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Representatives of this breed of draft horses are elegant, created in England in the early eighteenth century Hackney Horse have a very high speed, that looks great in the team. Breed horses such as we know it today comes from Norfolk.This Hackney Horse created a good, energetic, stylish light horses, which became popular as carriage horses of the English aristocracy. The first known horse breed was Hackney Horse – 1760 year.
RD Kohav, Hackney stallion. Hackney is known to be a high-stepping, flashy carriage horse but the original Hackneys were riding horses with ordinary gaits when there were no decent roads yet in Britain. Today they're rare as carriage horses are not needed for transportation any more but they still are outstanding horses with iron-hard legs for both driving and riding.
The Hackney breed is uncommon worldwide, with a global population of perhaps 3,000. The majority of the horses are found in Britain, with fewer than 200 Hackney horses in North America and about 300 in Argentina. The breed type varies from place to place and strain to strain. Relatively few strains retain the pure genetics of the historic Hackney breed, and these are a conservation priority.
Are Hackney Carriage Horses … History?
Hackney horses were once a common sight in Great Britain as they carried wealthy passengers in grand carriages. But now the numbers of the famous Hackney horses have fallen so low they have been put on the rare breeds 'critical' list. The Rare Breeds Survival Trust (RBST) says that with the number of female breeders…