Horse breeds
25 full breed guides, written for people deciding rather than people browsing - including the health tests to ask a breeder for, and what the breed actually costs to keep.
Breed guides
The smallest of the four Welsh sections and the classic British first pony: hardy, cheap to keep, long-lived a…
The riding pony of the four Welsh sections: up to 13.2hh, finer than a Section A and bred to be ridden by chil…
The smallest British native and by some distance the strongest for its size. Enormously long-lived, cheap to f…
The Welsh Pony of Cob Type: cob substance on a pony frame, under 13.2hh. Strong enough for an adult, small eno…
The Welsh Cob: over 13.2hh with no upper limit, powerful, high-actioned and famously bold. A genuine adult rid…
Ireland's native pony and the best all-round performance pony in these islands: 13.2 to 14.2hh, sound, sensibl…
Ireland’s native working horse and the foundation of the Irish Sport Horse. Substantial, sound and famously se…
The Irish Draught crossed with the Thoroughbred: the traditional eventing and hunting horse of these islands. …
The racehorse, and in Britain usually an ex-racehorse looking for a second career. Fast, sensitive and athleti…
The oldest pure breed of riding horse and the ancestor of most others. Light, refined and extraordinarily toug…
Not a breed but a type: short-legged, wide, heavy-boned and famously kind. The traditional cob is the most pop…
The Pura Raza Espanola: a compact, powerful, elegantly built Iberian horse with a long history in classical ri…
The feathered, usually coloured cob bred by British and Irish Travelling communities. Famously kind and unflap…
A spotted American stock horse with mottled skin, striped hooves and a white eye sclera. Versatile and hardy, …
The most numerous horse breed in the world: a compact, muscular American stock horse with extraordinary accele…
Not a breed but a colour: a gold coat with a white mane and tail, produced by a single cream dilution gene on …
Not a breed but a group of European studbooks - Hanoverian, Holsteiner, Dutch, Oldenburg and others - bred by …
One of the nine British native breeds, running semi-wild on the New Forest for a thousand years. Versatile, su…
The black Dutch carriage horse with the high knee action and the long mane. Striking, kind and very trainable,…
A small British native of up to 12.2hh from the Devon moors, with a kind head and a good riding shoulder. One …
The largest and most successful warmblood studbook, from Lower Saxony. Bred by rigorous inspection and perform…
Britain’s oldest and hardiest native pony, largely unchanged since prehistory. Extraordinarily tough and long-…
The largest and strongest of the British native ponies, from the Scottish Highlands and islands. Immensely har…
A hardy black native from Cumbria, up to 14hh, with feather, a full mane and a famously fast trot. Versatile a…
America’s first breed, founded on a single stallion in 1789. Compact, powerful and exceptionally willing, with…
All horse breeds
Breeds without a guide yet link to their adverts. We publish a guide when we have written one properly - a page of generated filler is not a guide.
Horse breeders
Breeders advertising horses on Panjo Pets, listed by breed, alongside the council licence registers we have published.