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Someone mentioned to me that the Lipizzanner registry would inspect and accept stallions with no Lipizzanner blood, based on their conformation and type? I am assuming they meant the American registry.
Is this actually true? I see that the North American association notes that some horses with other breeds in their pedigree out of legitimate European “experimental” breeding programs can be accepted for registration, but that is a different matter than turning up for an evaluation with a random horse of another breed (in this case a mixed breed).
I know that other warmblood and sport horse registries can be open to accepting horses based on conformation, but the emphasis on preserving the Lipizzanner bloodlines makes me think they are more of a breed, less of a registry, if that makes sense.
Anyhow, I suspect the answer is no, but I wanted to ask.[/QUOTE]
I am not sure what you mean by “the North American association”, but in any case the answer is: no, that isn’t true.
There are two primary registries in North America. There’s the Lipizzan Association of North American (LANA) which sounds closest to what you are citing. There’s the United States Lipizzan Federation (USLF) to which I belong and which is a little bigger and more active than LANA. There’s a third registering entity which is part of Tempel Farms and only registers Tempel’s horses.
I don’t know all of LANA’s rules. But I’m sure that for the Tempel horses and for USLF, there’s no way a stallion who isn’t purebred can be registered as a breeding stallion. If an aged or unknown stallion is discovered and is proven by provenance and DNA type to be Lipizzan, then in that case, I think it may be registered.
USLF is encouraging its members who own stallions to have them evaluated at the inspections prior to breeding, but there’s no rule compelling that requirement. And the inspections are too few and too distant at this point to emphasize that very strongly.
LANA holds no inspections to my knowledge. USLF inspections are open only to purebred horses.
Half and 3/4 Lipizzans are registerable by USLF, but their papers, names, and even their registry numbers designate them as part bred. They are however allowed to fully participate in all registry awards programs and in USEF/USDF All Breeds, etc, alongside the purebred Lipizzans.
Someone could breed a purebred mare to an Arab or TB or WB stallion, as examples, and the resulting foal could be registered USLF. As a partbred. But that foal when under saddle can go out and compete at shows and earn awards and appear on USEF lists as a “Lipizzan”. His name and number would indicate to those in the know that he is partbred. But that wouldn’t be obvious to everyone.
That performance allowance may be where the confusion came from. But allowing the registry or approval for non-lipizzan breeding stallions? No way.
