- Irish Draught
- Grey
- Mare
- 8 years
- 15.3 hands
- Superb bold scopey jump both sj and xc
- 3 good paces for dressage
- Excellent to hack alone and in company, hunted in Ireland
Diamond is an absolutely gorgeous 15.3h 8 year old grey Irish Draught mare
For sale on behalf of her owner
Diamond is one in a million who has so much class, quality and potential with the most amazing temperament to match. She is a fully registered Irish Draught with really good breeding. She is a classy model as she isn’t too heavy, she’s more like an Irish sport horse in type and looks but has the wonderful temperament and safety of the Irish draught. She is a very desirable type who would suit a wide audience of riders from teenagers coming off ponies, to adults and even the older rider would feel very safe on her. So a brilliant mother/daughter/family share. She has excellent conformation, is blemish free and straight moving. Recently sailed through a 5 stage vetting, is very sound and healthy. Would be a real stand out in the show ring for working hunter as is very true to type, nice moving and has manners to burn. Excelled in working hunter classes in Ireland attending top county shows including Royal Dublin. She is the full package to excel across all riding disciplines which makes her the perfect top end riding club alrounder/eventer. She is also very safe and straight forward making her appeal to people wanting to do fun rides and lots of hacking as well. She also has experience in every discipline and really knows her job like clockwork and loves her work. She has the most amazing temperament and work man attitude making her a yard favourite.
Diamond schools well on the flat, she has 3 super paces. She is nicely forward going with a real “can do” attitude and willingness to please. She is nice and responsive to the aids and gives you a secure safe feeling. She works between leg and hand up into the contact in a natural outline. She will equally just go along with a level head carriage and do less for a lesser rider who isn’t interested in dressage. She loves her work and likes to get on with her job which is really refreshing. She is a sensible ride who doesn’t spook, buck, rear or nap. Shes very reliable, safe and solid even in new places. Shes more suited to a confident rider as she is forward going who likes to get on with her job. She is snaffle mouthed on the flat. She is schooling well at preliminary level and has done some unaffiliated dressage previously in Ireland. She has the potential to affiliate and work through the BD levels.
Diamond absolutely loves her jumping and makes a super scopey shape. She is very careful and talented and wants to keep the jumps up. She is forward going into a fence and does step up a gear from when she is doing flatwork and goes nicely in a Universal bit. She is super honest and genuine to jump she would never refuse or run out, she really wants to jump. She is very bold and jumps all fillers and water trays first attempt confidently. She knows her job well and will go on a short or long stride and help her rider out. She is very ridable around a course of fences and nicely balanced around tight turns and does flying changes where necessary. She has competed at unaffiliated sj up to 105cm with ease with her previous owner. She is a real power house to jump with endless scope so would definitely jump higher tracks and would be very ideal to BS on and work through the levels. She would equally be ideal for pole work clinics and all riding club/ pony club activities. She would be a super pony club teams jumping horse for a competent teen coming off ponies. She has also done lots of arena eventing where she was regularly placed in Ireland.
Diamond is equally as bold over xc jumps. She is a real xc machine, point and aim type who is very genuine. She really enjoys going xc and has plenty of pace to make the time at events. She jumps everything asked of her including ditches and water complexes. She is a very straight forward ride and takes her rider into the fences nice and confidently. She is a forward going ride, not a kick along ride. She has done lots of xc schooling and hunter trails where she has been placed. She is a very honest dependable horse who always gets round clear and is lots of fun. She has so much potential to excel as an eventer as she is very good at all 3 disciplines and has a very ground covering gallop where she would easily make the xc time. I can see him making a fabulous grass roots eventer as well as being very competitive up through the levels. She would also make a cracking team chaser. She has hunted 3 seasons in Ireland proving very easy. She jumps everything you point her at, she always up for it.
Diamond is lovely to hack both alone and in company. She is very sensible in open spaces and not at all sharp or silly. She is not the spooky sort, she has been used to nanny green and silly horses. She is very mannerly and will canter happily in any order on an easy rein contact. She has been on lots of fun rides where she is so much fun and just goes with the flow. She has also been on beach rides and horse holidays. She is good with traffic in general, just hasn’t seen many artic lorries so we turn her in a gate way and she happily stands and waits for the lorry to pass her. She would be very well suited to someone wanting to combine pleasure rides with competing.
Diamond has a great kind temperament. She puts a smile on your face every day. She loves people and will make someone an amazing best friend. She is always good to catch and lead in. She loves all the attention of being groomed and pampered. She is very easy to handle in all ways. She lives in and out and is happy be turned out next to or in with other horses. She is great to shoe, wash and clip. She loads perfectly and travels like a dream. She is a very easy horse to load, travel and go off to an event on your own, she is also very straight forward to ride at new places, very dependable and never hot. She really is such a genuine honest horse who deserves the best of homes.
Diamond is the ultimate alrounder that everyone is looking for. She can turn her hoof to any job and is very versatile. She would be very suitable for a competent teenager coming off ponies who is used to riding a forward going pony. She would also suit an adult wanting to go out competing in any discipline and have fun together. She would also make a fabulous hunter, team chaser or fun pleasure horse. Lots more photos and videos available via WhatsApp. Based in Ramsey Peterborough. Please send me a message on WhatsApp or call Katherine on 07460820294. £14,950