Breeds of Horse
Your Online Equestrian Breeds Reference
Breeds of Horse and Horse Breeds of the World
What Exactly are the breeds of horse?
A breed is a group of animals with a common origin. Each group, or breed, has definite breed characteristics not commonly found in other breeds. These characteristics are fixed in the genetic makeup of the breed and will be passed from parents to offspring.
You can recognize many horse breeds by the style of their body and some popular and recognisable pleasure breeds include the Quarter Horse, Arabian Horse, Appaloosa, Morgan, Thoroughbred, American Saddle Horse and Paint Horse. Popular pony breeds for smaller riders include the Shetland and Welsh.
Horses that are crossbred are produced from mating two or more breeds and once you learn to recognise breed characteristics you can identify whether a horse is a Thoroughbred, Arabian or Quarter Horse. You will also be able to tell when certain purbred characteristics appear in crossbred horses.
- Acuelo Creole
- Akhal Teke
- Altai
- Andalusian
- Anglo-Arab
- Appaloosa
- Arab Horse
- Australian Brumby
- Australian Stock Horse
- Barb
- Belgian Warmblood
- Boerperd
- British Riding Pony
- British Spotted Pony
- British Warmblood
- Buckskin
- Camargue
- Canadian
- Cayuse
- Chilean Corralero
- Cleveland Bay
- Clydesdale
- Cob
- Connemara Pony
- Criollo / Crioulo
- Dales Pony
- Danish Warmblood
- Dartmoor Pony
- Donkey
- Dutch Warmblood
- Exmoor Pony
- Falabella Miniature
- Fell Pony
- Friesian
- Hackney
- Haflinger
- Hanoverian
- Highland Pony
- Holsteiner
- Hungarian Sport Horse
- Hunter
- Iberian
- Icelandic
- Irish Thorougbred
- Irish Cob
- Irish Draught
- Irish Sport Horse
- Kisber Felver
- Lipizzaner
- Lusitano
- Mangalarga
- Marchador
- Maremmano
- Marwari
- Miniature
- Miniature Shetland
- Missouri Fox Trotter
- Mongolian
- Morgan
- Mustang
- New Forest Pony
- Paint
- Palomino
- Paso Fino
- Percheron
- Peruvian Paso
- Pinto
- Przewalski
- Quarter Horse
- Rocky Mountain Horse
- Russian Warmblood
- Saddlebred
- Selle Francais
- Shagya
- Shetland Pony
- Shire
- Spanish
- Sports Horse
- Standardbred
- Suffolk Punch
- Swedish Warmblood
- Tennessee Walking
- Thoroughbred
- Trakehner
- Warmblood
- Welsh Section A, B, C, D
Horse Breed Origins ...
The history and origins of some of our most popular horse breeds.
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