The Anglo-Arab Horse

The Anglo–Arab horse is a cross between Thoroughbred and Arabian blood as you probably already know. But there’s more to this breed than meets the eye. You can get an Anglo–Arab horse by breeding a Thoroughbred to an Arabian or vice versa. Or an the Arabian to an Anglo–Arab horse or a Thoroughbred to an Anglo-Arab horse or even an Anglo–Arab horse to an Anglo–Arab horse!

As you probably guessed there are lots of ways to make an Anglo–Arab horse, but there’s still more. The best Anglo–Arab horses are produced when you breed an Arabian stallion to a Thoroughbred mare.

This breeding gives the horse great endurance, stamina and speed without the Thoroughbred horses' prima donna behavior. Anglo–Arab horses are usually around 15.3 to 16.3 hands in height and come in the colours of chestnut, black, bay or brown.

Anglo–Arab horses make good all rounders and are mostly used for Three Day Eventing and Endurance Riding. This breed of horse looks mainly like a Thoroughbred, though you can see the strains of Arabian in the blood by its floating gaits and its slightly dished head.