Horse Breed Guides

The Hanoverian horse is arguably the most successful and well known of all the German warmbloods perhaps even of all the European warmblood breeds.  It is an iconic sports horse noted for its fin...

The Oldenburg may perhaps be described as the most powerful of the German ridden breeds, particularly in comparison to, say, the Hanoverian. The breed was established in the 1600s almost solely by one...

The Irish Draught as its name suggests, began life as a working horse in Ireland and is their national horse. It originated as a much smaller animal called the Irish Hobby. As in other quarters o...

The American Quarter Horse was purpose bred for a specific discipline and it is this job which gave the horse its name. The horse originates from Virginia and was bred for racing. Due to a lack of pro...

Is the Palomino a breed or a colour? Well, like the Appaloosa, it is probably both. There are some breeds that feature the palomino coat colour amongst other colours such as the Welsh breeds or the Ha...

This breed of horse has become increasingly popular in the UK, and for a rather strange reason.  In more recent times, there has been a resurgence in demand for horse-drawn hearses and there is n...

As the Shire horse was the agricultural engine of the southern, shire counties, the Clydesdale was its northern counterpart. The Clydesdale originated in Lanarkshire in the eighteenth century, it is a...

Is there any heavy horse breed more iconic than the English Shire Horse. Referenced in history as far back as Elizabethan times, it was called the Great Horse of England then, the name Shire horse bei...

Perhaps it was when Rafael Sotto Andrade and the Spanish team gained a team silver at the Athens Olympics in 2004 that the Andalusian really shot to prominence in the UK. The love of the Spaniard for ...