Hippona
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I have my dream horse....an arab....I would like another one in a different colour
http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/968/26529.JPG Noriker I think they're also called Black forest or something?
http://www.theequinest.com/images/black-forest-horse-4.jpg
You can also get spotty ones
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/518/noriker1.jpg/
Wish my Haffie was bigger so I could ride him - he is such a sweet person. Anyone out there recommend a good heavy breed?
If you're looking for a weight carrier, maxi cobs are the best way to go. Heavy horses aren't the good weight carriers people automatically think they are. They are designed to pull weight, not carry it, and so for their height/weight they are actually relatively poor weight carriers.
Wish my Haffie was bigger so I could ride him - he is such a sweet person. Anyone out there recommend a good heavy breed?
All depends which heavies you are talking about. Fany is well up to carrying weight. She is 14-2hh and has a lot of bone, I can't get my hands around it! She carried the dealer we bought her off and he must have weighed around 18 stone. Ardennes are compact rather than rangy like some of the heavies.
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Wish my Haffie was bigger so I could ride him - he is such a sweet person. Anyone out there recommend a good heavy breed?
Fany is only 14.2?!?!? :O :O :O :O :O
Whenever I've seen pictures of her I thought she was at least a hand bigger than that!
I think when I wrote that, I was thinking more about english heavies tbh (as thats what I have and work with!), and that is what is most usually avaliable. But your right, some of the continental breeds in particualar are better weight carriers than their english counterparts.