Moravian Warmblood
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| Other names | Czech: Moravský teplokrevník |
| Country of origin | Czechoslovakia |
| Distribution | Moravia, Czech Republic |
| Standard | SCHPMT (in Czech) |
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The Moravian Warmblood (Czech: Moravský teplokrevník) is a Czech modern breed of warmblood horse.[2]
History
The Moravian Warmblood derives from the various half-blood horse breeds of the area of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire – the Furioso, the Gidran, the Nonius, the North Star, the Przedswit, the Shagya Arab and the Star of Hanover – as well as the Catalin strain developed from 1927 at the stud of Motešice, now in Slovakia.[3]: 459 [4] From 1920 to 1971 these horses constituted a separate population – the Moravian Warmblood – but from 1971 they were registered in the stud-book of the Czech Warmblood, which also held many cross-breeds of Czechoslovak warmblood horses with imported foreign breeds such as the Trakehner.[5]: 2
Efforts to re-establish the Moravian Warmblood as a separate breed began in 1996.[5]: 2 A breed society, the Society of Breeders and Friends of the Moravian Warmblood (Czech: Svaz chovatelů a příznivců moravského teplokrevníka), was officially approved by the Czech ministry of agriculture in 2004,[4] and a stud-book was opened in the same year.[3]: 459 [2]
A total of 150 mares and 12 stallions had been identified as suitable for inclusion in the new stud-book; of these, 67 mares and 10 stallions were registered in 2004.[6] By 2011 the total registered stock had grown to 280 head, including 167 brood-mares and 22 stallions at stud.[6] In 2025 there were 600 horses in all, with a breeding stock of 36 stallions and 266 mares; the conservation status of the breed was listed as 'at risk/critical'.[2]
In 2018 the Moravian Warmblood was found to be genetically more distant from the Czech Warmblood than was the Kinsky Horse, which had had its own stud-book since 2005.[7]: 81
Characteristics
Heights at the withers are in the range 159 to 165 cm for mares and about 161 to 167 cm for stallions and geldings.[6] The coat is usually bay; chestnut, black and grey also occur.[6]
Use
The horses may used both for riding and in harness.[6]
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c d Breed data sheet: Moravsky teplokrevnik / Czechia (Horse). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed August 2025.
- ^ a b Valerie Porter, Lawrence Alderson, Stephen J.G. Hall, D. Phillip Sponenberg (2016). [https://books.google.it/books?id=2UEJDAAAQBAJ Mason's World Encyclopedia of Livestock Breeds and Breeding] (sixth edition). Wallingford: CABI. ISBN 9781780647944.
- ^ a b Historie moravského teplokrevníka (in Czech). Kroměříž: Society of Breeders and Friends of the Moravian Warmblood. Archived 10 August 2025.
- ^ a b Lenka Štohlová Putnová, Radek Štohl (2021). The assignment success for 22 horse breeds registered in the Czech Republic: The machine learning perspective. Czech Journal of Animal Science. 66 (01): 1–12. doi:10.17221/120/2020-CJAS.
- ^ a b c d e Historie moravského teplokrevníka (in Czech). Kroměříž: Society of Breeders and Friends of the Moravian Warmblood. Archived 10 August 2025.
- ^ Lenka Štohlová Putnová, Radek Štohl, I. Vrtková (2018). Genetic monitoring of horses in the Czech Republic: A large-scale study with a focus on the Czech autochthonous breeds. Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics. 135 (1): 73–83. doi:10.1111/jbg.12313.