PRE Studbook Grows 3% in 2020 with over 12,000 Foals Born Worldwide

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In 2020, the PRE Studbook registered more than 12,000 new horses and almost 3,000 new breeders

Last year, the Purebred Spanish Horse Stud Book (PRE ANCCE) registered 12,343 new PRE horses in its birth Register (6,101 colts and 6,242 fillies). Thus, the breed census as of December 31, 2020 was 259,857 horses (129,978 stallions and 129,879 mares) belonging to 41,431 stud farms in 66 countries.

This translates into a 3% increase in the number horses and almost an 8% increase of stud farms with regards to the previous year.

International Expansion

Of the new breeders registered, 44% are internationals, mainly from the USA, Italy and Germany. The remaining 56% are from Spain, with Andalusia (47%), Catalonia and Castile & Leon leading the ranking.

With regards to the rest of the services provided by the LG PRE ANCCE Stud Book, 4,516 corresponded to revisions as Approved Breeding Stock while 9,224 were changes of ownership. Of the changes performed abroad, most were in the USA, Mexico, Italy and Germany.

It is important to mention the assessments undertaken by LG PRE ANCCE authorized veterinarians travelled to 13 different countries, including Morocco, Slovenia, the USA, Mexico, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Sweden and Italy, among others. These trips respected all COVID-19 safety measures at all times.

PRE Breeding Program

In 2020 and thanks to the efforts undertaken over the past fifteen years, the PRE Breeding Program published 155,038 genetic assessments based on Conformation Traits for Dressage (58,509 stallions and 96,529 mares) on its website.

Thirty-seven conformation traits for each horse were assessed genetically; the results were published together with the corresponding Global Genetic Index (GGI). For Dressage, 16,066 genetic assessments were published; these corresponded to 6,846 stallions and 9,220 mares. In this case, the genetic values for six variables were published together with their Global Genetic Index (IGG). Likewise, the corresponding Catalog of PRE Breeding Stock was also published.