Identifiering och analys av importerade ridhästar i Sverige
As the purpose of horses and riding in Sweden has changed, the breeding has been adapted to the market. In order to develop the Swedish Warmblood horse (SWB), some of the horses used for breeding have been imported from other countries. Horses are also imported for sport purposes, and as these horse...
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| Formato: | First cycle, G2E |
| Lenguaje: | sueco sueco |
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2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/14255/ |
| Sumario: | As the purpose of horses and riding in Sweden has changed, the breeding has been adapted to the market. In order to develop the Swedish Warmblood horse (SWB), some of the horses used for breeding have been imported from other countries. Horses are also imported for sport purposes, and as these horses can be presumed to be selected for their performance, the genetic evaluation of their fathers may be biased. A previous study has shown that stallions with a large proportion of imported offspring were overvalued, but no consideration was taken to which studbook the horses came from. All horses today have a UELN, a unique ID number, which makes it easier to identify horses across countries. The purpose of this study was to identify imported warmblooded riding horses to find out their country and studbook of origin and to compare performance of horses from different studbooks.
The data with 7981 horses were provided from SWB. The horses had results from young horse performance test or competition and were born from 2001. After the horses were identified, the average of points as promising dressage and show jumping horse from young horse performance test and average of champion points from competition was calculated for each studbook. T-test was performed to see if there were significant differences between studbooks.
The result showed that the horses were imported from 73 different studbooks. The twelve studbooks with more than 100 horses were used in the analyzes. Due too incorrect UELN there were 1338 horses that could not be included in the analyzes. Most horses were imported from Germany but the studbook with most horses was the Dutch Koninklijk Warmbloed Paardenstamboek Nederland (KWPN). Horses from Verband der Zuchter des Oldenburger Pferdes (OLDBG OL), Hannoveraner Verband e.V (HANN), Landscentret Heste (LCH) and Westfalisches Pferdestammbuch e.V (WESTF) performed best as a dressage horse in young horse performance test and competition. Horses from Springpferdezuchtverband Oldenburg International e.V (OLDBG OS), Studbook Zangersheide (SBZ), Verband der Zuchter des Holsteiner Pferdes (HV) and Belgisch Warmbloedpaard vzw (BWP) performed best as show jumping horses in young horse performance test and competition. There were significant differences between studbooks for young horse performance test. In competition there were only significant differences between studbooks in show jumping, not in dressage or eventing. This could be due to the lower participation in the latter two disciplines.
The studbooks with best performance results and with the most horses had breeding goals which showed several similarities with SWB’s breeding goal. That similarities together with the results, showed that the main studbooks probably are suitable for SWB breeding. In order to get a clearer picture of the studbooks, it would be good to know how many horses without results in young horse performance test or in competition that were imported from the studbooks.
The conclusion of the study was that the studbooks with performance-strong horses may prove suitable for SWB’s breeding. To make the assumption stronger, the identified associations should be compared with SWB. |
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