Mangalarga

{{Short description|Breed of horse}}

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|image_caption= Mangalarga

|altname= Mangalarga Paulista

|country= Brazil

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The Mangalarga is a horse breed that was originally developed in Brazil by Francisco Gabriel Junqueira, the Baron of Alfenas, when he began breeding Alter Real stallions from Portugal with local Colonial Spanish mares on his lands in Baependi County at Minas Gerais State.{{Cite web |last=Pavia |first=Audrey |date=2020-10-23 |title=Horses of South America |url=https://www.horseillustrated.com/horse-breeds-of-south-america |access-date=2022-09-13 |website=Horse Illustrated Magazine |language=en-US}}

Thus work of Junqueira also developed the Mangalarga Marchador breed that differs from the Mangalarga due to the influence of different bloodlines and a focus on different traits. However, at the beginning, there was just one type of horse, the "Mangalarga Horse". However, today the two breeds are different from one another and each has its own studbook and breed associations.{{Cite web |last=Potter |first=Leslie |date=29 July 2013 |title=The Near Side: Riding the Mangalarga Marchador |url=https://www.horseillustrated.com/the-near-side-blog-2013-0729-riding-the-mangalarga-marchador |access-date=2022-09-13 |website=Horse Illustrated Magazine |language=en-US}}

A 2013 study found that the Mangalarga Paulista had one of the highest inbreeding coefficients among all horse breeds.{{cite journal |last1=Petersen |first1=Jessica L. |last2=Mickelson |first2=James R. |last3=Cothran |first3=E. Gus |last4=Andersson |first4=Lisa S. |last5=Axelsson |first5=Jeanette |last6=Bailey |first6=Ernie |last7=Bannasch |first7=Danika |last8=Binns |first8=Matthew M. |last9=Borges |first9=Alexandre S. |last10=Brama |first10=Pieter |last11=da Câmara Machado |first11=Artur |last12=Distl |first12=Ottmar |last13=Felicetti |first13=Michela |last14=Fox-Clipsham |first14=Laura |last15=Graves |first15=Kathryn T. |last16=Guérin |first16=Gérard |last17=Haase |first17=Bianca |last18=Hasegawa |first18=Telhisa |last19=Hemmann |first19=Karin |last20=Hill |first20=Emmeline W. |last21=Leeb |first21=Tosso |last22=Lindgren |first22=Gabriella |last23=Lohi |first23=Hannes |last24=Lopes |first24=Maria Susana |last25=McGivney |first25=Beatrice A. |last26=Mikko |first26=Sofia |last27=Orr |first27=Nicholas |last28=Penedo |first28=M. Cecilia T |last29=Piercy |first29=Richard J. |last30=Raekallio |first30=Marja |last31=Rieder |first31=Stefan |last32=Røed |first32=Knut H. |last33=Silvestrelli |first33=Maurizio |last34=Swinburne |first34=June |last35=Tozaki |first35=Teruaki |last36=Vaudin |first36=Mark |last37=M. Wade |first37=Claire |last38=McCue |first38=Molly E. |display-authors=3 |title=Genetic Diversity in the Modern Horse Illustrated from Genome-Wide SNP Data |journal=PLOS ONE |date=30 January 2013 |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=e54997 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0054997 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2013PLoSO...854997P |hdl=1969.1/178598 |hdl-access=free |pmc=3559798 }}