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User Login Email: Password:    » Forgot Password?  » New Member Sign Up Visitors Online: Today's Visits: Yesterday's Visits: Horses Menu Home Horses For Sale Welcome to Austrailian Stock Horse ! You are here: Terrific-Horses.com > Horse Breeds > Austrailian Stock Horse Book Search: Austrailian Stock Horse Description The Australian Stock Horse is a descendant of the first horses that were brought to Australia from the South African Cape in 1788 and many years thereafter. Most of these horses that were imported were Thoroughbreds and Arabians. These two breeds produced what was known then as the Waler. The Waler was an excellent horse for riding as well as in harness. During the First World War Australia provided some 120,000 Walers for the allied forces and they did not come back. The Australian Stock Horse is the successor of the Waler, although the Australian Stock Horse is not yet a fixed type. The Australian Stock Horse Society has had considerable success in its goal to standardize this breed. The Australian Stock Horse is a good hunter but may vary in height from 15 to 16.2 hh. This horse is mostly Anglo-Arabian and Thoroughbred with an outside influence of small pony, a little Percheron, and some Quarter Horse, which was introduced in 1954. The Australian Stock Horse is still used as an all-around horse on the big stations. These horses make up the largest single group of horses in Australia. The Australian Stock Horses are even-tempered, compact, well-made, enduring, and intelligent. Google Ads

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