Peter Hobbs

American Saddlebred Horses

American Saddlebred Horse – This horse breed evolved during the 1800’s in Kentucky and some other Southern States, thus named as Kentucky Saddler originally. It is a graceful horse, and looked fantastic pulling a wagon to church on Sundays. The contemporary Saddlebred horse is the premiere showering horse. This is a clever horse with a good temperament, has good resilience, well balanced, and has great jumping ability.

American Standardbred Horse – Early Standardbreds horses, used to cover a mile in less than 3 minutes, but now many covers this distance in less thatjust 1 minute and 55 seconds. This horse breed has an agile pacing gait, where both its legs on one side move back or forward at the same time that is perfect for harness racing. They are generally 15.2 to 15.9 hands in height, and the skin tone varies from shades of bay, black, brown.