-Mares-16-16.2 hands high (around there)
Stallions-17-17.2 hands high (around there)
-Always chestnut colored
- No Feathers
-'round bodied'
-short legs
-huge girth
-wide chest and hind quarters
-These all help them lean on a load and pull. Being close to the ground also helps.
-Are long lived horses
- If riden on softer ground can be riden with out shoes.
-usally barley any white markings. Limited to a star or snip
FAST FACT
-The suffolks are the oldest heavy breed of great Britain.
-Suffolks can be trained at a young age. Can be trained at 2,worked at 3.
-Draft horses can make a good pleasure and riding horse
-Have hard hooves,if you work on soft ground mostly (not concret but dirt like trail riding) then the horse will need less shoeing.
-Can learn easy and loyal,can be trained at young ages
-very sweet (with posible exceptions)
-If was first a farm horse it would have lots of endurance for long trail rides.
Disavantages
-Big horse,big buck,big fall.
-can cost more to shoe (well some people must be afraid of thoose big horses!)
-Draft horses wide bodies can be hard to sit on.
-If first plowed feilds you will have to teach it to be riden (if you wanna ride)
-They have also learned to never go fast (its a no no when plowing)
-Can be very clumsly
