Posted by Charlotte Knight on Wednesday, June 20, 2012,
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I love this website for chatting to my horse friends and finding new information. You can also make new horse loving friends from all over the world. one of my good friends lives in America and rides western and a little english!
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Posted by Charlotte Knight on Sunday, June 10, 2012,
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Abscess in Horses An abscess is an accumulation of pus (dead white blood cells) that forms a lump internally or externally on your horse’s body. It occurs as a result of an infection, as the white blood cells assemble to fight off a foreign antigen, then subsequently die, becoming walled off in a capsule as the body attempts to isolate the infection. This lump is usually accompanied by inflammation and can be painful, due to the buildup of pressure. As time passes, the abscess can rupture, ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Charlotte Knight on Sunday, June 3, 2012,
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Use today: The Tennessee Walker is shown English and western, and they are prized mounts for leisure riding and trail. Color: The Tennessee Walker can be found in the following colors: black, bay, chestnut, sorrel and white.Height: 15 to 16 hands.Profile: The Tennessee Walking Horse is an American original, developed in central Tennessee in the late 1800s. The horse’s genealogy includes a mixture of breeds that settlers brought with them, such as Morgans, Narragansett Pacer and Canadian Hor... Continue reading ...
Posted by Charlotte Knight on Sunday, June 3, 2012,
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Country of Origin: United StatesUse today: Spotted Saddle Horses are a popular trail mount. They are also shown in gaited horse competition and used for gaming.Color: Pinto. Any base color is acceptable, but horses must show some white on the body.Height: 13.3-16h.Profile: Spotted Saddle Horse breeding includes a heavy Tennessee Walking Horse influence combined with bloodlines descended from spotted Spanish-American ponies. The breed was originally developed in Tennessee to be a reliable fami... Continue reading ...
Posted by Charlotte Knight on Sunday, June 3, 2012,
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Country of Origin: United StatesUse today: Today the breed is a favorite mount for pleasure, competitive trail and endurance racing.Color: The Rocky Mountain Horse is found in all solid colors with limited white facial markings.Height: 14.2 to 16 hands.Profile: The Rocky Mountain Horse originated in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in eastern Kentucky in the late 1800s. The breed gets its name from its foundation stallion, a gaited horse from the Rocky Mountains. The Rocky Mountain ... |
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Posted by Charlotte Knight on Sunday, June 3, 2012,
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Use today: Due to their initial use and breeding, the Colorado Ranger excels at ranch work and other western riding. Color: They come in a broad spectrum of colors and even include blanket and tri-colored leopard patterns. Height: 14.2 to 16 hands.Profile: In 1879, General Ulysses S. Grant was given two stallions by a Turkish Sultan, one was an Arabian (Leopard) and the other a Barb (Linden Tree). The horses were brought to America, and in 1894 they were bred with native cowhorse mares in Neb... |
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Posted by Charlotte Knight on Sunday, June 3, 2012,
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Use today: The Racking Horse is used and shown in pleasure and performance classes in both English and western, as well as competitive trail riding.
Color: The Racking Horse is found in many colors including palomino, buckskin, roan and spotted.
Height: Average height is 15.2 hands.
Profile: The Racking Horse developed on Southern plantations before the Civil War and shares its parentage with the Tennessee Walking Horse. The Racking Horse’s comfortable gait made it easy for plantation owners ... |
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Posted by Charlotte Knight on Saturday, June 2, 2012,
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Country of Origin: North AmericaUse today: The American Quarter Horse can be seen in virtually every riding discipline and still races a quarter mile at tracks throughout the United States.Color: Colors include sorrel, bay, black, brown, buckskin, chestnut, dun, red dun, gray, grullo, palomino, red roan, blue roan, bay roan, perlino and cremello.Height: 14 to over 16 hands.Profile: The American Quarter Horse traces its roots to early America, where settlers crossed English horses to those of ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Charlotte Knight on Saturday, June 2, 2012,
Color: The Przewalski is mostly dun with black points, a cream stomach and a dorsal stripe. Height: 12 to 14 hands.Profile: The three primitive horses considered to be the foundation of all domestic horses, the Forest Horse, the Tarpan and the Asiatic wild horse, were considered extinct until Russian cartographer Colonel Nikolai Przewalski saw a herd of dun colored horses while in southwest Mongolia in 1879. Zoologists hypothesized that these “Przewalski” horses were Asiatic wild horses. ... |
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Posted by Charlotte Knight on Saturday, June 2, 2012,
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Use today: Since the Pinto is a color breed, popular uses include all disciplines depending on the horse type.Color: Tobiano (a white horse with large patches of color over the entire body); and overo (a colored horse with uneven white markings on its sides).Height: All sizes.Profile: Although spotted horses seem to have originated with American Indian horses, the distinctive two-toned coat pattern probably came to North America through Arabian and Spanish stock that accompanied early explore... Continue reading ...
Posted by Charlotte Knight on Saturday, June 2, 2012,
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Use today: The horses are prized pleasure riding mounts and are also found in traditional ranch work.Color: The Peruvian Horse is found in all solid colors including buckskin, roan and palomino.Height: 14.1 to 15.2 hands.Profile: Although the Peruvian Horse, sometimes referred to as the Peruvian Paso, and the Paso Fino share the same earlier parentage (Andalusian, Barb and Spanish Jennet), and are both gaited, they are not the same breed. The Peruvian Horse’s ancestors were brought to Peru ... |
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Posted by Charlotte Knight on Saturday, June 2, 2012,
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Country of Origin: North AmericaUse today: The American Paint Horse is extremely popular in traditional stock-horse western events as well as a variety of other riding disciplines.Color: American Paint Horses sport a combination of white and any other color of the equine spectrumHeight: 14.2 to 16.2 hands.Profile: In 1519, the explorer Hernando Cortes carried two horses described as having pinto markings on his voyage. This is the first known description of such horses in America. By the earl... |
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Posted by Charlotte Knight on Saturday, June 2, 2012,
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Use today: The National Show Horse is bred to excel in all horse show disciplines, including fine harness, saddleseat, halter, side saddle and other western and English pursuits.Color: The National Show Horse is found in all colors, including pinto.Height: 15 to 16 hands.Profile: Although the National Show Horse has existed as a Half-Arabian show horse for many years, it became a breed officially in 1982. By crossing the Arabian with the Saddlebred the resulting offspring carries the best asp... Continue reading ...
Posted by Charlotte Knight on Saturday, June 2, 2012,
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Country of Origin: United StatesUse today: Mostly trail and pleasure ridingColor: Any color is accepted, but breeding and showing are not encouraged among spotted horses.Height: 14.2 to 16 hands.Profile: More than 160 years ago, settlers in the region of present-day eastern Kentucky used the gaited horses thriving in the area to work among the steep hills and in the fields. These "Mountain Horses" were sure-footed, hardy and willing, and from them developed the Rocky Mountain Horse, Tennessee... Continue reading ...
Posted by Charlotte Knight on Saturday, June 2, 2012,
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Country of Origin: North AmericaUse today: Today, the Morgan excels in western and English disciplines as well as competitive trail riding and driving.Color: Traditional colors are bay, black and chestnut, but all colors are accepted by the registry.Height: 14.1 to 15.2 hands.Profile: Not many horse lovers have escaped childhood without reading Marguerite Henry’s non-fiction book about Figure, the very first Morgan, owned by school teacher Justin Morgan in West Springfield, Mass., in 1789. ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Charlotte Knight on Saturday, June 2, 2012,
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Country of Origin: United StatesUse today: Morabs are used for show and pleasure. They are popular carriage horses and are well-suited to endurance and competitive trail.Color: Bay, chestnut and gray are most common. All solid colors are found.Height: 14-15.2 hands.Profile: Though only established as a breed in the late 20th century, the crossing of Morgan and Arabian bloodlines has been popular since the 1800s. The resulting horses were champion show and trotting horses. In the 1920s, publis... Continue reading ...
Posted by Charlotte Knight on Saturday, June 2, 2012,
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Use today: Although Minis cannot be ridden (even by children) they are used for driving and in-hand classes, such as obstacle courses and halter. Color: Minis come in all colors including palomino, pinto, and even a cross between a pinto and an Appaloosa called a “Pintaloosa.”Height: under 34 inches. Profile: The Miniature Horse traces its history back to the 17th century in Europe, when oddities and unusual animals were talking points among nobility. Less refined Minis were employed as ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Charlotte Knight on Saturday, June 2, 2012,
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Country of Origin: IndiaUse today: In the cities, these horses pull tourist carts and are ridden by police. They are also the centerpiece for festivals, particularly weddings. Color: The Marwari horses come in an array of colors except chestnut. Gray, pinto, black and palomino and bright sorrel are all commonly found. Height: 14.2 to 16 hands.Profile: The most amazing feature about the Indian horse called the Marwari (mar-wah-ree) is its curved ears. They often touch or cross in the middle, g... Continue reading ...
Posted by Charlotte Knight on Saturday, June 2, 2012,
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Country of Origin: United StatesUse today: Trail and pleasure riding; suitable for endurance and competitive trail ridingColor: Dun, bay, blue roan, dun roan, red roan, sorrel, chestnut, black and grulloHeight: 13.5 to 15 hands.Profile: In the boggy lowlands of South Carolina, one equine reigns supreme among the avid trail rider: the Carolina Marsh Tacky. After several hundred years of being employed as a work and riding horse in the area, the breed is most proficient at withstanding the heat... |
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Posted by Charlotte Knight on Saturday, June 2, 2012,
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Country of Origin: United StatesUse today: The Lippitt Morgan is a versatile horse and is shown in various disciplines under saddle, as well as in driving.Color: Bay, brown, black and chestnutHeight: 14.1 to 15.1 hands. Profile: Today's Morgan horses trace back to a bay stallion called Figure, owned by school teacher and songwriter Justin Morgan of Vermont. In the early 1900s, the automobile and other machinery made workhorses of all breeds, including the Morgan, obsolete. Horse owners began ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Charlotte Knight on Saturday, June 2, 2012,
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Country of Origin: DenmarkUse today: Today, the horses are valued as top dressage horses and are also found in eventing and show jumping. Color: The most popular spotted pattern is the full leopard, which is solid white with black or brown spots. Height: 15.2 to 16 hands. Profile: The Knabstrupper was developed by Major Villars Lunn in Nordsealand, Denmark, who put a chestnut blanketed mare of Spanish breeding to a Fredricksborg stallion in 1812. This first breeding resulted in a colorfully s... Continue reading ...
Posted by Charlotte Knight on Saturday, June 2, 2012,
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Country of Origin: IndiaUse today: The Kathiawari is a utility horse in India, used for farming, driving and riding and in mounted police units. Color: The breed is found in all solid horse colors except black as well as pinto and many variations of cream including palomino and cremello. Height: 14.2 hands and under. Profile: The Kathiawari originated in the Kathiawar peninsula in Western India and is probably a mix between the Arabian and other desert breeds. The Marwari and Kathiawari are o... Continue reading ...
Posted by Charlotte Knight on Saturday, June 2, 2012,
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Country of Origin: IrelandUse today: The Irish Hunter and other Irish Draught crosses are successful in the show jumping and eventing world. Color: Any solid color is acceptable.Height: 15.1 to 16.3 hands. Profile: The Irish Draught Horse is one of the two native equine breeds found in Ireland. Its ancestry is unclear. Thoroughbred stallions may have been put to local mares whose origins were a conglomeration of whatever swam to shore after shipwrecks (perhaps from Spanish galleons) and Frenc... Continue reading ...
Posted by Charlotte Knight on Saturday, June 2, 2012,
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Country of Origin: IcelandUse today: The Icelandic Horse is still treasured in its homeland today, and many people still use the horses for sheepherding, local transportation and competition.Color: The breed comes in more than 100 colors and color combinations, including pinto.Height: 12 to 14 hands. Profile: The Icelandic Horse was most likely brought to Iceland by the Vikings in the 9th century. Although the breed shares characteristics with the Mongolian horse and the Lyngen or Nordland, l... |
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Posted by Charlotte Knight on Saturday, June 2, 2012,
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Country of Origin: Great BritainUse today: The Hackney is known for its tremendous trotting ability and is a popular driving horse.Color: The common colors are black, brown, bay and chestnut, and there are even some spotted Hackneys.Height: 14 to 15.3 hands. Profile: The Hackney was developed in Great Britain in the late 17th and early 18th centuries and was descendant of the Norfolk Trotter, Yorkshire Roadster, the Arabian and the Thoroughbred. Their early ancestors were even thought to be F... |
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Posted by Charlotte Knight on Saturday, June 2, 2012,
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Country of Origin: Great BritainUse today: Gypsy horses are best known as driving horses in the United Kingdom, but in North America they have become popular trail and show horses, ridden both English and western, as well as carriage horses. Color: Although not a color breed, piebalds (black and white pinto), skewbalds (red/brown and white pintos) and blagdon (solid color with white belly splashes) horses are popular. Height: 14 to 15.2 hands. Profile: Gypsy horses, registered as Gypsy Vanner... Continue reading ...
Posted by Charlotte Knight on Saturday, June 2, 2012,
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Country of Origin: SwedenUse today: The Gotland-Russ is popular in Sweden for eventing, show jumping, dressage, driving, harness racing and pleasure riding.Color: Bay, black, buckskin and sorrel are the most common colors. Albinos, piebalds and roans are not allowedHeight: Ideal height is 12.1 hands. Profile: The Gotland-Russ Pony thrives in forest regions on the island of Gotland in Sweden. The inhabitants of Gotland also call the ponies skogsbaggar, meaning "forest rams." Russ is the Gutnis... Continue reading ...
Posted by Charlotte Knight on Saturday, June 2, 2012,
Country of Origin: The NetherlandsUse today: The Friesian is one of the best carriage horses in the world. Today the breed is an accomplished dressage horse.Color: Only black horses are registered, but the color can range from black/bay, dark brown or true black.Height: 14.3 to 16 hands. Profile: The Friesian is one of Europe’s oldest breeds and gets its name from the Friesland region in the north of the Netherlands. The breed almost became extinct worldwide during the turn of the 20th cent... |
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Posted by Charlotte Knight on Saturday, June 2, 2012,
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Country of Origin: North AmericaUse today: Today, the horses are used for endurance riding and traditional western ranching pursuits. Color: All colors are found. Height: 13.2 to 15.2 hands. Profile: The Florida Cracker descends from Spanish horses such as the Barb and the Spanish Jennet that arrived in the southern United States in the 1500s. Although it is genetically similar to the Mustang, Paso Fino and other modern Spanish breeds, the Florida Cracker’s geological isolation meant that t... Continue reading ...
Posted by Charlotte Knight on Saturday, June 2, 2012,
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Country of Origin: North AmericaUse today: Among other things, the sure-footed and nimble Curly often participates in gymkhana and western sports. Color: Nearly all colors and coat patterns are found Height: 14.1 to 15.1 hands. Profile: The majority of the Curly Horses, also known as the American Bashkir Curly Horse, descend from a herd of three horses found by the Damele family in 1898 roaming the mountain ranges of Nevada. How they came to be on the continent remains a mystery. Theories sug... Continue reading ...
Posted by Charlotte Knight on Saturday, June 2, 2012,
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Country of Origin: North AmericaUse today: Appendix Quarter Horses can be found racing and performing in the western and English disciplines.Color: Colors include sorrel, bay, black, brown, buckskin, chestnut, dun, red dun, gray, grullo, palomino, red roan, blue roan, bay roan, perlino and cremello.Height: 15 to 17 hands Profile: Until the 1940s the American Quarter Horse existed as a type rather than a breed, but in 1940 a group of breeders discussed the idea of forming an association. Howev... |
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Posted by Charlotte Knight on Saturday, June 2, 2012,
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Country of Origin: North AmericaUse today: The American Quarter Horse can be seen in virtually every riding discipline and still races a quarter mile at tracks throughout the United States.Color: Colors include sorrel, bay, black, brown, buckskin, chestnut, dun, red dun, gray, grullo, palomino, red roan, blue roan, bay roan, perlino and cremello.Height: 14 to over 16 hand Profile: The American Quarter Horse traces its roots to early America, where settlers crossed English horses to those of S... Continue reading ...
Posted by Charlotte Knight on Saturday, June 2, 2012,
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Country of Origin: North AmericaUse today: The American Paint Horse is extremely popular in traditional stock-horse western events as well as a variety of other riding disciplines.Color: American Paint Horses sport a combination of white and any other color of the equine spectrumHeight: 14.2 to 16.2 hands Profile: In 1519, the explorer Hernando Cortes carried two horses described as having pinto markings on his voyage. This is the first known description of such horses in America. By the earl... Continue reading ...
Posted by Charlotte Knight on Saturday, June 2, 2012,
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Horse Diseases
What is Equine Cushing's disease? Cushing's disease is a degenerative disease of the brain stem. The hormonal consequences of this are mainly the overproduction of cortisone from the adrenal gland. Although this is the common consequence in most cases, it is by no means the only change that occurs. The main target organ for the condition is the pituitary gland. The gland becomes very active and can enlarge significantly - this is sometimes viewed as a tumour. The hormones produced by the over... Continue reading ...
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