- American Warmblood -

Americans are known around the world for being competitive and when they saw how successful the various continental European warmbloods were in competitive equestrian disciplines, particularly show-jumping and dressage, in was only natural that they want to establish their own Warmblood horse.

They imported high-class European warmbloods and in the early 1980s started the American Warmblood Society, with the goal of creating a superior performance warmblooded horse in the US of A. As a warmblood, though, they could technically be anything other than one hundred percent hot blood or one hundred percent coldblood, and the Americans could introduce into their embryonic breed almost anything, from heavy horse breeds to almost completely Arabian or Thoroughbred, which gives them an amazing selection of genes. It seems that it will be a long time before a recognizable breed emerges, but the rest of the world can be sure that whatever animal comes out from under the banner of American Warmblood in the future, it will certainly be able to excel in competition.

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