Abstract
The objective of the study was to indicate top breeds of horses attending show jumping in the national and international competitions held in Poland recently as well as the analysis of the scores obtained by horses in these competitions, considering the animals’ age and sex. The studies involved 901 horses. A total of 5656 start in national competitions and 1047 in international ones. A high percentage of foreign bred horses (44%) was found which is the evidence that the Polish breeding, especially of the Wielkopolski and Małopolski breeds, does not meet the needs of sport horse users. Horses under 10 years of age were shown to fault statistically significantly less in the national competitions than the older animals. Supremacy of the Hanoverian, Holsteiner horse breeds and the horses registered in KWPN was established over the Polish breeds, taking into account the mean number of faults incurred in the international competitions. As foreign riders dominated the international competitions held in Poland, it is imperative that horse breeding in Poland should be improved just like the training of Polish competitors.
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