Your child is begging you to start riding lessons, but you’re unsure where to start? Here’s why saddleseat riding is a wonderful option for your child

🐎Saddlebreds are curious, highly attentive and intelligent horses and enjoy bonding with their riders. Bonds like this are something children take with them into adulthood, and with a saddlebred, this bond comes easily.

🐎The saddlebred is a gracious horse and is intuitive to a young rider. Big horses with large hearts which allow the littlest of riders to handle them in the show ring. We see this over and over again.

🐎Saddlebreds adore attention. And children love giving them that attention.

🐎Riding a saddlebred teaches great balancing skills, strengthens your child’s body as well as discipline.

🐎Let’s face it, there is nothing more spectacular than a little child showing a marvelous horse such as the saddlebred.

🐎To conclude, horse care and riding teaches a child the valuable lesson of responsibility which is priceless.

Did you know during the American Civil War, Saddlebreds served as mounts for various famous generals, including Lee, Grant, Sherman and Stonewall?

🐎American Saddlebred horses are best known for being the ultimate show horse for their beauty, style and elegance

🐎American Saddlebreds succeed in a wide range of equine disciplines, including dressage, barrel racing, endurance and jumping. They also make excellent cattle horses, carriage horses and even trail horses because of their comfortable, easy gait and even temperament.

🐎As a trotting breed, all American Saddlebreds perform three standard gaits: walk, trot, and canter. The breed standard for movement should be fluid and animated, with clear balance and cadence.

🐎Some American Saddlebreds have the ability to be trained to perform two additional gaits exhibited in the five-gaited division. The slow gait and rack are both a four-beat gaits with each of the horse’s hooves striking the ground separately. These gaits, like the breed’s walk, trot and canter, should be fluid, animated and balanced.

🐎A few of the most famous American Saddlebreds include Mr. Ed of talking horse fame, Roy Roger`s horse, Trigger and the Lone Ranger`s horse, Silver.