Pure Spanish Horse Bloodlines

The pure spanish horse bloodlines that are known overseas, and bloodlines that are recognised and highly regarded in our home country, Spain. Breeders and studs who pay careful attention to genealogies and types.

What is the history of the different PRE studs in Spain? Who are the leading Pura Raza breeders? What is known of upcoming Purebred Spanish horse studs?

Breeders have different ends in view. Some are breeding the Pura Raza for its classic beauty. Others see the potential of the spanish horse in dressage. Still others have a passion for the colors that are again appearing in the breed.

Compare here isn't a case of ’better’ - there are many good historical lines.

The bloodlines can be equal in ’value level’ but produce different qualities in the horse. Choice is according to what you want to do with your pure bred spanish horses.

Do you want elegance? Or classic white spanish andalusian? or a strong carriage horse? Each tends to a different line.

• Pallares is one of the oldest and most impactful lines on the horses that have that ’edge’of spanish classic beauty. I work with quite a few horses of these lines and mixes, as well as breeding with them, and have never been disappointed. They tend to be taller, longer moving, intelligent and very receptive.
• Romero Benitez are classic, often pure white. They tend to be rounder and truly baroque (in contrast to the clunky, neck-heavy horses that some would tag with that attribute).
  They are an integral part of the history of the PRE, absolutely superb in their day.
• Martinez Boloix is regarded as one of the consistently good lines of black PREs
• Bohorquez - not Borquez Ruiz, the old line, are absolute foundation stock. Strong, well built, good looking.

We are building this information base on the pure spanish horse bloodlines, often using as examples horses within our Group.

• Carthusian or Cartujano horses
• Pallares, classic spanish horse bloodlines notes and the tall, elegant Yeguada Peregrino Pallares breeding mares
• Marin Garcia with championships in Morphology, Dressage and Doma Vaquera
  Peregrino dressage PRE Poderoso carries SICAB champion bloodlines
• Yeguada Candau - the Candau Stud, the candau bloodlines
• YM bloodlines yeguada militar and some observations on breeding to Yeguada Militar stallions
• Martinez Boloix the historical stud and a pure Martinez Boloix black stallion
• Terry
• Romero Benitez
• Bohorqez Ruiz spanish horse bloodlines and an Olympic Dressage and Spain Champion
• Guardiola
• Lovera
• Escalera bloodlines in Spain both of Don Jose Luis de la Escalera and Doña Maria Fernanda de la Escalera.
• Miura PRE bloodlines

These lines are represented in our PRE stallions in spain
and in our purebred spanish mares

What does his ancestry tell you when you consider

• the inter-mixing of bloodlines,
• the injection of an outside line,
• the issue of line breeding.
• How prepotent was a particular stallion? A mare?
• The influence of one horse in a genealogy of 14 horses (3 generations) can be quite diluted: What was it mixed with? Are the other lines true to the same type?
• Has a stud that produced good horses a generation ago continued in the same quality?

• The classic, baroque pure spanish horse?
• The PREs that are winning in dressage?
• The coat colours of bay andalusians and black spanish horses?
• The new exotic colors in the pura raza - dun, buckskin and the dilutes?
• And are there any pure spanish breeders producing cremellos and perlinos?

All these are well known PRE studs, breeders and bloodlines. A page on each is on its way, you will see when a link is live. If the pure spanish horse bloodlines page you are looking for is not up yet, just contact us.