Where did the quarter horse orginate at?
The quarter horse was first bred in the United States. The eastern colonists breed Thoroughbreds with the native breeds to make “Quarter Mile Horses” (bred to race 1/4 mile). These “Quarter Mile Horses” were bred with other native horses that had “cow sense” as the colonists expanded west. Although this quick breed with cow sense started to really hold its own name in the mid 1800s, the American Quarter Horse Association (and the breed registry it runs) wasn’t founded until 1940.
