Use : Rocky Mountain Horses are used often on lead because of their surefootedness and smooth pace . They are also prove in opened gaited buck appearance , competing with Tennessee Walking Horses , Missouri Fox Trotters and other gaited stock . demonstrate just for Rocky Mountain Horses have stratum in trail pleasure , show pleasure , western pleasure , pleasure driving , trail obstruction , pole bending , showmanship , equitation , bareback , costume , track line and compliance .
History : The Rocky Mountain Horse got its start in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Kentucky . Breed historiographer maintain that in 1890 , a gaited colt from the Rocky Mountains in the West was brought to be in the mountains of Kentucky . People who lived in the area foretell the colt “ the Rocky Mountain Equus caballus . ” When this chocolate - colored colt with a flaxen mane and tail matured into a brilliant entire , he was multiply to a telephone number of Appalachian riding female horse . The foals that resulted were born with many of the entire ’s gadget characteristic , and are considered to be the first Rocky Mountain Horses . People living in the foothills of the Appalachians used the Rocky Mountain Horse to plow battlefield , ruck cattle , trip over steep and rugged trail , and drove the buggy to church on Sunday . The strain existed in small numbers through the early 1900s well into the century . In 1986 , a group of Rocky Mountain Horse breeder in Kentucky take form the Rocky Mountain Horse Association in an effort to aid preserve the breed . Today , the goal of the governance is to keep the Rocky Mountain Horse breed pure and of high quality . One way they do this is through an official authentication process . Today , the Rocky Mountain Horse is consider a rare breed , and is on the American Livestock Breed Conservancy watch leaning .
compliance : These horses suffer between 14.2 and 16 men high-pitched , and have a natural , ambling four - beat gait . This gait is either a individual - fundament gait , which is about the speed of a jog ; or a wrack , which is libertine . These gaits are natural , and Rocky Mountain Horses are born with it . Both gait are very smooth to rag . Rocky Mountain Horses come in only solid colour . Only minimal ashen facial markings are desired , and they ca n’t have any white above the genu or hock . Many Rocky Mountain Horses come in dark chestnut with a flaxen mane and tail .
Special Considerations / Notes : The Kentucky Mountain Saddle Horse , Spotted Mountain Saddle Horse , Mountain Pleasure Horse and Racking Horse are all tight related to the Rocky Mountain Horse .
