The "RELIANCE COACH" STUD HACKNEY and HACKNEYCROSSES

Raúl Aquerreta started breeding hackneys in 1990 with the object of producing horses for pleasure driving and competition. His success with hackneys in Combined Driving, especially with the stallion Greenmeadow´s Apache (Alf), has demonstrated that the Hackney has the qualities necessary for success in this challenging sport. His aim is to breed the type of horse that Don Miguel Alfredo Martinez de Hoz drove to his RELIANCE coach in the first marathon at the International Horse Show in London in 1909.

The Hackney in Argentina

Both the stallions and the mares, were imported for the first time into Argentina, during the last years of the decade of 1880, and studs were established in all the eastern part of the country north of the River Plate. The "Sociedad Rural Argentina opened a register for the breeding of Hackneys in 1905. This breed was chosen as a ceremony horse for the country's Presidency, during many terms.

The Presidential Landau with a Hackney team of ceremonial Horses

A few argentine breeders have continued breeding with the exellent qualities that made the Hackneys famous a 100 years ago. An elegant and advanced trotting action has been maintained, as well as a good conformity of large bones and solidity, to give the horses a strong resistance. Contrary to the breed in other countries, the argentine Hackneys have not been selected as show horses, and they are the most true outliving representatives of the Yorkshire and Norfolk roadsters of a century ago.

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