The Carolina Marsh Tacky is a heritage breed native to South Carolina. Like the
Florida Cracker and North Carolina Banker, it has colonial Spanish blood
that connects it to some of the earliest equines imported to the
Americas. It is only recently that a study determined that the Marsh
Tacky is gaited: it performs something that is called the Swamp Fox
Trot, a broken trot like the foxtrot, but with the timing and durations
being more similar to the marcha batida. The marcha batida lacks the
diagonal pairing found in the Swamp Fox Trot, however.