Standard bred, trotters & pacers showing what classes??

[chole2020]

Hi All asking for a friend she has a stunning Pacer x Trotter what classes can she enter with him?

Passport says tb but tb pacer trotter all come back to the standard bred breeding if she entered a tb class you can so tell he is not a tb he was registard as this because the trotters & pacers are not reg breed in this country
He paces now & then but not all the time
she wants to do pretty much any shows she can get to with him

 

[chole2020]

Someone must have showed a standardb bred before?

 

[BlairandAzria]

I've shown mine as a small riding horse. Also done some other classes, riding club horse, best condition, veterans etc.
I guess you could do equitation classes too?
I've also done dressage, sj, xc and fun rides with mine - versatile horses!

 

[Malteaser]

I show my standardbred as a small hunter as she's quite chunky. She doesn't pace though despite her breeding. I take her in best ridden, best combo, riding club horse classes and we do sj, xc & dressage to successfully . Standardbreds are fab little horses and with the right training they can do anything.

 

[fawaz]

Are there not Standardbred performance classes/shows where you are? Like ones run by this association...

http://www.spphav.org.au/

 

[sasquatch]

Find this quite interesting as I have a cob who is believed to be part trotter/road raced.

Will be following this thread - I've always been a bit unsure when it comes to showing as he does not have a 'conventional' canter.

 

[BlairandAzria]

My horses canter is a real work in progress, it could barely be called canter when I first got him (4 time, legs getting wider behind) but it has improved massively with using canter poles, schooling on a circle, getting inside bend, and using leg yield. My point is that the rubbish canter can be improved with schooling, it doesn't have to be mega limiting.

 

[chole2020]

Hi no im in the uk, he is a trotter x pacer but after lots research theres no breed for them over here so he is classed as a standardbred, wanting to do in hand as well as ridden when broken but no idea where to start, reading someing on a thread a while ago someone said with there standardbred when there have entered a class judge always puts them marks down because comfrontation is different to other horses & judge dont like it mmmmm! so quite confused now

cant seem to find how to add a picture of him up here?

 

[mairiwick]

My standardbred had excellent conformation, but his trot and canter gave away his former harness racing career! We did get marked down because of it, although judges always said he was lovely, he wasn't necessarily 'correct'. We had a lot of fun in working hunter classes, never came higher than 6th though! He did fantastically well in veteran in hand classes later in life

 

[Bobbly]

You need a Photobucket.com account to add pictures on here, upload them to Photobucket then use the image code to add them to here.

 

[Crosshill Pacers]

OP I'm a bit confused as to what the horse actually is in terms of breed - Standardbreds and Trotting horses (French and American trotters) are registered breeds in the UK with STAGBI. Is the horse a Standardbred pacer crossed with an actual Trotter or a partbred Standardbred (crossed with any type of horse that may be used for unofficial trotting racing).

There are a few Standardbred classes held at various shows but I can only echo what others have said - best condition, riding horse, foreign breed? If coloured then coloured classes also etc etc.

 

[Double_choc_lab]

I think a problem when people refer to coloured cobs who trot as "trotters" as a breed whereas in fact they are just a breed who trot. You don't have a breed of "dressagers" etc. As CP says Standardbreds are the true breed. Just noticed my predictive text changed trotters to fritters haha

 

[Crosshill Pacers]

Double choc - I often think of trotters as fritters!

You're right though, trotters are a breed but horses that participate in certain trotting races are described as trotters even though they can be of any breed (or partbreds/unknown breeding). It's not unheard of to cross a registered trotter with a registered pacer either, but I'm yet to figure out what real advantage there is to that!