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Mangalarga Marchador Project

Under Construction
Planned to be taking breeding requests March 2023

The Mangalarga Marchador project is a new breeding program I'm working on and therefore have limited stock available as i create my foundation stock and model breed forward. this is a work in progress! and all models will eventually have bodies as i plan to have a lot of models anyway haha. the foundation stock will be real bred and I will be breeding those lines forward i definitely hope to include alot of older aged horses and younger ones for everyone's ID needs.  Horses bred from us normally will have Da rep at the end or beginning of their name due to naming rules that we will follow. once you breed forward you may add your own farm name to the foals name 

" The Mangalarga Marchador averages between 14.2 and 16 hands in height and weighs between 850 and 1100 lbs. Although grays predominate, chestnut, black, bay, buckskin, palomino and paint horses are also present.  An adept and extremely versatile breed, the Mangalarga Marchador is fast becoming one of the most sought after breeds.  As with many Iberian breeds they are good cattle horses. They are known for setting the Guinness Book of World Records endurance ride of 8,694 miles in 1994.  A perfect trail horse, they could also excel in other disciplines that require agility, stamina, speed and a sound mind.

The most popular and widespread horse in Brazil is the Mangalarga Marchador, which developed in 1740. Joao Francisco of Portugal settled in Brazil at the hacienda Campo Alegre, where the Marchador horses began to emerge. Francisco adopted the surname Junqueira to designate his native city. One of his twelve children, Gabriel Francisco Junqueira, the Baron of Alfenas, is credited with the expansion and development of the breed. His friend, Dom Pedro I (1798-1834), Emperor of Brazil and son of Joao IV of Portugal, gave him an Alter Real stallion named Sublime.

The stallion Sublime was the descendant of two horses brought from the breeding farm Coudelaria Alter do Chao in Portugal by Dom Joao VI during the invasion of the Iberian Peninsula by Napoleonic troops. In Brazil, Sublime was crossed with mares of the hacienda Campo Alegre: Spanish Jennets and Andalusians. Most of the Spanish horses used at the hacienda in launching the breed were the famous Spanish Jennet, known to be a fast, smooth ambler. The offspring of Sublime produced horses with the characteristics of the present-day Mangalarga Marchador horse: docility and smooth gaits, with a cadenced rhythmic gait called the marcha. " 

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Naming Rules

"In keeping with their long heritage, the names of the Marchadors tell a story reflecting their roots. Mangalarga Marchadors always have compound names that include the breeding farm. The horse’s full name and bloodline names tell you the origin of your horse and his heritage.

One of the names is like a first name to the horse, but the other name is like a surname so the combination is unique in the breed. The “surname” is the breeding farm. So if your farm name was Darley LTD, the farm designates its offspring in one of the following ways:

  • Xxxx do Darley (da Darley, de Darley)

  • Xxxx DL, DL Xxxxx (initials)

  • Darley xxxx (farm name first)

  • Xxxx Darley (farm name last)

Once a methodology is chosen for a farm, all of its progeny are named uniquely in this fashion.

Originally, there were only a few founding farms in Brazil. These farm names resonate in the pedigree of every Mangalarga Marchador.  Some are still in existence today.    Historic farm names like Abaiba, Angahay, Bela Cruz, Caxambu, Favacho, Herdade, J.B., Passa Tempo, Tabatinga and Traituba  represent some of the bloodlines here in North America."

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