Tori (horse)
| Tori (horse) | |
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Tori, original breeding direction |
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| Important data | |
| Origin: | Tori / Estonia |
| Main breeding area: | Estonia |
| Distribution: | low |
| Stick measure : | 1.62 - 1.68 m |
| Colors : | mainly foxes, but also black, bay and Isabell |
| Main application area: | Riding horse, agriculture |
The Tori horse, also Torgel's horse , is an Estonian horse breed that is based on the Estonian Klepper .
Background information on horse evaluation and breeding can be found under: Exterior , interior and horse breeding .
Exterior
There are two types of tori, type A, drawn more for agricultural work (referred to as TA in the studbooks), which is on the borderline between heavy warmblood and light cold blood, and type B, drawn more as a light carriage and sport horse (in the stud books TB), which corresponds to a normal warm blood.
Since 2012 the third breeding direction Vana-Tori (Alt-Tori) has been equipped with its own stud book . This represents the pure-bred type of the Tori horse before 1945. The stud book of the old Tori horses only allows a foreign blood proportion of 25% (exclusively old Hanoverians) and is therefore most likely geared towards maintaining a gene pool. The studbook identifier is VT.
interior
The Tori combines great endurance and traction as well as good feed conversion, longevity and high fertility - breeding goals that existed from the beginning of breeding.
Breeding history
The breeding of the tori began when the Livonian knighthood on Gut Tori (German: Torgel) set up a stud to raise horse breeding, especially for the needs of the peasant class . As a basis, they tried to buy 100 Estonian Klepper mares, but this already ran into problems, as only 50 suitable mares could be found. A further 50 mares were then bought in Finland in the hope of finding an adequate replacement in the Finnish Klepper . This hope was not to be fulfilled. The Finnish mares were subsequently excluded again due to unsatisfactory breeding results. The biggest problem, however, was to find suitable stallions. Since most of the colts were castrated very early by the farmers because they were easier to handle, it was not possible to find enough suitable stallions. Therefore, half of the breeding was done with small stallions and half with Arabs . This cross also turned out to be insufficient as the results of this breed were too easy for agriculture. As a result, Ardennes stallions , English half-bloods , East Frisians and Orlov trotters were introduced into breeding, before a suitable stallion was found in 1894 in the Polish stallion Hetman , who is considered the progenitor of modern Tori breeding. Since the strong inbreeding on Hetman led to problems, attempts were made to counteract it by cross-crossing East Frisians and finally five post stallions . After Estonian horse breeding had declined sharply in World War II, it was rebuilt under Soviet direction and the Tori horse was registered as an independent breed in 1950 and the stud book was published in 1951. Due to a lack of demand from agriculture, attempts have been made since the 1960s to increasingly breed the tori horse into a sport horse - especially for show jumping. For this purpose, horses from twelve different European sport horse breeds were approved, including Hanoverian, Holstein, English thoroughbred, Trakehner, KWPN, Oldenburger.
See also
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- Jasper Nissen: Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds . Kosmos 1999, ISBN 3-440-07137-5 .
- CG Wrangel : The Breeds of the Horse . Schickhardt & Ebner, Stuttgart 1909.
