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Does your horse have a non-typical job for their breed?

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My sister and I were talking about owning a barn together eventually and she was going on about how she loves haflingers and fjords and if we could teach one to rein. Lol

Just curious if anyone has a horse that does something non-typical for their breed? Maybe a draft that does gymkhana? A TB that works cows? A QH that pulls a cart?

Photos/videos would definitely be bonus!! =D
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My SSH does jumpers. A gaited jumping horse? Not something I've ever seen, but she does okay.

These are OLD videos, back when we were just starting. (We had a very slow start, but it's since clicked with her.) We've since progressed to actual course work. ;)




Mega sucky quality grids.



She also does endurance/Open level NATRC. Not too atypical, but not the norm either.
 
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I have a riding percheron, lol. People really love to see her undersaddle. She is the one that I put people on when I take non horse people for trail rides because she is so steady, but she sure makes them sore, as she is so wild. She is technically my Hubby's ride, as he is a bigger guy. She is realtively short at 16.2hh.
 

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Tennessee Walking Horses being retrained for Gaited Dressage. I learned to jump on a TWH too.

Western Pleasure reject Quarter Horses often make fabulous Hunter Jumpers. I've ridden a few.

American Saddlebred trained for dressage and Spanish Walk.

National Show Horse trained for dressage, hunter jumper and Spanish Walk.

Arabian trained for ranch and cattle work.

TWHxPercheron cross trained for dressage and jumping.

Standardbred ex-Pacer racehorses retrained for hunter jumper.

Foundation Appaloosa trained for hunter jumper, 3ft+.

Percheron trained for Fox Hunting.

Gypsy Vanner cross trained for Fox Hunting.

Any horse, so long as they are fit, can do anything. It's all about what you are wanting to do.
 
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My Arab/Saddlebred Joey was a show horse in western and english pleasure, Arab and Saddlebred classes and pleasure driving before I purchased him. Since then, he enjoys trail riding, small jumps for jumping (mind you, he jumped a 4 ft gate one day when the horses were changing pastures but, thats another story), western games and I just took him for an introduction to team penning this past weekend and he did particularly well. Some horses are very versatile and I believe most horses can do most things within reason. I saw a draft horse doing reining at a competition last year. There was an older lady riding that horse and granted, they didn't win the class but they both seemed to be enjoying themselves. That's whats really important for me.
 
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Not untypical for the breed, but my Appaloosa Mare is a beast of an trail horse and love speed in training for barrel racing. While she is purely halter bred and it would be a death sentence entering her in an halter class.
 
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My mare is bred for HUS and halter, and we do HUS, and hope to try out some dressage later this year. However, I really want a mule to event on, they can be awesome jumpers, or a percheron to do dressage and low level jumping on.
 
#23 ·
Hah, yeah I've seen the videos! Very cute. There is also a fjord stud who reins somewhere out west I believe. I guess any breed to technically do anything as long as they have some natural ability for you to work with!!
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At my hunter/jumper barn, we have two lesson horses who are half-gaited.

The first is a TWH cross (we assume with a QH) who jumps up to 2'6".

The other is a now-retired Saddlebred or Standardbred cross (stories vary. His other half is reportedly TB) who used to be a successful 4' + jumper on the A circuit, but did 2'9" jumpers all the way down to beginner crossrails for us

Both of them move as you'd expect a half-gaited horse to move, so neither could/would ever get a ribbon in a hunter class, but I showed the saddlebred cross in jumpers and equitation and had a blast with him :D Super cool, talented horse. Both have the weirdest canters ever (weird to me, anyway)
 
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