Warmblood
The warm-blooded animal is intermediate in type between the cold and the whole blood. It combines features of both types of horses.
The term refers to characteristics and temperament of the animals, not to the body temperature. This is in all horses, warm-blooded animals and cold-blooded animals, ranging from an average of 38 ° C. All horses are the same cold-blooded animals ( Homoiotherm ).
Breeding history
The foundation stone for the warmblood breeding was placed on the European continent in the 18th and 19th centuries. Until then, here horses were bred to farming level for all usage purposes. They had clearer cold blood and pony characteristics. Then more and more Spanish and Arabian horses were bred to get a faster and more agile and elegant riding and carriage horses mainly for military and representative purposes. In addition to this created other races and the Thoroughbred, which in turn is used up to the present time to further refinement. In contrast to the Arabs hoped that when using the Thoroughbred more mass without losing the nobility of the Arab.
Breeding history
Warm-blooded animals usually have an open stud book, which means that even horses whose parents are not registered, must be included in the studbook if they meet the requirements of the breeding goal of each breed. This allows a flexible improvement of individual characteristics by means of crossing with horses of other breeds. Such crossings must be approved and always require a valid lineage papers of both parents.
German Warmbloods dominate like no other breed the sport and tournament events worldwide. Credited to illustrate which is the origin of the horses that participated in the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta (from the book " Olympic rider ", published by the FN, written by Reiner Klimke and Werner Ernst).
The German horses are found mainly in dressage (38 ) and jumping (46). Distributed to the farming areas follows:
This list is also the list of the main German breeding areas. Clearly dominant is the absolute all-rounder, Hanoverian; the Trakehner, fifth place, is considered the noblest of warmblood breeds.