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Country of origin | Denmark |
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Use | riding, driving, circus |
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Colour | any but piebald or palomino; often spotted[2] |
The Knabstrupper or Knabstrup is a Danish breed of warmblood horse. It is principally a riding horse, but is also used as a harness horse and as a circus animal.[6]: 64 It is broadly similar to the Frederiksborger, but often has a spotted coat. In the past, injudicious breeding for this characteristic alone compromised its constitution and conformation.[7][8] In the years after the Second World War the mechanisation of agriculture led to a sharp fall in numbers, and by the 1960s no more than 100 of the horses remained.[9] In the twenty-first century it is an endangered breed, with a world-wide population estimated at little over 2000.[2]
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