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Esterházy Pallavicini AUSTRALIAN LIPIZZANER REGISTRY INC. “Striving for Breeding Excellence” Patron: Hofrat. Univ. Doz. Dr. Jaromir Oulehla Newsletter Number 2 February 2014 Winston Churchill quote “No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle” Aristocratic Families contributing to the Lipizzaner Stud Book of Origin, commencing with Prince Esterházy of Tata Stud, Hungary Count Pallivicini of Pusztaszer Stud Hungary “Buck Brannagan” video with New Zealand Master Horseman John “Paddy” Mair link inside Show results: AHAA SA Branch show New Zealand and Australian Breeder News ABN: 12 697 256 168 AUSTRALIAN LIPIZZANER REGISTRY Inc. “Striving for Breeding Excellence” Newsletter Number 2 I. Editorial II. Esterhazy Family and Founding Mare Lines III. AHAA Show Results IV. Foal Crop V. Pallavicini Family and Founding Mare Lines VI. Winner of the Christmas Photo Competition VII. New Zealand Report (including Buck Brannagan style link) VIII. Australian Stud Farm Report IX. Classifieds X. Membership Form XI. Disclaimer Editorial Newsletter no 2 February 2014 Esterházy Crest Pallavicini Crest The first 18 months of operation for the ALR Inc. has been very busy indeed! On the 3rd of November our first AGM was well attended by fourteen members, with three from New Zealand at the property of Wayne and Amanda Klaassen. At the meeting the proposals for alterations to the Rules and Regulations and the Constitution were voted in. This was the capping of a very successful year in which we saw the movement towards evaluation rather than accreditation of all stock including off spring, thereby widening the requirement of inspection of all Lipizzaners as breeding horses. Our first major show for the year was the Andalusian Horse Association of Australia South Australian State Championship show held on Sunday the 24th of November. In all seven Lipizzaners were exhibited from a total of nine entries. This proved to be a very successful day for all our competitors and congratulations go to Wayne and Amanda Klaassen on their stallion Favory Marta taking out the Supreme Champion Baroque Exhibit of the show. Many thanks go to the AHAA for putting on the Lipizzaner classes and special thanks to Baroque Horse Magazine for sponsoring the day. A picture of Favory Marta can also be seen in the January issue of Baroque Horse Magazine and photos of all the other horses taking part at the show can be viewed in this newsletter. Our next show outing will be early next year at the Murray Bridge All Breeds Show. We trust that the ALR Inc. newsletter is enjoyable reading for all of our Lipizzaner members, friends, breeders and overseas owners and enthusiasts. Thank you to everyone near and far who has given us very positive feedback on the website, newsletter and Facebook. Over time the newsletter team would like to bring readers interesting stories of rarely known or covered facts about the Lipizzaner horse. We will also seek permission from overseas Lipizzaner connections to reprint earlier stories that may be of particular interest. In this issue ALR Inc. will commence a regular feature on the lives and stud farms of the aristocratic families that contributed to both male and female lines of the Piber “Stud Book of Origin”. This is a topic that appears not to have been covered in the way we hope to do so. The wealth of some of the families to be mentioned was sometimes so great that the land holdings were far more extensive than that of the Emperor himself. One family; that of the Esterhazy had some 34 palaces and castles and was once described as the wealthiest person ever to have existed on the planet having never been a King with a throne! Ground training using natural horsemanship techniques is very topical these days. Readers are invited to look at the YouTube clip of Mr John “Paddy” Mair from New Zealand with his yearling Lipizzaner colt Conversano Bekescaba. Please find this attached to the New Zealand page. A lot to be said about ground training and the rapport that can be developed between horse and handler. The video clip shows the colt after only eight days of the Buck Brannagan method of education. Paddy is quite an exponent in this method of training; having competed in North America on a regular basis. He holds regular clinics in New Zealand for youth and adults in this art and he is a great believer in the use of similar ground training before any other education under saddle. The clip is a “must see” and we are sure you will get a laugh from some of the colts antics. Included is our first “Foal Crop” page with photos of the stock by 224 Conversano Allegra V (Slovenia) and 3518 Conversano Juliana III (USA) Many thanks go to all over members for a very industrious effort this year. It has all been very worthwhile to see the results of the hard work and the membership certainly has a very broad pool of talent in many areas from which to draw from! Our membership expands on a monthly basis and it is wonderful to see people keen to support the breed and to have a future ambition to breed purebred Lipizzaners. The membership of the ALR Inc. looks forward to 2104 with great enthusiasm! Directors Australian Lipizzaner Registry Inc. *Front page 266 Favory Marta winner of the Supreme Baroque Horse Exhibit at the Andalusian Horse Association of Australia SA Branch Show November 2013 Prince Esterházy Of TATA STUD Hungary TATA Stud bred two mares that contributed to the Lipizzaner Stud Book of Origin MARE FAMILIES OF HUNGARIAN ORIGIN 6 Line: 2052 NEAPOLITANO SZERENA Foundress: 79 Szerena Tata (Prince Esterhazy) 7 Line: 81 MAESTOSO SOSTENUTA Foundress: 101 Siglavy II (Bábolna, 1897) Tata (Prince Esterhazy) Nikolaus I Prince Esterhazy (1714 – 1790) Portrait in the uniform of his Hungarian Infantry Regiment No. 33. Wikipedia Esterhazy Palace Eisenstadt Austria Projektierte Gartenfassade des Schlosses Esterházy by Albert Christoph Dies, 1812 (Wikipedia) Schloss Esterházy: In 1364 The palace came into the possession of the powerful Kanizsai family. By 1622 Esterházy the family had taken possession of this magnificent castle. The family was so wealthy that the composer Joseph Haydn was in their employ for nearly forty years. This was in the late 1700,s and Haydnsaal was named after the famous composer. Originally it was a large multi-purpose, festival and banquet room and is a piece of artwork in itself. With its size and ornate splendor, it reflects the political, economic and cultural dominance of the Esterházy family. Today it ranks among the most beautiful and acoustically perfect concert halls of the world. Many of Joseph Haydn’s works composed and premiered in Eisenstadt and the Schloss Esterházy. Composer Joseph Haydn Stair Case Fertöd Esterházy Coat of Arms of the 14th to 15th century wikipedia Esterházy Family History since the baroque period For several generations, the Esterházy family had been exceedingly wealthy. The wealth came from their extensive landholdings, mostly in Hungary. In 1848 the American author John Stevens Cabot Abbott wrote the following of him: (Quotation not in full, excerpt taken from the original) Prince Esterházy in 1830: Prince Esterhazy, a Hungarian baron, is probably the richest man, who is not seated on a throne, in the world. He lives in the highest style of earthly grandeur. One of his four magnificent palaces contains three hundred and sixty rooms for guests, and a theater. His estates embrace one hundred and thirty villages, forty towns, and thirty-four castles. By the old feudal law, still undisturbed, he possesses unlimited power over his vassals........ He has quite a little band of troops in his pay, and moves with military pomp and gorgeous retinue from palace to palace. The Prince's wealth came partly from the great number of peasants who owed him a portion of the fruits of the labours. He also had his own enterprises, directed by his staff, notably sheep raising. Of his enormous flock, Abbott relates: Not long ago he visited England, and was a guest of the Lord of Holkham, one of the wealthiest proprietors of that island. While looking upon a very beautiful flock of two thousand sheep, the Lord of Holkham inquired if Esterhazy could show as fine a flock upon his estates. The wealthy baron smilingly replied, “My shepherds are more numerous than your sheep." This was literally true, for Esterhazy has two thousand five hundred shepherds. Source Wikipedia free Nikolaus II. Fürst Esterházy Painting Martin Knoller in 1793.Oil on canvas. Esterházy Privatstiftung, Burgenland Wikipedia TATA STUD In 1727, Count József Esterházy purchased Tata and the surrounding villages. Count Jozsef Esterhazy - Wikipedia Paul Anton III Esterházy von Galantha 1786-1866 Prince Nikolaus III [Miklós Pál] 1817-1894 In 1866 Paul III Anton, Prince Esterházy, succeeded his father but under very difficult circumstances. In 1865 the Esterházy estates had been placed in the hands of curators, because of the enormous debts caused by his father's and grandfather's extravagance. The Esterhazy Estates were released from curators in 1898. During this period, Prince Nikolaus III was forced to sell the family's collection of paintings to the Kingdom of Hungary. These paintings constitute the core of the collection of the present- day Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest). Esterházy family information wikiedia Prince Paul IV bought a group of 16 Lipizzan mares and 4 stallions in Lipica after the Great War with help of his friend Count Rudolph van der Straten-Ponthoz, who was the director of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna during the Interbellum. The strain of Lipizzan bloodlines can be traced back to belonging to the court of Franz-Joseph.