What is a Tiger Horse?
The Tiger Horse is a breed of Spanish American type which combines the easy riding four-beat gaits of the past, plus the Lp color pattern (Leopard complex gene) which is also found in the Noriker, Knabstrupper, Appaloosa, Altai, and other such colored horses. The name “Tiger Horse” comes from the French and Spanish name “Tigre.” The Tiger Horse is an ancient breed, once used to hunt Siberian Tigers and which originated on the Steppes of Asia, the Don region of Russia, near the China border. Today in the USA efforts are underway to bring the Tiger back, by using contemporary “gaited” or “saddling” breeds, and crossing them on certain types of similar, or gaited Appaloosas. The Siberian Tiger Horse was not only brilliantly spotted, it was also four-gaited. This rare and illustrious horse has continued to tease its way in and out of existance, since time immemorial. Results to reproduce it, are both exciting yet unpredictable. The Tiger Horse Registry has therefore decided that a horse br
