| Gypsy Horse (Irish Tinker horse, also known as Irish Cob, Piebald (in Ireland), or Gypsy Vanner (in USA)) is a breed with its origin among the traveling Gypsies of the British Isles. A mix of draught horse and pony breeds gives quite a large variation in size and appearance, but the typical horse measures 12.0 - 15.3 hands (hand equals 4 inches) and the larger variation—the Drum Horse—reaches 16.0 hands and over.
A skewbald Gypsy Vanner Mare, Liberty.The colours of Gypsy horses are very broad and include: piebald, skewbald, solid black, chestnut, palomino, silver dapple (chocolate palomino), and appaloosa. These horses are known for their abundance of hair and feather (hair starting at the canon bone and the hock and flowing down over the hooves). Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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