[Sca-cooks] Horse Breeding OT But!... I know someone will knowthe answer...

Ian Kusz sprucebranch at gmail.com
Thu Dec 24 22:15:52 PST 2009


>From what little I know, there were "plough horses," "riding horses,"
"hunting horses," and horses for both light and heavy cavalry.  Um...would
the light cavalry horses, bearing, I presume, horse archers or, at least,
not massively armored troops, be lighter?

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Anne-Marie Rousseau <
dailleurs at liripipe.com> wrote:

> As a horse enthusiast in the SCA< THANK YOU!!! For not promoting the idea
> that knights all rode GIANT horses.
>
> Archaeological evidence suggests otherwise.
>
> Also, not all horses were for armored combat. You had palfries and
> destriers
> and work horses and everything in between. Not all of them are built to
> joust!
>
> --Anne-Marie, who has a horse is NOT built for jousting... we're working on
> his palfry skills :)
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sca-cooks-bounces+dailleurs=liripipe.com at lists.ansteorra.org
> [mailto:sca-cooks-bounces+dailleurs <sca-cooks-bounces%2Bdailleurs>=
> liripipe.com at lists.ansteorra.org] On
> Behalf Of Antonia Calvo
> Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 8:01 PM
> To: Cooks within the SCA
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Horse Breeding OT But!... I know someone will
> knowthe answer...
>
> Ratt wrote:
> > But just for some motivation to help my boss out... Her Boss and she
> > were talking about Horses and The Morgan Horse came up and Mr
> > Knowitall pipes up with "you know, the ones the knights used to
> > ride."   Well my manager having seen and worked with Morgans argues
> > back that said horse is to small... but her boss is having nothing to
> > do with that side of the argument and is insisting that the knights
> > rode these damn things...
> >
> > BTW final answer uuuuurrrrrrnnnnnhhhhhh Wrong The Morgan Horse is an
> > American Breed So NOPE The only knights that could ride those horses
> > would be our Modern Knights.
> >
> > So she totally has this one in the bag and doesn't know it yet...
> > However she wants to really drive this one home... seems she never
> > gets to win an argument with this man.  And Yes I will warn her to
> > apologize after she has won the argument... lol
>
> You are correct that the Morgan is a specifically American breed, so no,
> medieval knights couldn't have ridden Morgans.  However, research by the
> Museum of London suggests destriers stood about 14-15 hands (very
> similar to Morgans) and the Royal Armouries suggest 15-16 hands
> (slightly taller).  Having said that, the destrier was probably build
> slightly heavier and more solid than the Morgan.
>
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