Russian Trakehner

[JoBo]

Russian Trakehner

Has anyone ever owned/owns one? What is yours like? Are they typical of the breed?

I can’t tell you any details yet but all will be reviled at a later date.

Thanks,
Jo

 

[woolly]

We had one at the yard Imported over. Was an amazing mover ( bought for Prix St George potential) she was 3 and absolutely floated. Developed OCD of the hock and was sold as a branded loss of use. Nice natured creature.

 

[custard]

Have not owned one, sadly, but kept Willow with a RT mare some while back. She was exquisitely pretty, a horse to die for with a loving temperament but seriously hot! You can't generalise though, what's happening?

 

[tabithakat64]

Don't think you can generalise, a girl at our yard imported a lovely looking gelding, he was very fizzy and a little unpredictable.

 

[Nickijem]

I have a Trakehner but not a Russian one - he was bred in Germany.
He is the most level headed gentleman you could wish for. I love him to bits even though I nearly didn't buy him because he was too tall (17.1hh) and grey -too much horse to keep clean. Thank goodness I gave him a chance and had him on trial - he has the nicest nature you can imagine and has lovely paces - his trot floats on air.
I could go on ...
Hope the Russian Trakehners are similar.
This is my lovely boy, Jerry:

 

[lucretia]

actually Jo russian traks are very typical of the breed because that is where they originally came from! tere was a book no doubt out of print now but one of the horsey book shops might get it for you second hand allabout it.
it is a long time since i read it but apparently the breed id descened from the prussian calvaly horse. there wasnt much trade betwen the prussian empire and the rest of the world so though of originally TB, arab and barb descent, they had mostly been developed in the area as a specific type. abit like how the Selle francais came about though ther was no real stud book as such.
after the revolution a group of these horses and their riders set out to reach what is now western europe. travellling through the winter they endured enormous hard ship, the horses were lightweight galloping sorts not cut out for feats of endurance and when they arrived evryone was so impressed that they bred more from the survivors and mixed them a bit with a few of their own strains and a breed was born.
i think that is where the word trahkener (apologies for spelling) is from. because they were bred for galloping it is the one warm blood breeed that does event successfully.
it was a long time since i read the book but it was great and i never forgot it. it wasnt a story, more like a refernce book if you decide to look for it.