The Belgian Horse, or Brabant , is one of the largest breeds of Draft horses of pure European descent. It has a long history, antedating the Christian era, but became especially popular during the Middle Ages.

 Although we like the Percheron horse with their "Spanish Norman" cross we believe the Belgian cross brings you closer to the True War Horse of old!

History of the Percheron breed which is not exactly clear where as

The History of the Belgians has always been recorded. It is the great BELGIAN horse, NOT Percherons that carry a more direct line to the the Flemish horses. History clearly shows that  the Belgians are the most direct lineal descendants of the "Great Horse" of medieval times.

The Belgian horse is native to the country of Belgium. This little country is blessed with fertile soil and abundant rainfall providing the thrifty farmers of Belgium with the excellent pastures and the hay and grain necessary to develop a heavy, powerful breed of horse.

Belgium lies in the very center of that area of western Europe that gave rise to the large black horses known as Flemish horses and referred to as the “Great Horses” by medieval writers. They are the horses that carried armored knights into battle. Such horses known to exist in that part of Europe in the time of Caesar. They provided the genetic material from which nearly all the modern draft breeds are fashioned.

Stallions from Belgium were exported to many other parts of Europe as the need to produce larger animals of draft type for industrial and farm use was recognized. There was no need to import into Belgium for she was the "mother lode." It remained only for this ancestral home of the "great horse," by whatever name, to refine and fix the type of the genetic material she already had at hand.

 Belgium exported stallions for use in the government stables of Russia, Italy, Germany, France, and the old Austria-Hungary empire.