Today, there are between 450 and 650 horses in the plateau that are subject to public care and protection. 80% of the heads are brown, with black coat, mane and tail; then there is the baio, brown, and sauro, reddish. They eat what nature offers them, like buttercups. Their life expectancy is fifteen/ twenty years.

In Sardinian they are called cuaddedus or achettas. Their characteristics are: square head with large almond eyes; strong neck; trunk gathered; short and narrow rump; tail with low attachment and thick horsehair; barrel-like belly; little muscular thighs; thin limbs with long shanks and small cloven legs suitable for the stony ground; Abundant tuft on the forehead and very rich mane. The small size (1.25-1.32 meters at the withers) is a peculiarity due to the difficult living conditions, consanguinity or natural selection. In the past, specimens were known to be less than one meter tall: Procopius of Caesarea writes about horses as tall as a sheep.