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About the American Saddle Breed
.This breed is a peculiarly transatlantic
product, and one in which Americans take great pride. It emanates
from the early pioneering days of the first settlement of the
country 400 years ago, when there were only two means of movement
across the vast distances of the new continent – water
and horseback. There was no indigenous horse in America, so
the early settlers, like the Spaniards, brought their own or
imported them soon after. English amblers and pacers came out
before the days of the Thoroughbred, together with horses from
Spain, France, Africa and the East. All these went to make up
the American Saddle Horse.
The pioneers had to have a light, strong, hardy, speedy animal,
comfortable to ride over long distances, adaptable to harness,
good-tempered and intelligent. Accordingly they bred with careful
selection, from the best stock available, including in due course
the English Thoroughbred, which gave the breed its fire and
brilliance; while it inherited the gentleness and easy gaits
of the older English amblers. Various other American stocks
have been introduced in the course of time, Morgan, Standard
Bred and so on; but the officially designated founder of the
type is the Thoroughbred “Denmark” (foaled 1839).
It is well to note, however, that the parent of the breed, the
Kentucky Saddle Horse, was an established product before that
time. The blood of “Messenger”, the ancestor of
the American trotter, also runs in this breed.
The points of the breed are as follows. Height 15 to 16 hands,
preferably not more. In conformation it should be light and
elegant, with a good head, long, fine neck, well-sloped shoulders,
round barrel, flat croup and good clean legs. The general appearance
must be one of breeding and brilliance, with high, proud carriage
of head and tail, and a stance that covers plenty of ground.
In character it must be docile and intelligent.
The speciality of the breed is the gaits that it exhibits in
the show ring, for which it is now almost exclusively bred.
These gaits are the usual walk, trot and canter, and also the
artificial paces, the running walk, steeping pace or slow rack
and the fast rack. Animals are specially trained in each gait,
and are known as three- or five-gaited horses according to training.
The trot must be highly collected, with the head well flexed,
neck and tail arched. These gaits performed with the grace and
precision for which the breed is famed are a spectacle not easily
forgotten.
The characteristic carriage of the tail is obtained by nicking
the muscles of the dock and then setting it in position with
a crupper.
With its dynamic action, its three or five gaits, not to mention
the peculiar and unnatural set of its tail, this horse is very
arresting. Those that reach the highest standard in America
present a horse in action comparable only with Hackney horses
and ponies. The breed can only be found in a few places outside
of America, nor is it likely ever to receive and measure of
popularity were it brought to England, especially now that the
law in this country prohibits the nicking and docking of horses’
tails.
The American Saddle Horse, as the name implies, is of course
used primarily for saddle work, but as the action of this horse
is high and exaggerated in the extreme it is unlikely to find
general favour anywhere else in the world where the smooth,
low, long and level action is considered as the ideal.
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