Guess the breed, please!

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This is Prince, who belongs to tania01, and who has been with me for 2 weeks to be backed and ridden away. he's nearly 3 yrs old, and about 15.3 i think.
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he was chewing the rope, i didn't stick it through his mouth!
please excuse the hatchet job on his feathers - he was treading on them and i didn't want him to react to the pain and maybe do something daft, so i went a bit mad with the scissors! i freely admit i know naff all about heavies etc, but he's not going to be shown and i'm sure it must hurt to tread on them.
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we have our suspicions about his breeding, but no-one knows for sure, would like to hear other people's thoughts.
here's his mum, who hasn't ridden for a year, sitting on him for the first time today. he's an absolute saint and has been a pleasure to play with. he's hacking out happily on his own now (on deserted country lanes), and walking and trotting in the school.
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isn't he a gorgeous boy?
 
He is lovely. Reminds me of a friends little horse who is also a saint. A sort hard to find.

No idea on breeding......
 
He is gorgeous!
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I used to hack at my boys feathers like that, he would stand on them, they dragged on the floor and got gnerally minging! Just chopped them off completely in the end!
No idea on breeding, but i would hazard a guess at some form of dales or fell in there!
 
Completely wild guess - he looks like a highland x to me. Or thereabouts anyway! You're going to tell me he is a purebred so-and-so now aren't you?!
 
Guessing, I would say dales x welsh x something else to give height & more feather - maybe a smidge of shire or possibly a bit of suffolk punch although hard to tell what as his face is hidden behind his hairy forelock.

Whatever he is, he looks a sweetie!
 
there's no way of knowing what he is, he came from the gypsies i think, but i thought he might be half-Shire, half-welsh cob... probably totally totally wrong though. i think he's already too big to be a Fell or Dale, isn't he? the breadth of his neck, shortness of back etc made me think Shire, and a few people who've been here have suggested that he might be part-Shire. he really is amazingly short-coupled, a 16 1/2" saddle is plenty long enough on him, and he walks like a bear, not a horse, almost 2-time... it's like lungeing a polar bear!
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He's definately got clydie or shire in there somewhere!

What a total sweetheart
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ETS: could be suffolk punch also as the face has that look if you know what I mean
 
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won't be suffolk - wrong colour, all suffolk crosses are a shade of chestnut that I have met and know

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Back to shire or clydie then!
 
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won't be suffolk - wrong colour, all suffolk crosses are a shade of chestnut that I have met and know

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Yep, you are completely right! Suffolks don't have feather usually (or are shown with clipped legs) and are always chestnut. I'm thinking more Clyde than shire from what I can see of his head.
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aww bex, it looks like his twin! he's gorgeous.
i forgot to say, Prince has feathers on his hocks, actually sprouting from his hocks, then a small gap before they start again down the backs of his cannon bones. is that a clydie/shire thing? never seen it before.
 
Did it a long time ago, but from what i recall, chesnut is actually a recessive coat colour (needs to be homozygous to produce a chesnut coat), so to have a chesnut foal youd need both parents to give a chesnut gene.
 
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aww bex, it looks like his twin! he's gorgeous.
i forgot to say, Prince has feathers on his hocks, actually sprouting from his hocks, then a small gap before they start again down the backs of his cannon bones. is that a clydie/shire thing? never seen it before.

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Murphy has those too!! He also has bum feathers. Does Prince have a moustache???
 
bex he does so look like yours ,
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kerilli has done wonders with him and he has come on so well in 2 weeks i cant thank her enough for what she has done thank you kerilli
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no, no moustache! he did have a proper 'beard' all along his jaw but i got a bit scissor-happy on that to make him handsomer!
tania, it's been a pleasure, he's such a lovely boy. i'm first on the list if you ever want to sell him, i'd love to have him for boyfriend and mum, i think he'd tempt her back in the saddle after 30-odd years!
 
Gypsies are fond of welsh cob cross shire, albeit a longway down the line where it has almost formed its own breed! We had a 16.2 version of him who was on our A pair for the carraige. Absolute saint with a begginer, really tested you if he knew you were more competent.
 
mark says whenever sunday falls in the middle of the week you can have him lol,he also says whenever you want to see his falcon fly let him know anytime
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Snuffleluppakuss x Yak x Gnu!!!!...and any other hairy beastie i can think of!!!!
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must take hours to brush him, he's huge.....and hairy!!!
 
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