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The American Warmblood is more of a "type" than a "breed". Like most of the European warmbloods, the American Warmblood has an "open" book. There is more emphasis on producing quality sport horses, rather than the preservation of any particular bloodlines, which allows for much diversity in the bloodlines of American Warmbloods. [1] [5]
American Warmblood [2]: 436 American White Horse [2]: 436 Appaloosa [2]: 438 Baca-Chica [3] Banker [2]: 442 [3] Blazer [2]: 445 Modern breed of riding horse, bred particularly for ranch work; developed by Neil Hinck of Star, Idaho, from a single foundation stallion named Little Blaze. [2]: 445 Camarillo White Horse [2]: 448
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 ]
The term warmblood was coined to represent a mixing of cold blooded and hot blooded breeds. [1]: 523 [2]: 231 Cold blooded is a generic term meaning a heavy boned even-tempered horse breed from Northern Europe such as a Shire, Clydesdale or other draft horse breed.
The breed was built on a mare base of all-purpose farm and carriage horses, today called the Alt-Oldenburger. The modern Oldenburg is managed by the Association of Breeders of the Oldenburger Horse , which enacts strict selection of breeding stock to ensure that each generation is better than the last.
A Dutch Warmblood or KWPN is a horse breed of warmblood type registered with the Royal Warmblood Studbook of the Netherlands [Koninklijk Warmbloed Paardenstamboek Nederland] (KWPN), [1] which governs the breeding of competitive dressage and show jumping horses, as well as the show harness horse and Gelderlander, and a hunter studbook in North America.
Many Warmblood breeds were specifically developed for use as sport horses, particularly for use in dressage and show jumping. Thoroughbreds are also commonly used as sport horses, particularly in eventing, and some have been bred specifically as sport horses, rather than as race horses. Such Thoroughbreds tend to have a heavier sport horse ...
The Holsteiner is a horse breed originating in the Schleswig-Holstein region of northern Germany.It is thought to be the oldest of warmblood breeds, tracing back to the 13th century.