Generally good. Interesting stories about Morgans, Tennessee Walkers, and ASH. Also info on trotters and thoroughbreds. Obviously this guy was a huge racing fan, as well as the underdog, because there was a lot of excited discussion on a particularly persistent thoroughbred with a very long racing career. Also, pretty much every chapter had sections on racing of horses between even just owners. Nothing on quarter horses, though. Or aztecas. As detailed in his memoir series, the author, Ralph Moody was racing horses as young as ten years old in Colorado, and worked on cattle drives throughout his early teens. Insightful and fresh-- A MUST READ FOR HORSE LOVERS!
American Horses
By R. Moody
Horses came to America from Spain, England, the Low Countries, and Arabia. Here they interbred and flourished as never before. "Out of the melting pot have come four entirely new breeds that rank among the finest horses of the world. Three of them originated through the painstaking and intelligent efforts of American horsemen, one through a freak of nature."
That "freak" was a little bay stallion born when George Washington was president. This chunky, short-legged horse proved to be not only hardy and gentle but also able to outpull and outrun any other horse in New England or New York. Plagued by his owners’ bad luck, the horse spent most of his twenty-eight years hauling freight but sired many offspring who also showed the strength, endurance, speed, heart, and peculiar conformation of the original Morgan horse.
Based on extensive and careful research, this book tells the stories of the origins of the Morgan, the Standardbred, the American Saddle Horse, and the Tennessee Walking Horse as well as their progenitors—Figure, Messenger, Hamiltonian, Black Hawk, Dutchman, Lady Suffolk, Cockspur, Denmark, Tom Hal, Copperbottom, and Roan Allen—and the breeders and fanciers who recognized their special qualities.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-13: 9780803232488
ISBN-10: 0803232489
Published on 9/1/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Number of pages: 185
Book Reviews (4)
I love this book
i love horses to but they are really so taller then me but not a pony
I LOVE HORSES <3