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horses.
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Sweden requires light and heavy farm-horses, carriage-horses, and saddle-horses
for the army.
For these purposes suitable types of horses are bred, and ponies, too, though
only to a small extent. The different species of breeding may be classified as
follows: breeding of thorough-breds and half-breds, or warmblooded horses,
breeding of farm-horses and draught-horses, or cold-blooded horses, and breeding
of ponies.
Breeding of thorough-breds and half-breds. Only a small number of
thoroughbred horses are bred, and these almost exclusively from English stallions. Horses
of finer race are used chiefly in the army, and stallions are maintained for this
purpose by the Government. There are two principal Government depots:
Flyinge in Skåne, and Strömsholm in Västmanland. In 1912, there were 153
stallions (inclusive of three-year-olds) at Flyinge, and 80 at Strömsholm. Only
twenty of them are English thorough-breds, the great majority are Hanoverian,
and the remainder Prussian horses. With only a few exceptions, the
thoroughbreds are imported as mature stud-horses. A small number of the half-bred
stallions are born and reared in Sweden, the rest are imported as colts and
reared at Flyinge. From the Government depots the stallions are sent out to
about a hundred different stations during the covering period; only a few of
them remain at the depot. In 1912, about 25 mares were covered by each
stallion.
Skåne Half-bred.
Sweden also breeds half-breds of heavier types, suitable for heavy
carriage-horses, and also for farm-horses. They are as a rule of a heavier Hanoverian
or Oldenburgian strains. Stallions of such heavier types are to be found both
at the Government depots and in private studs.
Among the measures of the Government for the encouragement of
horse-breeding may be noted the award of "breeding prizes" at races, and of premiums
(see below).
A number of Societies devote themselves exclusively to fostering the breeding
1—133179. Sweden. 11.
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