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Prowler's
Gold Delight
Pedigree (Pictured
below are some of the Sires)
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| 978288/PA |
PROWLER'S
GOLD DELIGHT
978288/PA
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NIGHT
PROWLER'S SPOTLIGHT
912404/CH |
PRIDES
NIGHT PROWLER
841221/BL |
PRIDE'S
PEDDLER BH
7772902/CH |
PRIDE
OF MIDNIGHT H.F.
661459 |
DELIGHT'S
MELODY
732598/BA |
DELIGHTS
MISTRESS B.H.
805039/BL |
SUN'S
DELIGHT D.
592116/CH |
IMPALAS
SHADOWETTE
651408/BL |
PRIDE'S
SARA
795817/SO |
PRIDE
OF MIDNIGHT H.F.
661459 |
MIDNIGHT
SUN
410751 |
PRIDE
OF STANLEY
472897 |
DELIGHT'S
LADY SARA
735473/BL |
SUN'S
DELIGHT D.
592116/CH |
SUN'S
LADY MAC
610929 |
DANDY'S
FANCY CHANCE
923132/CR |
LADY'S
DAPPLE DANDY
666667/YL |
SUN'S
CRESCENT
540692 |
MIDNIGHT
SUN
410751 |
ALLEN'S
GOLDSMITH MAID
411345 |
PARADER'S
LADY EARL
591303 |
BLAZE'S
GOLD PARADER
450659 |
MISS
CAROLYN WILSON
480103 |
HEIR'S
FANCY SUNRISE
802937/YL |
BLAZE
GOLDEN HEIR
601303/SO |
BLAZE
O' GOLD
472585 |
MERRY
DIAMOND ALLEN
473256 |
CHANCE'S
FANCY
622216 |
CREAM
CHANCE
581394 |
MY
DESERT ROSE
612669 |
Originally
bred as a utility horse, the Tennessee Walking Horse is presently best
suited for a recreational mount due to its smooth easy ride and its
gentle disposition. Calm, docile temperament, combined with naturally
smooth and easy gaits insure the popularity of the Tennessee Walking
Horse as the world's greatest show, trail and pleasure horse.
Tennessee Walking Horse is a light horse breed founded in middle Tennessee.
This breed is a melting pot much like Americans it is a composition
of the Standardbred, the Thoroughbred, the Morgan, and the American
Saddlebred stock.
The Tennessee Walking Horse generally range from 14.3 to 17 hands (
a hand being 4 inches) and weigh 900 to 1200 pounds. The modern Tennessee
Walking Horse possesses a pretty head with small, well placed ears.
The horse has a long sloping shoulder, a long sloping hip, a fairly
short back and a short strong coupling. The bottom line is longer than
the top line, allowing a long stride.
Color: Tennessee Walking Horses come in all colors and all patterns.
The wide variety of range in color is sure to please everyone as there
is no discrimination in color. Black, bay, chestnut, palomino, buckskin
roan and spotted patterns are apparent on the smooth riding Tennessee
Walking Horse.
Gaits: The Tennessee Walking Horse performs the flat foot walk, running
walk, and canter. These three are the gaits for which the Tennessee
Walking Horse is famous, with the running walk being an inherited natural
gait unique to this breed. Many Tennessee Walking Horses are able to
perform the rack, stepping pace, fox-trot, single-foot and other variations
of the famous running walk, while this is not desirable in the show
ring the above mentioned gaits are smooth easy trail riding gaits.
The flat foot walk is a brisk, long-reaching walk that can cover from
4 to 8 miles an hour. This is a four cornered gait with each of the
horse's feet hitting the ground separately at regular intervals.
The horse will glide over the track left by the front foot with his
hind foot. (right rear over right front, left rear over left front.)
The action of the back foot slipping over the front track is known as
overstride. Overstride is unique to the walking horse breed. The hock
should show only forward motion, with vertical hock action being highly
undesirable. A Tennessee Walking Horse will nod its head in rhythm with
the cadence of its feet. This nodding head motion, with the overstride,
are two features that are unique to the Tennessee Walking Horse. This
unique head motion along with overstride are two things the judge should
take into consideration when judging a Tennessee Walking Horse.
The running walk is the gait for which the walking horse is most noted!
This extra-smooth gliding gait is basically the same as the flat walk
with a marked increase in speed. This breed can travel 10 to 20 miles
per hour at this gait. As the speed is increased, the horse over-steps
the front track with the back foot by from 6 to 18 inches. The more
"stride" the horse has the better "walker" it is
considered to be, for this gives the rider a feeling that he or she
were gliding through the air as if propelled by some powerful but smooth-running
machine. Walking horses relax certain muscles while doing the running-walk,
some nod their heads in rhythmic timing, swing their ears in perfect
motion, and some even snap their teeth. The running walk is a smooth,
easy gait for both horse and rider. The running walk is basically the
same gait as the flat walk with an increase in speed. There should be
a noticeable difference in the rate of speed between the flat walk and
the running walk but a good running walk should never allow proper form
to be sacrificed for excessive speed. A true Tennessee Walking Horse
will continue to nod while performing the running walk. Judging should
not be influenced by speed, but rather by the true form exhibited.
The third gait is the canter, which is a collected gallop. The canter
is performed in much the same way as other breeds, but the walking horse
seems to have a more relaxed way of performing this gait. The canter
is a forward movement performed in a diagonal manner to the right or
to the left. On the right lead, the horse should start the gait in this
order: left hind, right hind and left fore together-then right fore.
The order for the lead is: right hind, left hind and right fore, then
left fore. When performed in a ring, the animal should lead his canter
with the fore leg to the inside of the ring. In the canter the horse
gives one the abundance of ease with lots of spring and rhythm, with
the proper rise and fall to afford a thrill from sitting in the saddle.
Thus the canter lifts with the front end giving an easy rise and fall
motion that is likened to a rocking chair. This is often referred to
as the "rocking-chair-gait".
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