Review article
The review of lipizzan horse breeding in the Republic of Croatia 2004.
Mato Čačić
Mirjana Baban
Josip Ljubešić
Ino Čurik
Martin Matasović
Tomo Rastija
Abstract
Breeding of lipizzan horses is the most organized horse breeding in the Republic of Croatia. On the subject of lipizzan horse in the whole Croatian horsebreeding the largest number of scientific researches has been conducted, which resulted with the large number of scientific and proffessional papers. In the last few years, an intensive development of horse driving sport caused big changes in the breeding of lipizzan horses. This changes are not present in only setting the breeding goals on the breeding of quality driving sport horses, but also in the philosophy that the breeders do not accent only the cultural and folkloral significance of lipizzan breed. In the recent years, the the inborn horses are objects of export because of the proved quality in the horse driving sport. Breeding of lipizzan horses is divided on the breeding of the State studfarm of lipizzan horses in Đakovo and country breeding which is through the breeding associations organized to the roof nacional organization The Croatian federation of breeding associations of lipizzan horses – Đakovo. The upgrowth of lippizzan horses is continuous through the years, and at the same time, important changes in the structure of the breeding are takingt place. A big disproportion is assessed in the gender ratio of the breeding horses and the representation of certain female lines. The breeders aim to pure blood breeding and procuration of quality horses to reach set breeding goal for the driving horse sport. A substantial lack of interest for the lipizzan horses of incomplete pedigree (B book) is also observed, despite of very good use abilities and lower buying price.
Keywords
lipizzan horse; breeding organizational stage; Republic of Croatia; the structure of breeding; horse driving sport
Hrčak ID:
3659
URI
Publication date:
10.5.2006.
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