Spotted horses have been known and highly prized.The Knabstrup is a spotted horse. They can be seen in chinese art. Noriker blood is also in their veins. These horses date back to the time of the Napoleonic Wars. At that time, a mare knabstrup horse named Flaebehoppen who was an exceptionally fast horse with great indurance was held in possesion of a butcher named Flaebe. Flaebehoppen was then owned by Judge Lunn and was bred with Fredericksborg horses. Then, there became a line of horses that were all spotted. The horses were called Knabstrups, which was named after Lunn's Estate. Because of the stiking markings, Knabstrups became popular circus horses. The breed is around 15.2hh-16hh. In other words, 60.8in-64in. They are mainly white with brown or black spots of varying sizes all over the body, head, and legs. Their mane and tail are usually sparse, like all spotted horses.
Knabstrup horses were known for their high spirit and energetic action yet they were not temperamental.
22 Knabstrup horses was killed during a fire in 1891, and this fire, combined with the problems of inbreeding, caused the number and importance of the breed to become smaller and smaller.
Breeders began outcrossing to horses of Knabstrup parentage, and a new strain of spotted horses was fostered.
It is a common opinion, that the 'Frederiksborg' horse is the breeding strain of the 'Knabstrup' horse, and that is not all wrong, but the 'Frederiksborg' horse has a very high pace,...
Spotted coat coloring was often seen in very primitive horse breeds and there are frequent depictions surviving from many hundreds of years ago of spotted horses.
The Knabstruper breed came about relatively recently and as the result of a single mare's strong characteristics.
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