Zangersheide

Zangersheide
B-Once Z ridden by Katharina Offel at Wiesbaden in 2013
Conservation status
Country of originBelgium
Useshow-jumping
Brand of the Zangersheide stud

The Zangersheide is a Belgian breed or stud-book of warmblood sport horses. It is one of three Belgian warmblood breeds or stud-books, the others being the Belgian Sport Horse and the Belgian Warmblood.

It is bred at the stud of the same name near Lanaken, in the province of Limburg in eastern Flanders, close to the Dutch border. Breeding and selection are directed at performance in show-jumping.[3]: 166 

History

The Zangersheide stud was established in the 1970s, with the aim of breeding and selecting horses on the basis of their performance in show-jumping. A stud-book was started in 1992[4]: 444  or 1993; registered animals have a Z suffixed to their names.[3]: 166  Registration is based on selection for show-jumping performance, and the stud-book is open to any breed of performance horse; it includes horses of Thoroughbred, Hanoverian, Holsteiner and Selle Français origin.[3]: 166 

In 2014, the breeding stock amounted to some 2700 animals, of which 340 were stallions.[2] In 2019 its conservation status was reported to DAD-IS as 'at risk'.[2] Gem Twist Alpha Z (b. 2012), a clone of the Thoroughbred show jumping gelding Gem Twist, was exported to Belgium and registered with the Zangersheide studbook to help promote breeding.[5][6]

An older clone of Gem Twist, Gemini CL (b. 2008), was previously used to cover Zangersheide mares via artificial insemination (AI).[7]

Ranking

In the show jumping ranking published by the World Breeding Federation for Sport Horses (WBFSH) and the Fédération Équestre Internationale (FEI) in May 2019, the Zangersheide stud was in second place after the Dutch Koninklijk Warmbloed Paardenstamboek Nederland (KWPN), more commonly known as the Dutch Warmblood.[8]

References

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  2. ^ a b c Breed data sheet: Zangersheide / Belgium (Horse). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed July 2019.
  3. ^ a b c Élise Rousseau, Yann Le Bris, Teresa Lavender Fagan (2017). Horses of the World. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691167206.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "Gem Twist Alpha xx Z". Horse Telex Pedigree. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  6. ^ "Gem Twist clone introduced to public". Equnews. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  7. ^ "Offspring of Gemini CL". Horse Telex Pedigree. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  8. ^ WBFSH/Longines World Ranking List – Studbooks – Jumping: Ranking: 31/05/2019 (included validated FEI results from 01/10/2018 to 31/05/2019). World Breeding Federation for Sport Horses. Accessed July 2019.