shazzdan wrote:The most common warhorse was a Courser, not a Destrier. The closest modern horse would be a hunter or endurance horse around 15 hands tall.
Right, I get that. But I'm just saying that modern sporthorse bloodlines as well as their height/stature don't necessarily line up precisely with what would have been around then. If you're just talking about rough equivalents in terms of the horses' capacities, then I can see what you're saying, as such horses could be fairly versatile, just like a present-day eventer or something similar. But the majority of modern sporthorses and even more traditional 'hunters' are breeds that have only developed in the last couple hundred years, and their previous equivalents, such as they were, would still have been somewhat different in the era were are discussing. And if one is looking at modern breeds which are currently still bred and trained for Classical Dressage [aka, cavalry movements], then we cannot discount the Spanish/Iberian horses from consideration as a possible present-day 'equivalent'.
