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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.
Dickie Gardner is a horse trainer from Shelbyville, Tennessee. Gardner began his career training Tennessee Walking Horses, but switched to Spotted Saddle Horses, a related breed, in 1993. He has won several World Championships, been Trainer of the Year 11 times, and is in the Spotted Saddle Horse Hall of Fame.
Tennessee also hosts a number of horse shows for breeds that predated, or derived from, the Tennessee Walking Horse. The Spotted Saddle Horse is a pinto-patterned breed that was developed using large amounts of Tennessee Walking Horse blood. Two major shows for it are held at the Celebration Grounds every year; the Spring Show in May and World ...
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 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.
The Pinto Horse Association of America was formed in 1956 for "colored" horses. The aim of the association was to provide a competition venue for spotted horses and to track their pedigrees. [1] The need for the organization arose in part due to the exclusion of horses with excessive white, called cropouts, from many traditional breed ...
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.
The Chernomor became a larger saddle horse, more renowned than its ancestors. [4] The development of agriculture and sheep breeding in the second half of the 19th century led to the arrival of draft horses in the region. At the same time, numerous stud farms were set up to supply the Russian army with saddle horses.