Just a follow up (kindof) of my question about crossing my connemara with an appy. Now I want to know the most unusual/strangest crosses you’ve seen. Let me know how they turned out as well
I’ll go first: fresian x quarter horse
He’s actually beautiful! Black with a white shoulder spot and huge white socks. He’s probably about 17 hh as well. He’s a big boy!
Friesien PINTO
Friesien APPALOOSA
Tennessee Walker x TB - dressage horse
I have an Appaloosa/Irish Draught Cross. I can’t help but wonder why anyone thought that was a good idea.
This 18hh 7 yr old is Swedish wb/clyde/hackney horse and is currently a level 3/4 dressage horse
Strom
His 4 yr old Daughter and 3 yr old son are out of a tb/trak mare- so they have 5 breeds in them - but are all registered as csh
son
Belmont
Daughter
Britannia
A zebra and a donkey. Why?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/rare-zebra-donkey-hybrid-born-in-mexico-1.2621878
Crosses are more common than “purebreds” world wide. A very common one locally was Percheron/Canadian (or some sort of drafty type) with Arab. This is when people used the horses for work and riding still.
One just showed up at my barn. Friesian/Appaloosa/TB/Dutch (Art Deco). Breeding for color for sure. The woman bought it as a jumper prospect. We’ll see.
I’ve also seen a couple Friesian/Andalusian crosses (with QH or TB optional), which apparently have a registry. WARLANDER. It’s got to be printed in all caps or shouted at one’s enemies. I don’t make the rules.
Here’s your friesian - quarter horse crosses
http://www.chronofhorse.com/article/mclennan-masters-challenging-course-win-bromont-pairs
And here’s what they look like:
Tennessee Walker x Section D Welsh Cob :disgust:
(Not our pony and not from our stallion…just know someone who has repeated this cross several times)
I have a friesian x quarter horse… 
He is a nice guy and looks oddly put together at a standstill. He is a really pretty mover though and has color.
http://oi61.tinypic.com/8x0pp5.jpg
http://oi58.tinypic.com/2uz55kp.jpg
If you had told me years ago that a stretchy Saddlebred stallion to a Percheron mare could be really lovely, I wouldn’t have believed you but I have two full brothers both buckskin, that are and I think they are the cat’s meow. Just click on the Fat Cat Farm link below for pics. I bet I got asked almost a dozen times this past weekend at Poplar, “WHAT is he!?” but in a good way as everyone who asked, followed it up with, “He’s Gorgeous!”. He’s the oldest of the three I have. The Palomino pinto is by the same Stallion, Spot of Gold, but is a Heinz 57 being out of a Clyde/Hackney/TB mare. All three are very pretty, big and sweet (16.3 - 17hds). The first two are registered as Georgian Grande and the latter is not registered at all.
Werner Geven down at Poplar showed a client’s Friesian Quarter Horse in a schooling 3phase last year and got some ridiculously good dressage score like 19 or 20. That sucker was one big, pretty dappled grey beauty to be sure. Would never have guessed that was his breeding. Very fancy.
Most of the backyard Friesian crosses. Especially Friesian x stock breeds (I guess these are called Friesian Heritage horses.) Seriously if it’s not a Friesian Sporthorse then it’s probably some backyard Friesian Frankenstein thing. Friesians have the market on weird crosses.:eek:
I’ve seen lovely Friesian Sporthorses though, but they seem to have stricter rules for breeding so they’re mostly crosses like Friesian x Warmblood or Friesian x Thoroughbred. So not all Friesian crosses are bad
Irish draught x Tennessee Walker for a foxhunter
The arab x Shetland dam found in Theodore O’Connor pedigree http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/theodore+oconnor
half the crosses on CL 
Who knows what some of those conformation train wrecks are
Years ago there was a stallion in Ontario called Tamarack - he was influential in the early days of Canadian Sport Horse and left his stamp on many good horses - TB/Clyde/Hackney.
…well on CL: “She’s got a uterus, he’s got testicles, let’s breed 'em.”
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Years ago there was a stallion in Ontario called Tamarack - he was influential in the early days of Canadian Sport Horse and left his stamp on many good horses - TB/Clyde/Hackney.[/QUOTE]
It was called the Canadian Hunter Improvement Society then. I had two tamaracks -one I purchased and I also had a mare approved and bred to him. Met him in person. He is the reason I have wb/draft crosses.
Clyde crosses were very popular riding horses 30 years ago and still are today.
Percheron / Walker - From the nose to the withers, he’s Perch. From there back, he’s walker. And, yes, he’s gaited. Bless his heart. :lol:
My Dad always told me about my great grandfather who was known for breeding Shetland pony stallions to the biggest standardbred mares that he could find. He would dig a hole for the mare to stand in because the Shetland stallion couldn’t get the job done otherwise. I don’t know what his breeding goal was, but I always thought it was the weirdest cross I’d ever heard of. I seem to remember my dad saying something about getting the size of a standardbred and the hardiness of a shetland pony but who knows. The mental picture of the whole breeding situation stuck with me. I wonder if the mare ever stepped forward when getting bred making the pony stallion fall in the hole?
We had one of the who knows how many times great grand daughters of this cross on the ranch when I was growing up, she was a 15.1h palomino and had a sweet disposition, decent conformation, good bone and was cowy. I wish I had pictures of the direct crosses though, it would be interesting!
I rode a boarders horses for training that was a TWH/WB cross. Surprisingly he ended up looking like a giant gray Andalusian. He was really baroque looking a huge moving horse actually quite attractive for a cross you would ordinarily wince at.
His biggest down fall is he got pacy when he got tense. It was his fall back move. He’d swap between pacing and trotting looking something like a hot mess until he relaxed and then a huge powerful trot with a ton of suspension would make and appearance.
Standardbred/Lippizan. He was stunning. I appropriately named him Faux Pas
Track-bred TB and a Welsh pony. The met the product of that breeding at a recent clinic, he looked like an old school Morgan. ADORABLE and had a brain to die for.
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