Haflinger?

[astudyinscarlet]

Do you think the stock horse would suit a haflinger? I'm sort of tied between the stock horse and the arab champion but I have quite a few arab champions and only one stock horse so... I'm just not completely sure if the stock horse fits a haflinger. I don't want a really cobby Haflinger otherwise I'd probably pick connemara, I want one that's more lightweight and since haflingers do have arabian blood one of the moulds with the more dished or delicate heads would suit it so I think the head of the stock horse is right as it does have quite a small refined head. I don't think I've ever actually seen one (an actual originals one, not the HOTY) in any kind of chestnut or lighter golden palomino type colour though.

[stacey]

I’m not brilliant with what breeds suit which moulds. Personally it doesn’t really click as a Haflinger, but I couldn’t really give you a reason why..? Maybe just because I’ve not seen it in that kind of colour way, so it might actually work really well! (I have a chestnut, but I don’t think he’ll help. He’s bright red/orange, but you can see him on my Website)

Have you considered a Mustang? I think they could have a reasonable likeness to the skinnier type

[juliporiginals]

Perhaps look at Bedsocks or Sundance and see if you can imagine them as a Haflinger,  I think it may be okay, the legs are  a little finer than they should be but the top half is pretty good, the Arab champion is probably a slightly better fit but I don't think the stock horse is a bad one

The cob mare used to be the 'go to' mould for Haflingers a few years back, I'm not sure if that is worth considering

[astudyinscarlet]

I do love the mustangs but I can't really see haflinger in them (I don't know whose it is but someone actually has one more or less the right colour, a palomino with an altered neck, but the mould has such thin legs and tiny feet, it reminds me too much of a smaller pony). The cob mare is too stocky though also I'm still not that keen on the recent/recast cob mares anyway. The connemara would be my usual choice, I've got one as a haflinger already, but I think it's too chunky for this particular horse. I think the stock horse is probably the closest, especially when the arab champion is such a 'leggy' mould too so I don't think either of them is a perfect fit so it's probably going to come down to which mould I like/want more. I'm just struggling to visualise the stock horse as a haflinger properly when I haven't seen that many examples of the mould. (Your bright red chestnut stock horse is really lovely Stacey)

[Magda]

[Side note: At least in Germany, Haflingers can't have more than 1.56% Arabian blood, anything above that (but below 25%) is eligible to be registered as Edelbluthaflinger, which is considered there a separate breed. Over 25% is Arabo-Haflinger.]

I have a flaxen lighter chestnut Arab Champion but I think she's too Arabian to be a pure Haflinger - mine's an Arabo-Haflinger. The current state of the mould is too refined and leggy.



Personally, if I was to choose a mould for a purebred Haflinger, I'd go for either Mustang or Cob Mare, depending on the type I'd be going for; a Show Cob could work too, I think, for a horse on smaller side of the breed. They're generally pony sized, after all.

[kits]

I actually can picture it on the stock horse but my mental image of a haflinger is one specific riding school pony so I'm not sure how representative that is!

[astudyinscarlet]

I think the arab champion would have been more suitable when the mould's worn down so it's gone slightly chunkier again. I've already ordered it on the stock horse now though. I don't like the modern cob mares enough to buy one and they're far too chunky anyway, and I still don't think the mustang looks like a Haflinger. I'm not the biggest fan of the show cob either but that's also probably too chunky anyway. The pony I'm basing this on though was from nearly 30 years ago, he looked like a Haflinger and I'm pretty sure he was one but he was just a riding school pony not any kind of pedigree show horse or anything so the Julip version doesn't have to be like the perfect representation of a Haflinger either.