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Welcome to the
Gaited Spanish Pleasure Horse Association.
This site is currently under construction. We are updating it daily. Please come back often. Enjoy the information and pictures we have so far, and thanks for dropping by!
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a couple of mustang/paso babies
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About Gaited Spanish Pleasure Horses
The Gaited Spanish Pleasure Horse is for those who want a smooth ride without the extremes of some of the gaited breeds currently available. It is a smooth riding horse of calm temperament, lasting health, spanish type and moderate paso gait. It is our goal to produce sound, sensible, smooth riding horses. Toward that end, all GSPH breeding stock is continually monitored for DSLD/CTD with the most accurate diagnostic tools available. All registered stock are evaluated for gait, temperament, conformation and soundness. While it is not bred as a show horse this is not to say that it cannot be shown. We offer our own sanctioned shows, national awards and incentives that honor the trail riding horse as well as the show horse. GSPHA horses are also eligible to show in many open and open gaited shows.
GSPHs come in all colors and color patterns. Many are brightly colored pintos as well as the more traditional solid colored horses. No breed preference is given for one color over another, and "crop-out" horses are welcome. This is a small breed, usually between 13 and 15 hands, but can be as big as 17. It has a smooth, ground covering moderate gait, with good advance and overreach, but not in the extreme. It does not have extreme lift, termino or quickness of gait. It is not an excessively "hot" horse. The common thread in the horse's temperament should be intelligence, sensibility, a lack of spookiness, and a willingness to please the rider and to keep the rider safe. It is an ideal horse for the pleasure rider and while it should give the impression of being a proud horse, it does not carry its head overly high nor does it carry itself in a tightly collected frame. The horse should appear natural, comfortable, and confident, with its head carried above the withers, but not in the extreme. This horse should be moderate in all things except for a smooth ground covering stride. This horse should have good bone and show no weakness in the pasterns. Smoothness accomplished due to weak, or long or soft pasterns should be severely penalized. GSPHA breeders are dedicated to producing the soundest horses possible and yearly soundness testing of breeding stock is a requirement for registration.
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