Warm blood, Cold blood and Hot blood in Horses

Have you ever heard about warm blood in horses? If someone in your stable or barn says ‘This horse has a great stamina, it must be a warmblood horse”. Well, what does that mean? Since all horses are mammals and as we know it is physiologically warm-blooded, the designations do not initially make sense. Actually, these informal terms used to different breed loosely by their temperament. Arab and thoroughbred usually belong to hot-blooded horse as they tend be a bit more nervous and energetic than another horse. Cold-blooded horse encompass the draft breeds. If you join management of cat, dog and horse class, this term has been mentioned as a group of horse by its size. Cold-blooded horse breeds such as Pecherons, Shires and Belgian. The body size has large boned and heavy-bodied. These horse usually used to carry stuff or do some agricultural works. These horse selected belong to its calmer temperament.

By crossing hot-blooded and cold-blooded horse, there borned a warm-blooded horse. The warm-blooded horse borned to get a horse with energetic body and calm temperament Many countries develepoded these strains horse and use to riding and carriages. Dutch warmblood and Hanoverian are two example of the horse. The warm-blooded horse has an ability to move more athelitically than the heavier draft breeds. Warmbloods are often the type of choice for many disciplines such as dressage, driving and eventing.

Reference:

Equine News and Press of Kentucky College Research.

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