Tell me about your Irish Draughts...

[Loopy]

…and Irish Draught Sport Horses.

I’m laid up with a broken leg here and thought it would be interesting to chat with fellow ID/IDSH enthusiasts.

I have mainly IDs and IDSH over here in England and Ireland, and I have a comparatively limited knowledge of the bloodlines and stallions standing over in the US.

I’d love to hear about your horses and what you get up to with them, and maybe see some photographs (I can’t return the favour regarding photos though as I’m here on a borrowed iPad and can’t get into my photo bucket account.

[ablibby]

I have an eight year old ISH soon to be RIDSH here in the US. I got her as a two year old and trained her myself. She has been shown in hand, dressage, hunters and sidesaddle. Shes the best and up for anything. Her dam sire is Cruising who is pretty well known, her sire is Corrcullen and he stands here in the US.

[Loopy]

Hi, I hadn’t heard of Corrcullen so googled him, I reckon he’d suit a couple of my mares over here. I’m wondering if my DH has heard of him as he’s his type but don’t remember him being mentioned. Heard of Cruising of course, he’s a rockstar.

im hoping to ride one of my purebred and one of my partbred youngsters sidesaddle too, apart from that I do pretty much the same as you with them only our hunter classes aren’t the same as your hunter classes in the US.

We have mares by Diamond Lad, CMH, Agherlow, Darcy Dancer, TOTB, Bowland Blackjack, Barracaberry Orbit, Castana, amongst others.

[Graymaresrule]

Sophie is by Touch of the Blues. I have other not yet approved youngsters by Snowford Bellman, Glenlara, Winmaur Sargent Pepper and Bridln Belfrey.
Do you do Facebook?There are some f us on there

[gottagrey]

I’ve got a 15 y/o ISH I imported as a 4 y/o. He was supposed to be my AA hunter but we got sidetracked and mostly evented him. Though at the beginning we started him at some schooling hunter shows, for a lark we put him in the Side Saddle division at Upperville! - we didn’t bother w/ the US, just the O/F classes where he placed in every class :). We’ve taken him from the Hunter ring to jumpers but I think his heart is in eventing. I’ve had a rough patch w/ him for the past 1.5 years with surgery to repair umbilical hernia surgery/colic and now dealing w/ Canker. I wouldn’t wish that canker on anyone.

His sire is Colin Diamond by Diamond Lad. Don’t know his dam. He’s registered w/ the IDHSNA in the US. was not registered in Ireland.

I love Irish horses

[Loopy]

[QUOTE=carolprudm;7697469]
Sophie is by Touch of the Blues. I have other not yet approved youngsters by Snowford Bellman, Glenlara, Winmaur Sargent Pepper and Bridln Belfrey.
Do you do Facebook?There are some f us on there[/QUOTE]

I think I’ve seen you on Facebook, we might have some mutual friends even. Just pinged you on FB we do have quite a few mutual friends looking at it.

[Loopy]

Just googled Colin Diamond as well, very interesting, I love to read pedigrees I’m a bit weird like that

Sorry to hear about the canker. I’ve not experienced it myself but I do know its a complete nightmare to deal with.

[SLR]

[QUOTE=carolprudm;7697469]
Sophie is by Touch of the Blues. I have other not yet approved youngsters by Snowford Bellman, Glenlara, Winmaur Sargent Pepper and Bridln Belfrey.
Do you do Facebook?There are some f us on there[/QUOTE]

Shadow is Sophie’s full brother and he is a good boy. He’s very sensitive in nature. Does not like to be scolded. Does like his food. Its extremely funny to watch him try to sneak places. Like around corners and to spots where he’s not allowed. At 16.3 and about 1300 lbs he does not “sneak” very well. He’s been a life saver for DH.

[Graymaresrule]

[QUOTE=Loopy;7697639]
I think I’ve seen you on Facebook, we might have some mutual friends even. Just pinged you on FB we do have quite a few mutual friends looking at it.[/QUOTE]

Are you Jessica?

[Loopy]

Yes that’s me

[TheJenners]

I have a 5 yo ISH gelding, Coronea Isle, by Coronea Loughine, who is imported and by Bassompierre.

I love my guy, he’s super special to me. He is mostly TB by breeding, but takes more after the Irish side of things. Very slow to mature physically and mentally, so we’ve been taking our time. Very talented, loves everything, loves to be told he’s a good boy, and is settling into being a rock steady ride. Not a bad bone in his body, he may be insanely spoiled but he never pushes it. Here’s some silly pictures!

Rory snuggles
He’s five, I swear! :lol:

[Loopy]

He’s adorable

our stallion was four this time and he too has been slow to mature, still got a long way to go with him before he’s finished…the girls we’ve had have seemed to mature faster than the boys.

[crewgirl34]

I have an IDSH by HangOn Johnny out of a TB mare. Love him! I think if I ever needed to sell him there would be a bidding war! I just had a dressage lesson with a new instructor. There were 3 of us taking lessons. For the other two riders, she was telling them what their horse needed to work on, and exercises to help the horse. For my lesson she gushed about my boy, and then looked at me and said, “Your horse is lovely, but YOU need to do no stirrup work.” sigh If only I could be as popular as my horse.

[justhoofit]

This is a horse I have considered breeding a TB mare to:

Bridon Beale Street

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfI5yTDfMlY

I just wish he had a little more suspension in his gaits. Otherwise I think he’s stinkin’ adorable and has a nice jump. He’s competing prelim now I think. Still a young guy.

[Loopy]

Another I had to google, this is great. I see he’s by Mountain Pearl, we had a 2011 MP filly.

[Loopy]

This year we’ve used Attwood Black Laughton, Cochise, Knightley Park (an IDSH)and still waiting to confirm another mare in foal with another ID whose name I won’t mention until we know she’s in foal. Was hoping to breed our TB and an ISH to an ID stallion I took a fancy to at this years inspections but had to knock that plan on the head due partly to my favourite IDSH filly being expensively sick, and partly because I’m pretty useless at the mo after surgery to screw my leg back together.
Id provide links if I knew how to do links on an iPad.

[horsetales]

We’ve probably crossed paths on FB. You can see our place in the links. We had 2 colts this year by Steeped in Luck - ID and IDSH. I have a Mt Pearl mare (in foal to Moorpark Image) and her daughter by Glenlara along with a TB and Selle Francais (in foal to KEC Double Diamond) mare.

[Loopy]

I just followed your page horsetales.

Gottagrey: just had a chat with DH about Colin Diamond. I’d not seen him before and seems my DH hadn’t either. I think we will be going to have a look at him at some point, with a view to using him in the future.

[Belmont]

I had the chance to ride a wonderful Irish Daught for a few years with Red Rock Hounds. He took me over huge fences and was one of the most exciting, obnoxious horses to hunt. He pranced for hours in the field if you held onto his face. If you let it go to the buckle he would relax. His best behavior was as a field horse or masters horse. He made me fall in love with Irish horses.

Lynn took over the ride after a year or so, and then rightfully hogged him until his end. He was truly amazing. I don’t think there has been a horse lately that we have all ever loved so much. It was heartbreaking when he had to put him down due to severe arthritis.

RIP Sully.

[whitney159]

[QUOTE=justhoofit;7698200]
This is a horse I have considered breeding a TB mare to:

Bridon Beale Street

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfI5yTDfMlY

I just wish he had a little more suspension in his gaits. Otherwise I think he’s stinkin’ adorable and has a nice jump. He’s competing prelim now I think. Still a young guy.[/QUOTE]

Bred my TB/WB mare to him last year and got a HUGE (first thing two vets and farrier said when they saw her “wow, she’s BIG”) filly that looks just like her daddy. She’s only 4 months old, and shown me some lovely trot, and fantastic temperament! I"ve got two little kids and a full time job and have beaten myself up about how much I haven’t been able to work with her on stuff, but at her first hoof trim with the farrier, farrier told my husband that she got an “A” for her behavior. She will test her limits, but quickly sees where they are and learns very quickly.