Percheron Standardbred - actually a nice horse, shown through 3rd level. PMU horse that was QH/Draft/Who knows what else, that showed FEI (with a great passage!). Friesian/TWH (WHY?) that was REALLY fancy - the trainer who owns him tells everyone he is a Dutch WB cross. Those are the 3 craziest crosses I know and all were very successful.
A hammer headed down hill cremelo quarter horse mare X fresian stallion. The resulting fily was atrocious.
The guy bred horses to maintain an ag exemption for his 10 acres.:disgust:
Lippizaner x Orlov Trotter. Cute but, according to my friend who has the “privilege” of exercising him, moves like a pogo stick in rigor mortis.
Lippizan x Hanovarian x Welsh D. She’s stunning but a bit of a wild one!
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Percheron Standardbred - actually a nice horse, shown through 3rd level. [/QUOTE]
I have a PMU product: Clydesdale/Standardbred - She is built and colored like a Clyde, but only 15.2, and moves like a Standardbred. Great trot, could go all day, but horrid canter.
I’m getting another 10 y/o PMU product today: Shire/QH - All the build of the Shire, but only 16h and SUPER sweet. We’ll see how nice or horridly she moves this Saturday when I visit her at the trainer. 
There’s someone in southern Kentucky who is breeding Friesian/TWH crosses. Big old walker head on a Friesian body.
I think my mare is a pretty odd cross.
Saddlebred x Appaloosa.
Don’t know why the cross was made. She’s registered with the Half-Saddlebred Registry of America. She’s got the build of a Saddlebred, with Appaloosa characteristics and snowflakes. 15h. I love her to pieces. She’s never been lame a day, has a very sweet and entertaining personality. To ride she’s like being aboard a feather and she loves to jump. I bred her this year to Wapuzzan (www.wapuzzan.com) for a baby for my next riding horse. So then I can tell people I have a 1/4 Saddlebred/Appaloosa cross.
PHOTOS:
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https://scontent-b-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/t1.0-9/12815_626643554646_1413479546_n.jpg
https://scontent-a-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t1.0-9/601991_644984010226_417577357_n.jpg
I also like Appaloosa Mules and wouldn’t mind breeding one myself:
http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/bc/b9/3f/bcb93fba896469811a1e6d21cecd7fec.jpg
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A hammer headed down hill cremelo quarter horse mare X fresian stallion. The resulting fily was atrocious. [/QUOTE]
Half the people breeding Friesian crosses should stop :eek:
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This 18hh 7 yr old is Swedish wb/clyde/hackney horse and is currently a level 3/4 dressage horse
Strom[/QUOTE]
I had a very similar cross – Trakehner/Canadian Hackney/Clyde. Dressage through first level and evented through Training. Unfortunately he had a big drafty body on skinny little legs, and they couldn’t take the stress of competition, so I retired him early. But he was the sweetest big teddy bear of a horse.
And my first pony was TB/Criollo/Welsh. Witchy pony mare to a T, but athletic as all get-out and FAST. I evented her through Training and also played mounted games with her.
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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]
I used to ride a mare of these breed crosses- she was an interesting ride!
The hackney was added to quite a few breeds back east (Ontario) to produce the roadster with good knee action.
Fjord/Arab. Really cute, dun. Can’t remember if large pony or small horse, but big bodied with good feet, and an absolute jumping bean!
QH/ Haflinger. He was athletic and very sweet, and won hunter classes at A shows.
The same breeder also has an Andalusian/ Haflinger, who is destined for a driving career.
Have to add - I didn’t see any of them as adults, but there was a breeding program in my “neighborhood” that bred anything with a uterus to a 2 year old QH cross stud one year - there were some really fugly babies going on there. Animal control came in and shut them down…
I think about 70% of ALL horse breeding should stop to be honest. It isn’t limited to Friesian crosses, I’ve seen some awful Warmbloods (long backs, hammer heads, short legs, bad feet, bad temperment), and Tbreds, oh my, there are more throw aways in this breed then almost all the others combined… Then I know of a few people who breed Mustangs - why oh why oh why? And QH breeders - there are a handful of good ones and a crapload of bad. And Arabs - don’t even get me going on what happened to that lovely breed. I’ve pretty much decided anyone who breeds for “halter horse” - irregardless of the breed - is breeding non-functional animals:cool:
I think I am most puzzled by the very divergent crosses (such as Arab to Draft), and the gaited to non-gaited crosses (aka TWH to anything). OTOH, there are some interesting crosses that are quite successful. I just wish ALL breeders understood that whatever they breed, they need to commit to at least 6 months of “under saddle training” so it has a useful life!
MysticOakRanch won’t defend her breeding program outright, but some of the loveliest horses I know of are horses (Friesian crosses) that she has bred. I have never been a fan of Friesians, but those crosses are just fantastic, every one of them.
The worst breeding programs I know of locally are all Warmblood breeders. Churning out one horse after another that’s lame, lame, lame. I addition to the WB breeders, we have a similar problem with the QH breeders. Pretty “purebreds” that are messes.
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Have to add - I didn’t see any of them as adults, but there was a breeding program in my “neighborhood” that bred anything with a uterus to a 2 year old QH cross stud one year - there were some really fugly babies going on there. Animal control came in and shut them down…
I think about 70% of ALL horse breeding should stop to be honest. It isn’t limited to Friesian crosses, I’ve seen some awful Warmbloods (long backs, hammer heads, short legs, bad feet, bad temperment), and Tbreds, oh my, there are more throw aways in this breed then almost all the others combined… Then I know of a few people who breed Mustangs - why oh why oh why? And QH breeders - there are a handful of good ones and a crapload of bad. And Arabs - don’t even get me going on what happened to that lovely breed. I’ve pretty much decided anyone who breeds for “halter horse” - irregardless of the breed - is breeding non-functional animals:cool:
I think I am most puzzled by the very divergent crosses (such as Arab to Draft), and the gaited to non-gaited crosses (aka TWH to anything). OTOH, there are some interesting crosses that are quite successful. I just wish ALL breeders understood that whatever they breed, they need to commit to at least 6 months of “under saddle training” so it has a useful life![/QUOTE]
I think you meant to write QHs as more throwaways in all the breeds combined. (Not that a lot of TBs don’t go under racing, but there are a lot more QHs bred in the US than TBs and many QHs are used hard young and put up wet, not just racing but other disciplines too.)
http://www.americanequestrian.com/pdf/US-Equine-Demographics.pdf
http://www.jockeyclub.com/default.asp?section=FB&area=2
http://puttinghorsesfirst.blogspot.com/2008/12/american-quarter-horse-association.html (this link was added to show percentage of horses going to slaughter that are QHs)
http://www.unwantedhorsecoalition.org/resources/UHC_Survey_07Jul09b.pdf
http://awic.nal.usda.gov/awic/pubs/FTAAProceedings/unwantedhorseproceedings2008.pdf
Interesting topic. In my travels I have seen some ridiculous crosses. Sadly the worst of them were at AWS Inspections. You know when AWS does not approve the horse… not good on any level. That said I photographed a Paint/Saddlebred stallion that was approved for breeding - smooth bodied but horrible gaits & legs. I think the best of the worst crosses Dutch Harness Horse to a Missouri Fox Trotter, why oh why did someone think this would go well? I’ve seen some funky Freisian crosses, Arabian crosses, TB crosses, & WB crosses, but nothing holds a candle to the crazy pony crosses.
Relax Perfect Pony, nobody was picking on MysticOakRanch so she doesn’t need to defend herself. She was picking on weird Friesian crosses as much as everyone else. Face it, most of them are pretty bad. Does the world really need another Friesian/TWH or Friesian/QH? Nobody said they’re all bad though. There are some very drool worthy Friesian Sporthorses, check out http://www.friesiansporthorseassociation.com/ if you want to see nice ones. “Nice crosses” isn’t the topic of the thread though :winkgrin:
Any Mustang cross.
Aren’t there THOUSANDS of them in pens? So you adopt one and then breed it?
I really, honestly, don’t understand that one.
I think alot of fresian turn out really well. The one at my barn is actually conformed very well. He had an injury (not sure what) that has limited what we can do with him but if it weren’t for that I think he would be very successful.
