Der Lipizzaner Im Spiegel Der Wissenschaft

Der Lipizzaner im Spiegel der Wissenschaft Aedited by Gottfried Brem Hans Hadler, for many years director of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, has stated that "classical horsemanship is both an art and a science." To some extent this statement is a motto for the present volume. Although it does n [...]
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Der Lipizzaner im Spiegel der Wissenschaft Aedited by Gottfried Brem Hans Hadler, for many years director of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, has stated that "classical horsemanship is both an art and a science." To some extent this statement is a motto for the present volume. Although it does not deal with horsemanship specifically, the volume does deal with the perfection in classical horsemanship for which the Lipizzaners are famed. The volume begins with a richly illustrated chapter on the historical roots of the Lipizzaner and the various vicissitudes of their past, a description of how the studs, the stallion lineages and stud families developed, and a history of the Spanish Riding School, whereby important details concerning breeding and dressage are explained. The main part of the volume presents an overview of the scholarly work that has been done on this unique horse breed. Within the framework of a large-scale research project, started in 1997 and generously supported by the EU and the Austrian State Ministries, the Lipizzaner population was meticulously studied by an international team of scholars. By means of studies on historical breeding, veterinary questions, morphometric characterization, studies on colour heredity, population-genetic analysis and molecular standardization, the goal was to capture the uniqueness of the Lipizzaner and depict it in a manner that is scientifically sound. German text.