It has been said that the Trakehner has everything everybody is looking for in a performance horse and if you look at the breed's list of attributes it is easy to see why.

Best of all, they have an ideal temperament - keen and alert, yet level-headed and able to take intense work. They have a willingness to work and due to their intelligence they learn extremely quickly. The Trakehner, is the warmblood closest to the British ideal of the modern competition and riding horse, whose upgrading influence of bloodlines is evident in most of the continental sports horse breeds today. The popularity of this breed is growing at an outstanding rate.

The first Trakehners were imported into Great Britain in 1960 by the Muschamp Stud and since that time they have steadily gained in popularity and have won the hearts of many enthusiasts. 

Today the Trakehner Breeders' Fraternity (TBF) are the controlling body in the UK, licensed by the Trakehner Verband GmbH in Germany to register, grade and brand horses in the main stud book with the distinctive double Elk horn brand with the inverted 'V' beneath to denote "British Bred". 

More recently a Stud Book brand and registration brand has been available to brand horses registered in the stud book preliminary register and part bred stud book.

The Trakehner is the "Thoroughbred" of warmblood breeds, it is more closely related to the Thoroughbred than other German breeds having had major influence in the stud book from the English Thoroughbred and to a lesser degree, the Arab and Anglo Arab. Due to selective breeding the Trakehner has retained the best Thoroughbred qualities while keeping its own special character and "type". The "Lloyds Bank Black Horse" is a Black Trakehner Stallion'.

WHY CHOOSE A TRAKEHNER? The Trakehner Stallion is one of the most valuable sires used to improve and upgrade stock from mares whose owners want to breed a competition horse (or just a wonderfully reliable friend) from their mare.  Whether the mare is of Thoroughbred origin or from a native breed, all have proved to cross extremely well with the Trakehner, bringing better movement, beauty and without fail, a good temperament to the offspring

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Driving

In the driving world, Karen Bassett and her team of black Trakehners became Britain's National Champion and the worlds leading lady 4-in-hand driver in 1995.


Show Jumping
There are also numerous successful part-bred horses with Trakehner blood including the famous show jumper Milton. 

Trakehners today are in the Olympic Teams for all disciplines - dressage, Show Jumping, eventing as well as winning Long Distance Riding and Driving events.

Trakehners are addictive, once you have had one, your hooked! They are just" very nice people", so willing to please and a pleasure to own

Photographs and article kindly supplied by Susan Attew of Holme Trakehners - British Breeders of Champion Trakehner Horses

FURTHER INFORMATION

Susan Attew
"HOLME TRAKEHNERS"
Holme Grove Farm,
Biggleswade
Beds. SG18 9ST UK.
Tel:    01767 600333 (office)  01462 743206 (home)
Fax: 01767 317945  Mobile: 07803 271110
Email: SusanAttew@holmetrakehners.com
Web Site: www.holmetrakehners.com

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