Horse Breeds and Heights

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Light Breeds

Akhal-Teke- 14.2-15.2 hands [dun, palomino, bay, chestnut or grey]
American Cream- 15 hands [white]
Alter-Real- 15.1-16.1[bay, chestnut, grey or brown]
American Bashkir Curly- 14.3-15 hands [any color]
American Paint- 16 hands [pinto]
American Saddlebred- 15-16 hands [any solid color]
Andalusian- 15-16 hands [grey, bay, black, chestnut or roan]
Anglo-Arab- 15.3-16.3 hands [bay, brown, chestnut or grey]
Appaloosa- 14-15.2 hands [spotted]
Arabian- 15 hands [bay, grey or chestnut]
Australian Stock Horse- 14.2-16.2 hands [any solid color]
Azteca- 14.3-15.2 hands [any solid color]
Barb- 14-15 hands [grey, bay, brown or chestnut]
Belgian Warmblood- 16.2 hands [any solid color]
Brumby- 14-15 hands [any color]
Bubyonny- 16 hands [chestnut, brown, grey, bay or black]
Calabrese- 15.3-16.2 hands [grey, bay, chestnut, brown or black]
Canadian Cutting Horse- 15-16 hands [any solid color]
Carthusian- 15-16 hands [grey, chestnut or black]
Cleveland Bay- 16.2 hands [bay with black markings]
Colorado Ranger- 14.2-16 hands [any color, often spotted]
Criollo- 14-15 hands [any solid color or roan]
Danish Warmblood- 16.2 hands [any solid color]
Don- 15.2-16.2 hands [chestnut or brown]
Dutch Warmblood- 15.3-16.3 hands [bay, grey, chestnut or black]
East Bulgarian- 15-16 hands [chestnut, bay or black]
East Friesian- 15.2-16.1 hands [black, bay, grey, chestnut or brown]
Finnish Universal- 15.2 hands [chestnut, bay, grey or black]
Florida Cracker Horse- 14-15 hands [solid colors and roan]
Frederiksborg- 16 hands [chestnut, flaxen mane/tail common]
Friesian- 15 hands [black]
Furioso- 16 hands [bay, chestnut or black]
Glederlander- 15.2-16.2 hands [mostly chestnut]
Gidran Arabian- 16-16.2 hands [mostly chestnut]
Groningen- 15.2-16 hands [bay, brown or black]
Hackney Horse- 14-15.3 hands [any solid color]
Hanoverian- 16.2 hands [any solid color]
Hispano- 14.3-16 hands [bay, grey, chestnut or black] [also known as Spanish Anglo-Arab]
Holstein- 16-17 hands [any solid color]
Indian Half-Bred- 15-16 hands [any color]
Iomud- 15 hands [grey, chestnut or black]
Irish Hunter- 15.3-17 hands [any color except piebald and skewbald]
Kabardin- 15-15.2 hands [black or bay]
Karabakh- 14-15 hands [chestnut, bay or dun]
Karabair- 14.2-15 hands [grey, bay, or chestnut]
Kathiawari- up to 14.3 hands [any color except black]
Kisber Kelver- 15.2-17 hands [any solid color]
Kaldruber- 6.2-17 hands [grey or black]
Knabstrup- 15.2 hands [brown/black spots on white base]
Kustanair- 15-15.2 hands [any solid color]
Latvian- 15-16 hands [black, brown or chestnut]
Lipizzaner- 15.1-16.2 [grey or bay]
Lokai- 14.3 hands [grey, bay, or chestnut]
Lustiano- 15-16 hands [grey, bay or chestnut]
Malapolski- 15.2-16.2 [bay, brown, chestnut, black or grey]
Mangalarga Marchador- 14.2-15 hands [any solid color]
Marwari- up to 14.3 hands [bay, brown, chestnut or pinto]
Maremmana- 15-15.3 hands [any solid color]
Missouri Fox Trotter- 14.2-16.2 hands [any color]
Morab- 14.1-15.2 hands [any color except spotted]
Morgan- 14.2-15.2 [any solid color]
Murghese- 15-16 hands [mostly black]
Mustang- 14-15 hands [any color]
Nomius- 14.3-16.2 hands [bay or brown]
Novokirghiz- 14-15 hands [bay, brown, grey or chestnut]
Oldenburgh- 16.2-17.2 hands [bay, black, brown or grey]
Orlov Trotter- 16 hands [grey, bay, black or chestnut]
Palomino- 14-16 hands [palomino]
Paso Fino- 14-15 hands [any color]
Persian Arab- 14.2-15.2 [grey, bay or chestnut]
Peruvian Stepping Horse- 14-15.2 hands [any color]
Pinto- 14.2-15.2 [part colored]
Pleven- 15.2-16 hands [chestnut]
Quarter Horse- 14.3-16 hands [any color]
Rocky Mountain Horse- 14.2-16 [any solid color]
Russian Trotter- 15.3-16 hands [bay, black, chestnut or grey]
Salerno- 16-17 hands [bay, black or chestnut]
San Fratello- 15-16 hands [bay, black or dark brown]
Saradinia- 15.2 hands [bay or brown]
Selle Francaise- 15.2-16.2 hands [bay, chestnut or brown]
Shagya Arabian- 15 hands [mostly grey]
Standardbred- 15.3 hands [bay, brown or chestnut]
Straight Egyptian Arabian- 15-16 hands [grey, chestnut, bay or black]
Swedish Warmblood- 16.2 hands [bay, brown, chestnut or grey]
Swiss Warmblood- 15.2-16.2 [any color]
Tennessee Walking Horse- 15-16 hands [mostly chestnut or black]
Tersk- 15 hands [grey or chestnut]
Thoroughbred- 15.2-16.3 hands [any solid color]
Trekenhner- 16-16.2 hands [any solid color]
Turkoman- 15-16 [any solid color]
Ukrainian Riding Horse- 15.1-16.1 [bay, brown or black]
Warlander- 16 hands [bay, brown or black]
Wielkopolski- 16-16.2 hands [any solid color]
Wiirttemberg- 16 hands [bay, chestnut, black and brown]

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Pony Breeds

American Shetland- up to 11.2 hands [any solid color]
American Walking Pony- up to 14 hands [any solid color]
Ariegeois- 13.1-14.3 [black]
Assateague and Chincoteague- 12 hands [any color, often pinto]
Australian Pony- 12-14 hands [any solid color]
Avelignese- up to 14.3 hands [chestnut, flaxen mane/tail]
Bali- 12-13 hands [dun]
Bardigiano- up to 13 hands [bay, black or brown]
Bashkir- 13-14 hands [bay, chestnut or palomino]
Basque/Pottock- 11.1-14.2 hands [chestnut, bay, brown or pinto]
Basuto- up to 14.2 [chestnut, brow, bay or grey]
Batak- up to 13 hands [any color]
Bhutia and Spiti- up to 13.2 hands [grey, chestnut or roan]
Bosnian- 13.1-14.2 hands [any solid color]
Burmese- up to 13 hands [bay, brown, black, chestnut or grey]
Camargue- up to 14 hands [grey]
Caspian- 10-12 hands [bay, brown or white]
Chinese Guoxia- up to 11 hands [bay, roan or grey]
Connemara- up to 14.2 hands [grey, bay, brown or dun]
Dales- up to 14.2 hands [black, dark brown or bay]
Dartmoor- up to 12.2 hands [bay, brown or black]
Dulmen- 12-13 hands [dun, black, brown or chestnut]
Exmoor- 12-12.3 hands [dun with black points]
Falabella- up to 9 hands [any color]
Fell- up to 14 hands [black, dark brown, bay or grey]
French Saddle Pony- 12.2-14.2 hands [any color]
Galician and Asturian- 11.2-12.2 hands [brown or black]
Galiceno- up to 14 hands [any solid color]
Garrano- 10-14 hands [bay, brown or chestnut]
Gotland Skogsruss- 12-12.2 [any solid color]
Pindos- up to 13 hands [black, bay, dark brown or dark grey]
Peneia- up to 14 hands [roan, chestnut or black]
Skyros- up to 11 hands [brown, bay or grey]
Hackney- 12.2-14 hands [black, bay, chestnut or brown]
Haflinger- up to 14 hands [chestnut with flaxen mane/tail]
Highland- up to 14.2 hands [dun, grey, bay and black]
Hucul- 12.1-13.1 hands [bay, black, chestnut and dun]
Icelandic- 12.3-13.2 hands [any color]
Java- up to 12.2 hands [any color]
Kazakh- up to 14.2 hands [chestnut, grey, palomino or bay]
Konik- up to 13 hands [mouse dun]
Landais- 11.3-13.1 hands [black, bay, brown or chestnut]
Lundy- up to 13.2 hands [dun, roan, palomino, bay or liver chestnut]
Manipuri- up to 13 hands [bay, chestnut, grey, brown or pinto]
Mongolian- 12-14 hands [dun, black, bay, brown, chestnut or palomino]
New Forest- 12-14.2 hands [bay or brown]
Nigerian- 14-14.2 hands [any color]
Poney Mousseye- up to 12 hands [any color]
Northlands- 12-14 hands [bay or brown]
Norwegian Fjord- 13-14 hands [dun]
Pony of the Americas- 11.2-14 hands [spotted]
Stable Island- up to 14 hands [dark colors]
Sandalwood- up to 13 hands [any color]
Sardinian- 12-13 hands [brown, bay, black or liver chestnut]
Shetland- up to 10.2 hands [black, chestnut, brown, grey or pinto]
Sorraia- up to 13 hands [dun, grullo or dark palomino]
Sumba and Sumbawa- up to 12.2 hands [dun]
Syrian- up to 15.1 [chestnut or grey]
Tarpan- up to 13 hands [dun]
Tibetan- up to 12.2 hands [bay or grey]
Timor- 10-12 hands [bay, brown or black]
Viatka- 13-14.2 hands [chestnut roan, bay roan or dun]
Welara- 11.2-14.2 hands [any color except spotted]
Welsh Mountain- up to 12 hands [any color except piebald or skewbald]
Welsh Pony Section B- up to 13.2 hands [any color except piebald or skewbald]
Welsh Section C and D- up to 13.2 hands [any color except piebald or skewbald]
Zemaituka- 13.2-14.2 hands [dun, bay, black or brown]

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Draft Breeds

Ardennes- 14.3-16 hands [roan, bay, iron grey or chestnut]
Auxois- 15-16.2 hands [bay, roan or chestnut]
Boulonnais- 15-17 hands [grey, bay or chestnut]
Barbant- 15.3-17 hands [roan]
Breton- 15-16 hands [chestnut, chestnut roan with flaxen main/tail]
Clydesdale- 16-18 hands [bay]
Comtois- 14-15 hands [dark chestnut with flaxen main/tail]
Dole Gudbrandsdal- 14.2-15.2 hands [black, brown or bay]
Heavy Dutch Draft- 16.2-16.3 hands [chestnut, bay or grey]
Finnish Draft- 15.2 hands [chestnut]
Freiberger- 14.3-15.3 hands [bay or chestnut]
Irish Draft- 15.3-17 hands [bay, chestnut or grey]
Italian Heavy Draft- 15-14 hands [chestnut or roan]
Jutland- 15.3 hands [chestnut, black or brown]
Latvian Harness Horse- 15.2-16.1 hands [bay, black or chestnut]
Lithuanian Heavy Draft- 15-16 hands [bay, black, grey, chestnut or roan]
Murakozi- 16 hands [liver chestnut with flaxen mane/tail]
Noriker- 15.2-17 hands [liver chestnut, bay, dun, spotted or skewbald with flaxen mane/tail]
Normandy Cob- 15.2-16.3 hands [chestnut or bay]
North Swedish Horse- 15-15.3 [brown, chestnut or dun]
Percheron- 15.2-17 hands [black or grey]
Poitevin- 16-16.3 hands [dun, grey, black or palomino]
Rhineland Heavy Draft- 16-17 hands [chestnut, chestnut roan, red roan or bay]
Russian Heavy Draft- 14.2-14.3 hands [chestnut, strawberry roan or bay]
Schleswig Heavy Draft- 15.2-16 hands [chestnut with flaxen mane/tail]
Shire- over 17 hands [bay, chestnut, grey or brown]
Sokolsky- 15-16 hands [chestnut, bay or roan]
Soviet Heavy Draft- 15-15.3 hands [chestnut, bay or roan]
Suffolk Punch- 16-16.3 hands [chestnut]
Toric- 15-15.1 hands [chestnut, bay, brown or grey]
Vladimir Heavy Draft- 16 hands [any solid color]

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Note:

The listed heights and colors for each breed are the STANDARDS. There may be a horse that is abnormally tall or simply very short. It happens with imperfections in the breeding. Colorings will differ in crossbreeds and imperfects. If there are any breeds I left out (I know there are) let me know the height and typical colors for the breed and I'll add it.

[Snow]

Why can quarter horses only go to 16 hh?

[<Amy>]

According to the book I used as a source, they can.

[Snow]

I have 8 horses, 6 of these quarter horses, 3 of them over 16.0 hands. There are many quarter horses over 16 hands, perhaps moving that up to 17 hands, it is more realistic.

The old quarter horses used to be stockier, shorter, and more muscled, and now they are being bred to be taller, leaner, and sleeker. You can honestly say that there are now 3 types of quarter horses. One, the stock type, is thicker, well muscled with a big hip. The second is a halter type, still fairly muscled, but taller with a smaller hip but long backs. The third is a hunter type, possibly taller still and sleeker, with less muscling, but medium shoulders and hips..

[<Amy>]

In the note I stated these were just standards, the typical heights for the breed. I'm sure there are taller Quarter Horses just like there are taller horses in ever breed. If you bred your Quarter Horses they probably passed on the gene for being taller then some, but like I said, this is just the typical stuff. If you or anyone else made a Quarter Horse that was over sixteen hands I wouldn't have a problem with it. This guide is just mainly for people not familiar with all types of breeds and because I've seen some ridiculous heights/colors on other sites.