German Riding Pony
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The German Riding Pony or Deutsches Reitpony is a modern German breed of pony or small horse of warmblood type. It is a composite of several horse or pony breeds including the Anglo-Arab, the Arab, the Connemara, the Dülmener, the New Forest Pony and the Welsh Pony. These were selectively bred with the aim of developing a small athletic riding horse with the qualities of the principal German warmbloods.[4]: 468 Heights are in the range 137–147 cm[4]: 468 or 141–148 cm.[3] It constitutes about 5.7% of the horse population of Germany.[5]: 354
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- ^ 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.
- ^ Breed data sheet: Deutsches Reitpony / Germany (Horse). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed October 2024.
- ^ a b Pferd: Deutsches Reitpony (in German). Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung. Accessed October 2024.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Alfons Willam, Henner Simianer (2017 [2011]). Tierzucht (second edition, in German). Stuttgart: Verlag Eugen Ulmer. ISBN 9783825248055.