Articles Tagged 'Marsh Tacky'

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Equitrekking.com’s Top 10 Articles of 2010

Introducing the most popular articles that kept you clicking on Equitrekking.com in 2010, brought to you by Savvy Systems, featuring the 9th annual Horse Savvy Photo Contest. Entry details at www.savvysystems.ca.   1. Royal Stables Video Tour & Princess Alia Interview  ...

Expert Equestrian Articles

Gait of Marsh Tacky Horses: Exciting Research

by Dr. Molly Nicodemus, PhD., Gaited Locomotive Research Program, Mississippi State University and Jeannette Beranger, ALBC Research and Technical Programs Manager Due to the breed’s Colonial Spanish heritage the Marsh Tacky was thought by some to be gaited, but there had never been any r...

Horse Breed Guide

Marsh Tacky: The “Common” Horse of Lowcounty South Carolina

By Caroline Maffry Photos © Dwain Snyder at www.EquestrianImages.us The History of the Marsh Tacky In 1846 naturalist John James Audubon wrote that the Marsh Tacky is as “tough as a Pine knot.” Indigenous to the marshy coastal islands in the low land or Lowcountry region of...