Romanian Sport Horse

The Romanian Sport Horse or Romanian Saddle Horse, Romanian: Cal de sport romanesc, is a Romanian breed of light riding horse. It was bred from 1962 from a variety of other breeds including Arab, Furioso-North Star, Gidran, Romanian Trotter and Thoroughbred.[3]: 498  It is used as a carriage horse, for riding, for showing and as a sport horse.[3]: 498  In competition, it may be used in dressage, in show-jumping or in the three-day event.[2]: 244 

Romanian Sport Horse
Conservation statusFAO (2007): critical[1]: 94 
Other names
  • Romanian: Cal de sport romanesc
  • Romanian Saddle Horse
  • Romanian Warmblood[2]: 244 
Country of originRomania
Traits
Height
  • 157–162 cm[3]: 498 
Colourdark colours, roan[3]: 498 

References
  1. Barbara Rischkowsky, D. Pilling (eds.) (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: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 9789251057629. Accessed January 2017.
  2. Élise Rousseau, Yann Le Bris, Teresa Lavender Fagan (2017). Horses of the World. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691167206.
  3. 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.
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