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This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. (help, get involved!) Any unsourced material that has been or is likely to be challenged may be removed at any time. This article has been tagged since March 2007. The Brazilian Sport Horse is an athletic horse, tall, agile and potent, calm and brave, and idealized to the equestrian sports, especially for show jumping, dressage and eventing. Binomial name Equus caballus Linnaeus, 1758 The horse (Equus caballus, sometimes seen as a subspecies of the Wild Horse, Equus ferus caballus) is a large odd-toed ungulate mammal, one of ten modern species of the genus Equus. ...
Show jumping is a form of competition in which horses are jumped over a course of fences, low walls, and other obstacles (e. ...
An upper-level dressage competitor performing an extended trot Dressage (a French term meaning training) is a path and destination of competitive horse training, with competitions held at all levels from amateur to the Olympics. ...
Despite the breed's youth, the Brazilian breeding people have already sent five horses to the Olympic Games: Aspen, Calei Joter, Cassiana Joter and Adelfos at Atlanta (1996) and Aspen, Calei Joter and Marco Metodo at Sydney (2000). Around 50 Brazilian Sport horses are exported every year to the Americas and many Europe countries. In 2000, Singular Joter II (full brother of Singular Joter, approved stallion in Germany) was third place at the World Breeding Championships for Young Horses, at Lanaken, Belgium, and Bacchus Tok was second place at the American Championship for Young Horses, at Monterrey, Mexico, both of them when they were only five years old. |