Breeding of the Lipizzaner horse (Lipica stud)
Cría del caballo lipizzano (yeguada de Lipica)
- Date
- 1580 · confidence high
- Place
- Lipica, Sežana, Slovenia
- Credited to
- Archduke Charles II of Habsburg
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
A stud founded to breed war and dressage horses from Spanish, Italian and Arab lines on the Karst. It gave rise to the Lipizzaner, emblematic horse of Vienna's Spanish Riding School.
Included as a documented selective-breeding milestone. The breed's origins are tied to 1580; the formation of the current stallion lines is 18th century.
What it led to
- the Lipizzaner breed and its founder lines
- classical dressage at the Habsburg courts