Generate a random horse breed from 178 -- from desert Arabians to Shire horses and feral island ponies -- each with what makes it distinctive.
Nothing to do with body temperature. They are the horse world's shorthand for three broad types. Hot-blooded horses -- the Arabian, the Thoroughbred, the Akhal-Teke -- come from desert and steppe breeding, and are light, fast and highly reactive. Cold-blooded horses are the heavy draught breeds developed in northern Europe for pulling: the Shire, the Percheron, the Belgian. Warmbloods are what you get when you cross the two deliberately, and almost every modern sport horse is one; the great European studbooks spent two centuries turning carriage and cavalry horses into animals that could jump a 1.6 metre fence. The other division is height. Anything under 14.2 hands -- 147 cm, measured to the withers, not the head -- is a pony, and that is a measurement rather than a judgement: the Icelandic is pony-sized and its breeders will correct you firmly if you call it one.
This generator draws from 178 horse and pony breeds across five groups, from the desert breeds to the heavy draught horses and the feral populations nobody bred at all. Each result comes with the fact that distinguishes it -- the Marwari's curved ears, the Akhal-Teke's metallic coat, the Yakutian's tolerance of -60°C.
Every result here is drawn using crypto.getRandomValues() -- the Web Crypto API's cryptographically secure randomness -- instead of Math.random(), so it's genuinely unpredictable, not just statistically random. Learn more.
Choosing a breed to research, writing and worldbuilding, horse-mad reading lists, equestrian quizzes, and picking a breed at random to look up before buying one.
Generate draws one breed at random from 178 using cryptographically secure randomness, never repeating what is on screen. Filter to a group -- draught horses, ponies, sport horses -- and draw a batch with No Duplicates on for a quiz or a study list.
A sample of what this generator can draw, spread evenly across the full list:
Somewhere over 350, depending on which registries you count and whether you treat a studbook section as a breed. This list holds 178, covering every major type and a good number of the rare ones.
Height, formally: under 14.2 hands, which is 147 cm at the withers. In practice build matters too -- ponies are proportionally stockier with shorter legs and thicker coats. Several breeds sit under the line and are still called horses by their breeders, the Icelandic and the Fjord among them.
Yes, deliberately. The Suffolk Punch is rarer than the giant panda, the Eriskay was down to about twenty animals in the 1970s, and the Miyako fell to seven. A breed list that only held the popular ones would miss what is actually interesting about the subject.
Contested, and mostly a question about what counts as a breed. The Arabian is the usual answer for a modern registered breed. Przewalski's horse is the only never-domesticated horse left and is not really the same species -- it has 66 chromosomes to the domestic horse's 64.
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