Knabstrup

Knabstrup Spotted horses have been known and highly prized. The Knabstrup is a spotted horse. They can be seen in Chinese art. Noriker blood is also in their veins. These horses date back to the time of the Napoleonic Wars.

Knabstruppers are valued for their kind temperaments, high level of trainability, strength, stamina and good health as well as for their wonderful color.

The Knabstrup was established in 1812, when the Major Villars Lunn purchased an Iberian mare for his estate Knabstrupgaard. The chestnut mare was bred with Fredricksborg, a palomino stud.

Knabstrup The original size of the Knabstrup horse was about 14.3 hands. It had clean, dry limbs; large, strong hind quarters; and a small, refined head.

Knabstrup horses were known for their high spirit and energetic action yet they were not temperamental.

- Knabstruper - Spotted coat coloring was often seen in very primitive horse breeds and there are frequent depictions surviving from many hundreds of years ago of spotted horses.

The Knabstrupper "About 20.000 years ago, after the ice age, the Cro-Magnons were hunting in the area today known as southern France. The cave paintings made by these hunters still exist today in the caves of Lascaux and Pêche Merle.

The Knabstrup Horse The Knabsturp are always spotted in color and, owing to their great stamina, are good all-round horses. The head is small and unusual and there is always sclera present around the eye. Origin: Denmark.

Knabstruper WARMBLOOD OVERVIEW The Knabstruper breed came about relatively recently and as the result of a single mare's strong characteristics. Spotted coats were evident in cave paintings and have been popular throughout ancient and modern times.

Knabstrup The Knabstrup or Knabstrupper is a European horse breed with an unusual range of coat coloration. It shows the same color pattern as the Appaloosa, with coat patterns ranging from solid, through many variants to the full leopard spotted.

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Another recorded import (again of Spanish decent) was some Danish Knabstruppers in the early 1960's. gnome stallions were also imported by Chipperfield's Circus for liberty work and some found their way into private hands.

Black, grey; height 16 to 17; Use: Carriage, Riding Knabstrup (Denmark) Cream or Appaloosa colours on roan; height 15.3; Use: Riding, Parade Konik (Poland) ...

*Knabstrup - spotted, appaloosa patterns on a roan base Konik - yellow, blue, or gray dun, usualy with a dorsal stripe Kushum - bay and chestnut Kustanai - bay, chestnut, red-gray, brown *Kuznet - no distinct type ...

or sport horse conformation - taller, with longer legs and a leaner build, bred to be used in English riding competition and middle distance horse races up to . A similarly spotted breed in Europe, with a sport horse build, is the Knabstrup.

See also: Horse, Breeding, Appaloosa, Breeds, Black