Origins
The American quarter horse down both rustic Andalusian horses of the conquistadors and crossing with horses as the most sophisticated British thoroughbred.
In the seventeenth century hobbies (muscular little horse from Ireland) is one of the first ancestors of the type quarter horse with both its conformation, short back and powerful hindquarters, and fearless temperament.
In the eighteenth century, the horse Chikasaw is the first real quarter horse running (400m specialist) on short there is no faster, it is also nice, it's the best pet of his time.
Late nineteenth century, race heavily diluted by the various contributions of European and Arab blood begins to disappear to make way for what would become half a century later the quarter horse.
Thus, the quarter horse breed has the distinction of being the first race from the USA. The crossing of the early seventeenth century, Andalusian Iberian horses from England, then with the first thoroughbred, lays the foundation for a new type of horse stocky, muscular and able to run at a speed surprising. This horse accompanied the settlers in their inexorable advance towards the west and shows a versatile partner able to adapt to all situations. Climate terrible, grueling terrain and landforms, distance giant .... nothing seems to alter or her innate sense of animals, nor the willingness to man, nor its physical availability. Today with more than four million people race quarter horse is present and conforms to the same standard throughout the world.
Despite its size and robust picked up, the quarter horse is very fast and agile, its morphology allowing it to turn on itself in a minimum radius, to stop net with ease and has a great capacity for recovery. The quarter horse shows a very gentle and remarkable patience. Qualities that, in addition to its versatility, made a very popular horse jumping, dressage, but also in many activities horse riding recreation (hiking, trec ...) It seems also that No other horse is used by many riders in many equestrian disciplines.
It is the emblem of western riding, riding American, if the Cowboys have quickly adopted, it is probably for his innate sense of cattle: its mobility and balance will make it a natural companion highly appreciated in the difficult discipline of cutting in others.
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