Noble Haflinger
The Edelblut Haflinger is a young breed of horse that arose from the refinement of Haflingers .
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| Origin: | Germany |
| Main breeding area: | Germany, Italy, Switzerland |
| Distribution: | Europe |
| Stick measure : | 142-152 cm |
| Colors : | Light foxes |
| Main application area: | Sport , driving , riding and leisure horse |
Background information on horse evaluation and breeding can be found under: Exterior , interior and horse breeding .
Breeding basics
Purely bred Haflinger horses already have some Arabian blood ( ox ) in their veins. This proportion is regularly traced back to the stallion “249 Folie”, a son of the semi-oriental stallion “133 El Bedavi XXII” and a native mare of the South Tyrolean region. In addition to this bloodline, other stallions set up in the Sarntal valley from the 19th century to the First World War also inherited noble blood via country mares in addition to draft horses from Norikers . In the cavalry of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy , Shagya Arabs in particular were widespread as officer horses. The noble blood characteristics can be emphasized by grafting. The proportion of noble blood of the Haflinger breed is limited to a minimum by breeding goal.
Crossing Haflinger mares and Arabian stallions creates Arabo Haflingers , which can be used in breeding to produce offspring with a dosed higher proportion of noble blood. As a result of a change in the herdbook , refined Haflingers with more than 1.56% but not more than 25% Arabian blood have been listed as noble Haflinger horses in Germany since 2006 .
Exterior
Characteristic is the harmoniously wacky, pleasant and sporty appearance of the horses, which is overall more filigree than that of the Haflinger and more balanced than that of the Arabo Haflinger.
The noble Haflinger breed is based on the appearance of the Haflinger. The Edelbluthaflinger are uniformly exclusively light foxes with light long hair and tail, white markings on the head are permitted, markings on the legs and gray burin hair are undesirable. They are of the type of a versatile sporty small horse with a stick size of 142 to 152 cm. Your body is characterized by balanced proportions in a long rectangular format, well muscled, well-defined withers, a medium-long, strong back, a large, sloping shoulder, sufficient chest depth and chest width with longitudinal oval ribs and a wide, well-muscled and slightly raised croup area. Your feet & legs should be dry and correct, the hooves should be hard and not too flat. The well-muscled, medium-length neck, which is typical of the Haflinger, is set somewhat low and tapers harmoniously towards the head. The slightly concavely profiled heads look noble with a short, dry and broad forehead, sufficiently wide, slightly set thighs at the neck , large, clear eyes, wide nostrils and the noticeably small and flexible ears. Her sequence of movements shows hard-working, rhythmic, expansive gaits with a recognizable floating phase in trot and gallop, with thrust from clearly footing hindquarters, forehand moving forward freely from the shoulder and loosely swinging back.
interior
The noble blood Haflinger takes over from the Haflinger both the robustness, hardness and frugality as well as the strong character, caution and surefootedness typical of pack horses and has a more balanced nature than the Arabo Haflinger. Noble Haflingers are efficient, uncomplicated, nervous, enthusiastic, sociable, alert and intelligent and should be suitable for all riding and driving disciplines, for adults as well as for children and adolescents.
Breeding history
The origin of the breed has its starting point in the refinement of heavy Haflingers in the 1960s, which were originally imported into the GDR for agricultural purposes . This breed emerged from 1956 to 1962 from a research assignment from the Animal Breeding Institute of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Prof. Dr. Hofmann, Prof. Dr. Schwark). The aim of this research assignment was the breeding of a "down-to-earth small farm horse" under the conditions of Thuringia and the Ore Mountains as a complement to the agricultural machinery used primarily on large areas. In 1956, seven broodmares, a filly and a breeding stallion from South Tyrol were introduced as the basis for breeding . The animals were stationed in what was then the teaching and experimental farm of the university in Jena- Zwatzen . In the following years another 70 mares and three stallions were acquired.
With the increasing motorization of agriculture , the small, stocky farm horses were no longer needed. Instead, the breeding work concentrated on an elegant, large-framed and versatile small horse with a special emphasis on riding horse characteristics and suitability for the leisure sector. For the targeted change of the type to the small sport and leisure horse, the proportion of Arabian blood was increased by crossing thoroughbred Arabs into some special nobility-showing mare lines, to be emphasized the E, L, N and the particularly successful U line, which in the traditional breeding associations of the Haflinger horse breed, which are concerned with maintenance breeding, met with rejection. Until 1964, Haflinger breeding was relocated to various agricultural production cooperatives, including Dornburg , Lichte and Oberpörlitz . From the horse breeding department of LPG (T) Lichte- Oberweißbach , under the direction of Dr. Sendig 1969 the Haflinger stud Meura , today the world's largest stud of a well-bred herd of mares of the breeds Edelbluthaflinger (Stud Book II) and Haflinger (Stud Book I).
In Bavaria , and here in particular in Upper Bavaria , where the Haflingers, which were imported from South Tyrol in 1928 and also from Austria in the 1930s, had a broad base in several private breeding farms in the form of a small, relatively heavy farm horse, began in the mid-1960s a parallel development. In order to enable a quick reaction to the market situation, which is radically changing in the direction of leisure activities, a decision was made here, under the responsibility of Dr. Skalla and Dr. Karnbaum, until 1994 head of the main and state stud in Schwaiganger , which had started rearing Haflinger stallions in 1947, for the dosed and controlled supply of the finishing breed Arabian thoroughbred in combination with careful selection of the required characteristics from their own stock or within the breed. Gradually, in other West German breeding associations, especially in Saarland , but also in Baden-Württemberg and Westphalia and a little later in Hesse , Holstein , Lower Saxony and the Rhineland, graft breeding began .
The supply of whole blood was largely completed by the early 1980s. At that time, the grafted Haflingers produced a large part of the winning mares, although only a tenth of the breeding base were grafted products. After Italy was established as the country of origin of the Haflinger horse breed by the European Union in November 1997 , the German Equestrian Association (FN), as the representative of all the FN-affiliated breeders' associations that keep a stud book for Haflinger horses, was able to represent the differences with the Haflinger breeding associations the Italian National Association and the South Tyrolean Haflinger Horse Breeding Association, in August 2003. As a result of this agreement, independent stud books and stud books of the officially recognized noble blood Haflinger breed will be included in the FN's breeding association regulations from 2006. The ox percentage of a horse to be registered can be traced back over six generations and is given with the usual data of the animal when breeding or selling. The breeders have joined the Edelbluthaflinger e. V. merged.
Today the Edelbluthaflinger is bred in all breeders' associations in Germany, Switzerland and also in South Tyrol and is a popular sport, riding, driving and leisure horse that is widespread throughout Central Europe. In 2007 there were 50 stallions registered, in 2008 around 2,260 broodmares.
In Austria there is no comparable breeding and stud book for the Edelbluthaflinger breed. Horses with the corresponding ox percentage can either be entered in preliminary book II of the stud book of the Haflinger breed or as Arab Haflinger , alternatively, care by a German breeding association is possible according to EU law.
