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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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