the Tennessee walking horse has a reputaion for calm disposion and naturally smoth riding gaites. It is calm and easy going breed typically easy to train. While the horses re famous for flashy movement they are quite hardy popular for trail and pleasaure riding as well as show.
in conformation the Tennessee walker is a tall horse with a long neck and a sloping shoulder. The head is traditionally large but renfined in bone with small well-placed ears. The horse has a fairly short back short strong coupling and an elongated stride. In the show arena Tennessee walker are known for their running walk and are usally shown with long unbraided manes and tails
common colors include black chestnut sorrel and bay some may also show characteristics of the chamagne gene other colors patterns such as roan and pinto are common. Recently the breed registry began to recognize
the sabino pattern and it must be noted that many horses registered in the past as roans where in some cases sabinos. Tennessee walkers are generally 15 to 17 hands (60 to 68inches 152 to 173 cm) tall but can range from 13.2 to 17.2 hands (54 to 70 inches 137 to 178 cm) weight is generally between 900 and 1200 pounds (410 and 540 kg)
HISTORY
The Tennessee walker originated from the Narragansett pacer and the Canadian pacer in the late 18th century when these two breeds where blended by the Tennessee breeders who where looking for a horse that could be ridden all day over the varied terrain of their plantations conffedrate pacer and union trotter blood was added during the civill war creating the study southern plantation horse (aka the Tennessee pacer) Breeders later added Throughbred Standerdbred Morgan and Amreican saddlebred blood to refine and add stamina to their gaited horse .
in 1885 black Allen (later known as Allan F-1) was born by the stallion Allendorf (from the Hambletonian family of standerbreeds) and out of a Morgan mare named Maggie Marshall he became the foundation sire of the Tennessee walking horse breed.
The breed became popular due to it's smooth gaits and incredible stamina. It was common for farmers to hold match races with their Tennessee walkers. Witch they also used for plowing fields. even after the coming of the autombile many Tennessee communities kept their Tennessee walkers to mange the poor roads of the area Tennessee walking horses began to gain a reputaions as a showy animals. and breeders sought bloodlines to produce refine intelligent flashy horses
The registry in 1935 The stud book was closed in 1947 so since that date every Tennessee walker must have both parents registered to be eligible for registration themselves.
Cultural references
* The Tennessee walking horse is the official state horse of the U.S stat of Tennessee.
* The town of Shelbyville Tennessee promotes itself as the walking horse capital of the world as it hosts the annual Tennessee walking horse National Celebration a ten-day exshbititions that draws over 30,000 breeders exibitors and spectators from across the country.
*Driving through Tennessee one is a bound to see one or more billboards advertising TWH exhibtions or pleasure riding area.
Uses
The Tennessee waler is used for horse shows events particurly under saddle seat style English riding equipment but also a very popular trail ride horse both in western equipment as well as English the breed is a popular parade horse and has been used in televion movies and other performing events for exsample the lone rangers horse silver was at the time played by Tennessee walker Trigger Jr successor to the original Trigger made famous by Roy Rogers witch was also a Tennessee walker. the position of mascot of the Universty of the southern california trojans Traveler was once held by a horse a Tennessee walker bloodlines
Showing
Tennessee walking horses are known for the ambling gaits the running walk the flat walk and for their gentle rocking horse canter although many members of the breed can perform other gaits including the trot fox trot rack stepping pace and single foot these gaits are typical penalized in breed shows since they are not considered correct gaits for a Tennessee walking horse the running walk is the most famous gait. With the speeds from 10-20 kmh (6-12mph) as as the speed increases the horse's rear foot overstrids the front print 15-45cm (6-18in) the greater the overstride the better a walker the horse is said to be the horse nods it's head in both running and the flat walk the ears swinging with the gait some walkers click their teeth with the gait there are two main catagories of compation performance horses and flat shod diffrentiated primanily by the size and weight of the shoes being worn.
*flat shod horses are further divided into trail country light shot and plantation pleasure division and are judge on way of going witch includes head nod overstride and front animation the country trail pleasure classes have the least animation the plantation horses the most with the plantation horses typically wearing heavier shoe flat shod horses are not allowed to use pads action devices or trail braces.
*performance horses exhibit a very flashy and animated running walk often referred to as big lick they appear to sit back on the hinquarters lifting their forelegs high off ground with each step horses and riders show in saddle seat attire and tack horses are shod in double and triple-nail-pads along with lightweight chains around their fetlock accentuate the gaits making them more animated.
History of the big lick
during the late 1940s and early 1950s when walking horses enjoyed a surge of widespread popularity with the general public exaggerated front leg action especially at the running walk drew spectators to horse shows and help further increases the popularity of the breed this action was also rewarded by judges this began the rage for big lick movement while lit shod horses with naturally good movement could confortbly perform this crowd-pleasing gait at the time it took both natural ability and considerble time yo properly train and condition the horse.
some individuals wishing to produce simular movement in less-talented horses or in less time borrowed practeses used by other breeds to enhance movement. this included action devices such as weight shoes stacks (stack pads) and the use of weight chains around the pastern all of witch within certain limits were allowed
as these methods produce horses that one in the show ring and as ever-higher and more dramatic action was rewarded by the judges some trainers turned to less savory methods to produce high action in a hurry these methods including heavy weight chains use of tacks deliberatly placed under the shoe into the white line or quick of the hof and the contoversail practice of souring witch is the applications of a caustic chemical agent to the front legs to make it painful for the horse to put it's feet down
actions devices
*chains : bracelet-like chains are attached around the front pasterns of the horse and may be no more than 6 ounces in weight they are intended to be used with a lubricant to allow them to slide easily around the pastern.
*pads: added under a horse's natural hoof pads (sometimes called stack or packages) can vary in height they are usally made of plastic although originally were made of leather. pads have a metal band that runs across the hoof wall to keep them on the horse's foot. pads may be up to 4 thick in the heel and no more than 2 in the toe thickness and the use of the band determine what class a horse can be show in. pads are an exttension built of a base shoe. and theefor easily taken off or change with out haveing to compltely reshoe the horse
users of the chain do not belive that they cause the horse pain stating that it creates a simuler feeling as lose of a braclet would aroung the wrest of a person however some trainers and vet beleave that above a certain weight they may be harmful a well-known study conducted a aubum universaty for September 1978 to December 1982 exsamend the health effects of action devises on gaited horses through yjr use of thermgraphy. entitled theromphy in diagnosis inflammatory processe in horse in responce to various chemical and phisical thermal patterns persisted seen after 20 days of recovery a stallion in the study also develop lesions from 8ounces chains after wearing them in nine 15mins excersize periods (from September 22-Octoboer 3) the auburn study also showed that 2 4 and 6ounces chains produce no adverse effects in the horses being studied a 6onces chain is the legal weight of chain allowed in NHSC horse show .
pads are also controversail some are also criyical of the band that holds the pad on witch they belieave cuts into the hoof and may waer a slot into however it is a common practice for a trainer to lossen the band when the horse is not being exercised witch may miminize the problem under normale conditions if a pad is lost it usallyonly affects the pad its self and not the base of the shoe witch remains intact injuers are usally very limited from throwing a set of pads on it is dangerous if a horse is wearing pads pulls off a shoe as not only will pad will come off but but the band might tear part of the hoof wall therefore horses wearing pads should not be turned out
i copyed all of that from this web site : Tennessee Walking Horse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
go there to see the rest i type all of that and copyed the 2 pics i tryed copying another one but it wouldn't let me i would do the rest but my hand hurts at this momment so just go to that website and see all it yourself i'll do some other breeds another time for you another time but not today i've been doing this since 1pm today and it's 9:32pm but of course i took breaks in between to so just go and see the Tennessee walker horse website for yourself you will learn alot from it i would have copyed it all but it wouldn't let me i don't know why
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