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The Klepper is now known as
the Torijski breed. It is newer, since it was recognized in the year 1950.
Its homeland is in the Estonian republic of the formal USSR and now
independent state. The work in the creation of the Klepper breed consisted
of complex crossbreeding methods whose objective was to produce a draft
horse with very good and lively gaits. The Estonian horses were crossbred
with stallions of the riding type, Arabian halfbloods, German halfbloods,
and the draft type horses. Therefore, the Klepper has mostly the blood of
the warmblooded horses and less of the coldbloods. One of the most active
stallions in the development of the breed was the stallion Chetman, who left
after him self a great amount of descendants.
From the year 1936 the
Estonian horses were crossbred with Percherons, the French post Bretons with
good movements and sufficient massiveness. The leading role in the
establishment of this new breed, which gained quickly in popularity, had the
Tori stud farm and other establishments for the breed of horses.
The noticeable exterior
characteristics of the Klepper horse include a massive head, which is often
“Roman”, long neck, non profound withers, wide, round chest, long torso,
long hind quarters, short legs with weaker flat hoofs. The color is chestnut
and bay. The horses have lively temperament, excellent at work and
undemanding in feeding. The breeding work must still go through further
solidifying of the best-selected types. The Klepper stallions are excellent
improvers of the agricultural horse, they are/were exported to Novgorod,
Pskov and Leningrad regions.
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