Kyrgyz Horse

[4]: 12  During the Soviet era of Kyrgyz history, the Kyrgyz Horse was cross-bred with imported foreign breeds, including Don and Thoroughbred strains, to create a new and larger breed, the Novokirgiz or New Kirgiz.

[3]: 489 In the late nineteenth century there were some two million Kyrgyz horses in the area that is now Kyrgyzstan.

[3]: 489 [5] Numbers of the traditional native breed were greatly reduced,[5] but have since shown some recovery.

A breed standard was drawn up, based partly on a description found in archives in Saint Petersburg, and was approved by the national ministry of agriculture.

[3]: 480  Horsemeat production in Kyrgyzstan in 2002 was 24 800 tonnes, about one eighth of the total meat produced in that year.

Kyrgyz Horse in 1894, illustration from Les races chevalines - avec une étude spéciale sur les chevaux russes
Kok-boru in Kyrgyzstan, circa 1872