Country of Origin: Ireland
Use today: The Irish Hunter and other Irish Draught crosses are successful in the show jumping and eventing world. 
Color: Any solid color is acceptable.
Height: 15.1 to 16.3 hands.
 Profile: The Irish Draught Horse is one of the two native equine breeds found in Ireland. Its ancestry is unclear. Thoroughbred stallions may have been put to local mares whose origins were a conglomeration of whatever swam to shore after shipwrecks (perhaps from Spanish galleons) and Frenc...
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