"Simmerville;c-18300213" wrote:
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?
Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses are more the flat racing type (along with Thoroughbreds doing steeplechasing). Thoroughbreds are kind of a big thing, there's been a lot of good stallions from the American racing scene that have been imported to Japan and Asia, one of the big (and I mean BIG) time stallions for Japan was Sunday Silence, and American breeders didn't want him at all. He was shipped to Japan, and turned into one of their most influential stallions of all time.
But really, anything that can be raced usually races. The foundation sire for the Morgan breed was supposed to have beaten two Thoroughbreds. Standardbreds became the thing for harness racing. Heck, Austria has Haflinger racing. It pretty much comes down to one dude saying "my horse is faster than yours" to another dude.
