Walkaloosa Horse
Breed Description:
The Walkaloosa Association was founded to help in preserving a gaited
Appaloosa patterned horse for the future. The Walkaloosa Horse
as a breed is made up of many body types. The breed standard is
designed to promote the ideal for the breed, with the goal to attain a
horse that combines beauty with functionality, a generous and docile
temperament with smooth and brilliant gaits. Walkaloosa horses are
versatile, bred for balance of movement and harmony of form, resulting
in ease of training. The ideal Walkaloosa will travel in a smooth gait
with animation, rhythm, and style. Walkaloosa horses have solid gait,
radiant coloring, good minds, good conformation and a genetic ability
to transmit these traits to their progeny. Breeders of Walkaloosa
horses especially need to adhere to a breed standard that ensures
soundness and versatility, Conformation must adhere to standards which
promote a sound, hardy horse with longevity. The Walkaloosa should
walk, gait and canter with equal quality. While degrees of "type" are
allowed and even encouraged, all examples of the Walkaloosa breed
should exhibit conformation illustrating that basic soundness is of
primary importance, followed by solid gait, vigor, presence and
brilliance of movement, to allow the exotic beauty of the Walkaloosa
horse to shine as their lasting heritage. Severe faults in conformation
shall be penalized severely even in the presence of outstanding "type".
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