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The Missouri Fox Trotter performs an ambling gait known as the "fox trot", which replaces the trot seen in many other breeds. The fox trot is a four-beat broken diagonal gait in which the front foot of the diagonal pair lands before the hind, eliminating the moment of suspension and giving a smooth, sure-footed ride.
Thoroughbred: The Thoroughbred is the center of a multi-billion dollar breeding and racing industry in Kentucky. 1996 [8] [9] Maryland: Thoroughbred: Maryland has a long history of breeding and racing Thoroughbreds, and today maintains an extensive network of breeding farms, training centers and racecourses. 2003 [10] [11] Massachusetts: Morgan
Nonetheless, breeders of other species of purebred animals may use the two terms interchangeably, [11] though thoroughbred is less often used for describing purebred animals of other species. [10] [11] The term is a proper noun referring to this specific breed, [12] though often not capitalized, especially in non-specialist publications, and ...
Nearco: Italian bred Thoroughbred racehorse. ''Thoroughbred Heritage'' described him as "one of the greatest racehorses of the Twentieth Century" and "one of the most important sires of the century." He was undefeated and his sire line was dominant. Needles: the first Florida-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby (1956), also won the Belmont Stakes
The Choctaw Horse is an American breed or strain of small riding horse of Colonial Spanish type. Like all Colonial Spanish horses, it derives from the horses brought to the Americas by the Conquistadores in and after the late fifteenth century and introduced in the seventeenth century into what is now the United States.
Believing the Thoroughbred was the best breed of horse and could pass on its superior traits to other breeds, in 1906 The Jockey Club of New York established the Breeding Bureau. Its purpose was to provide Thoroughbred stallions as sires that would produce a variety of top quality half-breed general purpose horses. [4]
The Morgan horse is one of the earliest horse breeds developed in the United States. [1] Tracing back to the foundation sire Figure, later named Justin Morgan after his best-known owner, Morgans served many roles in 19th-century American history, being used as coach horses and for harness racing, as general riding animals, and as cavalry horses during the American Civil War on both sides of ...
The Thoroughbred also supplanted the Narragansett Pacer as the favored horse breed of the United States Cavalry. The disappearance of the Narragansett Pacer through heavy crossbreeding to Thoroughbreds, particularly for refined cavalry and racing horses, was also noted by Confederate General Basil W. Duke in his 1911 memoir Reminiscences of ...