Origin: France.
Height: 15-16.2hh.
Color: Solid colors.
This is an attractive, strongly-built lightweight with a kind, intelligent disposition. Nowadays it is used as a hunter, for which function it is greatly praised; but it was popular previously as a cavalry remount and artillery horse.
The Charollais Halfbred owes its quality to Thoroughbred and Anglo-Norman blood. It is bred along almost identical lines with the Nivernais and Bourbonnais Halfbreds, and these three types are so similar that they are usually known collectively as the Demi-Sang Charollais.
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