Re: RC: Re: Re: Amblin/Racking/what ever

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In a message dated 6/22/00 9:51:23 AM Pacific Daylight Time, Howard4567 
writes:

<< Woa there Heidi, I don't think so. At least not the American Saddlebred.  
His foundations were laid when the Galloway and Hobby Horses were brought to 
North America by the British.  Thru selective breeeding came the Narraganset 
Pacer (Paul Revere's horse).  This happened during the 1600's.
 
 The first Thouroughbreds were imported to North America in 1706.  By 1776 
the American Horse was established mixing the Narraganset Pacer breed with 
the Thoroughbred.  During this period crosses of Morgan, Standardbred, and 
Hackney also contributed to what today is the American Saddlebred.
 
 Please show me the heavy Arabian blood here.  I don't see it.   >>

Go find pedigrees of those early British ancestors.  They were rife with 
specific Arabians.  Justin Morgan's pedigree likewise was chock-ful of very 
specific Arabians.  You're right that the Saddlebred was developed from 
Morgan, Standardbred, and Hackney crosses--ALL of which contained a great 
deal of Arabian blood.  The TB's likewise descended from not only the three 
"famous" sires (the Godolphin Arabian, the Darley Arabian and the Byerly 
Turk) but also some 4 to 5 dozen other lesser known Arabians that appear in 
the vast majority of TB pedigrees.  If you don't see it, you're not looking 
back far enough in the actual pedigrees.

Heidi