Gypsy Vanners are a breed of domestic horse from the British Isles, also called the Gypsy Cob, Irish Cob or Gypsy Horse. They are small, sturdy cob-type horses, usually piebald (black and white), with heavy manes, tails and long hair on the lower legs called feathering. The breed is closely associated with Irish Travellers and English Romanichal Travellers, who from about 1850 used these horses to pull their horse-drawn caravans, called vardos.
There was no stud book for the breed until 1996, the same year the first horses of this type were exported to the United States. Breed societies differ somewhat, but American and Australasian registries generally look for horses about 13 to 16 hands (52 to 64 inches) tall, while some Irish and European standards allow taller horses up to 16.2 hands.
Source: Gypsy horse, Wikipedia
Image: Gypsy Vanner horse by Oleg Yunakov, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.