Spanish Colonial Horses Arrive at Quennell Lake Livestock Conservancy

Meet Xoia Real, and Xeo do Inverno, QLLC's new conservation breeding project. These Spanish Mustangs, or Spanish Colonial Horses are the descendants of the horses brought to the Americas by the Spanish. The breed is highly endangered, with only about 300 breeding mares estimated to exist in the world.

Xoia Real

Xoia and Xeo were bred by Kitty and Neil UiBreaslain (Brislawn) at Starflower Ranch Spanish Mustangs in Wyoming.

Neil's father and uncle, Robert and Ferdinand Brislawn, began collecting and breeding the remnants of the purebred Spanish Mustangs in the 1920s and in 1957 founded the Spanish Mustang Registry to support the breed conservation efforts. At neighboring Cayuse Ranch, the third generation of Brislawns continues to work with these wonderful horses.

Xoia and Xeo will not only be a breeding pair when they grow up, they will also become breed ambassadors in the effort to reintroduce the Spanish Colonial Horse to British Columbia.

Xeo do Inverno