Canadian Warmblood

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Canadian Warmblood
Pikardi & Bonny Bonnello - 2010 Kentucky Cup 1.jpg
Pikardi and Bonny Bonnello at the Kentucky Cup in 2010
Conservation status
Country of originCanada
Traits
Weight
  • average: 600 kg [2]
Height
    • range 152–173 cm [3] :449
    • average: 165 cm [2]
Colourany but leopard-spotted [2]

The Canadian Warmblood is a Canadian breed or registry of warmblood sport horses with European warmblood ancestry. Admission to the stud-book is based on both performance and parentage: a horse must have in its pedigree at least one from a list of twenty-five influential European warmblood stallions foaled between 1840 and 1926, and must also pass a Keuring or performance inspection. [4] [5]

A breed association, the Canadian Warmblood Horse Breeders Association, was established in 1991; it is a member of the World Breeding Federation for Sport Horses. [6]

It is a distinct and separate breed from the Canadian Sport Horse.

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References

  1. Barbara Rischkowsky, Dafydd Pilling (editors) (2007). List of breeds documented in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic Resources, annex to The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN   9789251057629. Archived 23 June 2020.
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  3. 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. ISBN   9781780647944.
  4. Jess Hallas-Kilcoyne (January 2012). The Charismatic Canadian Warmblood, Part 1. Canadian Horse Journal. Accessed October 2023.
  5. Jess Hallas-Kilcoyne (February 2012). The Charismatic Canadian Warmblood, Part 2. Canadian Horse Journal. Accessed October 2023.
  6. Breeding Warmblood Horses to International Standards: About Us. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: Canadian Warmblood Horse Breeders Association. Accessed October 2023.