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If not everyone, then many have heard about the Akhal-Teke. These are horses of extraordinary beauty, and there is no equal to them in endurance. Well, or, in any case, it didn’t exist when the Akhal-Teke horse was not a sports horse, as it is now, but the horse of the pastoralists of the desert - the Turkmens, who lived on the border of the great Karakum desert and the foothills of the Kopetdag.

Life in the desert is not sugar. Moreover, this territory was under the rule of the Persian Shah, and the military detachments of the Persians levied tribute from the population when they could. Turkmens are not rich, but brave and independent people. And one of the sources of their existence was alaman - the so-called raid on the lands of Persia, present-day Iran.

However, all roads in the desert are roads from one well to another. And on most of the wells in the foothills there were small fortresses - bats - with Persian garrisons. A detachment of warriors heading for Persian lands had to covertly and very quickly, bypassing large wells, so as not to raise the alarm, overcome 200-300 kilometers. And after the raid - to return back, leaving the persecution, again bypassing the wells. At the same time, horses, in addition to riders, also had to carry prey. It was for such work that the famous Akhal-Teke horses were bred. The agility of the Akhal-Tekes did not strike the imagination. But they could carry a rider for several hours without a break at a speed of 30-35 kilometers per hour. And this meant that no matter how frisky the horses under the pursuers were, having a head start of 2-3 kilometers, the Turkmen on the Akhal-Teke was elusive. The detachment, if necessary, overcame 100-150 kilometers in a day, and could go at such a speed for several days in a row, which was beyond the power of any other horses. The Akhal-Teke people could go without water and food for a long time; in the raids, the Turkmens fed them with small portions of mutton fat.

They say that the famous Bucephalus, the horse of Alexander the Great, was from those places - a representative of those horses that became the ancestors of the Akhal-Teke.

Author: Cellarius E.Yu.

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