NADWA - Fact Sheet
Facts about the North American Danish Warmblood Association (NADWA)
NADWA is the North American region of the Danish association “Dansk Varmblod” (Danish Warmblood)
“Our breeding policy is to produce a riding horse with the ability to perform in dressage or show jumping competitions at an international level. The Danish Warmblood is noble, well-boned, and supple, possessing good durability and a high reproductive capacity.”
The Danish Warm blood association is able to achieve the breeding objective because it:
- holds ridden performance tests in which 3-year-old mares are trained by their owners or at a training centre.
- promotes the use of young stallions that have recently passed their performance test; this speeds up the selection of stallions by enabling those that produce offspring that are successful in the competition field to be identified earlier than normally elsewhere.
- arranges specialised dressage and showjumping tests for 5- and 6-year-old riding horses; these are held in collaboration with the Danish Equestrian Federation.
- focuses on goal-oriented breeding, which emphasises either dressage or showjumping talent as appropriate.
- is striving to improve the reproductive capacity of Danish Warmblood horses
- ensures that the pedigree certificates of Danish Warmblood horses are processed speedily and efficiently and uses the information from these documents as basis for the statistics generated when analysing progeny performance.
- the Danish Warm blood association also approves the use of a very limited number of absolutely top class stallions within its breeding plan.
Patroness Her Royal Highness Princess Benedikte
HRH Princess Benedikte in front of the manorhouse of Dansk Varmblod with one of her horses of own breed Mastermind
The Danish Warmblood association is very proud to have Her Royal Highness Princess Benedikte as patroness. She is a keen rider and breeder and the owner of several Danish Warmblood horses. Her daughter, Princess Natalie zu Sayn Wittgenstein, has inherited her interest in horses and she was on the Danish National Olympic team in Sydney in 2000. For further information, see profile on HRH Princess Benedikte. Click here for profile.
World Breeding Federation for Sport HorsesAs the only Danish breeding federation, the Danish Warmblood association is a member of the global breeding organization World Breeding Federation for Sport Horses (WBFSH) which has Danish Warmblood’s chairman, Mr. Jan Pedersen as President. Among other things, the WBFSH runs the World Championship for Young Horses in both dressage and jumping, and has its main secretary at the headquarters office of the Danish Warmblood association at the Danish National Equestrian Center on Vilhelmsborg, in central Jutland.
How Danish Warmblood horses are doing internationallyDuring the years, many international riders have been very successful with their Danish Warmblood horses and Danish Warmbloods always take part in the European Championships, the World Championships and the Olympic Games. In fact, at the Olympics in Athens several nations had each included a Danish Warmblood in their equestrian team. Today most Danish riders ride Danish Warmbloods. For further information on how Danish Warmbloods are doing, see our “profiles” section, which has profiles of some of the top Danish Warmbloods in the world, as well as in our “News” section where we regularly upload results from arenas in the U.S. as well as from around the world.
Guaranty of quality The Danish Warmblood brand, the crown and the wave, is seen only on the offspring with an approved and graded pedigree. The brand, along with an internationally approved pedigree, is a sign of quality and identity.
NADWA – an associationNADWA, the North American region of the Danish Warmblood association was established in 2001. The association has a board and members, and further details on them are found in the “Contact” section.
