Marwari Horse

The Marwari horse is a breed which originates from India. The Breed’s main characteristics are the ears which are bent inwards towards each other, The horses tips of the ears are so curved in many cases to can touch each other. The horses ears are known as cycle or tulip ears.

The Marwarin is also closely related to the Kathiawarin, another Indian horse with the same distinctive ears. The Marwarin is a rugged and naturally sound horse with a thin and silky coat, and farmers attach great importance to the whorls in the coat that should be just right.

It Marwari horse is legendry in battle and never gave up until it breathed its last breath, The horse was fiercely protective of its riders. And if their rider was injured or fell the horses stayed by their side, or stopped and waited for them.

Those who tried to come too close were kicked or bitten by the horse. Rajput, recorded incidences of the horses extreme bravery and talked of horses that threw themselves war elephants and ran without stopping across the entire desert.

The Marwari owners speak of the horses with great pride and there are few races that inspire such commitment from their owners, when they talk about their horses

The Marwari is known to be a very brave horse.
Over many centuries, almost all the horse-breeding in India, was concentrated in the Indian State of Marware, Jodhpur.

Many of these horses were bred as war horses. The Marwari originate from the stud and the foundation horses were from all over the world. Those who could be traced were horses from Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. The foundation sires were typical desert and mountain horses.

The Marwarin is typical of the Turkmen type horses and in addition to the characteristic inward curved ears. Therefore, it is believed also that the Indian Kathiawarin was among the greatest influence of the foundation blood stock with the Detarabiska full blood.

Breeding of the Marwarin was supported by the family Rathore who was the ruler of Marware at the time. There were strict breed standards in place already from the 1100s but applied to a strict selective breeding of all horses in the country.

The breeding standards were to develop a horse that could cope with extreme heat and one that could also thrive in the desert environments. It was now that the many legends and tales of the brave Marwarihastarna occurred.

In the 1920s there were not many of the breed of Marwarin left, but thanks to the efforts of the Maharaja Umaid Singhji who rescued the breed when he started up the state stud breeding programme.

The breed was once in danger during the late 1900s but the Maharaja’s grandson has once again raised the stud in the country. Now organized the exhibitions of Marwarin each year and breeders’ associations has been started with the race’s patron in the chair, Rajan Bhupat of Umaid Singh Nagar.
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The Ears of the Marwari horse show the characteristic inward-curved peak, so-called Tulip or cycle Ear.

The Marwarin is a hardy, healthy, well muscled breed with thin and silky coat. The breed’s appearance can vary a lot when the heads of some horses can be really heavy, almost like a mule, while other horses have a really noble head profile clearly showing the influence of the Arabs breed.

It is a common trait for the horse breed and sometimes the ears are so pronounced they form a ring above the horses head, when the tips touch.

The breed is a perfect desert horse that is wiry and tenacious. There is also great influence on the whorls of the coat which must be perfect,

The head length for example be not less than 28 finger widths or longer than 50 and the length of the head, times 4 and they will be the length that goes from the neck, behind the ears, down to the tail.

Otherwise, the breed is very elegant with a strong body. Hooves are hard and there is rarely an animal that suffers from lameness or disease.