It is native to Fars province in southern Iran and is associated with the Qashqai people of that area, particularly with the Dareshuri tribe for which it is named.

[4]: 223  It is a traditional breed, closely associated with the Qashqai people of Fars province in southern Iran, and particularly with the Dareshuri tribe for which it is named.

[5]: 628 The traditional semi-annual migrations of the Qashgai people from their winter pastures to the south and west of the city of Shiraz to their summer grazing grounds in the mountains to the north and west of the city lasted some four to six weeks and covered many hundreds of kilometres.

The body is slender and light, the rib cage shallow, the tail set low.

[13]: 299 [12][8] The coat can be bay, seal brown, chestnut or gray, very rarely black.

[2] The Dareshuri is in fact an indigenous Iranian breed, specific to the province of Fars, north of Shiraz[12] and therefore in southern Iran.