Are Halter Horses Rideable Or Ridden?

They can be my horse is a halter dropout is now a riding horse. My mare was shown at halter by her breeder and is now my dressage mount. It depends on the horse, the trainer, the owner, etc. Some people who own halter horses don't ride. So just because it is unbroke doesn't mean it can't learn.

Just because they are not shown performance does not mean they are not broke- many halter horses are ridden as part of their conditioning program.

good point. I have this 'thing' about looking at the belly of the yearling fillies now on Scottsdale, live stream. I am not fond of any horse with a bulge or fat under belly. Conditioning is key... Can a 'hanging belly' be inherited...for a conditioned horse, I wonder?

I am including horses of 4,5,6,7,8, 9 10 years old...not the babies so much...just saying.

Never thought about it that way- even though it would be a mess it would be neat in a utopia of Arabian horses to have every horse required to be proven in hand to win in performance and vice versa. That's the standard I aspire to in my own program

Showing my hunter mare halter would not have been an issue for me. My mare would not have liked it...she knows how to set up, she knows how to stretch, but she creeps forwards and gets bored. She could have done it though.

I'm betting there are more than enough people that would sign up for a class where they had to come in riding hunt seat, go over two jumps, switch to western pleasure, then strip off and show halter. I swear there used to be classes like that...I remember having to to haul in my trainers western tack and take out the hunter tack. Heck, I would sign up for it :-)

Personally, I was glad they got rid of the performance requirement. I don't see how getting a horse broke enough to go to a small show and get around the ring so it got a ribbon in a performance class proved anything. I'm sure if performance horses (breeding stock) were required to show halter there would be a huge outcry.