Sponsored Topics. Marco Island is a city in Collier County, Florida, United States, located on an island by the same name in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Southwest Florida. It is a principal city of the NaplesâMarco Island Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 12,879 at the 2000 census.
Friesian Sporthorseâ¢ is a registered trademark of the Friesian Sporthorse Association. Friesian Sport Horse is often used as a generic term to describe any Friesian crossbred, regardless of the breeding or registry affiliation.embers should be wary of other registries representing themselves as registries for Friesian Sporthorses -- if your horse is not registered with the FSA it is not officially a Friesian Sporthorse.
History of the Friesian. The breed was developed in the province of Friesland in the northern Netherlands, where there is evidence of thousands of years of horse populations, and this breed is said to have descended from the primitive Forest Horse. The Romans used the breed for riding. It is also said that Romans took Friesian horses to England, where the breed influenced the Shire, Clydesdale, Fell and Dales. Once thought to be ugly, this northern-European-mainland breed is now considered among the most beautiful of horses. Black is [now indeed] beautiful..