Type : Middleweight (approximately 500 kg.) "Medium lined"; sub convex profile throughout the body (with rounded outlines the silhouette of which can be fitted into a square.
Height : Medium, to be measured at the withers with a measuring stick at the age of 6 years. Average height Females 1.55 m (nearest 15.1 h.h.); Males 1.60 m (15.3 h.h.).
Coat : The most appreciated and esteemed are all shade of grey and bay.
Temperament : Noble, generous and ardent, but always gentle and able to support pressure.
Movements : Agile, elevated, smooth with a great facility to carry the rider in confort.
Aptitude : Natural ability fo concentration, with a great disposition for Haute Ecole work. Courage and enthusiasm for the ginata exercices (combat, hunting, bullfighting, cattle work, etc.).
Head : Well proportioned, of medium length, narrow and dry with relatively unpronounced lower jaw and longer cheek. Slightly sub-convex with a curved forehead (just above the eybrow bones). The eyes tend to be elliptical in
shape (almond shape), big and alive, expressive and confident. The ears are
of a medium lenght, fine, narrow and expressive.
Neck : Of medium length, arched with a narrow hairline: the junction
between head and neck is narrow or fine. The neck is deepin the base and
well inserted between the shoulders, rising up from the withers without any convexity.
Withers : Well defined and long, with a smooth transition from the back and the neck. Always higher than the croup.
Chest : Of medium size, deep and mucular.
Ribcage : Well developed, long and deep with the ribs obliquely arched into the join with the spinal column promoting a hort and full flank.
Shoulders : Long, slanting and well mucled.
Back : Well defined and tending towards the horizontal making a smooth union between the withers and loins.
Loins : Short, wide, muscular, slightly convex, well connected with the back and croup forming a continous harmonious line.
Croup : Strong and rounded, well balanced, slightly slanting, the lenght and width should be of identical proportions, of convex and harmonious profile with the point of hip relatively unobtrusive, giving the croup an elliptical transverse section. the tails emerges from the same line as the croup, being of long, silky and abundant hair.
Legs : The forelegs are well muscled, and harmoniously inclined.
The upper arm straight and muscular.
The cannons slightly and muscular.
The fetlocks are dry, relatively big and with very little hair.
The pasterns are relatively long and sloping.
The hooves are of good constitution, well defined and proportioned without being too open; the line of the coronet is not very evident.
The buttock is short and convex.
The thigh is muscular and tends to be short, and it is orientated in such a way that the patella is in the same vertical line as the hip bone, or point of the hip.
The legs is slightly long from hock which puts the point of the hock in the same vertical line as the point of the buttock.
The hocks are large, strong and dry.
The back legs present a picture of relatively closed angles.
Lusitano : Standard