The Mangalarga is a horse breed

Horse breed

Horse breed is a broad term with no clear consensus as to definition, but most commonly refers to selectively bred populations of domesticated horses, often with pedigrees recorded in a breed registry. However, the term is sometimes used in a very broad sense to define landrace animals, or...

 that was originally developed in Brazil

Brazil

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 by Francisco Gabriel Junqueira, the Baron of Alfenas, when he began breeding Royal Alter stallions from Portugal

Portugal

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 with local colonial mares on his lands in Baependi County at Minas Gerais

Minas Gerais

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 State.

In 1812, when the Junqueira family moved to São Paulo

São Paulo

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 state, the topography, the forest, the local culture and the different species of deer to hunt, forced them to seek for a horse with different characteristics, by the selection or crossing, and so they started to breed the Mangalarga horse with Thoroughbred

Thoroughbred

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, Arabian

Arabian horse

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, and American Saddlebred

American Saddlebred

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 stallions plus a Saddlebred mare and one Luzitano

Lusitano

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 stalion. Nowadays, this blood remains only by a few female lines, but these influences made the Mangalarga horse a different breed from the Mangalarga Marchador breed.

Thus work of Junqueira also developed the Mangalarga Marchador

Mangalarga Marchador

The Mangalarga Marchador is a breed of horse. There are over 350,000 registered Mangalarga Marchador horses in Brazil and others registered in countries outside its Brazilian homeland...

 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.

The two names references differences in the desired gaits

Horse gait

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 of each breed: Mangalarga Marchador = Triple contact base or support while marching, referencing that breed's desired ambling

Ambling

The term amble or ambling is used to describe a number of four-beat intermediate gaits of horses. All are faster than a walk but usually slower than a canter or gallop...

gait; Mangalarga = referring to a double (bipedal) contact base or support while marching.

The Mangalarga horse breed has been registered by the ABCCRM since 1934.