Australian Stock Horse Breed Characteristics :
This is a unique and distinctive horse breed that origin from Australia and is capable to live and survive Australian conditions.
australian stock horse
The ancestry of the Stock Horse includes the Arabian horse, Barb horse , American Quarter Horse and Thoroughbred.
Australian Stock Horse Australia
The first horses brought to Australia were from the South African Cape, and arrived in 1788. Thereafter, more and more were imported, particularly Thoroughbreds and Arabs).
Australian Stock Horse Studs
Australia Stock Horse Breeders
Mt. Hope
Australian Stock Horse Studbook ...
The Australian Stock Horse is a special type saddle horse - not all saddle horses make good Stock Horses, but all good Stock Horses are top saddle horses.
Australian Stock Horse
History
The Australian Stock Horse evolved through selective breeding in response to the demands of the environment.
The Australian Stock Horse is intelligent, with courage, toughness and stamina, and has a good temperament.
The Australian Stock Horse, once called a Waler, is actually a riding horse. But throughout history, this horse has been used mainly for work rather than riding. It’s good for both purposes, and is quite a common breed.
Australian Stock Horse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (162 words)
Horses were introduced to Australia for the first time with the arrival of the First Fleet in Botany Bay in January, 1788.
- Australian Stock Horse -
Australia got its first horses in 1788 when Governor Arthur Phillip imported them from the South African Cape. From then on and increasing number of horses, mainly Thoroughbreds and Arabians, were imported.
The Australian Stock Horse, possibly the world's most versatile horse, evolved through selective breeding in response to the demands of the environment.
imported a steady stream of Thoroughbreds to improve the local horse strains. The use of Thoroughbred stallions over the condition-hardened local mares produced the beautiful strain of tough but stylish animal exemplified by today's Australian Stock ...
AUSTRALIAN STOCK HORSE
In response to demands of the Australian environment, selective breeding was performed in order to develop the Australian Stock Horse.
Australian Stock Horse or Waler - at the British Horse Society
Waler Memorial
Rare Breeds Trust of Australia ...
*Australian Stock Horse - all colors
Auxois - mainly bay and roan, with red roan and chestnut occuring occasionally
*Aveligrese - chestnut with flaxen mane and tail ...
stallion breeding foal colt filly registry Abyssinian Akhal Teke Altai American Cream Draft American Creme White American Walking Pony Andalusian Anglo-Kabarda Appaloosa Araappaloosa Arabian Ardennes Asturian Australian Brumby Australian Stock Horse ...
In past years the Australian Stock Horse has been widely used throughout Australia on cattle stations and as a favored mount worldwide for cavalries during war.
Initially, most breeders were looking for a type of horse which, when bred to the Australian stock, would produce superior riding horses.
Horse Breeds: Australian Brumby, Australian Stock Horse, Azteca, Balearic
Submitted by: Phillipe Wiskell
*AUSTRALIAN BRUMBY* When horses were sent to Australia, beginning in 1788, only the fittest of horses survived the conditions...
Alternative Name
Australian Stock Horse
Basic Info
Height : 15 - 16 hh. Colours : All solid colours. Identifying Features : Physique variable, but usually Thoroughbred or Hunter type.
Chestnut, grey; height 12 to 14; Use: Children
Australian Stock Horse (Australia)
Any color; height 15 to 16.3; Use: Riding, Working with stock
Auxois (France) ...
Tobiano (pronounced tow-be-yah-no) spotting is present in many breeds and types, including the Shetland and Australian Stock Horse, but absent from some predominant breeds, such as the Arabian and Thoroughbred.
There are many variations in English riding, but all feature a flat English saddle without the deep seat, high cantle or saddle horn seen on a Western saddle nor the knee pads seen on an Australian Stock Saddle.
The saddle commonly used is similar to an Australian stock saddle. The headset is clean cut and a snaffle bit is usually employed. The attire used in showing the Mangalarga in Brazil varies from region to region but it is always colorful and unique.
 See also: Australian Stock Horse, Thoroughbred, Quarter, Saddle, Pony
  
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