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Einsiedler Horse
Origin: Switzerland.
Height: Roughly 15.3-16.2hh.
Color: Any solid color. Bay and chestnut are the most common.
Character: A bold, active horse, intelligent and tractable and of gooddisposition. Very versatile.
Physique: Strongly-built lightweight of the Anglo-Norman type. Generally good conformation, with powerful shoulders andhindquarters. Action free and straight. Because of its versatility, the Einsiedler is in popular demand with theSwiss cavalry, as is its close relation the Anglo-Norman (the Einsiedler issometimes known as the Swiss Anglo-Norman). It is at once a goodjumper, often capable of competition at international level, an adeptdressage mount and all-round saddle animal, an outstanding trotter, and agood harness and light agricultural horse.
The horse is named for the Benedictine abbey of Einsiedeln, whererecords of a stud trace back to 1064. Einsiedlers appear regularly throughoutSwiss history, though the breed has fluctuated in type. The modernEinsiedler stems to some extent from imported Hackney horses, but itsmain influence of change has been the Anglo-Norman.
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