The Percheron came out of a small corner of northern France and ended up working on farms, roads and city streets on both sides of the Atlantic. Here is where it came from, what shaped it, and why it is still with us.

The Paint Horse is a coat pattern with a long history and a stock horse’s build underneath it. Here is where it came from, what it worked at, and how a colour became a registered breed.

The New Forest Pony has grazed the same Hampshire heath and woodland for many centuries, shaped by the commoners who kept it and the Forest that fed it. Here is where it came from, what nearly went wrong, and what that history asks of us today.

The Mustang is not a wild horse in the strict sense. It is a descendant of horses that came from Spain and went their own way, and its story is one of work, escape, near-loss and rescue.

Every Morgan traces to one small colt in eighteenth century Vermont. Here is where he came from, the work that shaped the breed, and how it survived the years when nobody needed it.

The Lusitano was shaped by farm work, the bullring and the riding school, and it nearly lost that work in the twentieth century. This is where it came from and what its history means for the horse today.

The Lipizzaner began as a court horse on a stony Habsburg stud in what is now Slovenia. It survived Napoleon, two world wars and a border that moved under its feet.

The Irish Draught was never a heavy carthorse. It was the small farm’s all-rounder, and its build and its calm head come straight from that work. Here is where it came from, how close it came to disappearing, and where it stands now in the UK and the US.

The Icelandic horse has lived on its island for more than a thousand years, closed off from every other breed by a law its owners kept. This is how that isolation, and a lot of hard work, made the horse we know.

The Highland pony was shaped by crofts, hillsides and deer forests, and its build still tells you exactly what it was asked to do. Here is where it came from, how it was recorded and why it matters now.