Arab crossed to anything seems hugely popular. I have a mare from a Belgian mare bred to a very well bred Arab stallion. I called it a BelAire until I met some endurance riders that have the same cross and call them Arabelles. That’s sounds prettier to me.
I describe my mare as Arab height, Belgian weight, Arab head, Belgian feet, Arab gaits, Belgian temperament. She’s one of the sweetest, most trainable horses I’ve ever owned.
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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.[/QUOTE]
That cross is the classic Large Pony Hunter cross. There are many many of them at the shows.
We have a “Welgian.” Half Belgian, half Welsh. 100% adorable!
Quarter Horse-Hanovarian-Selle Francais-Thoroughbred-Morgan. Gorgeous hunter and a pretty darn good jumper too. 3’9 courses at age 5.
Worst result I’ve seen from an odd cross - Arab Percheron. Arab legs, Percheron body and head. Not a pretty or useful animal.
Arabian Perch crosses were very popular in the arabian world for awhile as people tried to breed size onto their half arabs and thought that since the perch has arabian blood way back it made sense. Usually they’re about 15 hands high, 15 hands wide and are either lazy or spooky (or both). You don’t see the cross anymore.
Andalusian x Quarter mare to pinto colored Standardbred for the cutest pinto nice moving large pony. Was in an prelim level eventing clinic and would do anything.
There was a 1/2 dutch 1/4 perch 1/4 standardbred mare at my last trainer’s barn. Hunter/jumper barn. Horse was ok, but not well suited for jumping. Weak hindquarter, big head, big draft feet, not something that should be repeated!
If your Friesian-Quarter horse is a pinto, it either isn’t Friesian or isn’t quarter horse. Or isn’t either.
TB-Welsh is a pretty classic pony hunter breeding.
Recently contacted by a woman seeking help pricing her “one-of-a-kind” appaloosa-belgian-friesian cross, oddly enough shaped like a dachshund, with spots only where the saddle goes. My response, priceless, please keep it forever and ever. But sweet Jesus geld it, cause you know she’d kept that gem intact.
I have a Belgian/Welsh pony cross… I bought the pony mare from a rescue that bought her out of the ring and told me she might be pregnant. It become clear that she was so I backtracked on the rescue and the original seller’s records and the pony mare got dropped off with a yearling Belgian stud colt.
I would never do such a thing on purpose but she is a spectacular little mare; crafty as a pony, sweet as a draft, born bombproof in all ways-she’s afraid of nothing and seems to have come with her own bubblewrap. She’s tough and healthy and thrifty and loves people and you can do anything with her whether she knows how or not. My son calls her the Honey Badger of Horses and she’s dang cute. I don’t know what it takes to be a Sport Horse but she’s sporty enough for us.
My BO bred his Haflinger to his DHH X Hackney Pony stud. She’s 3 now and has been alternating be favoring the Haflinger or the hackney. She has the Haflinger head (actually a good thing compared to DHH-HP), and right now is built like a substantial Hackney Pony and is around 14 hands.
She has a pretty good brain, and is now his grandkids’ driving pony. She still bounces a bit on the road, but has the Haflinger’s self preservation & won’t go faster than she wants to. A very good quality in an Amish kid’s pony.
She is a strange shade of bay though.
My trainer has a Perch-Arab mare that they bred for use as a school horse. She’s actually not bad looking. Heavy boned all over & her head has a touch of Arab.
My first horse was an arabian/quarter horse x old school polish Trakehner (with Selle Francais and French TB in the Trak background).
She was 100% small red headed bitch and would not be a suitable horse for me now. When I was 20 I didn’t mind getting bucked off every other ride.
ran into another mare like that a few years later.
Arab/Appaloosa/Trak. she was really nice. Quarterhorsie. with just some light snow flakes on her rump.
I have a Percheron/Paint cross. Sire was half Percheron, half Paint. Dam was Paint. My mare got her height from her dam, and her width from her sire. I never saw her dam – my mare was a PMU foal – but she (or someone on her side of the family) must have had a lovely face. I’ve seen many other grown-up PMUs by the same sire, and their heads are nothing to write home about. My girl has a lovely baby-doll head, though large enough to be in proportion. Basically, she’s a red and white spotted sofa. I love her to death, and there’s nothing glaringly bad about her, but it seems like a cross that could go really badly.
They are lovely! Unexpected!
I just saw a Lippizan/ QH cross. It was… interesting
Warmblood x donkey for a warmblood mule - doesn’t everyone want a dressage mule? 
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Thank you very much! I love my boys!
Did they put the warmblood on the donkey, or the donkey on the warmblood?
I’ve heard that the foal grows to the size of the uterus and then after birth grows to its genetic capacity…but don’t know if that is true at all. The thought scares me a bit.
Lippizan pony cross. He looked Like a miniature white Lippizan, was the sweetest horse in a riding stable of 150 horses. Some idiot trained him to rear on command so when he was sent out as a lesson horse the riders had to be warned NOT to raise the reins. Predictably some arsehole always had to see if they could get him to rear…and Thunder would dump them off his butt. We kids would bet on how long before…splat!
Thunder Bunny had a grape soda addiction…you open the can for him, he would wrap those prehensile lips around it, raise it up and drain it. Since he did not come with manners, he dribbled as he drank and always had a purple stain running from his mouth down his chest and legs.
I have two
My 3 year old gelding is 1/2 APHA, 1/4 Andalusian and 1/4 TB
My yearling is 1/2 Standardbred, 1/4 Andalusian and 1/4 TB
both are registered as Iberian Warmblood. The yearling was a complete accident but the gelding was planned. He has the best temperament and is going to make a cute hunter pony as he is only 14h now. I will try to get pictures of them. They are not fugly and look like they have spare parts.
On a recent riding trip to South Africa we rode with an endurance rider who had several perch-Arab crosses. I rode one for the week, not big, not weird looking, very well-suited for her job. Would she have made a sporthorse, for dressage, jumping, etc.? Probably not, but these horses were decently conformed with correct gaits.
