Goals

The American Sulphur Horse Association's goals are to protect, preserve, promote, and educate people about the Spanish/Iberian American Sulphur Horse.

The following is how we are going to accomplish this.

Hidden in the juniper valleys of Utah's remote Mountain Home Range lives a herd of wild Spanish horses, which were discovered in the 1980’s, researchers believe the Sulphur herd is one of the purest existing gene pools of Spanish Horses in America. The Spanish Sulphur Horse is usually 13 to 14.HH. Colors are duns of all shades, some are black, bay and chestnut.

Years of fending for themselves in some of Utah's harshest conditions has created a horse with rock solid legs, a sound mind, and feet of steel. Their need for human companionship makes the Sulphur Horse an easy horse to have in your corral. This ancient Iberian-Sulphur Horse is preserved from man’s past.

Dr. Gus Cothran, UoKy, has done extensive studies on the Sulphur horses and is well known for this research: "The Sulphur herd clusters within the Iberian breeds. Genetic marker data indicates the Sulphur herd has a clear Spanish component in its ancestry and analysis of (Sulphur) wild horse populations can provide valuable information about current levels of genetic variation. Genetic analysis can be a useful tool in the overall management of wild horse populations on public lands." "What I can tell you is that the Sulphur horses have the highest similarity to Spanish type horses of any wild population in the U.S that I have tested"

Wild born and registered captive bred, American Sulphur Horses are Spanish in type with dun factors of tri-colored mane/tail, fish boning down the dark dorsal stripe, (some with belly stripes), dark barring on the shoulders and legs. It is a rare and beautiful Spanish/Iberian horse, found here in the American Southwest.

The American Sulphur Horse Association is the first Sulphur Registry that is preserving the true Spanish Horse. ASHA has a breed standard, parentage testing, conformation inspections and proof of the horse coming from Utah’s Northern HMA. The goal is to protect the Spanish Sulphur gene pool. ASHA is a rescue for unwanted or abused Sulphur/Spanish horses of type and supports the purposeful breeding of this type.

The ASHA Board members contribute monthly to a Spanish Sulphur Horse Trust Fund/Sulphur HMA. ASHA is well on it's was to fulfilling its goals, which are to preserve, protect, promote, and educate people about this very rare Spanish breed.

To protect the buyer, there is also mandatory parentage DNA testing of foals before qualified to be registered in the Association. Sulphur HMA BLM horses that pass inspection will be placed into the Foundation Division, and captivity offsprings out of both registered Foundation ASHA horses will be placed into the Permanent Division.

The ASHA will be a strict registry to protect and preserve the gene pool of this very rare Spanish breed.

Educate: You can educate people about the Spanish American Sulphur Horse and the ASHA through email, web sites, trade shows, someone seeing you with your Spanish American Sulphur Horse and they ask "What breed is that?"