United Preformance Racking Horse

  The United Performance Racking Horse is rooted deeply in the bloodlines of the Racking Breeders Association of America and the Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders and Exhibitors Association. This horse is not a naturally square gaited racking horse as described by other breeds. For several years this horse was described as a horse that was in between gaits of the Racking and Walking Horses.

   For many years this horse was set aside from the show performance industry. In the early 1990’s a group of performance horse enthusiast came together and implemented a plan to use an action device on this horse for show performance purposes, and was recognized by the USDA. Shoeing and action device specification were to follow that stipulated in the HPA for the Walking Horse. This horse soon disappeared, because the Racking Horse Industry was not ready for a non natural gaited Racking Horse, because it was deviating the gait, (by using an action device) of a natural born Racking Horse as described by the Racking Horse Breeder and Trainers association of America. This performance racking horse over the next several years grew enormously. There were registries started for this horse, which used the ancestral parentage pedigree of other breeds, as their registry, as time passed this horse was introduced to the show performance industry with many different identities neither of which had a pure bred ancestral parentage pedigree for this particular breed of horse.

   With many of this breed of horse across the United States, without a ancestral parentage pedigree registry to protect or perpetuate the breed, in 2005 it was decided by a group of performance horse enthusiast, (United Performance Racking Horse Breeders & Trainers Association Inc.), this horse was recognized by the USDA and the Performance Industry, had recognized this horse as a breed. As a result an ancestral parentage pedigree registry was put in place by the (United Performance Racking Horse Breeders & Trainers Association Inc.) where as only a registered name and a registered number of a particular horse was placed on the original registration papers and recorded. The purpose of this being, to start a pure bred pedigree of the United Performance Racking Horse, with its ancestral parentage to follow as years passed.  In 2007 the first off springs of the United Performance Racking Horse were born, which was the start of the ancestral parentage pedigree for this breed of racking horse.  

   The United Performance Racking Horse is a gracefully built, good looking mount with a long sloping neck, full flanks, flat smooth legs and finely textured hair. Compared with most others, the United Performance Racking Horse is small to medium size, averaging around 15.2 hands in height and approximately 1000 pounds in weight.

  Colors may include sorrel, chestnut, black, white, brown, roan, bay, grey, yellow, palomino, dun, champagne, buckskin, and cremelo.

    The United Performance Racking Horse is not a natural gaited racking horse. The United Performance Racking Horse wears an action device in and out of the show ring, even though some of its offspring are natural gaited racking horses (single foot), as well as walking gaited. The United Performance (Action Device) Racking Horse for show purposes uses artificial means approved by the USDA, to create an animated racking gait. This horse has a, long striding back end, with a high stepping rolling front end, without any pitching or pointing of the front leg motion, with minimal head shake. At a rack this horse displays style, speed and action. The United Performance Racking Horse is recognized for its beauty, disposition, stamina and durability.  The United Performance Racking Horse is considered to be the ultimate in performance racking. The future of the Performance Racking Horse.

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