42/ DECEMBER 2020 THE RIDER
The Knabstrupper Horse - hunting for the old genes
I recently viewed the feature
length documentary about the old Danish horse breed, the Knab- strupper and it was the first time I
had ever heard of the breed. In fact, there are only about 350 liv- ing Knabstruppers left in the world in the breed’s original form.
The Knabstrupper horse, with its unique personality and dalmatian-like spots, appears in prehistoric cave art throughout Europe, and my heart skipped a beat when the camera panned across the drawings of ancient man hunting all manner of wildlife and then….it stops on the perfectly painted horses we now recognize as Knabstruppers. A handful of people in Denmark and Germany
have spent decades working hard to bring it back from the edge of extinction, saving the horse through pure breeding practices. Filmmaker Irene G. Scholten followed these dedicated caretakers over a five-year period which has resulted in this stunning 87 min. documentary which features the breed’s cultural and historic background, told by both descendants of those who actually bred them, and by those who are now key to saving the horse from total extinction. The film has participated in several interna-
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tional film festivals, receiving several awards in- cluding the Equus Film Festival, New York (Dec. 2018) where it won ”Best International Film”; the Equus International Film Festival in Missoula, Montana (March 2019), where it received two awards: “Best Independent” and “Best Historical Film”. It won Silver for both “Soundtrack” and “Best Documentary Feature” at the International In- dependent Film Awards in 2019, and won the prize for ”Best International Documentary” at the Equinale Film Festival in Neuhof, Germany in Sep- tember 2019. Horse lovers around the world can now view film online by logging on to
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/theknabstrupperhorse and The Rider congratulates filmmaker Scholten for her beautiful cinematographic essay on a breed we must not allow to disappear.
Glenda J. Fordham For THE RIDER
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