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lthough they have tended to be forgotten, Highlanders were almost as important in shaping the Saddlebred as the Chiefs and Denmarks. Highlanders descend from Scottish Galweys, sturdy horses with cob-like conformation and ambling gaits. I present images of a gray (below) taken in Scotland about 1900, when very few Galweys remained (the breed continues to exist even today

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