Already the earliest breeders of the Turan horses traded them, they were imported into the land of Ur, Syria, the regions west of the Caucase, and demanded as tribute by the egyptians. Since then the egyptian pictures of horses show characteristica of the central asian horse. The name given to the people living in this area is that of the Saka or Scyths. Narration and murals of the third and second millenium B.C. describe the horses of central asia as lean and dry, with high-held heads ("gaful"- those which stand and look), temperamental, very fast, large, hardy and endowed with an exceptional colour. The authors of antiquity emphasized the golden hue of these horses repeatedly. Through these exports the early Turan  horse was spread to nearly all southern and southwestern areas within reach.

Over the following centuries many peoples migrated through central asia, came to political prominence and rule - and the proto-turkmenian oriental horse changed name just as often as their owners.

Among those coming to prominence in the Turan were the Bakthrians, the Samanides and Persians, the Massagetians, as well as the townpeople of Merw, Nisa and Ferghana. For some time it was thought that one people followed the other, that one tribe died out to be replaced by the next. However - the only thing which really changed this often was the political ruler, his name was given to his subjects. And the horses of the Turan stayed, for all times actually, in the hands of their original breeders, as the nomads living in the Turanese flat did not stray from there.

Rock paintings in the Ferghana valley depict horses with succinct features of the proto-turkmenian horse. They were so famous, that at about 100 B.C. the Chinese tried to buy or steal the "heavenly argamaks of Ferghana", 50.000 soldiers died for this goal and though few were acquired, the chinese horse breeds show this influence up to the day. As does art - the famous "flying horse" must have been either a pure or at least partbred Turanian horse. The horses of Nisa were famous all over the then known world, Nisa being a town close to modern Ashgabat and such descriptions as exist again detail the proto-turkmenian horse. Near Anau (close to Ashgabat and Nisa) pictures and artwork was discovered, depicting such horses and the representations of the early syrian horses prove that they are of Turanese ancestrage.

Wars, trade and migration spread the Turanian horse all over the known world of the time. Massagetian soldiers, who where nothing else but former Turanese nomads, participated in the conquest of Egypt, mercenaries of the Persian emperor.

At the same time the Turanian breed entered Greece, Herodot reports how more ships had to be found to load the thousands of horses, when Xerxes invaded the greek mainland. The legendary Bucephalos, horse of Alexander the Great, was a Turanian horse. Contemporary chroniclers wrote: They breed an outstanding horse in the fertile eastern regions, to which no other is equal. They are fiery, fast and hardy. They are white, rainbow-coloured or coloured as the early sunrise. Straton maintained that the Parthians owned the best horses of the world and described these as being the rightful descendants of the Nisean horse, typical in colour, model and character.

When the Parthian Empire was lost through dynastic strife during the 3rd century A.C. the nomadic "turkmen", who partly descended from the Massagetians, Scyths and Saka, founded their own political sphere. From these ancestors the Turkmenian tribes received their peculiarities of language, the various traditions and above all the famous Turanian horse.