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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 Gelderlander ! You are here: Terrific-Horses.com > Horse Breeds > Gelderlander Book Search: Gelderlander Description The Gelderlander originated from the Netherlands in the Gelderland province between Apeldoorn and Arnhem about a century ago. These Dutch breeders in the Gelderland province wanted to produce a carriage horse that could also be a heavy riding horse or light agricultural workhorse with equable temperament. They started with the common native mares and used a variety of sires: Roadsters, Arabians, Anglo-Arabians, Nonius, Furioso, Oldenburgers, East Prussians, Cleveland Bays, half-breds from the UK and Hungary, and a few Orlov and Orlov-Rastopchin Trotters. The best of the bunch were interbred to produce a fixed type. More Oldenburgers and East Friesans were brought in a little later and Hackney was also added in the 1900s. Since that time there has also been some influence with Anglo-Norman blood.The modern Gelderlander is usually chestnut in color but can be gray sometimes with markings on the face and legs. This horse is a great carriage horse and has a superior rhythmic action with the tail carried high. The Gelderlander is powerful and has short, strong limbs. The head is plain and can be a straight or slightly convex profile and the neck is long and curved. The back is fairly long in proportion to the frame and the quarters are straight in the croup. The Gelderlander stands on average about 16.2 hh. These horses are still used as weight carrying and riding horses. The Gelderlander’s are very successful in international competitions for driving events and are reliable show jumpers, although not very fast. Google Ads

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