Ukrainian Riding Horse

Ukrainian Riding Horse
On a Ukrainian postage stamp, 2005
Conservation status
  • FAO (2007): not at risk: 118 
  • DAD-IS (2019): at risk
Other names
  • Ukrainian: украї́нський верхови́й кінь
  • Ukrayínskyy Verkhovýy Kin
  • Ukrainian: украї́нська верхова́
  • Ukrayínska Verkhová
  • Ukrainian Saddle Horse
Country of originUkraine
Distributionthroughout the country
Use
Traits
Height
  • Male:
    average: 165 cm: 310 
  • Female:
    average: 160 cm: 310 
Colourdark colours: 510 

The Ukrainian Riding Horse (Ukrainian: украї́нський верхови́й кінь) or Ukrainian Saddle Horse is a modern Ukrainian breed of warmblood sport horse. Breeding began in the years after the Second World War at the stud farm of Dnipropetrovsk in central Ukraine – at that time in the USSR – and later expanded to three other state stud farms. It derives from cross-breeding of Hanoverian, Thoroughbred and Trakehner stallions with local mares or with Hungarian Furioso, Gidran Arab or Nonius mares. It incorporates the last bloodlines of the extinct Orlov-Rostopchin or Russian Saddle Horse.: 115  It was bred to compete in show jumping, three-day eventing and dressage, but is also suitable as a general riding horse.: 250 

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