Parco Naturale dei Nebrodi

The Sanfratellano Horse

Breed Features

1) AREA OF ORIGIN: north slopes of the Nebrodi Mountains

2) APTITUDE: saddle and light coach

3) TYPICAL FEATURES:
a) coat: bay, dark bay, blackish
b) structure:

• Head: profile tending to be straight, but sometimes convex silhouette; only little white hair is admitted.
• Neck: generally short and rectilinear, with abundant mane.
• Shoulder: muscular, with a good tilt, sometimes short.
• Withers: regularly protruding.
• Back: regular proportions, it can present a light hollow of the back according to the kind of breeding.
• Hips: large and well attached to the rump.
• Rump: well-developed, muscular and with a regular tilt.
• Chest: regular dimensions
• Thorax: generally large and deep, in harmony with the other parts.
• Limbs: remarkable skeletal and muscular development, with regularly long and tilting arm, proportionate forearm, strong cannon bone with evident tendons.
• Articulations: thick and large knee and hock, of right opening, without hard and tender tares.
• Pace: normal.
• Plumb-lines: generally regular.
• Foot: proportionate and sturdy .

c) nature: quite obedient.
d) other features: rural, frugal, resistant to the climatic difficulties; fit for the exploitation of the marginal areas.
e) defects causing the exclusion from the "Registro Anagrafico": lack of uniformity in the coat. Marked left-handedness, long and yielding pasterns, excessively convex silhouette. Cryptorchidism. Prognathism.

4) BIOMETRICAL DATA
30 months (cm)

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