Traditionally a hardy working horse used by the Butteri for livestock management, it is today principally a saddle horse.

The criollo is a hardy horse with a brawny and strong body with broad chest and well-sprung ribs.

The most popular horse for this job would is a stock horse or a very hardy bush horse.

Shetland ponies, like many hardy small horse and pony breeds, can easily develop laminitis if on a diet high in non-structural carbohydrates.

They are hardy and long-lived horses, and docile in temperament.

The Konik is a Polish horse breed descending from very hardy horses from the Biłgoraj region.

This hardy horse was used as the foundation for the current Russian Don, and was also used to improve the Orlov, Orlov-Rostopchin, and Thoroughbred breeds.

Old Prussians and other Baltic people such as the Lithuanians were noted for their hardy horses and cavalry during the early Middle Ages.

It was a hardy cavalry horse and is now popular in sport horse disciplines such as dressage, eventing and endurance riding.

Later, the people who settled the Americas needed a hardy horse that was capable of working with cattle.