Shnoonie
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I am interested in breeding a hunter type from a very leggy mostly TB proven Eventing mare... does anyone have any stallion suggestions to breed in some bone while keeping the 'class' factor?
Has to be an ID. I just don't like warmbloods for hunting, they are lovely trotting around an arena but IMO don't have the temperament or brains to think outside the box and self preserve like you want on the hunting field. There my prejudice is showing!
Embla horses are lovely I've never met one yet with a bad temperament, didn't an Embla stallion hunt hounds in Hampshire for years? Archie looks gorgeous too. And both not grey - for a hunter, what more could you ask!
ETA but if you want to hunt in Leicestershire might a half bred not have enough blood? I hunt in Essex so it hasn't been a problem.
The judges will always tell you if they think you are in the wrong weight division.
Good luck, remember to school him to allow anyone to ride him. Some ride judges are better than others.
Yes, I think I will try him as a mediumweight... He's certainly not a lightweight but I'm not sure he's got enough bone to be a heavyweight... TBH I'm not that experienced in the whole showing thing so we're kinda working it out as we go along He's a big lad though at aboutt 17.2hh at present...
I am another to say send your mare to a CB stallion. In the days of the HIS CB yearlings fetched top prices.
CB fans in the USA organise an annual hunt in Virginia with all mounted on pure and part bred Cleveland Bays. I have posted the photo on the hunting forum.
The Cleveland will give you bone, terrific stamina (two CB mares in the UK have competed in endurance to 100km with times as good as Arabians. Winning horse on a Florida long distance trail ride last year was CBxTB).
During the 18th Century a CBxTB was placed in the first three of the Grand National, three times. The year he was second, his jockey (an amateur) was unseated and he was remounted.
Very powerful hindquarters enable them to jump out of deep ground ... ask Harvey Smith about the Cleveland Bay one of his Olympic showjumpers was a TBxCB. Madison Time
He is lovely! Rare too, my stable neighbour is a clevand bay, the chunky type and now retired at 27, such a chararcter with it too
I have warmbloods and I hunt .........
But I don't hunt the warmbloods if I can help it, it's Irish all the way for me too, though I do love a bit of Shire in the mix
Archie all the way!! He's on my list of stallions to use when I have my herd of impeccable broodies on my big yard with miles and miles of land...............I can dream can't I? *sigh*
But to be awkward I think you drag hunt, which is going over a prepared run, surely, so no unexpected encounters with bogs or horrible trappy places!? Sorry, couldn't help that, and you endorsed Irish anyway!!
Fair enough, but presumably the trail is laid from a quad or horse so it has to be somewhere they can easily get to? Bearing in mind I haven't hunted much since the ban, in my day foxes went where they chose.
Anyway...that is a bit off topic...sorry x
He is magnificent!! Can I ask his breeding please?
I am interested in breeding a hunter type from a very leggy mostly TB proven Eventing mare... does anyone have any stallion suggestions to breed in some bone while keeping the 'class' factor?
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