Here's a cool website with a very complete listing of Italian horse breeds. The breeds are listed in the menu on the left side. Clicking each will give you a description (in Italian, of course) [update: a reader points out this listing is now available in english at this link] and photos (usually towards the bottom of the page). There is quite a diversity, from mountain ponies to saddle horses and draft horses. Many of the saddle horses derive from combinations of Iberian, Arabian and Thoroughbred blood. Worth a browse, even if you don't speak Italian.
Thank you for the link.
There is an English translation of this site which you can find if you click on the Union Jack icon:
http://eng.agraria.org/horse.htm
Posted by: Martin Broadhurst | December 13, 2010 at 07:33 PM