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State horse
Extracted from the Wikipedia article List of U.S. state horses.
Thirteen U.S. states have designated a horse breed as the official "state horse", two have a horse breed as their "state animal", one has an official "state pony", and one has an "honorary state equine". The first state horse was designated in Vermont in 1961. The most recent state horse designations occurred in 2024 when Mississippi designated the American Quarter Horse as its state horse and in 2022 when Oklahoma declared the American Quarter Horse as its state horse. Arizona and New Mexico have designated through proclamation the Colonial Spanish Horse as the State Heritage Horse.