American Hanoverian Society
Adopts the Rhineland Studbook in the U.S.
By Rick Toering & Dr. Ludwig Christmann
Tis positive development was presented as a referendum vote to the AHS membership in December 2015 and passed nearly unanimously. Te AHS will maintain the Rhineland Studbook sepa-
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rate and distinct from the Hanoverian Studbook, which the AHS also oversees for U.S. breeders. Te AHS will adopt and implement breeding rules for its Rhineland Studbook similar to those in place for the Rhineland Studbook in Ger- many, with which the Hanoverian Verband in Germany (HV) merged a little over a year ago. In addition to implementing the Rhineland Studbook, the AHS will provide membership services, including combined inspection tours, for both the Hanoverian Studbook and the Rhineland Studbook be- ginning in 2016. Tis is a very important development
for the AHS and its members: the Rhine- land Studbook will provide breeders with more flexibility with regard to breeding stock than the Hanoverian Stud- book currently allows.
Te Development of the Rhineland Studbook By way of background, the Rhineland Studbook is named
after the German region of Rhineland, which is the very southern part of Nordrhein-Westfalen and borders on the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. Te Rhineland region is the home of Aachen, site of the world-famous Aachen Horse Show, the largest of its kind in Germany. Two Warmblood studbooks have been traditionally main- tained in this region: Rhineland and Westphalian. Both of these studbooks are serviced by the state stud at War- endorf. Rhineland’s neighbor to the south is Rheinland- Pfalz, home of the the Zweibrücker Studbook, more widely
he American Hanoverian Society (AHS) is pleased to announce that it will adopt and oversee the Rhineland Studbook in the United States.
known in the U.S. as Rheinland-Pfalz-Saar or “RPSI.” Te Rhineland Studbook and the RPSI are not affiliated with each other in any way. In the map of Germany below, highlighted in yellow
is Lower Saxony as the homeland of the Hanoverian, but also Hesse and Rhineland, where the local studbooks merged with Hannover. Te Rhineland region includes densely populated and
wealthy metropolitan areas replete with large riding clubs and big training/show barns. Te most famous rider from the Rhineland region is Isabell Werth; another successful inter- national dressage rider is Nadine Capell- mann, who comes from the Aachen area. In addition, the Rhineland region
boasts some of the best farmland in Ger- many, particularly around Cologne and Aachen. Not surprisingly then, the Rhine- land region was originally famous for its draft horses, the Rheinisch-Deutsches Kaltblut, which was the biggest breed of its kind in Germany. Tis was the perfect
horse for the heavy, rich soils of the Rhineland region. Warmblood breeding was not very popular in this
region before the1950s. However, after World War II, with the diminished need for the cold-blooded horse, rid- ing became popular and with that came the breeding of Warmblood horses. Te original genetic mare base in the Rhineland region
included Hanoverians, Westphalians and Trakehners. Westphalians were already very closely related with Ha- noverians, having been based exclusively on Hanoverian bloodlines since the 1920s. As a result, the Rhineland horse has also always been closely related to those from Hannover. Te Rhineland region became especially suc- cessful breeding dressage horses: famous stallions like Florestan and Belissimo were Rhineland-bred with a high percentage of Hanoverian blood.
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