RPSI & Westfalen Combine

[dags]

@Katona

(And if you’re not keeping track: horses registered with RPSI prior to 2014, are Zweibrücker; between 2014 - 2016 are Deutsches Sportpferd; and foals and horses registered from 2017 and later are Westfalen.)

This just clarified so many things for me, thank you. Had a “Dutch Sport Horse” come in for marketing and was all, “Where’d THAT come from?!”, thinking it was a KWPN offshoot? After getting client to snap a pic of the papers discovered it was a Deutsches (German) Sportpferd. Did research on it and still couldn’t figure out where it came from and how I had never come across it in 12 years of marketing horses. Didn’t know that Zweibrücker = RPSI either.

One can see how the Americans might just think it easier to ignore the breeding

[Katona]

@dags

This just clarified so many things for me, thank you. Had a “Dutch Sport Horse” come in for marketing and was all, “Where’d THAT come from?!”, thinking it was a KWPN offshoot? After getting client to snap a pic of the papers discovered it was a Deutsches (German) Sportpferd. Did research on it and still couldn’t figure out where it came from and how I had never come across it in 12 years of marketing horses. Didn’t know that Zweibrücker = RPSI either.

One can see how the Americans might just think it easier to ignore the breeding

I was equally confused, but I’m hoping they’ll settle on Westfalen now…only time will tell, I suppose.

[soloudinhere]

It’s worth noting, in response to an earlier post that a TWH/QH/Grade cross can “work its way up in the books”:

that’s not quite true.

1. Draft crosses, QH crosses, or horses of unknown parentage are NOT eligible for the main mare books. They are eligible for PMB if they inspect sufficiently to be allowed entry.

2. Offspring of these horses get a COP (“half brand”)

3. COP offspring are not eligible to be Book I on either the mare or stallion side due to insufficient parentage as 3 generations of approved parentage are required for entry into a main book.

Thus, for a horse to “work up” in the books, it would take a minimum of 3 generations of approved breeding or at least 10 years, likely exceeding the breeding lifetime of the original mare.

It’s a bit of a fallacy to say this is possible except over the extremely long term.