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Recommendation of Haflinger by Pineledge

Recommendation by: Pineledge (1

) Posted December 03, 2009 09:54
Connecticut, United States
Updated: December 03, 2009 10:25

Owned a horse before:

Yes

If yes how long:

45 years

Ridden for:

55 years

Based on experience with: 15 horses of this breed

How have you learned horse care / training techniques?

Several sources

Kind of training techniques learned

Several sources

My horse

Horse's gender:

All

Time owned:

21-30 years

Age when acquired:

0 - at birth

Purchased / acquired from:

Several sources

Certificate of registration:

American Haflinger Registry

Sire

Many different

Dam

many different

Other activities:

Competitive Trail Riding

I recommend this horse:

for everyone, including first time owners / riders

Trained by:

Myself

Kind of training horse received:

Several sources

When horse(s) was trained:

Several sources

(0 = low; 5 = high)

Overall experience

Currently 100
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Temperament	Currently 100 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110	5
Trainability	Currently 100 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110	4
Friendly with people	Currently 100 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110	5
Handling	Currently 100 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110	4
Health / soundness	Currently 100 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110	5
Low cost to own	Currently 100 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110	2

Driving	Currently 100 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110	5
Endurance riding	Currently 100 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110	3
English pleasure / Show hack	Currently 100 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110	4
Halter	Currently 100 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110	5
Natural horsemanship	Currently 100 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110	5
Trail riding / Pleasure riding	Currently 100 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110	5
Western pleasure	Currently 100 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110	4
Horse camping / pack trips	Currently 100 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110	5

Haflinger Horses

I have owned and/or bred Haflingers for 26 years. They are a great family horse. They are generally calm, friendly, easy going nature breed of horse. The breed is confident and brave by nature, with each particular horse ranging slightly different degree on basic traits. They tend to be pushy and dominant in a kind way. In your face kind of horses. Smart, sensitive and willing if asked.....dull and defiant if forced. Not the kind of horse to respond well to abuse or force but great if trained by natural or patient normal methods. Always willing to do what is asked if understands why and what they are being asked. Have not wanted anything else since owning my 1st 26 years ago. Long lived and very healthy, very easy keepers (still own my 1st) and beautiful to look at. Difficult to fit for saddles and harnesses due to their wide backs.

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Thanks for the insightful comments on their temperaments - "Smart, sensitive and willing if asked...dull and defiant if forced." This sounds like a measure of their high intelligence to me!

By earthling (44

) Posted December 03, 2009 12:09

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Recommendation of Haflinger by Pineledge