Let's see your non-typical competition horses!!

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I think we all get Warmblood envy from time to time, so I would love to see horses that have done well in competing despite being a non typical breed or type!

I saw a fantastic video on youtube of a Fjord doing dressage, he was fabulous!

I have an ex racer who (sort of) does dressage, his pics are in my sig. He is however fairly athletic with correct (although not flamboyant) paces, it's only his mental quirks holding him back :o
 
Well I think Topaz is fairly non-typical ;) , she's a Frisian x Hackney so possibly not the most popular breeding for a sports horse but she seems to be doing ok.

Currently building up our confidence around 80-90cm SJ, especially after a nasty fall this year, but jump around 1m/1.05m comfortably at home and have popped 1.25 at home. We've done our fist few dressage tests (Intro to Novice scores high 60's and low 70's) this year and even managed to get out to a couple of ODE's (~80cm). The plan was to start our eventing dreams this year, but the aforementioned fall resulted in a broken collarbone which put paid to that for this season at least!

We WILL be out next year!

Anyhoo some pic's showing us out and about :).

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Sorry for the pic overload :o, they wont resize :mad:.
We're currently working on our flat-work so it should improve our jumping, and my instructor is trying to convert us to the world of dressage diva',s with talk of excellent potential that could see us go very far.... :eek: I'm a very lucky girl to have the ride on her and thank my mum for letting me loose with her horse :D:o.
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My little ugly bug odd ball is trakehner x TB x New Forest and every bit as weird looking as that sounds....
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But when she tries as hard as this, it really doesn't matter

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Ryan's an Appaloosa with some Arab plus some other stuff and loves his eventing. He's been to the Badminton Grassroots Championships 3 times, does a nice consistant dressage test, and thoroughly enjoys the xc. Don't think he is a typical competition horse

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jessamess said:
His latest achievement is winning a 1.05m SJ class with a double clear :D
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Jess I LOVE Tiger, he is just dreamy!!
Makes me want my next one to be a pure bred, I've got a PBA who is a show horse through and through, does have an amazing pop at home where no-one can see her lol.
Never get tired of looking at your pictures, just fabulous.
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My pony cob holds his own across several disciplines, including dressage, SJ, UA eventing, endurance, trec ... and hunts and lives out, doesn't need shoes, and has more rosetted and trophies than all of my other put together!

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soot said:
My pony cob holds his own across several disciplines, including dressage, SJ, UA eventing, endurance, trec ... and hunts and lives out, doesn't need shoes, and has more rosetted and trophies than all of my other put together!

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I love the last pic!!!! Your face says it all!
 
Here is mine. Not sure he's really a competition horse as we only do dressage, but he's off to the PetPlan finals at hartpury for prelim and the regionals in February for prelim and novice so maybe he can count 😄

As he would like to be kept, all muddy and scruffy:-
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And as I like him, all clean and tidy:-
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My wonderful Genie... little welsh coblet, competing affiliated dressage and going to the Regionals for the second time in the spring. Has also been to RC Nationals a few times and narrowly missed out on qualification numerous times. It's great when people see her tied on the lorry looking like this...

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Then she goes into the warmup like a donkey, looks a mess as we 'discuss' working correctly, then goes into the test and works like this...

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She also likes jumping although we don't 'do' that!

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And when I ride properly she can really move! :D

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As well as our posh WB we also have La Cob. Originally bought for me to hack he has proved to be quite mega at dressage. He has a huge canter which is still really green, but his trot is coming on really well and he does a pretty smart shoulder in, travers, and half pass. He scores consistent 65% at novice and elem BD :)

La Cob:

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My late Herbie. Quite a strange but beautiful looking creature. He was out of an Arab stallion x with a welshxbritish riding pony mare. He was meant to be 13.2hh but he grew to 15.3hh.
He jumped up to 1m40's as a young horse, his highlight was coming 2nd in the newcomer finals. I was lucky enough to get him in his late teens and all these pictures were taken in his 20's. He was a fabulous schoolmaster and with him I had fun doing pony club eventing and showjumping. He helped our team to come 2nd in the pony club areas at Hickstead and we also won the area Novice eventing championships together. He was a complete gentleman, so kind and gentle but he hated dressage (hardly surprising given his confo!) and he liked to spook :p.

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RIP Herbs, miss youxx
 
Pigeon said:
I think we all get Warmblood envy from time to time, so I would love to see horses that have done well in competing despite being a non typical breed or type!
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I'm afraid I don't get warmblood envy! I have one too and he's brilliant, but I'm not a big WB fan ;) My other horse is non-WB but is a Luso x TB who I used to event and showjump until he had to retire due to injury last year - so slightly different (the Luso side!). Oh and I had a 15.2hh Welsh D that I showed, but also did some low level eventing and BSJA on.
 
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Blythe Spirit said:
some lovely horses!! just saying i am enjoying oggling all your nice horses. I think I might have seen Izzy out competing - saw a very similar looking horse at any rate but i forget where ... i often go as a spectator at low level eventing in the midlands area
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W're based south of Oxford so its definitely not implausable you saw us! :)
 
AlexHyde said:
Well I think Topaz is fairly non-typical ;) , she's a Frisian x Hackney so possibly not the most popular breeding for a sports horse but she seems to be doing ok.

Currently building up our confidence around 80-90cm SJ, especially after a nasty fall this year, but jump around 1m/1.05m comfortably at home and have popped 1.25 at home. We've done our fist few dressage tests (Intro to Novice scores high 60's and low 70's) this year and even managed to get out to a couple of ODE's (~80cm). The plan was to start our eventing dreams this year, but the aforementioned fall resulted in a broken collarbone which put paid to that for this season at least!

We WILL be out next year!

Anyhoo some pic's showing us out and about :).

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Sorry for the pic overload :o, they wont resize :mad:.
We're currently working on our flat-work so it should improve our jumping, and my instructor is trying to convert us to the world of dressage diva',s with talk of excellent potential that could see us go very far.... :eek: I'm a very lucky girl to have the ride on her and thank my mum for letting me loose with her horse :D:o.
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I am part of the Topaz fan club, love watching you two go round :D
 
awilliams said:
I am part of the Topaz fan club, love watching you two go round :D
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Thanks, she only looks good due to the expert photography skills ;).

Hopefully we will be able to be as consistent as you and the ginger ninja one day, we are somewhat behind you in terms of impressive horsey turn-around's, but we are getting there slowly if I stop injuring myself :o.

Any news as to if we will see you out and about next year? Won't be the same without you showing us how its done :(.

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My Fjord used to to dressage with me! We came quite far together and won plenty of prizes!

This is him now... enjoying his golden oldy days!
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He can be sooooo cute too!
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Now the serious pics! Half-passing
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Did some showjumping with him too, but can't find the pics on my computer anymore :(
 
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