What is a ‘sports horse’ breeding.

[Dwyran_gold]

I had an Irish sports horse and because he was IDxTB I’ve always thought it was a IDxTB that made an Irish sport horse. Only recently I’ve noticed the term been used for a lot of combinations and also come across and English sport horse and a Scottish sport horse. This may sound like a silly question but is it a specific cross breeding or is it a term used to describe the look of a type without a particular breeding in mind or of not known breeding?

 

[ihatework]

Similar thread recently:
https://forums.horseandhound.co.uk/threads/what-is-a-british-sports-horse.796742/#post-14441619

An Irish sport horse is a horse bred for sport, born and passported in Ireland. It is not necessarily an ID x TB, although traditionally many were.

These days there is huge continental sj warmblood lines influencing the ISH

 

[iknowmyvalue]

An ISH which just has ID and TB in the breeding is a “Traditional Irish Sports Horse” but like IHW said, I think it’s just a term used for a crossbreed bred for sport (but I’d say usually has some TB blood somewhere)

 

[iknowmyvalue]

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