Belgian Sport Horse

Belgian Sport Horse

Rêveur de Hurtebise [fr] ridden by Kevin Staut at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro
Uchin van de Centaur, an SBS
Conservation status	FAO (2007): not at risk[1]: 9
Other names	sBs Belgian Halfblood Belgian Halfbred Belgisch Sportpaard Cheval de Sport Belge[2] Demi-Sang Belge
Country of origin	Belgium
Distribution	southern Belgium, Wallonia
Traits
Height	162 cm[3]: 444  158–180 cm[4]: 164
Equus ferus caballus

The Belgian Sport Horse, Dutch: Belgisch Sportpaard, French: Cheval de Sport Belge, is a Belgian breed of warmblood sport horse. It is one of three Belgian warmblood breeds or stud-books, the others being the Belgian Warmblood and the Zangersheide. It is bred for dressage, for show-jumping and for three-day eventing.[4]: 164 

History

The Belgian Sport Horse has its origins in the early twentieth century, when warmblood horses were bred by cross-breeding imported Selle Français and Thoroughbred stallions with local animals of the Belgian Draught breed, with the intention of producing cavalry horses.[3]: 444  Later influences were from Selle Français, Dutch Warmblood and Hanoverian. A breed society, La Société d'Encouragement pour l'Elevage du Cheval d'Armes, was established in 1920;[5] from about 1930 the principal aim was to breed horses for leisure use[3]: 444  and the name Société du Cheval de Demi-sang Belge was adopted.[5] In 1967 it became a royal society, with the name Société Royale du Cheval de Demi-sang Belge.[3]: 444 

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. Breed data sheet: Cheval de Sport Belge / Belgium (Horse). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed July 2019.
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.
4. Élise Rousseau, Yann Le Bris, Teresa Lavender Fagan (2017). Horses of the World. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691167206.
5. Du Cheval d'Armes aux réseaux sociaux (in French). SBS Studbook. Accessed July 2019.

External links

• SBS Studbook