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The Polish ones have less extreme heads than the Egyptian style ones, just a slight dish. Can always do an Egyptian version as well later on. :)

Man they look a lot like other Iberian breeds, don't they? I could easily belive this was a Lusitano.

Very true! I think it is both because of the training, the portuguese riding style is about collection and power, which create big muscles, especially in the hindquarters and the topline, and also because of the history;

The Portuguese crossbred their horses with Arabians after the Moors left the Iberian Peninsula, and it is the cross between the Portuguese horses and the Arabians in old days that made the Lusitano horses so fantastic.

The braveness from the old Portuguese war horses combined with the willingness to please and the work ethic from the Arabians gave a horse that is extremely brave and attentive to their riders. They stay with the rider and ask the humans what to do with the situation, even in the most difficult moments.

(You can see traces of the opposite in the Barb horses, bedouins who mixed Portuguese horses into their own horses)

The Spanish horse, PRE (Pura Raza Española=Purebred Spanish horse), is pure, they don't have the arabian blood, and they have a completely different mindset and temperament. They don't stay with their rider the same way

So beautiful!