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The first Paso Fino horses introduced in the United States (in 1950) came from Puerto Rico, Later, more Paso Fino Horses came from Colombia, Venezuela, and the Dominican Republic.

Since then, the population of the Paso Fino horse breed has been growing steadily in the States.

Currently, The Paso Fino sports is very important in the countries with horse associations/Federations affiliated with Confepaso (Confederacion Internacional de Caballos de Paso, which may be translated into English as International Confederation of Paso Horse Breeders):

ARUBA, CANADA, COLOMBIA , CURACAO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, GERMANY, PANAMA, PUERTO RICO, SWITZERLAND, UNITED STATES and VENEZUELA, Paso Finos are also becoming more important in ECUADOR, SPAIN and the UNITED KINGDOM.

NOTE: The Paso Fino Horse Association, Inc., which is affiliated with CONFEPASO, promotes and regulates PASO FINO HORSES in the UNITED STATES.

NOW!!!we will like to invite you to become a member!!!!!! is free! WELCOME! You must be 18 or older to join !

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Mejia's book has a photo of clippings taken from a Dallas newspaper (The Daily Times Herald), dated October 14, and October 16, 1952. A contingent of representatives from the Colombian Department of Agriculture (among others) were brought horses to Dallas, I believe for the State Fair. One of the horses was the stallion, Marengo, and another was a mare named Bengala. I have no bloodline info for either.

This is Marengo, owned by Eustacio de Francisco. Perhaps his ownership may offer a clue to someone about his bloodlines.

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Early Export of the Colombian Horse
(translated from Spanish by Lynn Gallup)

http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/classiclegacy/earlyColexport.html

In 1952 a group of horseman, helped partly by the Ministry of Agriculture and with mostly their own resources, traveled to Dallas, Texas in the United States, in order to exhibit in this city, where a exhibition would be made of the Colombian Paso Fino. They were: Jose Ignacio de Francisco, Ignacio Urdaneta, Rafael Eduardo Garcia. In addition to go were great horsemen of their time: Raúl Jimeno, Jaime De Narvaez, Roberto Londoño, Martín Vargas Cualla, Jaime Mejía Escobar, Anastasio Iriarte, Miquel A. Escobar, (if my memory serves me right to have read). They took horses that occupied the best championship status, as they were: Artista --National Champion, "zaino" descendant of Mahoma and Pintura; Cereza -- 1952 National Champion, descendant of Yusuf en Fundación; Bengala -- 1950 National Champion, son of Anarkos and Alondra; Sardinata -- daughter of Marengo, and La Mona of Roberto Londoño. The exhibition had been programmed for only a day, but the response was so great, the public was touched so much and applauded incessantly that it forced the directors to make several exhibitions during the days they remained there.

They were offered to sell Artista and Marengo, but the thought of the Colombian Government was not to sell their best champions. In short, it was a seed that was watered to the United States for the first time and left a restlessness in the horse breeders of the U.S. A series of American horse breeders came more or less to Colombia, in 1966, and they crossed all of Colombia and visited people like Don Fabio Ochoa, like Germán Posada Alvarez, Mario Jaramillo Uribe in the valley, and the villages of Pereira and Manizales. The visitors were more fascinated with these Colombian Paso horses than they were with the Puerto Rican Paso Finos they had previously seen. Then the Americans made the first great export from Colombia to the United States, with: Mar de Plata , El Pastor, Coral , the mare GUALA -- mother of Resorte III, but decided not to take Resorte III. Later in 1969, Hilachas would be exported, and a group of 24 mares from the farm of José de Eusebio Vargas in the city of Bogotá, for Mr. Colín Phipps of Meridian Meadows. The Colombian horses entered the market the United States; people became enchanted with them, bought them and began to breed them in the United States. The mare GUALA had four offspring born in the US: Cortes que tal, Faldero que tal, Eximio que tal and Gala que tal.

caliber · Site Admin

Also! IMPORTANT HISTORY and INFORMATION OF OUR BREED HERE IN THE USA!

http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/classiclegacy/meridianMeadows.html