What are
Warmblood horses?
Horse equine Warm bloods are a group of middle-weight horse types and breeds, primarily originating in Europe, registered with organizations that are characterized by open studbook policy, studbook selection, and the aim of breeding the perfect equestrian horse.
Many types of horses and ponies are classed as “warm bloods”, bred for work, driving, show jumping and dressage competitions.
The Rhinelander is also known as the Rheinish.This German breed is a relatively new warm blood breed, developed in the 1970’s.
The base line for this bred is the old Rheinisch- Deutsches Pferd (Rhenish – German horse) or otherwise known as the Rhineland heavy draft, which was a hard working draft horse in the Rhineland, Westphalia and Saxony regions.
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The draft horse had many qualities, one being a very good nature that lived of a basic diet and matured early.
The breed was eventually made redundant, due to modern agricultural practices and is no longer recognised in Germany.
The Renish studbook remains open and breeders have developed lighter versions of the breed leaning more towards the developing of a warm blood riding horse.
The new breed of riding horse was created by using stallions from the Hanover Westphalia area, on Warm blood mares that were sired by Trakehners, Thoroughbreds and Hanoverians who were out of dams that were blood related to the old Rhenish heavy horse breed.
The finest of the half-bred stallions were selected to develop the breed.
The breed stands around 16.2 hands high (1.68m) with chestnut being the predominant colour, although all solid colours are allowed.
The head is plain and small, resting on a thick but strong muscular neck, strong shoulders, and clean legs.
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