Chernomor horse

The Chernomor was originally bred from crosses between the mounts of Zaporozhian Cossacks and Kazakh nomads in the late 18th century.

The Russian name is Chernomorskaya[1] (literally: "from the Black Sea"), transcribed as "Chernomor" in English, and "Tchernomor" in French.

[2] It is sometimes referred to as the "Black Sea Horse"[2] (terminology chosen by the 2016 edition of the CAB International dictionary to replace "Chernomor").

[4] The development of agriculture and sheep breeding in the second half of the 19th century led to the arrival of draft horses in the region.

At the same time, numerous stud farms were set up to supply the Russian army with saddle horses.

They used Russian Don stallions, Thoroughbreds and Orlov-Rostopchins, more rarely the Orlov Trotter, which they crossed with Chernomor and Karabakh mares.

[1] It is considered to be one of the ancestors of the Budyonny,[5] resulting from crosses between Russian Don and Chernomor mares and Thoroughbred stallions from the 1920s onwards.

[1][14] However, Bonnie Lou Hendricks (University of Oklahoma, 1995 and 2007) reports that the breed survives in small numbers in Krasnodar Krai and Rostov Oblast.