BRANDING

The Studbrand is on the left croup - a P with the Austrian Crown above it.

The ancestral brand is under the left saddle. The parents of the horse are represented here. The letter indicates the father, and the symbol under it the father of the mother. The Lipizzaners are branded with the starting letter of one of the six stallion lines (fathers - see below). After the respective letter one can also see the breed number.

The symbols for the family tree for the mothers followed by the fathers are:

Conversano C

Neapolitano N

Favory F

Pluto P

Maestoso M

Siglavy S

A stallion who has the following brand markings is Siglavy III Flora.

The foal register brand is on the right side of the saddle. It is under this number which one will find the horse in the foal register.

The brand of descent is on the left cheek. This marks the racial purity of the horse and is in special cases an "L".

LINEAGE

The stallions' lineage which still today and certainly in the future will supply the Spanish Riding School with descendants goes back to the following ancestors:

Pluto: Pluto whose background is solely spanish was born in 1765 in the royal stud in Frederiksborg.

Conversano: a black horse with Neapolitan origins was born in 1767

Favory: a dun, born in 1779 came from the imperial stud Kladrun (Bohemia)

Neapolitano: came from the Po region and was brown and was born in 1790

Siglavy: This arab horse from Syria came to the Stud in Lipizza in 1810

Maestoso: was the son of a Neapolitaner and spanish horse. Maestoso II was however born in 1819 in Hungary

All the Lipizzaners in the Stud in Piber and the Spanish Riding School come from one of these 6 lines of Stallions.