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Quarter Horses are very kind and well mannered. Therefore, they demand consecutive and patient training. Poised disposition in no way rules out occasional outbreaks of aggression, which can be dangerous for owners. Experienced trainers recommend tolerance and violence free training methods.
Training is required from early age. It should not include excessive physical strain. Mutual respect is the most important factor in the relationship between you and your horse. If there is any trait you do not like in the foal's behavior, or he or she happens to play an undesired trick, punish your foal right after that. The punishment should be moderate, but firm, and it should follow in due time. In this case, the foal will understand his or her guilt and is less likely later to iterate the trick.
It is imperative to study the movements of your horse's body. This is especially true of Quarter Horses. If you cannot properly predict the behavior of your Quarter horse, it may be dangerous even to approach the animal. Failure to eliminate aggression at an early stage may instill these traits, which will not be possible to get rid of in adulthood. More probable is that you will end up lying on the ground several meters away from the stable and
crumpled in pain, which will be yet a lucky outcome.
Trust, respect and gentleness are the brick and mortar of your lifelong relationship with your horse. There are many examples of how qualified horse keepers, through patient and effective training, found common ground with other species of horses, which were naturally far less tamable than Quarter Horses.
Quarter Horses need training in accordance with their physical characteristics. They are good sprinters; therefore daily race training must be an in alienable element of their life. Physical and mental overstrain must be excluded. They are also intelligent cattle drivers, a trait that needs consistent maintenance by daily driving practice. Foals have the ability to learn promptly new things. While they are young is the right time for the beginning of training. Quarter Horses are good barrel ropers and rodeo racers, and these are the main purposes for their breeding.
Quarter Horses - Racing, Training and General Information Links
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Glacier Ridge Range Quarter Horses © 2004
Angela Fritsch
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American Dream Stables - Training and showing in Belgium.
American Quarter Horse Youth Racing Program - Offering AQHA youths a chance to apply to learn about Quarter Horse racing. Photos, application, and information on the program. Sponsored by the American Quarter Horse Association.
Beech Creek Ranch - Offers training, breeding, horseback riding and sales. Mt. Enterprise, Texas.
Cleve Wells - Offers a video series, seminar schedule, trainer resource guide, as well as specialty tack and equipment for sale.
Great Lakes Quarter Horse Association - Promoting and encouraging interest and participation in Quarter Horse racing within the State of Michigan. Offers race schedule, nominations, membership.
Horse Health Care - Equine Sarcoid - Information on the disease and methods of treatment.
Iowa Quarter Horse Racing Association - Source for information including events, stakes races, membership, breeders, and racehorse sales.
Kansas Quarter Horse Racing Association - Based in Eureka, Kansas.
Pacific Coast Quarter Horse Racing Association - PCQHRA is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1950 to represent California racing Quarter Horse owners, breeders and trainers. Information on races, membership, awards program, and affiliated links.
Quarter Horses - They are oval-headed, kind, surefooted and steady. Quarter Horses breed is
well known for its stocky build, heavy muscling and compact appearance.
Quarter Racing - Ontario - Promoting the sport in Ontario, Canada. Information on schedule of races, stakes, rules and regulations, entries, sponsors, and board of directors.
Rancho Sueno - Offers training and lessons, boarding, breeding services and horses for sale. Located in Peoria, Arizona.
Shields Show Horses - Show training, conditioning, and sales quarter horses, palominos, and paints for conformation and performance in multiple disciplines both English and Western.
Tanner Training Stable - Horse training. Youth and amateur instruction. Located in Santa Barbara, California.
The Quarter Horse - General information on Quarter Horses.
Troy Oakley Quarter Horses - Offering training, showing and horses for sale. Services, achievements, and photographs. Pinnacle, North Carolina.
Welcome to Horse Health - Hyperkalemic Periodic Paralysis or HYPP.
Whimsy Brook Farm - Offering clinics, training, lessons, camps, and sales of hunter and dressage horses. Located in Redding, Connecticut.
Quarter Horses - Clubs and Associations Links
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Quarter Horse Directory
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Alberta Quarter Horse Association - Provincial association affiliated with AQHA promoting approved shows and events in Alberta. Host of the Canadian National Quarter Horse Show.
American Quarter Horse Association - Official breed registry and membership association for the American Quarter Horse. Includes information on programs sponsored by the AQHA including Youth, American Quarter Horse racing, American Quarter Horse showing, and recreational riding. Listing of upcoming events and competitions, member clubs, and associated links.
Georgia Quarter Horse Association - Site includes membership information, show and futurity calendars, newsletters, point standings, and stallion services.
Illinois Quarter Horse Association - Promotes the American Quarter Horse in Illinois. Site includes event calendar; point standings; futurity, SuperStake 25 and membership forms; youth organization and stallion listings.
Minnesota Foundation Quarter Horse Club - Affiliate of the Foundation Quarter Horse Registry. Site offers events information and membership forms.
Mississippi Quarter Horse Association - A nonprofit organization aims to promote owning, breeding, showing, racing and using Quarter Horses. Includes show schedules and membership information.
Montana Quarter Horse Association - Promotes the use of American Quarter Horses in Montana through shows and racing. Site includes award point standings, membership information, youth and amateur awards, a breeders and professional directory, and calendar of events.
National Foundation Quarter Horse Association - Preserving and promoting the use of the original versatile Bulldog foundation Quarter Horse. Offers certification, upcoming events, high point awards program, classes, and bloodline determination tools.
Powder River Quarter Horse Breeders Association - Southeastern Montana organization which sponsors sales and futurities annually over Labor day weekend. Reference sires, futurity information, a breeders directory, stallion auction information, and sales listings.
Southern Oregon Foundation Quarter Horse Club - Promotes and preserves the original bulldog-type quarter horse. Event schedule, show results, membership information, stallion listing, and advertisements are included in this site.
The Foundation Quarter Horse Association - International nonprofit association dedicated to
promoting, preserving and exhibiting foundation Quarter Horses. Site includes registry information and conformation guidelines.
Wyoming Quarter Horse Association - Promotes the use and breeding of Quarter Horses in Wyoming. Site includes show schedule, open and youth point totals, officer and director listing, and foal photos.
Quarter Horses - Other Quarter Horses sites
American Quarter Horses - American Quarter Horses were named so because of their speed records. The breed was fastest to cover a distance of a quarter a mile. Besides, the breed was very strong and enduring. The American Quarter Horse is well muscled and compact. It has always been used in horse racing and did rather well in it. Even today, quarter-mile racing is one of the most favorite sports. No wonder, the American Quarter Horse is keeping its position as one of the most famous and popular quarter-mile horses.
Besides racing, American Quarter Horses are now used for ranches and rodeos. This breed is known to make a good herding horse capable of directing livestock. Cattle roping and barrel racing are just two more talents of this wonderful breed. The American Quarter Horse has brilliant physical and temperament characteristics. Not only is the breed strong and fast. It is very calm, which allows it to be used in recreation for children.
American Quarter Horses Pictures - American Quarter Horses is a purely American breed of horses. The breed officially registered in 1940, but its history started centuries long before that time. In the times of the Wild West, uses for these horses were village street and country lane quarter-mile races.
The first quarter-mile race took place in 1694 at Enrico County, Virginia. By the end of the 17th century, quarter-mile racing became an inalienable attribute of life in America and spread around the entire country. It became a matter of great profit, and even big plantations were often at stake during one-on-one matches.
American Quarter Horses Stallions - American Quarter Horses are the most speedy and powerful species of horses in the world. Initially reproduced for traditional quarter-mile races in American colonial times, Quarter Horses are genetic relatives to Spanish Barbs, introduced to America by Spaniards.
The horse became widely spread in the range of modern Texas, where cattle driving was flourishing. Powerful built of the body and heavy muscle made the species an irreplaceable worker in the sphere of agriculture and transportation, to say nothing of thriving quarter-mile-racing tradition.
Quarter Horses - Quarter Horses are remarkably fast and powerful species of horses. They were bred specifically for horseracing and recreation. Over decades of breeding and training, they have formed tense muscle and developed a dashing speed. If you visit a rodeo competition of switch on your TV to see a western film, it is almost certain, that you will catch a glimpse of a Quarter Horse.
Quarter Horses arrived to America along with first English colonists, who were ardent horse riders and could not imagine their life without one-to-one short races. Later, throughout decades and centuries, the popularity of horseracing grew and a need for strong, enduring and obedient horses became more and more evident.
