The Russian Heavy Draught Horse
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Almost eliminated in the First World War, the Russian Heavy Draught has since been re-established as a breed. With their kind temperament and fast walking and trotting gait, these horses are popular riding animals. |
| Origin: Ukraine. | |
| Colour: mostly chestnut, strawberry roan, or bay. | |
| Height: around 14.2 and 14.3hh. | |
| Conformation: the head is average size, clean cut, with Oriental breediness; the forehead is wide and the profile is straight. The neck is short, broad, fleshy and high crested in stallions. The withers are low and broad; the back is long, broad, often somewhat soft; the croup is long, drooping; the loin is flat. The chest is deep and broad; the ribs are steeply sloping. The front legs are short, set too far apart; the pasterns are sometimes short and ringboned. The knee-joints are often too far back. | |
| Character: very willing disposition. | |
| Uses: Draughtwork. | |
