"Simmerville;c-18300213" wrote:
"DaWaterRat;c-18300197" wrote:
The thing is, horse breeds have kinda spread. My mom raised Arabians in southern Indiana (US heartland) and there's a Lippezaner farm just up north from me. Medieval Times maintains an Andelusian ranch in Texas, etc. Horses are generally comfortable anywhere they have plenty of space to run and grass to graze on.
That said, in general I'd associate breeds like the Paint, Mustang, and Appaloosa with areas like Chestnut Ridge and Oasis Springs; Lippezaners and Fresians with Windenberg; Andelusians with Tartosa; Shire, Welsh Cob, etc. with Henford on Bagley; and Thouroughbreds and Quarterhorses with more or less anywhere. But I'm sure that someone who knows horses better than I do can be more specific.
Wow, thanks - that's a lot of info. I will go for at least some of those.
Are any particular breed the more commonly used for racing/jumping, or will i mainly be down to training and the person on top?
For racing and jumping, Thouroughbreds are the most common, with Arabians, Anglo Arabians, and Akhal-teke also up there. They're light, high-endurance animals.
(Fun trivia - an Arabian myth has Allah creating the horse by ordering the wind to condense itself into an animal.)
