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Spotted Saddle Horses are light riding horses. They average 14.3 to 16 hands (59 to 64 inches, 150 to 163 cm) high and weigh 900 to 1,100 pounds (410 to 500 kg). [ 1 ] The NSSHA will register horses that are shorter, down to 13.3 hands (55 inches, 140 cm), although it considers taller horses to be the breed ideal. [ 8 ]
The SSHBEA sanctions multiple shows throughout the year. Registered horses may compete in either rail or sport horse classes. [4] Horses shown in rail classes are exhibited at three gaits and must be shod with one of three types of horseshoe, which vary in weight and thickness. No action devices, such as pads or chains, are allowed.
[4] [5] Pinto Racking Horses may be double-registered as Spotted Saddle Horses. [6] The breed is known for its ambling gait, a four-beat intermediate-speed gait known as the rack or sometimes single-foot, which it performs in addition to the four-beat walk (called the 'show walk' in breed-specific competition) and canter . [ 2 ]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 January 2025. American horse breed noted for spotted color pattern For other uses, see Appaloosa (disambiguation). Appaloosa Appaloosa horse Country of origin United States Traits Distinguishing features Most representatives have colorful spotted coat patterns, striped hooves, mottled skin, and white ...
Grade horse, a horse of unknown or mixed breed parentage. Hack, a basic riding horse, particularly in the UK, also includes Show hack horses used in competition. Heavy warmblood, heavy carriage and riding horses, predecessors to the modern warmbloods, several old-style breeds still in existence today.
The American Saddlebred Horse Association was formed in 1891, then called the National Saddle Horse Breeders Association (NSHBA). Private individuals had produced studbooks for other breeds, such as the Morgan, as early as 1857, but the NSHBA was the first national association for an American-developed breed of horse.
Gaited horses are horse breeds that have selective breeding for natural gaited tendencies, that is, the ability to perform one of the smooth-to-ride, intermediate speed, four-beat horse gaits, collectively referred to as ambling gaits.
A horse with tobiano-like spotting depicted on a Corinthian black-figure column krater from 570-560 BC. The earliest known pinto horses appeared shortly after horses were domesticated. Analysis of ancient horse DNA found a tobiano horse that lived about 5600 years ago, [8] and a sabino-1 horse that lived about 5000 years ago. [3]