canadian pacer
In the Canadian Provinces, French mares were crossed with Dutch and English stock.
Canadian Pacer
The Canadian Pacer still exists, unlike the comparable Narragansett Pacer, however the breed is small in numbers. In the Canadian Provinces, French mares were crossed with Dutch and English stock.
Canadian Pacer Horse Breed Characteristics :
The Canadian Pacer is a horse breed that is developed in Canada in the late 18th and the early 19th centuries.
Regardless of their solid pedigrees & athletic spirit the Canadian Pacer was never a huge success as a breed. Probably due to the development of race horses in the US.
Canadian Pacer
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The Canadian Pacer is a horse breed of which only small numbers remain.
History
In the Canadian Provinces, French mares were crossed with Dutch and English stock.
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The bloodlines of the Canadian Pacer are not exactly known, ...
The foundation to the breed of Standardbred horse was laid by Narrangansett Pacer and the Canadian Pacer, Norfolk Trotter, Morgan, Hackney and the Thouroughbreds. Bloodlines were selected by the breeders that would create the fastest horses.
In the early 1800s, Narragansett Pacers and Canadian Pacers were crossbred by breeders in the U.S. state of Tennessee while looking for a horse that could handle the hilly terrain of the area.
A fusion of Thoroughbreds, Canadian Pacers, Saddlebreds, Morgans, American Standardbreds and Narragansett Pacers, this docile servant evolved in the middle Tennessee bluegrass region, and therefore christened the "Tennessee Walking Horse".
The Tennessee Walker originated from the Narragansett Pacer and the Canadian Pacer. In the early 1800s, these two breeds were blended by Tennessee breeders who were looking for a horse that could handle the mountainous terrain of the area.
Initially North American harness racing horses were either "Narragansett Pacer" or "Canadian Pacer" breeds.
This horse was originally called a Tennessee Walker and was a mixture of Naragansett Pacer and the Canadian Pacer. The addition of the Confederate Pacer and Union Trotter to the breed in the 1800's led it to be renamed the Tennessee Pacer.
The roots of the Tennessee Walking Horse go back to the time of the Civil War, when Narragansett and Canadian Pacers were cross-bred with Standardbred trotters, with additional input from the Morgan, Saddlebred, and Thoroughbred.
The Canadian Horse gave rise to the Canadian Pacer, which has had a profound impact on many of the gaited breeds of today.
However, due to various crossbreeding and outbreeding attempts -- especially with Canadian pacers and trotters which were transported to the West Indies during the heyday of the sugar plantations -- the modern Colombian Criollo retains little of its ...
Originally developed by the pioneers of Kentucky, they were bred to be all-around versatile utility horses using a cross primarily of Narraganssett Pacer and Canadian Pacer, both of which are now extinct.
INFLUENCES
1. Thoroughbred 2. Morgan 3. Narrangansett Pacer 4. Canadian Pacer
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The Friesian blood was added to the French-Canadian horses in the late 17th and early 18th century, adding trotting ability and feathering to the legs. Breeders bred different types to meet the individual needs (one type was the Canadian Pacer.
The Canadian Pacer was a horse bred from the Narragansett Pacer and the old strains of French-Canadian. This breed then returned to the United States and contributed greatly to development of the famous American Standardbred.
 See also: Canadian, Standardbred, Saddle, Morgan, Saddlebred
  
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