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Common Breeds of Horses

Common Breeds of Horses. What exactly is a breed?. Group of horses with a common ancestry that breed true to produce common characteristics recognized breeds have an association with a studbook and breeding records color breed: registry may just require color or conformation standards

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Common Breeds of Horses

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  1. Common Breeds of Horses

  2. What exactly is a breed? • Group of horses with a common ancestry that breed true to produce common characteristics • recognized breeds have an association with a studbook and breeding records • color breed: registry may just require color or conformation standards • Palominos, appaloosas, paints, buckskins

  3. Classification/horse type • Light horse: 12-17.2 hands, 900-1400lbs • Draft horse: 14.2-17.2 hands, 1400+lbs • Pony: 14.2 or less hands, 500-900 lbs • light horses tend to have three natural gaits • subclass of light horses = gaited horses

  4. Quarter Horse • Virginia • Run ¼ mile races • Since have become multi-purpose • Maintain conformation for working cattle • Large semitendinosus, steep croup, wide chest • AQHA • Appendix = TB x QH (both registered)

  5. Thoroughbred • England, 3 foundation sires • Selected for running, also used for hunter/jumper, dressage, 3-day events • Long smooth muscles, short cannon, long forearm, sloping shoulders • Jockey club

  6. Arabian • Oldest breed • Selected for endurance • Large nostrils, curved neck, dished face, smaller slight stature • Anglo-Arab = TB x Arab

  7. Standardbred • U.S. • Trotters and pacers, harness racing • Run mile in standard time –2:30, now 1:50 • Ancestry traces to Hambletonian 10 • Longer body, more muscled vs. TB, solid legs and strong shoulders, calm disposition

  8. American Saddlebred • Kentucky • Short back, flat croup, long arched neck, long pasterns • Riding, driving, hunting, jumping, parades • 3 gaited = walk, trot, canter (clipped mane) • 5 gaited = add slow gait and rack (full mane)

  9. Tennessee Walking Horse • Tennessee • Plantation work • Easy gliding gait • Ability to do running walk

  10. Tennessee Walker: thick neck, heavier boned, shorter back, longer underline vs. topline, hind legs under body Saddlebred: tall, narrow boned, long back, delicate looking, fine chiseled head and neck

  11. Trakehner Hanoverian Swedish Warmblood Westpahlian

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