Horse Breeds 3 Types of Horses Light Horses

Horse Breeds

3 Types of Horses • Light Horses • Ponies • Draft Horses

Light Horses

1 -3 American Mustang • May be any color • Origin: North America • Uses: – – – Show Pleasure Riding Jumping Endurance trial riding Stock horses

2 -4 American Mustang

1 -5 American Paint • Color: tobiano and overo • Tobiano – Legs – white below knees – Spots are regular • Overo – 1 or more legs dark – Irregular spots • Origin: North America • Uses: – – – Pleasure riding Showing Ranching Racing Rodeo Trail riding

2 -4 American Paint

1 -4 Appaloosa • Color: Variable – Usually white over hips and loins & dark spots • Origin: United States • Developed by Nez Perce tribe • Uses: – – Pleasure riding Shows Racing Stock

2 -4 Appaloosa

1 -4 Arabian • Color: mainly gray, bay, or chestnut; sometimes black and white. • Origin: Arabia • Small to medium in size ranging from 8501, 100 lbs • Uses: – – Pleasure riding Racing Showing Stock

2 -2 Arabian

1 -3 Missouri Fox Trotting Horse • Color: Sorrel, commonly with white markings. • Origin: Ozark Hills region of Missouri. • Uses: – Pleasure riding – Trail riding – Stock

2 -3 Missouri Fox Trotting Horse

1 -4 Morgan • Color: bay, black, brown or chestnut. • Origin: United States • Named after a stallion named Justin Morgan from the 1700’s • Uses: – Pleasure riding – Stock

2 -1 Morgan

1 -4 Palamino • Color: golden • Origin: United States • The mane and tail are also light colored. • Uses: – Pleasure riding – Parade horse

2 -2 Palamino

1 -3 Pinto • Color: tabiano and overo • Origin: United States. • Four types of pinto horses: Stock, pleasure, hunter, and saddle

2 -1 Pinto

Ponies

1 -4 Shetland Pony • Color: any • Origin: Shetland Islands • Used in coal mines during 1800’s and early 1900’s • Uses: – Riding for children – Showing – Racing

2 -2 Shetland Pony

1 -3 Quarter Horse • Color: bay, black, brown, sorrel, chestnut, dun, buckskin, red dun, grullo, palomino, gray, red roan, and blue roan. • Origin: United States • Named for having the fastest quarter-mile time of all breeds.

2 -2 Quarter Horse

1 -4 Tennessee Walking Horse • Origin: United States (Tennessee) • Color: sorrel, chestnut, black, bay, roan, brown, white, gray, and golden. • Feet and legs are often have white markings. • Noted for its running walk gait.

2 -3 Tennessee Walking Horse

1 -3 Thoroughbred • Origin: England • Common colors are bay, brown, black, and chestnut, occasionally roan and gray • This breed is typically used for racing or crossbreeding.

2 -3 Thoroughbred

Draft Horses

1 -3 Belgian • Origin: Belgium. • Colors: bay, chestnut, and roan. • They range from 1, 900 -2, 200 lbs

2 -3 Belgian

1 -3 Clydesdale • Origin: Scotland • Colors: bay and brown, sometimes black, chestnut, gray, and roan • Average mature weight: 1, 700 -1, 900 lbs

2 -3 Clydesdale

1 -3 Percheron • Origin: France • Colors: black and gray, sometimes bay, brown, chestnut, and roan • Average mature weight: 1, 900 -2, 100 lbs

2 -2 Percheron

1 -4 Suffolk • Originated in England • Color: chestnut – seven shades of chestnut appear ranging from dark liver to light golden sorrel • Smallest of the draft horses • Average mature weight: 1, 600 -1, 900 lbs

2 -2 Suffolk

1 -3 Donkeys & Mules • Donkey - smaller than a horse with long ears. • Gestation period is one month longer than a horse. • A male is called a Jack and a female is called a jennet.

2 -2 Donkeys & Mules • When a jack is crossed with a mare the offspring is called a mule. • When a stallion is crossed with a jennet it’s called a henny which is smaller in size than a mule.