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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 Soviet Heavy Draft ! You are here: Terrific-Horses.com > Horse Breeds > Soviet Heavy Draft Book Search: Soviet Heavy Draft Description The Soviet Heavy Draft originated in the Khrenov stud where they where developed in the 1880s and 1890s and later also at the Pochinkozsk stud in the Gorki region. To develop the Soviet Heavy Draft the native horses where bred with Belgian Brabancon Draft stallions. Percheron, Suffolk, Danish, and Ardennes also influenced the breed. The Soviet Heavy Draft was recognized as a heavy Draft breed in 1952. The Soviet Heavy Draft is a draft horse that is an excellent utility horse. This horse can compete in draft events such as the walk pull, trot pull, and endurance pull. The Soviet Heavy Draft horses are heavily boned and muscled with a clean-cut head, broad chest, and long back. This horse matures quickly and is a good milk and meat producer. The main studs that are still breeding are the Mordovian stud farm and the Pochikovsk stud. Google Ads

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