TIGER HORSES


	TIGRE'S FOUNDING MEMBERS (Victoria and Mark Varley) ANNANDALE'S TIGER HORSE FARM 32 Jack Rabbit Lane, Santa Fe, NM 87508 Tel: (505)438-2827 E-mail: tigerhorses@aol.com WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT ONE INCREDIBLE SUCCESS STORY Welcome and enjoy with us the return of the world's most beautiful horse breed THE TIGER HORSE .

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Meet Annandale's Love Story.
For a horse like this, make sure it traces to Annandale stock and that it is registered with TIGRE, The Tiger Horse Breed Registry
Love Story now belongs to Cassandra and John Boothe and lives with them in New Zealand.
No wonder wars were fought over ownership of majestic horses like this one. Before going extinct, this spotting gene was apparently passed to other breeds, some of which eventually arrived in the Americas with the first shiploads of military and cart horses. Tiger Horses were discarded by the Frontiersmen because spots and soft middle gaits were thought to be a disadvantage. Fortunately several Indian tribes saw the value and beauty of these lovely animals and kept their genes alive.

During Spain's 11th century breeding history, it is true that these horses were bred for the gentry and ladies to ride, but many are tough enough to perform other necessary tasks. Today's pleasure rider recognize the advantages of riding one of these gaited marvels. Their energetic way of going is thrilling to ride and is coupled with the sweetest dispositions.
Not all inherit exotic coat patterns like this one did but exotic coat patterns are a hallmark of our new affectionate breed.

          Tiger Horses are once again thundering into existence from their ancient Siberian past. Can you imagine centuries ago, an entire herd of these magnficent creatures frolicking on the valley floors in Siberia, at the foot of the Heavenly Mountains?

          Once there were more horses on those plains than there were men. Today the original spotted herd is extinct.

           Miraculously we found modern day horses, here in the USA, and from a variety of unrelated breeds, which shared the antique features of the "Ancient Ones" seen in archaelogical digs. We have successfully put a new breed of horse together that closely resembles the Heavenly Horses from Siberia.




	Ours is a serious breeding program!.

We started the Tiger Horse breed in 1992, the first of which were born in 1993. Because of our early success and relentless efforts to publicize this venture, many people have now heard the name, Tiger Horse and know that it is an Appaloosa spotted breed, with a comfortable middle gait. But why name it a Tiger Horse? The Spanish named their similar experimental horse El Caballo Tigre, (The Tiger Horse) because they had no word back then for "leopard." Any animal with spots was therefore named a "Tiger" of sorts. We now know that while the modern day Tiger Horse descends from the extinct Heavenly Horses of Siberia, a breed that grazed at the foot of the Heavenly Mountains, they were at some point used to hunt the Siberian tiger.




	We produced these foals during our first experiments to bring back the Tiger Horse. Notice the similaritiese to the Chinese horses on the right, both in color and physique.


	The interesting tapestry on the right shows a patterned horse and Chinese rider, his bow drawn at a leaping tiger. There are many antique examples such as this one depicting hunters on Heavenly Horses, that closely resemble those we are producing today at Annandale. Below is a 2010 example of one of our mares and a clay sculpture of the Soulon, a T'ang Dynasty Heavenly Horse. Have we arrived or what!.

Since 1992, we at Annandale's Tiger Horse Farm, have worked hard to reproduce and improve a modern day version of an extinct, but once famous horse from Siberia. Come to find out the genes that have survived in others, have offered us a variety of antique types. We have chosen the pheno-type of the Soulon, a T'ang Dynasty horse (above left), that was developed by China centuries ago, using Heavenly horses from Siberia and crossing them on local stock. True, once something goes extinct it is gone forever, but somehow we have been able to reproduce carbon copies of the ancient ones by using modern day horses displaying desirable characteristics and crossing them to each other. These horses actually want to come back to life. "It's a miracle!".

(above) Another example of antiquity found in Chinese burial mounds recently. This one is from the Han Dynasty. Notice the Ghost Horse stallion on the right, He was one of the first stallions we used to jump start the first stages of today's beautiful Tiger Horse. He is a grandfather to the Soulon look-alike mare above, and which we named Annandale's Carbon Copy. The similarities between these two are also amazing, proving that genes from several types, and several Dynasties, are still in a variety of modern day horses and just asking to be put back together in a single breed. .


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