In the 1960s, a stud book for the Danish Sports Horse, now known as the Danish Warmblood, was opened. The breed is a product of crossing mares of [usually] Frederiksborg/Thoroughbred origin with stallions of various breeds: Anglo-Norman, Thoroughbred, and Trakehner, as well as Polish horses, like those once generally known as Malapolski and Wielkopolski.¹

The Danish Warmblood is naturally balanced and excels at dressage and cross country events. It has a quality head, a long, well set-on neck, good shoulders with prominent withers, a muscular back and loins, a long croup, strong limbs with long forearms, well-defined joints and good bone.²



I’ve found that it is very difficult to find information about the Danish Warmblood. I’ve visited the breed association’s web site, which did not tell anything about the horse as far as I could tell. Fortunately, I found a good web site representing a Danish Warmblood farm in Louisiana–Oak Hill Ranch. They breed and sell Danish Warmbloods.

Resources for Danish Warmblood

1. Elwyn Hartley Edwards. The Ultimate Horse Book. Dorling Kindersley, Inc. 1991. P 90.
2. Judith Draper. The Book of Horses and Horse Care–An encyclopedia of horses, and a comprehensive guide to horse and pony care. Barnes & Noble, Inc. 1998. P 36.

This article was originally published between 1997 and 2002.


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