limited to a particular breed. In this modern era, the term Deutsches Sportpferd (German Sporthorse) bet- ter represents our breeding goals than does a specific region’s breed name.
Before they were Deutsches Sportpferd…
Te RPSI shares a long history of selective breeding for sport with its parent organization, the PRPS of Ger- many. Te territory of the Rheinland-Pfalz-Saar lies along the Rhine River in southwest Germany. Duke Christian IV established the state stud at Zweibrücken in 1755, while the modern PRPS registry was formed in 1977. In 1992, the PRPS built Pferdezentrum, an equestrian center and offices near Standenbuhl, Ger- many. In 1995, the PRPS expanded its territory into North America, and the RPSI was born. Te original Zweibrücker horse was a light riding
horse of elegant type, and never a really heavy horse. Unlike many other regions, the breeding direction had to actually build more size and body, rather than refine. RPSI-branded horses and ponies born in North
America are succeeding in sport and breeding both in North America and overseas—Gallant Reflection HU, a Zweibrücker stallion bred and owned by Horses Un- limited in Albuquerque, New Mexico was 2015 Na- tional Champion FEI 6-Year-Old. Silver Creek’s Valida- tion, another Zweibrücker born and bred in the United States, was champion of the 2009 North American 70- day Stallion Test, showed successfully at the 2013 FEI World Breeding Jumping Championships in Belgium and now stands at stud and competes in Germany.
On the Road for Inspection
Te RPSI judges and staff travel three months out of the year in North America, offering 50-plus inspection sites in most of the states and in four Canadian provinces.
Along with the large selection of inspection loca-
tions, another advantage for breeders is that the RPSI is proud to be an educational registry, with the cen- tral focus of the day the oral explanation of the scores from the judges. Tere is great benefit to RPSI breed- ers in knowing that the same qualified judges who have inspected both German and North American horses since day one will be judging their horses this year-- and next year as well.
What’s Next for the RPSI?
Te RPSI spearheaded a select online foal auction in 2013, with other registries following suit in following years to add online auctions to their calendars. What’s unique about the RPSI’s auction is the foals are pre- selected, just as they are in Europe. For shoppers, that means the quality is more uniform and that the per- son on the other end of the phone has actually seen the foals, evaluated the them and knows the breeding pro- grams they are coming from.
Left: Check This, winner of Two-Year-Old Colt & Gelding Hunter Breeding Class at Showpark Ranch & Coast, Del Mar, CA. Check This was purchased from the 2013 RPSI auction (Covert Affair DSF). Above: Amorous was the Highest Scoring RPSI horse this year at the Sally B Wheeler Hunter Breeding Championships, and is a RPSI Foal Auction Almuni.
62 January/February 2016 SPECIAL RPSI SECTION
Catherine Marcks
Rheinland Pfalz-Saar International
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