso Finos, the isolated mustang population of Montana's Pryor Mountains, and the horses of Shackleford Banks.
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October 9th, 2012
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