THE P.R.E. HORSE BOOK
THE STUD BOOK The LG-PR E-ANCCE Stud Book guarantees the reliability of the documentation and genealogy, identification and approval as breeding stock of all the PRE Horses registered. Its main mission is to maintain an up-dated register of all PRE related information, including horses, breeders and owners, who have registered since the Stud Book was created, as well as to guarantee that all new PREs comply with all rules and regulations in force at the time when requesting a registration in any of the registers. After almost 25 years with the same rules and To date, the PRE horse has been selected by virtue
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of its conformation and character, and all based on
appeared at the end of 2002, which was the starting
a riding horse, suitable for all types of equestrian
point for the publication of a series of rules and
activities, with particular emphasis on those exercises
regulations to regulate from such aspects as the
that require a great deal of “collection”. Due to this,
conditions for registration, to the creation of new
the value of the PRE, contrary to other breeds, is
registers such as the qualified breeding stock register
not based on any specific activity or competitive
or the creation and regulation of the selection schemes
discipline. It could be said that the initial value lies
and improvement plans for the breed.
in its “papers;” in the certainty that the horse has passed strict registration requirements to acquire
Thus, it a new concept in equine stud book
the said papers, and the information provided,
management. It is no longer a matter of simply
especially its genealogy, which is what will grant the
registering horses with the progenitors that each
horse a unique value throughout its life.
breeder declares. All the contrary; the Stud Book
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