Re: [RC] Robert E. Lee Re his mount Traveller - Truman Prevatt
Of course you right - it is the saddlebred. I got home late and was
hungry so my mind was on anything eatable. I also got the title of the
reference wrong. It is "Echos of Hoofbeats."
Karen J Zelinsky wrote:
Now, now, Truman.... "American Saddlebread"..... hmmmmmm....
reminds me of the time I was riding by my lonesome and had just
conjured up some bread dough and was letting it "rise" back at the
ranch - of course I had nibbled at it in it's yeasty dough-state, and
guess what happens out on the lonesome prairie? The yeast was happy in
my tummy, (thank GOODNESS I was alone - posting away), and my insides
were trying to become the ORIGINAL SADDLE-BREAD!!
Ha! Horses were part of the above subject-matter!
Still tummy-hurting in my memory bank .....
There's ouching-bouncing boobs, and farting-as-you-post!! Of
course I never did THAT again....matured into making other mistakes.
You obviously haven't been to the saddlebred museum in
Lexington :-). Travler has his very own display there. Travler was part
of the foundation stock that led to the development of both the
saddlebred and the walking horse. Travler was form the Grey Eagle
family of Throughbreds. This family of Throughbreds were instrumental
in the development of the "saddler" (which later became know as the
American Saddlebread) and the Tennessee Walking horse (source, Bob
Womac, Fondations Of Hoofbeats - The History of the Tennessee Walking
Horse). In fact many of the horses in the South at that time were out
of this same stock. Thus the claim.
