Breed guides
Gifts by horse breed.
Twenty-one British, Irish, European and American breeds. Each guide covers the breed properly, then what we ship most for owners of that breed.
Breed is the fastest way to a gift that reads as personal rather than generic. Every guide below is written around one breed (its history, its temperament, and the products owners of that breed actually order.
All 21 guides
- Gifts for Andalusian horse owners) Spain's baroque horse (thick mane, arched neck, the breed that built the classical riding hall.
- Gifts for Appaloosa owners) No two Appaloosas look the same (the spotted breed of the Pacific Northwest.
- Gifts for Arabian horse owners) A millennium of selective breeding (refinement, fine bone, the foundation of every modern light-horse breed.
- Gifts for black horse owners) True black is one of the rarest coat colours in the horse (and one of the most striking things you can put on a wall.
- Gifts for Cleveland Bay owners) England's oldest established breed (and one of the rarest in the world.
- Gifts for Cob owners) The family horse for half the country (cobs do the school-master job for a generation.
- Gifts for Connemara pony owners) Ireland's native pony (limestone-bred, often grey, often the family's eventer.
- Gifts for Friesian horse owners) Pure black, abundant feathering, long mane (the dramatic Dutch breed.
- Gifts for Haflinger owners) Chestnut with flaxen mane, Tyrolean origin, the family pony with a 30-year working life.
- Gifts for Hanoverian owners (The branded H) the German register that has produced Olympic medallists for two centuries.
- Gifts for Hunter owners (Bone, substance, day in deep going) the British hunter is a type that survives.
- Gifts for Irish Sport Horse owners (Tough, kind, brilliant over a fence) the working amateur's eventing horse.
- Gifts for KWPN owners (Stamboek, Keur, Ster, Elite) the Dutch sport horse studbook with the predicate ladder.
- Gifts for New Forest pony owners (Hampshire-born, semi-feral, the British family's native pony.
- Gifts for Paint Horse owners) Tobiano, overo, tovero (every Paint Horse is visually unique by genetic design.
- Gifts for Quarter Horse owners) America's working stock horse (sprint speed, cow sense, the dominant breed of the global horse register.
- Gifts for Shetland pony owners) The smallest British native pony with the biggest personality on the yard.
- Gifts for Shire horse owners (A tonne of horse with a kind eye and a feathered leg) the Shire is conservation in motion.
- Gifts for Thoroughbred owners (Bay, chestnut, off-the-track) the British Thoroughbred has a second career after the racecourse.
- Gifts for Warmblood owners (Hanoverian, KWPN, Trakehner, Holsteiner) the European sport horse register family.
- Gifts for Welsh pony owners (Four Welsh sections, four different ponies) the breed family that runs British Pony Club.
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