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Lipizzan; Other names: Lipizzaner, Karster: Country of origin: Developed by the House of Habsburg from Arab, Barb, Spanish and Neapolitan stock. [1] Today associated with the nations of Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, and Slovenia.
The relationship between Janković-Bésán's horses and the training talents of Iwanowski began in 1951, when the two men met at the Royal Agricultural Show in Pietermaritzburg. [2] Janković-Bésán then invited Iwanowski to his farm in Mooi River, and offered Iwanowski the Lipizzan stallion Maestoso Erdem for training.
The Spanish Riding School (German: Spanische Hofreitschule) is an Austrian institution based in Vienna, dedicated to the preservation of classical dressage and the training of Lipizzaner horses, whose performances in the Hofburg are also a tourist attraction. The leading horses and riders of the school also periodically tour and perform worldwide.
Horses such as the Andalusian, Lusitano, Lipizzan and Menorquín are the breeds most often trained to perform the airs today, in part due to their powerfully conformed hindquarters, which allow them the strength to perform these difficult movements. There were originally seven airs, many of which were used to build into the movements performed ...
The following list of horse and pony breeds includes standardized breeds, some strains within breeds that are considered distinct populations, types of horses with common characteristics that are not necessarily standardized breeds but are sometimes described as such, and terms that describe groupings of several breeds with similar characteristics.
English name Local names Scientific name Origin Number Image Notes Bosnian Mountain Horse [18] Bosanski planinski konj, [7] bosanski konj, [19] planinski konj, domači konj [20] Equus caballus: Balkan Peninsula, [21] native to countries of former Yugoslavia [22] Around 300 across the world [21] The oldest autochthonous horse breed on Balkan ...
Lipizzaner horses, a breed since 1580, and the Spanish Riding School, founded in 1735, remain living Austrian treasures, though both are nearly lost during WWII.During the German occupation, Colonel Alois Podhajsky, who performed in dressage events in the 1936 Olympics and is the Riding School’s Director, becomes attached to the German Army.
This is a list of all the horse breeds in the DAD-IS, the Domestic Animal Diversity Information System, a database of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. [1] In 2024 there were approximately 1600 horse breed entries, reported by about 130 countries. [ 2 ]