Foundation Quarter Horses

[Dry-Run]

Hi folks, really nice to hear about the different mounts that people
use. Leaves me with a question or two though.

Question 1. How is it people are riding "Foundation" Quarter horses.
I thought Three Bars,Poco Lena,Rocket Wrangler,Weisencamps Skipper
W, Peppy,Leo Etc,Etc. were all dead A L-O-N-G time ago?

I've must be brain dead and haven't got the word on the NEW line
of foundation horse.

Question 2. Has anyone hunted off a Tenn Walker or another of the
gaited horses? And shod for real riding not that show stuff with
4X4s naileled to thier feet and trainded to lift thier feet 3 ft. high in an exagerated stride. Just a well trimmed foot shoes or no depending
on the condition of the ride and with the gait and stride they were
born with. Its been my expierence that they will flat put a hurt on
a qtr horse when it comes to moving along the trail. When I ride
with any other horse you have to constantly hold it back or wait
for the other horse to catch up. Only problem I see with them for
hunting is that there kinda tall,but they take long steps so I guess
on cancels the other. What are y'alls thoughts on this.

Dry-Run

[Nora Cook]

[Dry-Run]

Thanks Bluegirl,
I do appreciate the info. Well I guess our Reg. Qtr Horses are
foundation? We own 4 generations of a old horse out of Music Mount.
Bred her to an Oregon stud, Bueno Bar Leo off of Impressive Bueno
(Never ended up with that bad gene Impressive threw) Rebred the
mare to Terrible Eric off Terrible Scotch an then to The Sasquatch.
We ended up with a stud that threw really nice horses, not really a
performance horse as it had no reining or roping bigtime blood,But
it threw a very very calm collected, nice footed and withered horse.
It must have gotten the speed from the combo of Terrible Scotch
who if I remember right is a son of Rocket Wrangler and The
Sasquatch.

Anyway thanks for the info as you can see we've been out of the
new blood for quite sometime now but they're good animals
and nice to be around.

Have a great time ---Dry-Run

[Mike Leonard]

Good information Nora.We do not stress the foundation percentage in our horses, but we do lean heavily on them in the crosses we make. No doubt Three Bars, and Leo had as much impact on the breed as a whole in the early days as any. The crossing of the TB stock horse blood onto the foundation which we may refer to as the start at the King ranch with Wimpy P-1 and continues today still in many bloodlines thru the King and Poco Buenos and such really made for a superior working animal and thus the American Quarter Horse remains the most popular breed in the world, and has the largest registry there is.


As for the Tenn Walkers I have a pretty good bunch of experience with them. I was hired by a rancher one time that raised stock bred walkers and sold them all over the country to show folks, and bird hunters. We used them on the ranch as we also ranch about 500 of mother cows.In all fairness I would have to tell you I love the breed, and really enjoyed riding them. they did fine in the badlands and hills we were in, were big enough for heavy ranch roping although they lacked the quarter horse burst of speed and agility, they did fine. They were very gentile and calm. Some of them tended to be a little on the ugly side I thought because they are prone to large heads and a bony type frame. the show fat slick black high stepperes are one thing but an old walker out on the range looks pretty much like semi cold blooded sclogger to me.

I have a good freind here and he and his wife take their walkers all over the country and ride and really enjoy them. I am very surprized they are not more popular than they are with western hunters.We just tacked shoes on them and trimmed them like any other horse and they keep their feet low and that old running walk just shuffles the dirt right along.

Remember saddle pals Trigger and Champion wonder horses of the silver screen were both Tenn. Walking Horses.

Happy Trails...

[HoundDawg]

I owned a horse until it died of old age, and it was an American Foxtrotter with some draft horse crossed in back a ways. He was a bit too big for me to climb on and off easily, but he would flat cover the country.

Kind of like Mike said, he wasn't the most handsome horse, big headed bastard... but nobody I ever rode with saw much of his head, all they saw was his ass end pulling away from them.

Don't know much about them except for the one I owned. I have two horses now both go back to Three Bars, and one that's a Doc Bar bred horse.

I don't know anything about the breeding or the lines, I just want 'em to do what I ask and if they do that they can keep eating at my place.

Oh, and I also have a miserable piece of crap Appy horse and I know the breeding on her... Satan himself is the sire and the dam is Medusa, the mistress of Darkness.

[Nora Cook]

HoundDawg

That is too funny

[R Severe]

[sow flat slim]

Them Music Mounts could be some good horses. Had to watch them as a lot of them could be some good buckers

[cecil j.]

[Mike Leonard]

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[cecil j.]

[larry]

prefer something that is 7/8's thuroughbred and 1/8th quarter horse to cool em down just a little. That combination has it all IMO, speed, endurance, and heart. It is a horse that won't weaken til his heart explodes. Geldings only, never saw a mare that was worth feeding 365 days a year, and I never will.

[cecil j.]