The Flemish Horse, Dutch: Vlaams Paard, French: Cheval Flamand, is a Belgian breed of heavy draught horse. It originates in – and is named for – Flanders, the northern part of Belgium, where its history goes back to Mediaeval times. In the late nineteenth century it was merged with the other heavy horses of Belgium into the Belgian Draught.
It was re-created in the late twentieth century and recognised as a breed in 2005. In the twenty-first century it is an endangered breed, with fewer than a hundred living animals.
The breed became extinct in the nineteenth century, when it was merged with the Brabant to create the Belgian Draught. From about 1993 it was recreated, partly from stock kept by Amish people in the United States. A breed association, Het Vlaams Paard, was formed in 1999.[4] In 2005 the breed was officially approved by the Flemish government, and the breed association authorised to manage the stud-book.[5]
^John D. Baird, Lee V. Millon, Susan Dileanis, M. Cecilia T. Penedo, Alexandra Charlesworth, Flavia Spirito, Guerrino Meneguzzi (2003). Junctional epidermolysis bullosa in Belgian draft horses. Proceedings of the American Association of Equine Practitioners49: 122–126. Archived 26 June 2019.
These are the horse breeds considered to originate wholly or partly in Belgium and Luxembourg. Many have complex or obscure histories, so inclusion here does not necessarily imply that a breed is predominantly or exclusively from those countries.
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