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Re: [RC] Robert E. Lee Re his mount Traveller - heidiO.K. then...since Thoroughbreds descended from 3 Arabian Stallions...those three stallions are now Thoroughbreds using this logic...right? Considering that Traveller was a gelding and didn't directly contribute to anybody's line...seems like he just was what he was. Heidi says her Arab gaited at times but that didn't turn him into a Saddlebred either did it? Wellll, not exactly.... Many specific individual sires contributed heavily to more than one breed. Janus, the "progenitor" of the QH, has multiple crosses to The Godolphin Arabian. Janus himself was considered to be a TB. You will find 20+ Arabian sires contributing to the TB--but the three "famous" ones are the most common and the most ubiquitous in pedigrees. Does that make them TBs? No, they were still Arabians. But their offspring were selected for a particular type that became TBs. And other descendants were selected for other traits and became QHs. And still others became Morgans, and Saddlebreds, and etc... Traveller was by a TB stallion that was noted for siring "saddle horses" and out of a mare of Saddlebred type. I haven't looked to see when the actual registry was formed, but I doubt that it was formed by Traveller's day. So "Saddlebreds" in that era were horses of a specific type bred by people in that area. Most breeders kept records of pedigrees. I think the problem here is that folks are reading too much into the concept of a "breed" given the times. A few specific regiments in the Civil War were mounted exclusively on "Saddlebreds" but you are right, Angie, that overall, the cavalries on both sides of the war were mounted on whatever horses they could find. Ideally, they tried to find horses of a type that best suited their needs--but I'll betcha dollars to donuts that there were likely even a few plowhorses pressed into service in desperation at times... Heidi =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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