South Moravia

Climate, environmental and soil habitat of Southern Moravia are close to those of the nearby Uhry region that is famous for the breeding of horses. However, not many large stud farms have been established in this area. Horses were bred here at most aristocratic mansions which is proved today by the presence of opulent chateau stables. The aristocracy bred horses for their own needs, they rode them and used them for carriages. In breeding they preferred fine types of horses with a higher share of an Arabic horse and later on of an English Thoroughbred if it was not a Thoroughbred itself. The idea of breeding other powerful warm-blooded horses on these mostly sandy soils, with dry, slightly windy climate and with a low density vegetation, defeated the object of horse breeding with the exception of the chateau stud farm in Kopčany, founded by the empress Maria Theresa in 1765. But even here the breeding of a powerful horse, the Horse of Kladruby in this case, arrived accidentally.