Irish Draught

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Irish Draught

A Horse for All Seasons

CAPPA ARISTOCRAT Class 1 RID

The Irish Draught Horse developed as a working horse on Irish farms with references to the breed dating as far back as the 18th century. Due to the small size of farm holdings in Ireland at the time most farmers could not afford to keep more than one horse and as a result, Irish breeders developed an adaptable draught horse capable of carrying out all of the work on the farm as well as being used for riding, hunting, and driving. Consequently, the breed developed to be extremely versatile and intelligent with an excellent temperament and willing nature.

The characteristics of the breed make them ideal leisure and riding horses and their wonderful temperament makes them easy to work within any discipline. Irish Draughts are often used for crossing with other breeds to produce all types of leisure and performance horses.

The Garda Siochana (Ireland's police service) rely exclusively on Irish Draught Horses for their Garda Mounted Unit. Their mounts need to be brave, obedient and able to cope with confrontational situations and they consider the Irish Draught breed to be ideally suited for this role.

Breed Standard

The Irish Draught Horse is a versatile, powerful and athletic animal with substance and quality. It has a pleasant head, good bone, and a short shin, good spring of rib, strong loins and hindquarters and an active powerful stride. Known for its good temperament, docility and willing nature, it has a robust constitution and is inherently sound. The Irish Draught horse is a foundation breed that, when crossed with other breeds, will produce all types of leisure and performance horses.

Height: 15.2hh to 16.3hh

Bone: Approximately 9 inches of strong, clean, flat bone.

Head: Should be pleasant, not coarse or hatchet like with plenty of room between the jaw bones. Wide forehead and kind eyes, set well apart, and with large quality ears.

Neck: Good length of rein with head well set on, the neck should be correctly muscled and well shaped.

Front legs: Long muscular forearms, short cannon bones with plenty of strong clean, flat bone, not back at the knee or tied in below the knee. Pasterns should be in proportion with good hoof pastern axis. Hooves should be of equal size, hard and sound with plenty of room at the heel. They should not be boxy, over large or flat.

Shoulders: A sloping shoulder neither loaded, nor too heavy, nor too short, with well-defined withers well set back.

Body, back and hindquarters: Deep girth with a good spring of rib, strong back, loins and quarters. The croup and buttocks should be long and gently sloping. Hips should not be too wide.

Hind legs: Strong gaskins, well shaped clean hocks set into short shins. Should not be cow-hocked or wide apart at the hocks.

Action: Should be straight and free not heavy or ponderous. Movement should be active and strong, showing good flexion of joints and freedom of the shoulders.

Colour: Any strong whole colour including bay, grey, chestnut, black, brown and dun. Excessive white markings are not desirable.

Breeding in HWO

[ Belgian x Thoroughbred ] x [ Andalusian x Connemara ]


Description and Breed Characteristic from Horse Sport Ireland.

[QuesthavenFarms]

I am back to playing HWO and looking for Irish Draught stock if anyone is selling. Also would like to meet others breeding Irish Draughts.

[brettdiesel]

I am back to playing HWO and looking for Irish Draught stock if anyone is selling. Also would like to meet others breeding Irish Draughts.

Hello iam trying to breed irish draughts ive been trying every day for 3 weeks now

[mythirion]

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While my end goal is Irish Sport Horses, I will be producing lots of Draughts in the process. I'm currently working towards Welsh Cobs on the list, producing from AC stock. If anyone is interested in any recipe horses, I'm happy to pass them on instead of aging them out!

[brettdiesel]

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While my end goal is Irish Sport Horses, I will be producing lots of Draughts in the process. I'm currently working towards Welsh Cobs on the list, producing from AC stock. If anyone is interested in any recipe horses, I'm happy to pass them on instead of aging them out!

Hi ive tryed to make irish droughts so please if you have a mare/filly and a stallion/colt id greatly apreshiate it ill pay 10,000 for each

[mythirion]

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Sorry, I'm still a long ways off! I mean I only have to create Welsh Cobs and connemaras until I have all the recipe breeds I need but I have a feeling these last number of crosses are going to be trickier!

[brettdiesel]

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Sorry, I'm still a long ways off! I mean I only have to create Welsh Cobs and connemaras until I have all the recipe breeds I need but I have a feeling these last number of crosses are going to be trickier!

Ok well when u have some plz let me know

[mythirion]

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If anyone is interested, I am going through my horses and clearing out a bunch of Irish Draught x TB crosses that don't suit my project. All have 45k+ HGP I believe, high body size and high horse type.

Currently moving them into my Age Out pastures, but I will give them to anyone interested in using them to cross back into Draughts. I would also offer free studding to my Draughts in my ID, IDX and IDX+ pastures.

[brettdiesel]

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If anyone is interested, I am going through my horses and clearing out a bunch of Irish Draught x TB crosses that don't suit my project. All have 45k+ HGP I believe, high body size and high horse type.

Currently moving them into my Age Out pastures, but I will give them to anyone interested in using them to cross back into Draughts. I would also offer free studding to my Draughts in my ID, IDX and IDX+ pastures.

Hi ill take a mare and stalion 100k each

[mythirion]

Hi ill take a mare and stalion 100k each

Go have a look through the Age Out barns and pick a few - you can just have them. They are all crosses at this point but will just take a bit to breed out the TB