All Entries in the "Horse Breeds" Category
Jumping Horses
An Overview of Jumping Horses
Show jumping is an equestrian sport that entails following through a set of jumps organized within a ring. Show jumping is also being merged with several combination competitions, like the modern pentathlon and eventing. Jumping horses go through a variety of challenges within this sport. In an event, jumping horses need [...]
Cutting Horses
Your Guide To Types of Cutting Horses
Cutting horses are often referred to as quarter horses. However, Morgans, Paints, Appaloosas and Arabians can also be cutting horses. Cutting horses are usually smaller horses. Successful cutters are usually about 15.1 hands.
Canadian Cutting Horses
There are several types of cutting horses and these include Canadian cutting horses. The Canadian [...]
Roping Horses
A Beginners Guide To Roping Horses
The Wild West reminds us of many things like cowboys, broncs, ranchers, cattle, horses and roping! Cowboys and their horses paint a picture that is particularly unique in our Western History. Aside from branding, working the ranch, and checking fence, riders out on the field also like to rope their [...]
Gaited Horses
Gaited Horses and What Makes Them Unique
Gaited horses are breeds that have the innate penchant to gait, which means the capacity to execute one of the intermediary speed four beat horse gaits, known as ambling gaits. Breeds of gaited horses include the American Saddlebred, Paso Fino, Icelandic horse, Missouri Foxtrotter, Mangalarga Marchador, Racking horse, Peruvian [...]
Draft Cross Horses
Understanding of Draft Cross Horses
A draft horse is a large horse bred for power and strength. There are actually many draft horse breeds and while they all share similar characteristics, they participate in various kinds of activities. Draft horses are widely utilized for ploughing and other farm work. They are also widely employed [...]
Top Dressage Horses
DressageHorses
Before one can determine the right dressage horses, a fundamental understanding of dressage must first be established. Dressage is loosely translated as training but many also now regard it as a form of horse sport. In any case, dressage involves the horse’s execution of precise and specific movements in response to commands and signs from [...]
Ideal Reining Horses
Reining Horses
Among horse riders and owners, reining is considered the American version of the English dressage. This is simply because reining horses, like dressage horses, are required to execute precise movements as prompted by the riders. The movements performed in reigning however differ from those in dressage. The stops and spins performed by reining horses [...]
Horses for Barrel Racing
Barrel Racing
Barrel racing is a specific type of rodeo event. It has quite a straightforward pattern of execution. As the event name suggests, barrel racing involves riding around three barrels in a diamond pattern in a field. Riders are only allowed to navigate barrel horses through a clover leaf pattern. Since it is a type [...]
Wild Horses of Assateague Island
Wild Horses of Assateague Island
A National Treasure
The wild horses of Assateague Island are descendents of domesticated animals brought to the island over 300 years ago. Horses tough enough to survive the scorching heat, abundant insects, stormy weather and poor quality food found on this windswept barrier island have formed a unique wild horse society. [...]
Draft Horses
Draft Horses
Cold blooded horses are typically known as draft horses. They usually stand on the opposite horse breeding pole from the warm-blooded horses. Although some horse handlers argue that any horse can be made into a draft horse, strict breeders maintain that real draft horses have distinct traits and characteristics from other horses.
The Draft [...]
