Akhal Teke
Stallions:
- RE Tulip Drift |
Mares:
- None Currently |
BREED STANDARD:
Head: Light, dry with wide lean lower jaw, with a straight profile or with convex forehead. Has a prolonged facial part with big eyes with a special slanting shape (slant-eyed) and overhanging superciliary arches. Has thin, mobile, high-set up ears, thin lips and nostrils and long wide poll. The head is set on the neck at an acute angle.
Neck: Is high set, long, can be straight or S-arched, round in cross-section and flexible.
Withers: Are high, long and well-muscled
Shoulder: Is long, slant set with well-developed muscles
Upper Arm: Has a normal slope and well-muscled
Chest: Is deep, wider behind shoulders, oval form with long false ribs
Back and Loins: Are even, relatively wide, may be with some insignificant lengthiness
Croup: Has normal slope, sometimes a bit slopping, wide, long and with strong muscles lowering well down to gaskin
Tail: Is low and deep set, often practically hair-less at the dock.
Legs: Are lean, long with well-developed joints and firm, well-shown tendons, small strongly built hooves. The legs stand parallel to each other, feathers are absent or very insignificantly present
Muscles: Are flat, dense with long fibers
Coat: Is thin, silky, light mane and tail, forelock and feathers are absent or insignificantly present
Movements: Can be spacey, flexible, elastic, with good impulse, comfortable for rider at all gates, strong, flexible jump at the flat trajectory and good style
Colors: Has a wide variety of colors from black to cream, often with typical metallic shine - golden and silver. Expressed markings/spots could be met, similar to tobiano.
http://www.akhaltekehorse.org/index.html
Akhal-Teke Association of America: http://www.akhal-teke.org/
Head: Light, dry with wide lean lower jaw, with a straight profile or with convex forehead. Has a prolonged facial part with big eyes with a special slanting shape (slant-eyed) and overhanging superciliary arches. Has thin, mobile, high-set up ears, thin lips and nostrils and long wide poll. The head is set on the neck at an acute angle.
Neck: Is high set, long, can be straight or S-arched, round in cross-section and flexible.
Withers: Are high, long and well-muscled
Shoulder: Is long, slant set with well-developed muscles
Upper Arm: Has a normal slope and well-muscled
Chest: Is deep, wider behind shoulders, oval form with long false ribs
Back and Loins: Are even, relatively wide, may be with some insignificant lengthiness
Croup: Has normal slope, sometimes a bit slopping, wide, long and with strong muscles lowering well down to gaskin
Tail: Is low and deep set, often practically hair-less at the dock.
Legs: Are lean, long with well-developed joints and firm, well-shown tendons, small strongly built hooves. The legs stand parallel to each other, feathers are absent or very insignificantly present
Muscles: Are flat, dense with long fibers
Coat: Is thin, silky, light mane and tail, forelock and feathers are absent or insignificantly present
Movements: Can be spacey, flexible, elastic, with good impulse, comfortable for rider at all gates, strong, flexible jump at the flat trajectory and good style
Colors: Has a wide variety of colors from black to cream, often with typical metallic shine - golden and silver. Expressed markings/spots could be met, similar to tobiano.
http://www.akhaltekehorse.org/index.html
Akhal-Teke Association of America: http://www.akhal-teke.org/