what kind of horse did marshall dillon ride
his Name was BUCK.Ben rides a buckskin or dun; that's the horse's coloring: golden brown with a black mane and tail. As for what breed, I can only guess but from the â¦ looks of him a cross between a quarter horse and Tennessee Walker (wide chest and legs set slightly to the outside). Both breeds would have been around in the back half of the 1800's. Quarter horses were bred to work cattle