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User Login Email: Password:    » Forgot Password?  » New Member Sign Up Visitors Online: Today's Visits: Yesterday's Visits: Horses Menu Home Horses For Sale Welcome to Friesian ! You are here: Terrific-Horses.com > Horse Breeds > Friesian Book Search: Friesian Description The Friesian, a coldblood, is bred in the north of the Netherlands on sea-girt Friesland. This horse is a descendant of the ancient Forest Horse of Europe. In Holland it is admired as much today as in the past. The Romans used the Friesian as a strong working horse. These horses carried the Friesian and German knights to the Crusades almost a thousand years later. During the Eighty Years' War when Spain occupied the Netherlands there was crossbreeding with Andalusian blood which helped improve the breed. The Friesian is considered to be a great looking horse with strength, passivity, and stamina. The Friesian was often used as a funeral horse to pull the funeral car because of their black coat, presence, and notable action. The Friesian was much sought after and also was used to perform in the circus ring. It is a wonderful saddle, harness, and farm horse and for this reason was used to improve the qualities of other breeds of horses. Some of these breeds were Oldenburg, Dales and Fell Ponies, Old English Black, Norwegian Dole Gudbrandsal and England's Great Horse now called the Shire. Google Ads

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