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About the Hackney Horse Breed
.The modern Hackney is a harness-horse with
a characteristic high-stepping long, round striding trotting
action, which is truly brilliant.
Its immediate ancestor is the Norfolk Trotter, which sprang
from the blood of two horses, and Arab stallion and a Yorkshire
stallion, in about 1729. The Norfolk Roadster, as it came to
be known, was a powerful, heavily built animal bred for utility,
used by farmers. It possessed speed and stamina, and had to
be up to weight, carrying not only the farmer to market but
his wife as well, riding pillion behind him. The most famous
of that breed was the ‘Norfolk Cob,’ bred from Burgess’s
‘Fireaway’ in the early 1820s. He is said to have
trotted 24 miles in the hour, and is definitely recorded as
having done two miles in 5minutes 4 seconds. Another famous
trotter ‘Nonpareil’ was driven 100miles in 9hours
56minutes 57seconds.
As is obvious from its description, the Hackney has Arab blood
in its veins, and almost every Hackney sire can trace its descendant
directly back to the Darley Arabian, through his son ‘Flying
Childers’. Another famous sire was ‘Sampson’,
whose grandson ‘Messenger’ was the foundation of
the present American trotting horse. During the 19th century,
with the advent of the railway, the Norfolk breed fell into
disuse, to be revived again by the Hackney Horse Society in
the animal that we know today.
The ultimate origins of the Hackney, however, go back far into
English history, the trotting horse, as distinguished from the
ambler and the galloper, being recognised in very early times,
for it was definitely mentioned as such in 1303. There was also
at one time a strong infusion of Spanish Andalusian blood. The
name itself is derived from the Norman French haquenée.
Chief characteristics, in addition to brilliant and fiery paces
are: small, convex head, small muzzle; large eyes and small
ears; longish, thick-set neck; powerful shoulders and low withers;
compact body without great depth of chest; tail set and carried
high; short legs and strong hocks well let down; well-shaped
feet; fine silky coat. Most usual colours, dark brown, black,
bay and chestnut. Height varies from 14.3 to 15.3 hands, sometimes
reaching 16.2.
Both in motion and at rest it has highly distinctive and readily
observable characteristics. Shoulder action is free, with a
high, ground covering knee action, the foreleg being thrown
well forward, not just up and down, with that slight pause of
the foot at each stride which gives it its peculiar grace of
movement, appearing to fly over the ground. Action of the hind
legs is the same to a lesser degree. In a good Hackney the action
must be straight and true, with no dishing or throwing of the
hoofs from side to side. At rest the Hackney stands firm and
foursquare, forelegs straight, hind legs well back, so that
it covers the maximum ground; the head is held high, ears pricked,
with a general impression of alertness and of being on springs.
In these days of mechanised transport it would not be surprising
if it had to be recorded that the Hackney Horse, which exists
today purely as a pleasure horse, was declining to complete
extinction at a rapid pace. Quite the reverse, however, can
be recorded, the credit for which lies with the horse itself
(and with the horse is included that Hackney Pony), with all
its spectacular and dynamic action, and the large and increasing
number of breeders and admirers of the Hackney. During the period
between the wars, a steady improvement was noticed in the Hackney,
and since the Second World War this has become even more pronounced,
so that today it is no great exaggeration to say that the unbeatable,
be it horse or pony, has become beatable.
This is a state of affairs which must give great satisfaction
to all who follow the fortunes of the Hackney, which, by the
way, is recognised as being, with the show jumper, the most
popular entrant in the show ring, each in its own way providing
a maximum of violent but controlled activity. It should be mentioned
that this last general commentary upon this breed applies equally
to the Hackney Pony, and although its evolution differs to some
extent from that of the horse, it is a replica on a smaller
scale.
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