The Breeding

At the time when the PRE horse could be found only very rarely in the Czech Republic, with the exception of very few breeders, we decided to spread the tradition of Spanish horses PRE in the Czech Republic due to their exceptional character, beauty and grace of movement.

In 1997 we founded a breed of Pure Spanish Horse - Pura Raza Espanola (PRE) - which currently consists of 24 horses PRE: 12 mares, 1 stallions, 9 gelding and 0 colts. We have preselected and brought two PRE female horses of good quality from Spain: white (torda) Molinera XVI and black (negro) Cartuja XV) with the purpose of establishing white and black lines of PRE horses breeding.

MOLINERA XVI, the white line founder, comes from the prestigious breed of Yeguada Alba Ayala in Seville. The yeguada has fifty years of tradition and won multiple awards for breeding quality especially for the breed of “Cartujano” horses. The father of Molinara XVI, Lozano VIII is the direct descendant of the “Bocado” line. The mare was brought already in foal covered by stallion Cortesano.

CARTUJA XV, the black line founder, was brought to Czech Republic as a seven month old filly. At that time, it was extremely difficult to secure a good quality black colored mare since black colored PRE horses were outnumbered by the white.

Our mares, the breed founders and than their descendants – mares already born in our stud farm - were covered by the highest-quality PRE stallions in Spain – by studhorses of prestigious pedigree:CORTESANO, ORGULLOSO IV, DESNUDO, CENTELLO V, EDUCADO XI, DOCTOR XXIV, FARAON XXVIII, AMOROSSO XL. In two cases by stallions in Germany: by BAILADOR XVI which was “Campeon de la Raza” - the all-in winner of PRE stallions in Germany in 2002 - and by FARUCCO XV – the stallion of 100% Carthusian origin exported from Spain.

The selection of the stallions for covering our mares was considered very carefully with main criterion and focus being the purity of breed, beauty, good character, quality, and sport use – dressage and harness. We kept in mind that highest-quality PRE stallions come from prominent yeguadas of long history, experience and tradition with multiple awards in competitions. The high quality of these stud-horses is irreplaceable since these stallions of very high value are the prides of Spanish breeders and obtaining them for breeding in the Czech Republic is impossible. For these reasons we opted to travel all the way to Spain, mostly to Seville, when it came to the covering of our mares.

There are 26 foals and fillies that were born in our stud farm, out of which 15 are white, 8 black and 3 brown colored. Our horses are used for classic dressage (“L” level), harness and agrotourism.

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