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During World War II, French Thoroughbred breeding did not suffer as it had during the first World War, and thus was able to compete on an equal footing with other countries after the war. [ 62 ] Organized racing in Italy started in 1837, when race meets were established in Florence and Naples and a meet in Milan was founded in 1842.
The Spanish Civil War and other conflicts of the 1930s did not provide definite solutions and the issues remained unresolved until the onset of World War II. Only the German blitzkrieg achieved in the Battle of France finally persuaded the militaries of the world, including the United States, that the tank had replaced the horse on the battlefield.
The history of warmblood horse breeding - that is, a horse that was neither draft horse nor Arabian nor Thoroughbred - in Mecklenburg is similar to that in the rest of Germany. Mecklenburgers prior to World War II were all-purpose utility horses. Individual sires, families or breeders might specialize, but the most economically efficient horse ...
Anblick xx (1938–1964) dark bay or brown Thoroughbred, 161 cm (Ferro xx – Herold xx – Nuage xx) Bred at Graditz State Stud. Anblick xx was the first post-World War II refining sire. In comparison to their dams, his offspring were lighter-boned, exceptionally good movers, game and bold over fences.
A breed association, the Verband Brandenburger Warmblutzüchter, was established in 1922, and a stud-book was started; the association was dissolved in 1949, after the end of the Second World War. [10] From the 1960s, when Germany was divided and Brandenburg was in East Germany, the Brandenburger and the Mecklenburger were merged in the stud ...
(The Trakehner, while a warmblood horse from Germany, has a closed stud book and thus, like the Thoroughbred and Arabian, is considered a "true" breed.) All horses that are warmbloods and bred in Germany are named after the region in which they are born in. There is an exception to this and that is the Trakehner breed. [1]
Freya Füllgraebe on Oje Oje, Wiesbaden 2013. The Rhinelander, or Rheinisches Reitpferd, is a German warmblood breed of sport horse.It is traditionally bred at the Warendorf State Stud [], which it shares with the Westphalian, and is bred to the same standard as the Westphalian and other German warmbloods, such as the Bavarian Warmblood, Mecklenburger, Brandenburger, and Württemberger.
The World Breeding Federation for Sport Horses (WBFSH) uses results from FEI-recognized competitions to rank individual horses and breed registries for each discipline. In 2008, the Hanoverian stallion Weltmeyer was the world's #3 sire of WBFSH dressage horses, behind #2 Donnerhall, who was sired by the Hanoverian Donnerwetter. [5]