Personally, if I was looking for the structure/type of a DHH I’d go with a Saddlebred instead. I think the prices for DHH can be quite inflated and I’ve met some pretty inconsistent dispositions. In contrast, Saddlebreds have ridiculously good brains. I’m sure there are more than a few ding dongs in the mix but having recently spent time in saddle barns across the southeast, I am in awe of their personalities. The structure of saddle barns is such that they have to have a certain type of brain to survive. I’d buy a 2 year old who hasn’t been shod yet, toss it out for a year, and then send it to a great baby starter. You’ll pay half as much and have the best brain in the world. There are a few facebook groups specifically helping to network sporthorse prospects and some very knowledgable horsewomen who are eager to help make connections.
Nope. Any ASB.
wow… that’s umm, a bit of a departure from their other book’s standards! I’m not sure how I feel about that (well, I am sure how I feel about that, but not my breed, not my problem)
(Oops, never mind, it looks like this is a KWPN-NA vs KWPN variable)
They are AMAZING. I’ve had Saddlebreds for 20 years, and I’ll never be without. The gelding in my avatar had a remarkable breed ring career, became my combined driving horse - all the way to the FEI level - and then last year I decided hey, let’s try eventing! So we qualified for this year’s AECs 
He’s also awfully low-backed and his pelvis tilts in a way that would make most of you gasp, but he routinely pulled 8s in collected work, lengthenings and extensions at the intermediate and 1* level, and we score in the 20s in eventing dressage now.
@GraceLikeRain message me if you ever decide to go for it! I actually have a lovely ASB yearling filly right now whose full brother is killing it in dressage!
It’s for Register B papers but again…you don’t ride the papers. And by going to keurings/IBOPs you can move a horse “up” in the book.
Ok that makes more sense. You may not ride the papers but as a breeder, you know that’s only part of the game.
I’ll second this. Please don’t malign the driven dressage horse or pony-- the principles and goals are really the same.
Sure, if it’s just schlepping down the road trailing a carriage, it’s not learning to use its body and carry itself, but if it’s doing CDEs, someone cares just as much about its dressage schooling as its ridden counterpart.
I specialize in training DHH. Check out my website to see the horses Ive trained at www.prestigeperformancehorsesusa.com. Call if you’d like some help 
