Swiss Warmblood
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- Swiss Saddle Horse
- CH-Warmblut
- Schweizer Warmblut
- Neue Einsiedler
- Demi-Sang CH
- Demi-Sang Suisse
- Cavallo della Svizzera
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| Country of origin | Switzerland |
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| Colour | usually chestnut, less often bay; black and other colours also occur[3]: 202 |
The Swiss Warmblood or Schweizer Warmblut is a modern Swiss breed of warmblood sport horse.[4]: 506 It was created in the mid-twentieth century by merger of the Einsiedler – which had been bred for centuries at the Benedictine Monastery of Einsiedeln in the Canton of Schwyz – with the Swiss Halfblood and with traditional local breeds including the Ajoie, the Erlenbacher and the Entlebucher. It is sometimes known as the Neue Einsiedler.[5]: 300 The Swiss Warmblood is bred at the Swiss National Stud Farm at Avenches, in the Canton of Vaud.
The Swiss Warmblood was created in the mid-twentieth century by merger of the Einsiedler – which had been bred for centuries at the Benedictine Monastery of Einsiedeln in the Canton of Schwyz – with the Swiss Halfblood and with traditional local breeds including the Ajoie, the Erlenbacher and the Entlebucher. Those individual breeds effectively ceased to exist and are now listed as extinct.[5]: 300 [6] A stud-book was started in 1950.[2] In the 1960s use was made of a number of foreign stallions, among them three Anglo-Normans named Ivoire, Orinate de Messil and Que d'Espair, the Holsteiners Astral and Chevalier, and a Swedish Warmblood called Aladin;[7]: 134 thereafter the stallions used were mostly Swiss.[4]: 506 [8]: 71
From 2010 to 2012 the number of annual registrations in the stud-book was approximately 750. In 2017 the total population was estimated at 9000–10000, with 750 breeding mares and 77 stallions.[2] In 2023 the conservation status of the breed was listed in the DAD-IS database of the FAO as 'at risk/endangered'.[2]
