I Didn't Know the AKC Registered Horses!

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Eeee - it reminds me of a wee pony my riding coach had 30 years ago - Tonka. She taught hundreds of kids how to ride, but as soon as a kid progressed past w/t, she'd start bucking them off every time they tried to get on. She was the funniest thing; we swore she knew just the point when a rider was ready to move on to the next level - and she was a great horse to learn to fall off of since she was so close to the ground!
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they clearly edited it... it USED to say AKC.

I dunno whether the bit about bucking was edited as well, but it now says (and it did yesterday too) that she 'loves to run and buck in the field' but does NOT buck under saddle. I do not see that running and bucking in the field is terribly germane to kid-safe-ness. And they DO say that the horse needs an experienced rider because of going fast... the only bit they are saying about kids is that the horse is gentle *around* kids, and kids can be *led around on* it.

I suspect the horse either has very insufficient turnout, or is sore somewhere possibly including saddle fit issues, and probably has relatively clueless owners at the moment...

...but I am not seeing where y'all are getting it being advertised as an actual kid's riding horse.


Pat, who has fwiw one horse that is very very good around kids on the ground but I would never in a million years put a kid *on* him.
 
I'm assuming that the poster received some corrections via email (wasn't me, I swear
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LOL at Pat - takes me back to the pony in the Black Beauty book...what was his name?? Ah...brain sprang back to life...Merrylegs!
 
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Educate me! - I'm a born and bred New Englander and a life-long English rider so my knowledge here is slim: are these two different breeds you are talking about, or two different registries, or something else?
 
The American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) began in the spring of 1940 and today is the largest breed registry in the world. There are two types of Quarter Horses, the Standard Quarters, stocky, compact, heavily muscled, necessary for cattle work, powerful hindquarters, a short back, well-muscled neck and a broad, deep chest, measuring in at a low height of 14.3 hands. Its head is also still short and refined with tiny ears and wide set eyes, although the days of short tails are gone. Running Quarter Horses resemble their Thoroughbred ancestors in conformation, more of a greyhound look, but still with powerful hindquarters, a trademark of the breed, and can measure 16 hands or over.

The Standard is a great work horse, it is also a fantastic barrel horse which is what I used them for. I was trying to find a better site with a good description for that was published by the Assoc.
Not all Standards are short, the ones bred by the King Ranch are taller and are bred from Australian stock. My barrel horse in the late 70s and early 80s was from the King Ranch, his name was Texas Bay King and he was 16.2 hands. I could take him from the rodeo ring to the show ring and he was a fantastic jumper also.


I forgot to mention that until the two associations merged the Standard Quarter had their own registry. Now I believe they are registered under AQHA with the difference noted on the registration papers that they are of the Standard breed.
 
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Hmm not that I know of Writer. There is a separate category for percentage TBs (appendix) but otherwise...a quarter horse is a quarter horse is a quarter horse.

Perhaps you're thinking of foundations?
 

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