The Continental Studbook welcomes you to explore the website and to discover why it is the only Olympic and hunter sport breeding registry to be modeled specifically for North America. Links throughout the major website sections provide detailed information on advantages offered by the Studbook. For those that prefer more direct access, the site map is a centralized page to access all website information. Finally, the Continental Studbook provides a forum to discuss the Studbook, breeding, commerce, sport and other equine topics.
The Studbook was created with common horse sense registry systems, dedication to quality, limited bureaucracy and very low costs for the breeder. The Continental Studbook solves many of the significant problems faced by domestic breeders today, and it is the right Studbook for North American breeders at the right economic time.
Multiple registry subscriptions are no longer needed for a diverse Warmblood herd. Multiple inspections, memberships and forms can be replaced with a single efficient Studbook service. The mare centric Studbook recognizes and promotes outstanding quality, lineage and producing ability from many origins.
A virtually unlimited stallion selection is available for your mares, and licensing systems are designed to encourage domestic production of quality, healthy, capable stallions. Breeders are unfettered by regulations and tiered classification systems which have little to do with the production of great horses for Olympic and hunter sports.
WBFSH SPORT FOCUS
The Continental Studbook is focused solely on Warmblood and sport horse breeding in the Olympic disciplines of dressage, eventing and jumping and in the North American hunter discipline.
DEDICATED FOCUS ON QUALITY
Breeders with imported and domestic bloodlines in North America are choosing the Continental Studbook for its dedication to establishing a quality reputation. Only Thoroughbred and WBFSH-member breeds and bloodlines with established sport history are accepted into the Continental Studbook, and breeders will never have to market their offspring against non-sport breeds or certificate of pedigree horses.
The Studbook accommodates and promotes the domestic Warmblood population descended from Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden and more. Breeders no longer need to follow mating directives made obsolete by generations of domestic breeding, but Continental Horses will never have to share the brand name with non-WBFSH bloodlines.
Attention to efficiency and low overhead led to one form and one low fee for registration. The Continental Studbook introduces to North America the only registration process that eliminates forms and fees for annual memberships, mare recordings, site inspections or foreign stallion breedings.
LIMITED BUREAUCRACY AND LOW COSTS
Breeders finally have an option that makes sense. There is no second class status in the Continental Studbook for using the licensed stallion of your choice or for breeding a mare born in another registry. For 2010, mare breeding approval and foal registration remains a combined $175. Mare approval is $40 including DNA recording, and this is credited toward her first foal registration at $135. Foal registrations always include DNA verification and USEF lifetime recording with American Performance Horse benefits.
- Includes DNA verification
- Includes USEF lifetime recording
- Includes Official Certificate of Registration
- Free breeding approval for mares with DNA on record
- Free classifieds and farm gallery listing
- No membership fees or forms
- No mare recording or nomination fees
- No stallion surcharges or fees
- No costly and risky inspection travel
- One studbook, One status
The Continental Studbook was developed from the ground up to serve breeders in North America with an innovative, pragmatic, useful and cost effective registry. After nearly one year of development, design and critique efforts, a model has emerged to provide breeders with excellent service, valuable breeding resources, focus on horsemanship, emphasis on North American marketing and solutions to the problems of costs and travel.
The inspection site model, which works well in Europe but poorly in the vast geography of North America, has been replaced with sound horsemanship processes that eliminate dangerous travel for mares and foals.
No longer will breeding choices be restricted by your distance from an inspection site. The Continental Studbook has developed a more convenient process for health and quality verification of breeding stock by leveraging your own vet, the ease and detail of digital photographs and the North American show system.
A mare and stallion evaluation system has been designed to track and recognize achievements attained in quality, breeding and performance. Based on five key principles of Pedigree, Performance, Phenotype, Physical and Progeny, the voluntary 5P PRODUCTION INDICATOR SYSTEM is designed to be a tool for domestic offspring marketing, breeding decisions, quality recognition, performance data recognition and stallion licensing.