Is an appoaloosa a WB?

Question

then is a stock horse a coldblood...hotblood or warmblood?

Answer 1

hi some appoaloosas can be western bread but you can not register them as a quarter horse thow they have to be regested as a appy but as i said yes some of them are bread from quater horses and are appys but then theres just your normal appys that have no relation it deppends on the horse and were you get it from leah and a stock horse is none them a warmblood is a warmblood could say there a close relation to a tb and i have never heard a cold blood or a hot blood as a bread of horses  

Answer 2

An appaloosa is not a warmblood. Warmbloods are the result of cross breeding European draft cart horses (coldbloods) with Thoroughbreds.

The only hot bloods are Arabians and Thoroughbreds.

Appaloosas are stock horses. Most stock horse breeds descended from the Spanish horses the got away from the Conquistadors.

I don't think stock horses fit in the coldblood, hotblood, or warmblood category. I think they are their own category.  

There is a breed of warmblood that looks like an Appaloosa called the Knabstrupper.  It is a European breed.  

Answer 3

If you're talking about temperment then I would suppose you could refer to them as a warmblooded, however, they are not warmbloods as in breed. There is a huge difference between warmblood temperment and breed. A warmblood is a horse like a dutch warmblood, trakehner, etc. You could call you're horse a warmblood if you'd like but it is not what the term is meant for and you'll probably get laughed at for it and though of as uneducated.

Answer 4

no?

an appaloosa is a stock horse.  Why would it be a warmblood?

there is the knabstup which looks like an appy but is a warmblood, is that what you're thinking of?

i BELIEVE it would be a "hot blood"  (i didn't know anyone used those terms anymore!) simply because its not a cold-blood, and its not a warmblood.  Appaloosas were originally wild horses, now they have been inter bred with QH's and TB's so I'd say hot blood.  

I have a book that tells you, so I'm going to go look it up...

EDIT: well now I'm all confused.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-cold-b...

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-cold-b...

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_was_a_diff...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appaloosa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_horse

i guess you could think of them as a warm blood? as they started as "cold bloods" (using the definition from first link...) and then were mixed with hot bloods (english style riding horses/TB's) but if you go to a warmblood breeder and call and appaloosa a warmblood you'll be laughed out of town.  It depends on which definitions you are using.

Answer 5

The term warmblood has been adapted to the common perception of what a warmblood is. Many breeds that are technically warmbloods are not actually refered to by the name warmblood. I rather like this definition of warmblood: designating any horse or breed of horse without Arabian or eastern blood in its breeding. In practice, since many so-called cold-blooded breeds have been improved by the use of Arab blood, the distinction is based mainly on physical type: broadly, all heavy draft horses and most european native ponies are classed as cold-blooded.

A change has been made from warmblood descriding a coldXhot blood to a horse that looks like what a person believes a warmblood is to look like. If you simply say your horse is a warmblood, most will not think appoaloosa.  

Answer 6

It looks like they are,

http://www.horses-and-horse-information....

Answer 7

Back in the olden days an appaloosa would have been considered to be a warmblood, but now, when a warmblood is referred to , it doesn't include quarter horses and appaloosas as it used to.  So they call them stock breeds, even though they truly qualify as warmbloods.

Answer 8

The Knabstrupper is derived from draft stock X a spotted spanish mare. Appaloosas were a distinct breed 24,000 years ago and there were no TB's or Arabians around.  Brought here by Columbus (1493) and later, the Spanish Conquistadors, the gaited Jennet was pinto or Appaloosa marked.

The exact genetic combination is lost to history and though DNA can tell us much, we will likely never know.  The Sorraia was certainly a part of the ancestry as Andalusians and Lusitanos owe much to the wild horse of the Iberian Peninsula.

The unforgivable corruption that the white man has visited on the Appaloosa of the Nimiipu (Nez Perce) by continued breeding of undesirable outside blood has produced a sometimes spotted equine of no particular type.  

The criteria for warm blood is Draft breed X TB.  The Appaloosa is not a draft breed in this country.  Not A warmblood.