warmblood vs ISH

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which would you choose as a smart riding club allrounder (mostly dressage/eventing prospect). Up to about BE100. Good paces required.

Just curious as to the main characteristics and why you'd pick one over the other!
 
Totally depends on the horse, there are negatives and positives on both sides; but it's generally down to what you prefer.

ISH have great stamina, speed, agility, plenty of scope and are good to train/learn. They're not quite as expressive in dressage and aren't as careful SJ.

WB's (depending on the breed) are very scopey, have great paces for dressage, careful in the SJ but lack speed and stamina compared with a lighter racier breeds

There are great WB cross breeds that do great in 4*'s too!
 
ISH as they tend to be easier to train, more forward going and have common sense in oodles, of course there are exceptions!
 
ISH are warmbloods? A warmblood is a cross between hot bloodeds and cold bloodeds horse. An ISH is a cross between irish draughts (cold blooded) and thoroughbreds (hot blooded), so technically a warmblood if I am not mistaken.
 
Palindrome said:
ISH are warmbloods? A warmblood is a cross between hot bloodeds and cold bloodeds horse. An ISH is a cross between irish draughts (cold blooded) and thoroughbreds (hot blooded), so technically a warmblood if I am not mistaken.
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An ISH is it's own breed and technically it is a warmblood, you don't really call it one as you would a Hanoverian, KWPN or Holsteiner
 
Do you really mean IDSH? That is an IDxTB, and can be registered as such. ISH is a bit of a catch all really.
 
I love ISH's. Mine is 7/8 tb and 1/8 ID. He will gallop all day, is brave and loves to jump. He generally doesn't get his own ideas about things either and is easy going.
 
In my personal experience you are more likely to get better dressage out of a good warmblood and better stamina/eventing from an ISH but really depends on the horse as there is a huge amount of variation:

My ISH at 20yo:


My Wb a couple of months after I bought him last summer:
 
It depends on what kind of rider you are! Generally, I think ISH are easier going but that said I rode a Warmblood who is far more chilled and my ISH can be quite opinionated! Personally for that kind of level, I would get a Warmblood X TB or an ISH X Warmblood! :)
 
Palindrome said:
ISH are warmbloods? A warmblood is a cross between hot bloodeds and cold bloodeds horse. An ISH is a cross between irish draughts (cold blooded) and thoroughbreds (hot blooded), so technically a warmblood if I am not mistaken.
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Actually - an ISH (Irish Sport Horse) can be ALL Warmblood now if bred in Ireland! They don't HAVE to have verified ID breeding. If bred in the UK, and with an SHR registration with the Irish Draught Hore Society(GB) they MUST have verified ID blood - the rest doesn't HAVE to be TB!
 
That is it, mine is an ISH and I went to view her expecting your typical IDxTB type. But there is no ID at all.
 
Spangie said:
ok, then continental warmbloods like hannoverian, Oldenburg, kwpn etc......
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Even so.

My boy is registered ISH but he is by an Oldenburg stallion - his damline is more traditional ID/TB lines, but his sireline is all continental.
 
Used to have an ISH, he was by Ricardo Z (warmblood, Hanovarian, I think) out of a TB/ID mare. Great movement, great jump and lovely temp but I never thought he was the brightest horse. I've now got a WB/TB, he is as bright as a button, fab movement but not the most forward thinking horse. He likes to conserve his energy, nothing really razzes him up and he sums his rider up immediately. my other horse is TB who will try his heart out for you but will have meltdown if anything upsets him. Horses for courses, I suppose but I do think the WBs are a bit more complicated generally.
 
I have a WBxTB and she is very good at dressage, loves jumping and has done hunter trial and cross country shcooling but i would never run her eventing as she gets to hot and buzzy. she is tempermental but if she puts her mind to it picks things up very quickly.
 
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