One of the oldest warm blood horses of Europe are the friesian horses, which arose in the 16th and 17th centuries from one crossroads of Spanish horses in the Dutch country cultivation.

The Spanish horses were stuck by the beginning of the 16th century at almost all European courts. And the noble sirs refreshed the breeding of their war horses also into the Niederlanden with a Spanish blood. The decisive development then took place in the 17th century. Spanish occupying forces took many stallions to occupied Holland from 1568 to 1648  which influenced the local cultivation lastingly.

Shortly the Friesian horse was in the reputation to be particularly suitable as a school horse of the horsemanship. The same old Spanish blood therefore tiles in the veins the friezes as in the case of the Lippizanern and the Kladrubern.

Within the following 200 years the friesian horse had its heyday. As a school horse of the high school, as a quarrel horse and later than as a carriage horse was it of great popularity.

The engagement of some Friesian smallholders, which founded the club "Het friezes Paard" in 1913, it is thanks today, that "the black pearls" remained unchanged for us to this day. Straight of the strict pure cultivation that this race almost has become a disaster, we owe many qualities,that these Friesian horse as a leisure and family horse is having.

Characteristic of the race

Characteristics