Knabstrupper
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The Knabstrupper or Knabstrup is a Danish breed of warmblood horse. It is principally a riding horse, but is also used as a harness horse and as a circus animal.[1]Template:R/superscript It is broadly similar to the Frederiksborger, but often has a spotted coat. In the past, injudicious breeding for this characteristic alone compromised its constitution and conformation.[2]Template:R/superscript[3]Template:R/superscript In the years after the Second World War the mechanisation of agriculture led to a sharp fall in numbers, and by the 1960s no more than 100 of the horses remained.[4]Template:R/superscript In the twenty-first century it is an endangered breed, with a world-wide population estimated at little over Script error: No such module "val"..[5]Template:R/superscript
History
The Knabstrupper descends from a single mare believed to have originated in Spain who showed qualities of endurance and speed, and was of an unusual colouration: a deep red (Template:Langx) with a white tail and mane, and white flecks or "snowflakes" over her whole body and brown spots on her back.[6]Template:R/superscript She was called Flaebehoppen, 'Flaebe's horse', because she was reportedly bought by a butcher named Flaebe from an officer of the Spanish army. He sold her to Template:Ill, who took her to his estate at Knabstrup Hovedgård in the kommune of Holbæk in northern Zealand.[3]Template:R/superscript There, in 1808, after a month of testing of her working capabilities, he bred her to a Frederiksborger stallion.[6]Template:R/superscript[2]Template:R/superscript The stallion Mikkel, a grandson of this pair foaled in 1818, was a noted harness-racer and a foundation stallion of the Knabstrupper breed.[6]Template:R/superscript[2]Template:R/superscript[3]Template:R/superscript In 1971, three Appaloosa stallions were imported to Denmark in the hope of adding new blood to the Knabstrupper breed; only two of them were used, and many breeders preferred to cross-breed with Danish Warmblood, Holsteiner or Trakehner stock.[7]Template:R/superscript
As of 2024, crossing Knabstruppers with other breeds such as Thoroughbreds, Arabians and other warmbloods may lead to approval, but crossing with Appaloosas will not.[8][9]
Characteristics
The horses usually stand between Script error: No such module "val". at the withers;[6]Template:R/superscript small or pony-sized ones have also been bred.[7]Template:R/superscript The coat may be of any color except piebald or palomino, but is most often spotted.[5]Template:R/superscript
A 2022 study found that Knabstruppers are predisposed to Equine Recurrent Uveitis.[10][11]
Use
The Knabstrupper has long been used as a circus horse, and is well suited to driving and equestrian vaulting.[2]Template:R/superscript It is also used in dressage, show-jumping and eventing.[3]Template:R/superscript[12]Template:R/superscript
References
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- ↑ Élise Rousseau, Yann Le Bris, Teresa Lavender Fagan (2017). Horses of the World. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Template:Isbn.
- ↑ a b c d Elwyn Hartley Edwards (1994). The Encyclopedia of the Horse. London; New York; Stuttgart; Moscow: Dorling Kindersley. Template:Isbn.
- ↑ a b c d Elwyn Hartley Edwards (2016). The Horse Encyclopedia. New York, New York: DK Publishing. Template:Isbn.
- ↑ Irina Wenk (2020). The ideal horse: politics and practices of Knabstrupper breeding. In: Kristen Guest, Monica Mattfeld (editors) (2020). Horse Breeds and Human Society: Purity, Identity and the Making of the Modern Horse. Abingdon; New York: Routledge. Template:Isbn.
- ↑ a b Breed data sheet: Knabstrupper / Denmark (Horse). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed September 2022.
- ↑ a b c d Valerie Porter, Lawrence Alderson, Stephen J.G. Hall, D. Phillip Sponenberg (2016). Mason's World Encyclopedia of Livestock Breeds and Breeding (sixth edition). Wallingford: CABI. Template:Isbn.
- ↑ a b History. Viborg: Knabstrupperforeningen for Danmark. Accessed February 2024.
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