Iceland has their own special breed of horses, one with five gaits instead of the usual four. Icelanders don't allow their horses to breed with horses abroad, partly to keep their breed pure and partly to avoid importing disease. It's the law. If an Icelandic horse goes abroad to compete, his owner must sell it abroad before returning home.
We met a gang of corraled horses near a geysir one day and got a few shots while they impatiently teemed against each other in the tight enclosure...the horsepower was truly palpable.
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