Sarmatian horses

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Hi I know this is a bit off topic but I found this article about an Indian(sub-continent) breed of horse called Marwari horse. Although bred in India it was trained to help fight elephants or more precisely to enable the rider to kill mahout. Shows versatility of horses for combat and interesting. I know topic is what horses Sarmatians may have used, but I think there would be some Central Asian blood in these horses.

http://travel.cnn.com/explorations/play/...nts-630647 Michael Kerr

Michael

I am sure I have seen a reference to the use of the Marwari horses in the early days of the British Army taking up polo in India (Empire India was India and Pakistan as we know it now, of course). I will go and look it up! If I am right it perhaps extends the pedigree of these brave horses back to my favourite form of mounted violence :-) and why they are still used in polo today.