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Need to find the guidelines for the World Breeding Championships for Young Dressage Horses?

Sale of livestock is covered by the “Sales of Goods Directive” which has been implemented by the European Union and which can potentially make life as a horse breeder easier

Our Members page has been revised and now shows some of the equine databases of the member studbooks or their central national databases. To help us complete this listing, we encourage all member studbooks to send us the link of their studbook or country database. 

President of WBFSH through 20 years, Mr. Jan Pedersen has been decorated Knight of 1st degree of the Order of Dannebrog

Her Royal Highness Princess Benedikte, patron of WBFSH since 1999, turns 75 years today. At a celebration of the Princess' birthday in Denmark the pride of her career as a horse breeder, 22-year old Digby was the surprise of the show

The new WBFSH studbook and breeder rankings for dressage, eventing and show jumping are available and will be closely followed until the final rankings are published in October

In exactly 100 days, the Longines FEI/WBFSH World Breeding Dressage Championships for Young Horses bursts into action at the National Equestrian Centre in Ermelo. This fourth edition in Ermelo will undoubtedly entail incredible sport again. On Thursday August 1st, the first competitor will enter the arena

In the future more studbooks will likely use genomic data from analyses of SNP markers on a routine basis. The WBFSH Standing Committee for Collaborative Implementation of Genomic Applications in Sport Horse Breeding (SC-CIGA) has worked out a factsheet on parentage testing. 

"2018 has been busy, interesting, frustrating, exhilarating, disappointing and inspiring. The equestrian world is multifarious and very complex and thus, to people like us very attractive.  ..." This is how the President started when presenting the activity reports of the WBFSH departments at the General Assembly 2018 in beautiful Budapest.

Never before has the Danish Warmblood breeding committee been presented with such an outstanding collection of stallions. 33 stallions have been approved  for testing, and 12 of them appointed premium stallions. The event in Herning attracted 67,211 visitors

The audience at the Danish Warmblood Stallion Licensing in Herning have been treated with a marvellous collection of 4-year old and older stallions. After having seen the dressage stallions as well as the jumping stallions under rider the judges have appointed two impressive sport stallions as champions

Danish Warmblood’s 22nd Stallion of the Year title has been appointed to the Grand Prix dressage stallion Skovens Rafael that was honoured and celebrated by an enthusiastic crowd in Herning

This week Danish Warmblood will be celebrating the 40th Stallion licensing in MCH Messecenter Herning with a major event that unites sport and breeding during five days of celebration. Join us on 6-10 March 2019!

Every year in March the Danish Warmblood stallion licensing in Herning becomes the grand finale of the licensing season as many of the best colts from the foreign licensings are purchased by Danes, and the forthcoming licensing will be no exception

The 5th international workshop on linear profiling in the warmblood horse was held in Sweden in January.

For many sport horse breeders, riders and horse owners the World Breeding Championships for Young Horses are some of the most important events. The three organisers have now set the dates.

s'-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands: There is no horse in the world that has so many fans as the dressage legend Totilas. He will appear at the KWPN Stallion Show next week along with several sons

Behind any brilliant horse there is a brilliant breeder, which is also the case with the couple behind Blue Hors Zepter, which is presently making his way into the absolute world elite

Attracting more than 80 delegates from all over the world, the 2018-WHIRDEC meeting was the biggest ever.

ANCCE presents the 1st PRE Conformation Guidebook Video.

A PRE (Pura Raza Española) Conformation Guidebook video is now available on both the ANCCE and PRE Stud Book web sites, as well as on social networks.