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3 unusual facts about American Saddlebred


Helen Crabtree

Helen Crabtree (December 14, 1915 – January 4, 2002) was a significant equitation coach in the discipline of Saddle seat riding as well as a breeder of American Saddlebred horses.

Crabtree Stables produced 75 world champion American Saddlebred horses and 22 winners of the National Equitation Championships.

Lordosis

It has been found to have a hereditary basis in the American Saddlebred breed, transmitted via a recessive mode of inheritance.


American Royal

The first American Royal horse show was added in 1907, and has grown to include five shows (Quarter Horse, Hunter-Jumper Horse, Arabian Horses, American Saddlebred and a 4-H show).

Mangalarga

In 1812, when the Junqueira family moved to São Paulo state, the topography, the forest, the local culture and the different species of deer to hunt, forced them to seek for a horse with different characteristics, by the selection or crossing, and so they started to breed the Mangalarga horse with Thoroughbred, Arabian, and American Saddlebred stallions plus a Saddlebred mare and one Lusitano stallion.

Splashed white

Since the original study in the early part of the last century, in addition to the breeds identified as carrying the SW-1, -2 or -3 alleles, splashed white has also been identified, but not mapped, in American Saddlebreds, Morgan horses, the Irish Tinker or Gypsy horse, the Indian Kathiawari and feral Abaco Barbs of the Bahamas.

United States Equestrian Federation

The organization also governs breed shows held in the United States for the Andalusian, Lusitano, Arabian, half-Arabian, Anglo-Arabian, Connemara, Friesian, Hackney, Morgan, American Saddlebred, National Show Horse, Paso Fino, Shetland, and Welsh breeds.


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