Pedigree analysis

Founder breeds and founder individuals

Pie Chart presents proportions of genes in the current population relating to breeds defined for the 457 founder individuals.

Pie chart Proportions of genes in the current population originating from different founder breeds.

Roughly 50 percent of the Lipizzan genes may be attributed to horses of Spanish or Italian origin. The Danish Fredricksborger breed, similar in type and morphology, accounts for additional eight percent of the genes. Arabian genes amount to 20 percent, Shagya Arabian and English Thoroughbred genes to two and three percent, respectively. Horses from the imperial stud Kladruby contributed four prevent of the gene pool, although this is a somewhat delicate statement as strict separation of Lipizzan and Kladruby lines was not undertaken before 1826 (Bilek 1914). The Lipizzan genes (10percent) are from horses whose names are in the tradition of the Lipizzan nomenclature but of which pedigree information has been lost. The 16 fagaras mares mentioned above account for 2.7 percent of current population genes.