Swiss Warmblood
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The Swiss Warmblood or Schweizer Warmblut is a modern Swiss breed of warmblood sport horse.Template:R It was created in the mid-twentieth century by merger of the Template:Ill – which had been bred for centuries at the Benedictine Monastery of Einsiedeln in the Canton of Schwyz – with the Swiss Halfblood and with traditional local breeds including the Ajoie, the Erlenbacher and the Entlebucher. It is sometimes known as the Neue Einsiedler.Template:R The Swiss Warmblood is bred at the Template:Ill at Avenches, in the Canton of Vaud.
History
The Swiss Warmblood was created in the mid-twentieth century by merger of the Template:Ill – which had been bred for centuries at the Benedictine Monastery of Einsiedeln in the Canton of Schwyz – with the Swiss Halfblood and with traditional local breeds including the Ajoie, the Erlenbacher and the Entlebucher. Those individual breeds effectively ceased to exist and are now listed as extinct.Template:R A stud-book was started in 1950.Template:R In the 1960s use was made of a number of foreign stallions, among them three Anglo-Normans named Ivoire, Orinate de Messil and Que d'Espair, the Holsteiners Astral and Chevalier, and a Swedish Warmblood called Aladin;Template:R thereafter the stallions used were mostly Swiss.Template:R
From 2010 to 2012 the number of annual registrations in the stud-book was approximately 750. In 2017 the total population was estimated at Script error: No such module "val"., with 750 breeding mares and 77 stallions.Template:R In 2023 the conservation status of the breed was listed in the DAD-IS database of the FAO as 'at risk/endangered'.Template:R
Characteristics
The Swiss Warmblood is usually chestnut, less often bay; black and other colours may also occur.Template:R Heights are usually in the range Script error: No such module "val"..Template:R
Uses
The Swiss Warmblood was bred as a sport horse. It is usually trained for show-jumping or for dressage; it may also be driven in harness.Template:R
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