Photo: Wikimedia Commons contributor · CC BY-SA 3.0 horse breed · 671 on Animalso
Rocky Mountain Horse
- Animal
- Horse
- Type
- Gaited horse
- Origin
- United States
About the Rocky Mountain Horse
The Rocky Mountain Horse is a horse breed developed in the state of Kentucky in the United States. Despite its name, it originated not in the Rocky Mountains, but instead in the Appalachian Mountains. A foundation stallion, brought from the western United States to eastern Kentucky around 1890, began the Rocky Mountain type in the late 19th century. In the mid-20th century, a stallion named Old Tobe, owned by a prominent breeder, was used to develop the modern type; today most Rocky Mountain Horses trace back to this stallion. In 1986, the Rocky Mountain Horse Association was formed and by 2005 has registered over 12,000 horses. The breed is known for its preferred "chocolate" coat color and flaxen mane and tail, the result of the relatively rare silver dapple gene acting on a black coat, seen in much of the population. It also exhibits a four-beat ambling gait known as the "single-foot". Originally developed as a multi-purpose riding, driving and light draft horse, today it is used mainly for trail riding and working cattle.
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Photo credits17 photographs on this page
- Rocky Mountain Horse — Wikimedia Commons contributor · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file page
- American Bashkir Curly — Eponimm · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file page
- American Belgian Draft — Richard · CC BY 2.0 · file page
- American Cream Draft — Jean · CC BY 2.0 · file page
- American creme and white horse registry — GOETZ Christine · CC BY-SA 4.0 · file page
- American Drum Horse — Ultra7 · Public domain · file page
- American Indian horse — JD Lamb · CC BY 2.0 · file page
- American Miniature Horse — agriflanders · CC BY 2.0 · file page
- American Paint Horse — Betty Wills · CC BY-SA 4.0 · file page
- American Quarter Horse — José Reynaldo da Fonseca · CC BY 2.5 · file page
- American Saddlebred — Just chaos · CC BY 2.0 · file page
- American Shetland Pony — Montanabw · CC BY-SA 4.0 · file page
- American Warmblood — Josette · CC BY-SA 4.0 · file page
- Appaloosa — Darrell Dodds · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file page
- AraAppaloosa — Heather Moreton · CC BY 2.0 · file page
- Banker horse — Tania Gail · CC BY 2.0 · file page
- Camarillo White Horse — Haase B and others · CC BY-SA 2.5 · file page
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