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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 Tennessee Walking Horse ! You are here: Terrific-Horses.com > Horse Breeds > Tennessee Walking Horse Book Search: Tennessee Walking Horse Description The Tennessee Walking Horse, also known as the Tennessee Walker, originated in Tennessee in the middle of the 19th century. The Tennessee Walking Horse was also known as the Southern Plantation Walking Horse, Tennessee Pacer, Walkers, or “Turn-Row” horses. The settlers of this area needed a horse with endurance and stamina while working for long hours with a rider. Speed was not a requirement but being able to travel long distances was necessary. The Tennessee Walking Horse descended from the Narragansett Pacer with infusions of blood from the Thoroughbred, Standardbred, Morgan, and Saddlebred. The foundation sires were two Standardbred stallions (Black Allan and son Roan Allan), which were descended from Standardbred trotters and bred with Morgans. These horses were not able to harness race because of a peculiar walking pace, which became one of the Tennessee Walking Horses characteristics. These horses were then bred with the existing Tennessee Pacers stock and the trait was past to their descendants. To provide refinement and quality a Saddlebred horse named Giovanni was brought from Kentucky in 1914 to breed and produced what is now the modern Tennessee Walking Horse. Today the Tennessee Walking Horse is mostly a pleasure and show horse. It has a reputation for being the most reassuring horse for the beginner or nervous rider. This horse is a larger boned horse than the Saddlebred and carries its head lower. The Tennessee Walking Horse stands on average 15 to 16 hh. The Tennessee Walking Horse has three gaits, which are the flat walk, the running walk, and the rolling “rocking-chair” canter. They are known for their famous running walk, which is a soft gliding gait with maintaining a speed of between 6 and 9 mph over short distances. The Tennessee Walking Horses are predominantly bred in its originating state. Google Ads

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