LIPPIZAN HORSES


Lippizans Black when born do not grow to mature color
(grey) until they are somewhere around six to seven
years old.
Only Stallions are used for the Spanish riding school
in Vienna for Lippizan horses.
The Mares and foals are used for breeding porpuses.
The Stallions start they're training at 3&1/2 yrs.
old.
They begin by having dummies waited down on there
backs to give them even better natural      balance.
The Lippizan horses were almost extinct in our war
with them.
They were trained to fight in battle by preforming
tricks such as:  Rearing to knock off a opposing
rider, or preforming tricks to protect the rider.
They also would leap up and knock over people.
Lippizans were bred by four pure Spanish pure-bred
horses, The Karst  Berber, Andoulousian, and the Barb.

THey are all Spanish horses.
That is why The Spanish Riding School is called
Spanish when it is in
the middle of Austria. 
for 400 years they have been using selected breeding
to make sure the
Lippizan is the Lippizan.
The Spanish RIding School was started in 1572.
There are two riding schools the one in Vienna, and
one in Africa.
Tell of show/african school 2 stallions, 47
mares+foals
tell of all moves.
Grow to be 16 hands or more
THey are known to be 35 years old.
They are small but look tall because of their powerful
mucles
Compared to a thouroughbred at 1 the Lippizan is
shockingly small.
They do not reach full growth until 7
They are not completely mature until 10 years old
AT eight months to most people think they go through a
ugly duckling
stage so they turn the foals out into a pasture deep
in the Alps where
no tourists can see them.
When they are three they come and get them beacuse
that is when they
get their natural elegance.
There are an estimated 100 known Lippizans in
California.
There are an estimated 600 known Lippizans in America.
There are less then 2000 world wide.
In world war 1 they were moved to laxenburg near
vienna, to keep them safe.
The mares and foals stayed at another impereal farm
called Kladrub.
During the 1700's they were moved 3 times in the
Napolieonic wars.
At that time Napolean got the horses.
He then bred them to his own pure-bred arab stallion
named Vesir.
Later they were bred with 7 other arab stallions.
Whenever war threatned the horses they were moved
somewhere where no one could find  them.
After the war England reorganized.
There were now several new states, and the Impereal
Monarchy had to split up their  possesions between the
three countries.
Most of the Lippizans went to Italy there were 109 in
all.
The 1913 and 1915 foals stayed at Kladrub, which was
now in chveklosavikian possesion.
In 1919 the republic of Austria got the rest of the
horses including their Stallions who returned   to the
Spanish Riding School.
During all this there were only 208 Lippizans.
Hungray, Romainia and Yugaslavia also started breeding
these horses in addition to Italy Austria and
Chveklosavakia.
Following World War 1 the Lippizans from Austria,
Yugoslavia and Italy was once again threatned because
they were moved to Hausto, Chveklosavakia by German
high command.
Alois Podhajsky made heroic effeorts to save the
Spanish riding school. 
The Performance stallions however were not returned
until 1955.
In 1945 the american army, under Command of General
Patton, who wanted badly to save the Lippizan breed,
granted the mares to be returned to Austria.
In 1955 a million aire named Tempelt Smith imported 20
pure Lippizans 11 from Italy and 6 from Yugoslavia.
He devoted his life for 15 years (until he died.) to
breeding pure Lippizans 400 in all!!
Still tempel farms breeds a small number of Lippizans
each year.
In 1959 a New York brewery imported 8 Lippizan and
Lippizan-Arabs for the movie Ben Hur.
In 1980 it may have been pretty hard to find a
Lippizan horse, but they are now growing rapidly all
over the U.S.A.
Disneyland has quite a few Lippizan mares if you see
the night show.
The Marine Corps Color Gaurd also used a few Lippizan
horses.
Even former President Regan has a Lippizan in San
Simeion, California.