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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 spotted saddle horse is a mix of the pinto Spanish colonial breeds with the North American breeds such as the Morgan, and gaited breeds like the Tennessee walking horse and Paso Fino. This ...
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.
The Spanish Barb Breeders Association is a registry for Colonial Spanish horses; eligible horses stand 140–150 cm and may be of any color [2]: 457 [6] Spanish Mustang [4] Spanish Norman [2]: 504 Spotted Saddle Horse: National Spotted Saddle Horse [2]: 488 Standardbred [2]: 436
[4] [5] Pinto Racking Horses may be double-registered as Spotted Saddle Horses. [6] The breed is known for its ambling gait, a four-beat intermediate-speed gait known as the rack or sometimes single-foot, which it performs in addition to the four-beat walk (called the 'show walk' in breed-specific competition) and canter . [ 2 ]
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.
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.
John B. Castleman, the "father" of the modern American Saddlebred. The "American Saddle Horse", as a horse breed, was originally devised by John Breckinridge Castleman (June 30, 1841 – May 23, 1918), a Confederate officer; and later, a United States Army brigadier general, as well as a prominent landowner and businessman in Louisville, Kentucky. [10]