Hanoverian Horse

Origin: West Germany – Hanover and Lower Saxony.

Height: 15.3-17 h h.

Color: All solid colors.

Character: Indomitable, courageous animal, intelligent, well-mannered, and versatile.

Physique: Somewhat plain head with a straight face and intelligent eye, well set on a strong neck. Excellent shoulders; powerful, deep-chested body with broad, strong loins and rounded, muscular quarters. The tail set on high and carried well. Legs short and strong, short in the pasterns, and hocks well let down, and flexible. Action straight and showy. A strong, compact horse of good conformation and excellent balance.

Balance, brain, and power combine to make the Hanoverian a top-class dressage horse and showjumper, and in these two fields today it justly commands very high prices. Besides its natural aptitude for sporting events -it is also an excellent hunter – it seems to have a genuine love of the game and sometimes an appealing sense of showmanship.

The Men’s WorldShowjumping Championship, a quadrennial event, was won in 1974 by Hartwig Steenken of West Germany riding his great liver chestnut Hanoverian mare, Simona, whose capacity to capture an audience was apparent to her. The enormous fences were approached with nonchalance, cleared with a flippant flick of the tail in mid-air, left behind with a show of her yellow teeth that seemed an almost human grin of delight. Simona was 16 at the time, an age at which most sporting horses have long been retired from competition.

Hanoverians have been bred since the 17th century, and are one of the oldest of the German warm-blooded breeds. They descend from the famous Hanoverian Creams, also called Isabellas after the Queen of Spain, which were bred under British royal patronage at the LandgestOt at Celle in Hanover and were used as carriage horses for ceremonial purposes. The British royal family of the time was Hanoverian by birth – George I of England was formerly George, Elector of Hanover. Hanoverian Creams were used for British royal processions from the reign of George I to George V when they were replaced by the Windsor Greys.

The present-day Hanoverian has been modified by Thoroughbred andTrakehner blood. commands very high prices. Besides its natural aptitude for sporting events -it is also an excellent hunter – it seems to have a genuine love of the game and sometimes an appealing sense of showmanship.

The Men’s WorldShowjumping Championship, a quadrennial event, was won in 1974 by Hartwig Steenken of West Germany riding his great liver chestnut Hanoverian mare, Simona, whose capacity to capture an audience was apparent to her. The enormous fences were approached with nonchalance, cleared with a flippant flick of the tail in mid-air, left behind with a show of her yellow teeth that seemed an almost human grin of delight. Simona was 16 at the time, an age at which most sporting horses have long been retired from competition.

Hanoverians have been bred since the 17th century, and are one of the oldest of the German warm-blooded breeds. They descend from the famous Hanoverian Creams, also called Isabellas after the Queen of Spain, which were bred under British royal patronage at the LandgestOt at Celle in Hanover and were used as carriage horses for ceremonial purposes. The British royal family of the time was Hanoverian by birth – George I of England was formerly George, Elector of Hanover. Hanoverian Creams were used for British royal processions from the reign of George I to George V when they were replaced by the Windsor Greys.

The present-day Hanoverian has been modified by Thoroughbred andTrakehner blood.

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