Talk:Oriental horse

Equine Low‑importance

	Horses portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Equine, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of articles relating to horses, asses, zebras, hybrids, equine health, equine sports, etc. Please visit the project page for details or ask questions at the barn.EquineWikipedia:WikiProject EquineTemplate:WikiProject Equineequine articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by Horse breeds task force.

"Four Foundations"[edit]

I've removed a couple of sentences relating to this outmoded theory. Here's what they said:

"The Four Foundations theory posits four basic "proto" horses developed with adaptations to their environment prior to domestication by humans. One, later called the "Oriental" subspecies, was a taller, slim, refined and agile animal arising in western Asia, adapted to hot, dry climates, and thought to be the progenitor of the modern oriental breeds."

Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:17, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I restored it, but redid the paragraph to perhaps put it into proper perspective. We can debate how much this is needed in the other articles, but when it comes to the oriental breeds, the "outmoded" theories really DO need to be discussed because they are still very widespread, even amongst those who should know better. Montanabw^(talk) 22:06, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Turkoman horse is not extinct[edit]

The Turkoman horse is not extinct. This canard has been corrected in the main Turkoman horse page, but it persists here. Numerous peer reviewed research papers over the last ten years refer to the Turkoman and Turkoman/Akhal-Teke horse, including contemporary DNA sampling. Greenineugene (talk) 18:40, 26 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]