Five quick questions, all on one page — change any answer and your matches update live below.
A guide, not gospel — the right individual can outshine its breed. Use this to point the search, then judge the horse in front of you.
The logic behind the fit score, and the caveat that outranks it.
Breeds selected for temperament first: Quarter Horses, Connemara and Welsh crosses, and well-produced Irish Sport Horses are the classic answers. But schooling beats breeding — a well-trained horse of any breed is a better first horse than a green horse of the 'right' one.
Each answer maps to traits — discipline, rider profile, budget band, temperament, type. Every breed in our field guide carries its own trait tags, and the quiz ranks breeds by how many of your answers they satisfy, showing the top three with a fit score.
Breed is a starting shortlist, not a verdict. It predicts tendencies — trainability, build, price bracket — but the individual horse, its schooling and its vetting always outrank the papers.