You know, I've been to librarys all over the place and everyplace that I've looked, I've never found anything solely or even on Kaimanawas.
Kaimanawas? you may be thinking, what are those? Well, they are the North Island's only wild horses. They are so beautiful, and so free. They are New Zealand's Mustangs, they are New Zealand's own breed of horses. A breed that nature has designed to live in New Zealand, and to jump twice and sometimes three times their height, to swim the deepest rivers in New Zealand, to cross the highest mountain without flinching. I'm not kidding. If you make friends with one of these horses they with do anything for you, and not only that but they will put their whole heart into it too.
They are so surefooted they would make domesticated horses look clumsy, even the ones who look surefooted when you get them.
Ride a Kai out in the pitch dark where even you can't see, then turn around and let the reins loose, and guaranteed that horse will take you home safely without putting one foot wrong.
When you want to go and do endurance they can go for miles without stopping or putting a foot wrong. Did i mention their feet? They are like shoes on a horse. No need to shoe them. Just let their feet grow out and take them for a hoon. They will do the rest.
As for companionship they are great at that too, but they are a one-man-horse/pony so to speak. They find it very hard when they have to swap owners. When they have one owner they stick with them, and they bond with them a bond a lot stronger then normal horses.
With their coat colour, well it's like three different colours put together to create one colour. Occasionally you get a normal looking Kai, but not very often. I've seen a flaxen maned, strawberry roaned chestnut. I've seen a chocolate bay, chestnut. I've seen a faded black, chocolate. If you ask me, these aren't normal horses, they are something special that everybody should want.
As for smartness, well these horses beat every other horses IQ. I've known Kai's to open horse proof gates, jump electric fences as a two year old. I've seen these horses think their way out of ropes wrapped around their legs that other horses would panic at.
I've seen a beautiful Arab/thoroughbred type Kaimanawa gallop, and canter far more beautiful then a thoroughbred, and look way better then a Arab while doing it.
Did i mention that you will never be bored with these horses? They surely keep you busy and keep you guessing. They can be a sweet cuddly little pony one day, and a beautiful wild Kaimanawa the next and not even in days either, they can flip within seconds. But let me tell you this, they will never ever purposely hurt a person. If you get hurt, its because you weren't listening to your horse or it was your fault entirely.
Kaimanawas have a special name. I don't think many horses were named because of their speed. Thoroughbreds were named because they were supposed to be very well bred horses. Kaimanawa means- Kai – man – awa – Eat – the – wind.
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