Canadian horse has a rather short, high-set head with a broad forehead.
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10 Facts About Canadian horse
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In 1798, a horse with characteristics similar to the Canadian is reported to have appeared spontaneously in Massachusetts and given to one Justin Morgan, giving rise to the Morgan breed.
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Several interested breeders began a campaign of preservation and promotion, which resulted in a Canadian horse team winning the 1987 North American Driving Championships.
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The Canadian horse showed high haplotype diversity, sharing haplotypes with all Canadian populations, as well as draft breeds, Nordic pony breeds and British mountain and moorland pony breeds tested in the study.
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The Canadian horse had been shown to be related to draft horse breeds, including the Percheron, Belgian and Clydesdale, in previous microsatellite loci studies.
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The high levels of diversity in the Canadian horse supported the conclusions of a 1998 study, which determined that the small population size and historical genetic bottlenecks had not resulted in a significant loss of genetic variation.
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The 1998 paper stated that the Canadian horse did not show inbreeding any more significant than other, more popular, breeds.
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The second, the Frencher, sometimes called the St Lawrence, was a trotting Canadian horse known for its power and speed, resulting from crosses with Thoroughbreds.
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The Canadian horse Pacer influenced the Tennessee Walker, the American Saddlebred and the Standardbred.
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Canadian horse began to be offered for stud service in 1816, and his progeny spread throughout the eastern US.
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