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Use: Miniature Horses are used for driving small carts. Eventually, Shetland Ponies were bred to these “pit ponies” to create the Miniature Horse we see today. These small mining horses were brought to the U.S. in the 1900s and put to work pulling...

During the 1980s, the breed's population began to grow as draft horse breeds came into favor. Good examples of the breed have a large and full prominent eye, a broad and full forehead, and a straight face.

The Caspian horse breed is listed as Critical on the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy's Conservation Priority List. Caspian horses are slim, elegant small horses ideally suited for driving and for small adult or young riders.

Racing was also popular in America at this time, and Thoroughbreds had already been established in the United States at the time of the colonies. The club's database contains more than 1.8 million horses on a master pedigree file, including names that...

I had not only one, but two horses who loved me enough to tell me so. Then, that horse would be sold, my heart would break and I'd bravely fall in love again. Someone had forgotten to latch the chain on his stall, and he had gotten out in the middle of...

Use: Suffolk Horses are used primarily for heavy hauling, whether on the farm or at draft horse shows. Records on the breed date back to 1880, and show the breed to be pure due to its geographic isolation.

The dark color can be black, bay, chestnut, buckskin or palomino, and usually covers one or both flanks. They are most predominant in western events and as trail mounts. Some of these horses had pinto markings.

After the industrial revolution, the population of Quarter Horses decreased dramatically. Today, the American Quarter Horse Association is the largest breed registry in the world. The American Quarter Horse Association recognizes 13 colors: buckskin,...

It was a great ride. Today was cold and cloudy with a bit of a drizzle — the closest thing we get to Christmas weather in the lowlands of Southern California. With Milagro still licking my left hand, I reached my right hand out to Teddy to pet his nose.

Years later, the night-time racing of trotters and pacers pulling sulkies caught on in metropolitan areas around the country. Standardbreds were initially used only to race at the trot.

Special Considerations/Notes: The most famous Clydesdales in the world are the Budweiser Clydesdales. Slowly, the breed developed a distinctive look, and eventually became known as the Clydesdale, a name taken from the area of Scotland we know now as...

The breed steadily grew in popularity, and by the 1970s, was among America's favorite stock breeds. The Nez Perce were great horseman, and had been breeding their own horses for many years when the government opted to obtain land for settlers by moving...

Controversy still surrounds their living in the wild. In the 1971, pubic outcry convinced Congress to pass the Wild Horse Protection Act, which made it illegal to capture and sell wild horses for slaughter.

Use: Shires are still used on farms to plow and pull heavy loads. The Shire was also used in British cities, hauling brewer's wagons through the cobblestone streets. After the breed was no longer used as a warhorse, Shires found a place in England as...

The breed suffered a steep decline during World War II and was nearly lost. The American horse is most often seen in a sorrel coloration with a flaxen mane and tail, and a white stripe.

In fact, minis are often used as therapy animals or even service animals for the blind due to their intelligence. For example, on our farm where we have three minis, I only have to buy a bag of miniature horse feed once a month.

Horses will readily regulate their own salt intake to suit their hydration needs, but if your horse isn't consuming enough salt, you can place granular salt in their grain ration as a top dressing to enhance that intake, which will help water intake.

Anything over three hours and the mare is at risk for metritis, which in this species can lead to septicemia (blood infection), laminitis (severe and crippling foot inflammation) and death.

I usually purchased perennials that I recognized from my childhood, or perhaps a couple of tomato plants, maybe an annual that seemed new to me. The veterinary use is the origin of elecampane's other common names, scabwort and horseheal.Today's research...

The proclamation also stated that blood typing by the University of Kentucky has shown the Mountain Pleasure Horse to be the parent stock of the Rocky Mountain Horse, the Tennessee Walking Horse and the American Saddlebred.

We have Miniature Horses at our house, four of them, in fact. That's Dad at their Web site petting a colt named Gunny; Gunny didn't come up to Dad's knees! A few weeks ago Mom and Dad took pictures of the newest itty-bitty Ridgerunner colt, Ridgerunner's...

They are critically rare, with only 200 alive in the United States. When barb horses were introduced to England, they bred with Chapman horses to create a light harness horse similar to today's Cleveland Bay.

The creation of the Tennessee Walking Horse was prompted by farmers looking for a comfortable horse to ride long distances. This new breed, at first known as the Plantation Horse, was widely used by plantation owners to survey their land holdings.

One way they do this is through an official certification process. Conformation: These horses stand between 14.2 and 16 hands high, and have a natural, ambling four-beat gait. Only minimal white facial markings are desired, and they can't have any white...

A government breeding program actively began when a Morgan breeder named Joseph Battell donated a 400-acre farm near Weybridge, Vermont, to the U.S. government. Today, the association registers Morgan horses around the world.

Lee owned Saddlebreds. When the Civil War began in 1861, these horses carried soldiers and generals into the fighting. British colonists in the New World used Galloway and Hobbie horses from the British Isles to develop this pacing horse, which possessed...

The head features a wide forehead and long ears. In addition, Irish breeders stopped registering their horses during periods of poverty and famine. History: The origins of the Irish Draught are thought to stem from the chariot horses of the Roman Empire,...