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By Cleo van Zelst Special to the Rappahannock News
Melyni Worth fell in love with the Knabstrupper breed while riding what she thought was an Appaloosa in England.
Impressed with the horse’s athletic ability and calm disposition, she tried to find a similar “Appaloosa” when she got home in the United States.
Unable to do so, she contacted the English owner and inquired about the particular Appaloosa lines of her horse, only to be informed, with some amusement, that the horse was actually a Knabstrupper.
Worth was particularly impressed by the disposition of the breed, noting that they are “the nicest, kindest, most sensible horses — really down-toearth — willing and eager, and anybody can ride them,” she said.
She recounted past trail ride misadventures on other, less steady mounts, but, on a Knabstrupper “you never feel threatened, you never feel frightened, you always feel like you have a partner.”
Sold on the breed, Worth imported four fillies and some frozen semen from Germany and began her own breeding operation.
She found that breeding solid-color mares to “few spot,” or almost white, stallions produced almost 100 percent color in the resulting foals. While she doesn’t stand a stallion of her own, she offers frozen semen from two stallions, Kavaldi and Ecuador, stationed in Denmark.
The foals are very marketable, especially if they have color. Weanlings typically sell for $5,000 to $7,000 and older horses go for upward of $20,000. The typical stud fee for a stallion is $750 to $1500.
Knabstruppers can be prone to a few genetic problems. They may have “rat tails,” like the Appaloosa. When breeding homozygous colored or spotted horses together, the resulting foal may have issues with night blindness or impaired night vision. This can
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