Talk:Soviet Heavy Draft

According to Simon & Schusters "Horses and Ponies" breed encyclopedia, as well as the Oklahoma State University breed project (among others, probably, these were just the first couple places I looked), the Soviet and Russian Heavy Drafts are two seperate breeds. They were both developed as heavy drafts in the former USSR, but are officially different, from what I can see. I'd say - no merge.Dana boomer (talk) 01:32, 27 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Hmmm. Well, based on the standard that Indonesia claims 7 or 8 different "Breeds" of scrubby little pony-sized horses with bad heads and straight shoulders that honest to god don't seem to me to be all that different from one another (grumble, grumble, grumble goes the person who wrote up 2 or 3 of the articles on them!), I'm OK with not merging, though the Simon and Schuster book is outdated.  Actually, the Oklahoma State site is a bit uneven too, have you checked Kentucky Horse Park/International Museum of the Horse?  If that site lists both too, then I'll go along with it.    Montanabw (talk) 04:29, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

19th Century Soviets?
According to the Soviet Union article, that entity did not exist in the 19th century. I'm not sure of the best way to rephrase this, but there seems to be a problem with the description in the current revision.

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