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Andalusian
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Andalusian, Andalucian
breeds of animals named after the Spanish province of Andalusia.

Andalusian ass
gray donkey, origin of American and other ass breeds.
Andalusian cattle
three varieties, a dark, black-brown, a yellow, and gray, of meat and draft cattle, with open lyre horns, bred in southern Spain.
Andalusian horse
Spanish breed of light horse originating from Arab and Barb. Brown, gray or black, about 15.2 hands high. Origin of many breeds of horses and of criollo and mustang.
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Andalusian horse. By permission from Sambraus HH, Livestock Breeds, Mosby, 1992


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The origination of the Falabella breed comes from the Andalusian horse, brought with Spaniards during the attempt of a conquest.
Hemingway would have been attracted to Gongora's sexual innuendos and scatological humor; his descriptions of passionate encounters, hunting scenes, bravery in war, bloody battlefields; his lyrical passages on "beautiful Andalusian horses, the flight of hawks, the color of red and white wine mixed, a river winding through fields, the rising sun dispelling mists, pools of water on the seashore sparkling in the sunlight" (Selected Poems, ed.
Paul de Olivera and his team reveal the secrets of Cossack riding, while Sebastian Fernandez shows off his Andalusian horses.
 
 
 
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