Honoring the Traditions of the Horse
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Honoring the Traditions of the Horse
| The Most Popular Horse Breeds in the World | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Our two charts below show the detailed breakdown and comparative ranking of all 6,831 sites hosted by horse breeders and horse breed associations that Google, the world's premier internet search engine, reported as registered as of October 2007. Combined, they show the 72 most renowned horse breeds in the world, as of October 2007. Each breed bar has two numbers, their respective breed popularity rank shown to the left (e.g. Friesian is No. 12), and their relative support index to the right (e.g. Friesian is 116). The support (or demand) index is the number of sites hosted by breeders and breed associations referenced above. The second chart has its scale enlarged so that the lesser supported breeds, whose support indices span a smaller range, can be shown comparatively. |
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| Domination of The Top Horse Breeds | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ranking No. 1, just topping the increasingly popular American Quarter Horse, is the famed Arabian with an incredible 939 hosting breeders and breed association sites. The domination of these top two breeds is clearly reflected in their strong world-wide popularity on the internet. Both these two breeds overwhelm all others, sporting a comined 1,850 of the total 6,831 sites, or over 27% of all horse breeder and horse breed associations sites world-wide on the internet. Moreover, the world's top 18 horse breeds combined showcase 5,425 of the total 6,831 sites. Assuming each breed's index reflects the same proportion of its own breed's total number of breeders and breed associations, we estimate that over 75% of the world's horse breeding resources are devoted to the 18 most popular breeds (shown below).
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| Breeds of Legend and History | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 20th Century advances in transporation and agriculture mechanization drastically reduced mankind's dependance upon horses, and many horse breeds have since become extinct, now living only in our history books. Now, in the Post Modern Era, only the most popular horse breeds are widely supported. We estimate that less than 25% of the world's pure horse breeds are supported by more than 75% of the world's resources devoted to pure horse breeds. Scores of horse breeds of legend and history, vital to genetic diversity and health, rank below the top 18 breeds, at a time when horse breeds ranked as high as 21 are endangered (Rocky Mountain - Ranked 21, Support Index 58, classified as "Watch" by the The American Livestock Breeds Conservancy). Note that almost half of the top chart and all of the chart below are breeds with ranking of 21 or higher. |
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| Chart Footnotes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sites are ranked by the comparative number of supporting web sites of breeders and breed associations for each major breed. The number of web sites is shown to the right of each breed bar. Four of the search engine category groups do not represent specific horse breeds, but rather are consolidated groupings of types or colors, generally not accounted for elsewhere: Draft Horses (type), Spanish Horses (type), Ponies (type), Buckskins & Duns (color)) We've ranked each breed by it's number of supporting breeder and breed association web sites. The chart reflects Google-located sites as of October 14, 2007. Web sites are added and removed continually No one search engine indexes all web sites at any given moment Our chart data is accurate for comparison purposes, but should not be assumed to reflect an absolute quantification of any given breed's web presence. Breeds ranking very closely may be tied statistically, given absolute count data. |
