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French Saddle Horse Origin: France. Height: 15.2-1 6.3hh. Color: Usually chestnut or bay, but can be any color. Character: Brave, calm, good-tempered. Physique: Strong saddle horse of hunter type. Head broad with wide-seteyes, tapering to a comparatively narrow muzzle. Ears long and alert. Longstrong neck well set into powerful, sloping shoulders. Good, roomy chestand deep girth. Back fairly long and well-ribbed-up. Muscular hindquarters.Legs long, with excellent bone and hocks well let down. It would be wrong to suggest that the Norman, the Anglo-Norman and theFrench Saddle Horse are one and the same. They are included under oneheading because they are all developments on the same theme, with noprecisely-defined point marking a transition from one sort to another. Toconfuse the issue, there are two very different types of horse both bearing the name Norman, one a lightweight saddle horse and the other a cob sostrong and stocky that it would be more appropriately listed under theheading of -Cold-Blood". To dispense with the Norman Cob, it is a muscularDraft animal of good conformation, standing about 1611h; an activehorse with a free, high action, a good disposition, and lots of stamina.Hereinafter the name Norman should be taken to apply to the saddle type,except where otherwise specified. As long as 1,000 years ago there appears to have existed in France a good,solid, spirited animal of the heavy Draft type called the Norman horse.William the Conqueror is said to have brought it to England as a war horse.Quite possibly this was the famous Great Horse from which the Britishheavy Draft breeds are descended. Its decline through the Middle Ages,especially during the time when maneuverability took precedence over heavyarmor and the Draft breeds lost their value as military mounts, is obscure,but during the 16th and 17th centuries the Norman horse emerges again as auseful, rather common, working animal. In the 17th century, importations of German and Scandinavian stallions,also Arabs arid Barbs to a lesser extent, were apparently bred onto theNorman mares to produce a riding type of great stamina, while 1 8th- and19th-century additions of English blood in the form of the Thoroughbred,the Norfolk Trotter, and hunter types led to the formation of the Anglo-Norman; which, judging by appearances, is at least half Thoroughbred. Selectively bred for the saddle, and improved by top-quality -Thorough-bred stallions, the Anglo-Norman has in recent times proved itself anexcellent cross-country horse. It is still popular as a cavalry horse, sellingannually to the Swiss army; but its roost spectacular modern successes arein the worlds of three-day-eventing and showjumping. Recent improvements, dating from 1965, are giving the Anglo-Norman anew name: the French Saddle Horse. T |
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