They were larger, faster, heavier and more powerful than the traditional Kyrgyz horses, but did not have the same rusticity or the same level of adaptation to the mountainous terrain of Kyrgyzstan.

[5]: 432  Three principal types developed within the new breed: the original or standard, the saddle and the heavy.

[3]: 298 [6]: 489 A stallion named Banket, foaled in 1946, won a five-day cross-country endurance contest over five hundred kilometres of mountainous terrain; he completed the distance in fifty-four hours with a rider and equipment weighing a hundred kilograms, outrunning a Don horse.

[5]: 431 [7]: 33  A group of the horses from the Naryn state collective, carrying 150 kg between rider and gear, took 11 hours to complete a distance of 110 kilometres on paths through the mountains.

[2] It is larger, heavier, faster and more powerful than the original Kirghiz horse, but has a less rustic constitution and is less well adapted to the harsh mountainous terrain of Kyrgyzstan.