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A draft horse (US) or draught horse (UK), also known as dray horse, carthorse, work horse or heavy horse, is a large horse bred to be a working animal hauling freight and doing heavy agricultural tasks such as plowing. There are a number of breeds, with varying characteristics, but all share common traits of strength, patience, and a docile ...
In 1982, owners began blood-typing their horses, [1] and by 1990, genetic testing found that "compared with other draft breeds and based upon gene marker data, the Creams form a distinct group within the draft horses." [5] The American Cream Draft was found to have a genetic relationship with the Belgian breed that was no closer than the ones ...
The Dutch Draft, Dutch: 'Nederlands Trekpaard', is a Dutch breed of heavy draft horse. It is of cold-blood type, massively built and calm in temperament; it has good stamina. It was bred in the early twentieth century in the province of Zeeland, and may for that reason be known as the Zeeland Horse or Dutch: 'Zeeuws Paard'.
Shire horses hold the title of the world's largest horse breed. When fully grown, these English draft horses can measure up to 19.2 hands high. One hand equals 4 inches, so that makes Shire horses ...
The American Belgian is a large heavy horse; it is rather taller and more lightly built than the Belgian Brabant, more similar to the Flemish Horse.Some are very large: a stallion named Brooklyn Supreme is among the largest horses on record, and was of this breed, [4]: 434 as was Big Jake, a gelding born in 2001, who while alive was listed by the Guinness World Records as the tallest living horse.
At this time the breed also became larger, with horses from other French districts being imported to Perche to change the Percheron from a coach horse averaging 1,200–1,400 pounds (540–640 kg) to a draft horse averaging 2,000 pounds (910 kg). [14] The Percheron stud book was created in France in 1893. [1]
The Black Forest Horse is a draft horse of light to medium weight, well muscled and with a short and powerful neck. The head is short and dry, the shoulders sloped, and the croup broad and muscular. The legs are clean, without feathering, and the hooves broad and strong. [6] [2]
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