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Breed Listing
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The following is a basic listing to help visually outline how we'd like to "categorize" the breeds and groupings they should be in. Currently, this listing is not finalized, but should give a basic idea of where this is headed.
We also have developed a basic outline of various subtopics of interest that might be presented for any particular breed.
Breed Article Topic Outline
If you have any suggestions on type grouping, or breeds to add to this listing (we do realize it is not a full and entire list at present) please join the discussion list at Egroups.
Breed Section Structure Plan
- Stock Breeds
- Quarter Horse
- Appaloosa
- Paint
- Stock Type Pinto
- ... more others here...
- Sporting Breeds
- Thoroughbred
- Standardbred
- Trakehner
- Hanoverian
- ... more others here...
- Draft Breeds
- Clydesdale
- Shire
- Belgian
- Suffolk
- Percheron
- ... more others here ...
- Light Riding Breeds
- Arabian
- Purebreds
- Barb
- Shagya
- ....others...
- Morgan
- ... more others here ...
- Gaited Breeds
- American
- American Saddlebred
- Tennessee Walking Horse
- Racking Horse
- Spotted Saddle Horse
- Missouri Foxtrotter
- Hackney Horse (??)
- Rocky Mountain Horse
- ....others...
- South American
- Pony Breeds
- North American
- American Shetland
- Pony of the Americas (POA)
- Paint Pony
- Quarter Pony
- Hackney Pony
- ....others...
- European
- Fjord
- Icelandic
- Welsh
- ... others....
- Other Equines
The following is a random list of other breeds that haven't been categorized as yet.
Andalusian
Lusitano
Friesian
Akhal-Teke
Mustang (including substrains)
Bashkir Curly
It is not always easy to "categorize" horse breeds by type. While some groups are definitive (such as Stock Breeds) others are little more difficult to pigeon-hole so easily. For example, the gaited breeds are currently listed as they are by origin (this may change). However, they might also be classified by type of gait instead. Several of the breeds are naturally gaited, which is a different type of action (as well as body type and general use) than "high action" gaited breeds which are trained to special gaits or ways of going, such as Saddlebreds and Hackney Horses.
The purpose of categorizing breeds at all is twofold: to help make this portion of the site a bit easier to navigate, and also to point out areas of similarity in either type, heritage, gait or usage among breeds that may be similar in these aspects.
Views expressed herein are those of the writers and compilers of the various information. Reference sources are cited where applicable. Copyrights are the property of the respective authors.
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