dole gudbrandsdal
The Dole Gudbrandsdal has ancient foundations despite the National Dolehorse Association having been established in 1967.
Uses of Dole Horse
For the purpose of heavy draft, agricultural work and timber hauling chiefly, the heavier Dole Gudbrandsdal type is used. The lighter Dole Trotter is used largely for harness racing.
The Dole Trotter is slightly larger than the Dole Gudbrandsdal and has a more refined head, but both breeds are fairly similar. They stand 14.2-15.2 hh (1.47 to 1.57 m) and are usually brown, black, or bay.
Dole Gudbrandsdal
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The Dole Gudbrandsdal is a draft horse that stands around 14.2-15.2 hands high. It can vary in colors from black, brown, and bay, with luxurious dark brown or black manes and tails.
The Dole Gudbrandsdal originated in the Gudbrandsdal valley in Norway. The Dole Gudbradsdal was a strong, quick-moving packhorse bred in the mountain valleys.
The Dole Gudbrandsdal has ancient foundations despite the National Dolehorse Association having been established in 1967.
The Dole Gudbrandsdal owes much of it current characteristics to the stallion Brimen. They were originally used for pack or agricultural work until the age of mechanization, at which time numbers declined.
Typically the Dole Horse is predominantly brown or bay in color. However, chestnut and black are also very common colorations as well. Occasionally, you will find dun or grey colored Dole's as well.
They are related to the Dole Gudbrandsdal, having both developed from the ancient native horses of the area.
The Dole Gudbrandsdal Norway derived directly from the Friesian. The UK so owes much to the breed.
This animal was bred out of a local need for a harness horse & was formed by breeding native forest type horses with the Ardennes, Brabant & the Dole from Norway (The Dole was the strongest contributor).
Careful breeding of Swedish mares crossed with Dole stallions from Norway has produced a beautiful draught horse who is hard working and strong with an amenable temperament.
It is of the same origin as the Dole horse of Norway, which descended from the ancient Scandinavian native horse.
The North Swedish Horse is a medium sized coldblood. Mare usually reaches the height of 15 hands while the stallions are about 15.
The horses brought to Iceland during this period were probably Norwegian Dole Horses and Celtic Ponies (the ancestor of the British Exmoor and Shetland).
Originating from Sweden, the North Swedish Horse is a heavy draft and farm workhorse. It is of the same origin as the Dole horse of Norway, which descended from the ancient Scandinavian native horse.
Jutlander, the Norwegian Dole-Gudbrandsdal, the English Fell- and
Merens-pony of the Pyrenees.
arabians, arabs, chevaux frison, dutch horse breeds, fell pony, fresian, fresians, fries, friese paarden, friese ...
All the horses found in Iceland today are descended from horses taken to Iceland by the Vikings. Their ancestors came from Northern Scandinavia and the British Isles, in particular, the Dole Horse of Norway and the Celtic Pony from Britain.
When Norsemen invaded the islands, they brought ponies with them which were ancestors of the modern Dole Pony. These ponies crossed with native stock which created the Shetland Pony similar to that known today.
The ancestors of today´s Icelandic horses came from Northern Scandinavia and the British Isles - in particular the Dole Horse of Norway and from Britain the Celtic Pony, the ancestor of the Exmoor and the Shetland.
to Friesian horse information, the race became almost extinct many times in its long history, but Friesian horse breeders always managed to keep the breed alive, by breeding them with other breeds such as the Morgan, Norfolk Trotter and Dole ...
Some known draft horse breeds are the American Cream, Ardennes, Avelignese, Australian Draught Horse, Auxois, Cludesdal, Belgian, Dutch Draught, Boulonnais, Dole Gudbrandsdal, Shire, Pinzgauer Noriker, Trait Du Nord, Percheron and Suffolk Punch.
 See also: Stallion, Bay, Chestnut, Black, Dole Gudbrandsdal
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