Re: RC: USA Breeders

["Truman Prevatt, Ph.D." <truman.prevatt@netsrq.com>]

The foundation horses such as produced Traveler produced two great
breeds - the Kentucky Saddle Horse later to be known as the American
Saddlebred and the Tennessee Walking Horse. Of of these breeds through
crossing with other horses came the Foxtrotter and the Rocky Mountain
Horse. Rumor has it that these two great breeds were imported to
Columbia to cross with the Paso stock to produce a more hardy and larger
"Paso".

And you are so right about what has happened in the sake of breeding for
the show ring. There are probably is no breed of horse that has had to
endure the pain of the show ring Walking horse. The build up shoes, the
chemical soring, the road foundering to get them to "gait better." The
treatment of the Saddlebred is not much better.

All in the name of greed and ego. 

And yes no one condones slavery, but the uncivil "Civil War" was a lot
more about economics and politics than slavery. Some of David Donald's
work on the Civil War, the period leading up to it and reconstruction is
riveting reading. Donald pretty much agrees with the "War of Northern
Aggression" and he is no revisionist southerner, his last mailing
address was Harvard.

Truman



CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com wrote:

> 
> Nope, Howard, your info is right on.  And that is the sort of Saddlebred that
> I was referring to when I mentioned that for endurance, one is likely to do
> best with the old lines that have been bred true to the old standards.  Only
> reference I will make here to Arabs is that the same is true for Arabs--both
> breeds have been devastated in recent years by breeding for show ring fads
> instead of sticking to the traits that really mattered, and in both breeds,
> there have been a few breeders who have stayed true to type and have
> continued to breed solid, sensible using horses.
> 
> BTW--the book "Traveler" is a very interesting read--I think it is the same
> author that wrote "Watership Downs."  It is about the Civil War from the
> perspective of Robert E. Lee's horse, and is an excellent commentary on the
> concept that the horse has a different viewpoint and priorities than the
> human.  (And personally, I don't find anything remotely "civil" about that
> war--I prefer to call it the War of Northern Aggression, and the southerners
> that were displaced and came West stamped our rural western culture with a
> sort of honor, chivalry, and desire for freedom that is still very precious
> to me.  But that is another topic.)
> 
> Heidi
> 

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