French saddle

The horse of French Selle (SF) is an equine race.

Origins

The race French Saddle with the characteristic to be extremely composite: it comes from very many crossings (races Normans, Arabic, Norfolk-Roadster, Dutch, etc). However, one can say without too much simplifying, that the race are mainly resulting from crossings between horses Normands, Vendéens, Charolais, Center, and English Pur-sang. The official statute of the French Saddle was defined only in 1958.

General aspect

The French Saddle are often of dress (color) sometimes gray bai or chestnut horse but. They can be of all sizes, but the majority exceed 1,65 m and can exceptionally measure to 1,85 Mr.

Improvements

French the Selle horses are mainly selected for their aptitudes for the Saut of obstacles. As the course of jump of obstacles are increasingly technical for the same heights of obstacles, the horses must be increasingly sharp and reagents while preserving their power. When they have much blood English Pur-sang, they are also very competitive in complete contest (the CEC).

In order to adapt the French Saddle to the requirements of the modern competition, the stockbreeders try to insufflate blood to them all in their preserving a powerful model, thanks to the crossings with horses having much blood (English thorough-bred or anglo Arab). Such crossings are required to take part in the competitions of horse-races of obstacle (Hedge, Steeple-Chase) and the horses enter then a qualification of A.Q.P.S.

Moreover, since the creation of the label factors of French Saddle , there exists more and more of products resulting from crossing between a French Saddle and another European race from which certain particularly brilliant subjects profit. A Poulain resulting from a relative factor of French Saddle can be registered in the section has stud book French Saddle if his/her other relative is of French Selle race.

The ANSF (National association of the French Saddle) deals with developing the production of this race.

French saddle famous

Baloubet of the Wheel, Olympic champion at the Olympic Games of Athens of 2004, several times world champion under the saddle of Rodrigo Pessoa.
Galan de Sauvagère, Olympic champion by team with the Olympic Games of Athens of 2004 under the saddle of Nicolas Touzaint.
Oasis, hongre bai, horse of Rodrigo Pessoa.
Cicada of the Coppice, mare bay, assembled by Eugenie Angot.
Quidam de Revel, international champion under the saddle of Herve Godignon then Thomas Vellum (DK): OJ of Barcelona of 2000.

External bonds

National association of the French Saddle

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