| 8/23/2008 |
| Belgium |
The Belgian is no "overnight success." Its popularity has been hard won over the last century on thousands of farms and ranches, in countless pulling contests and show rings, and on the streets of America with hitches pulling the freight wagons that once fed the people.
Het Belgisch Stamboek van de Lipizzaner is een vereniging zonder winstoogmerk, erkend door het ministerie van landbouw en opgericht in 1979 voor het registreren van raszuivere Lipizzaners geboren in of geïmporteerd naar België.
The Belgian Warmblood is the product of decades of selective breeding of European Warmbloods (Hanoverian, Holsteiner, SelleFrancais and Dutch), Thoroughbreds, and Anglo-Arabs with Belgium's finest light agricultural horses.
Involving more than 150 breeders from 19 states and provinces, the NBF has established itself as the standard of futurity programs for all draft breeds. As the terminology implies, the basis for the program is funded upon the future prospects and possibilities for the Belgian breed.
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