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The Lewizter is a rare German breed of a sport pony. It is locally known for its tobiano coat.
A beautiful pony from a beautiful area:
Lewitz area in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (also Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania) is famous in Germany for its outstanding natural beauty and picturesque landscape. For avid German equestrians, it is also known as the birthplace of an equally beautiful pinto pony.
The pony in question is the Lewitzer, which was created during the 1970s out of local pinto stock crossed with small Arabians and Thoroughbreds. It took a good while before the breed received official recognition by the relevant authorities, but today it is an official German breed of a small sport horse that has its own studbook and a dedicated breeding program.
The Lewitzer today:
Barely known outside of Germany, the Lewitzer is a rare breed even within its homeland. This might be because, while it is a sport breed, it is not as competitive as the more widespread German Riding Pony. Still, it makes an excellent sport pony for both driving and riding at recreational levels, and for both children and young adults, with its colorful coat being an extra bonus.
Breeding Lewitzer ponies - purebreeding and a closed studbook:
The Lewitzer studbook accepts influence from a number of other breeds in order to avoid excessive inbreeding due to a small genetic pool. However, the breeding rules are very strict in order to maintain the purity and bloodlines of this breed, and clarify that one parent must always be a Lewitzer pony.
In Horse Isle, things are different. There is no issue of rarity, and therefore the Lewitzer has a closed studbook. This means that crossing a Lewizter with other breeds will result in a non-pure foal.
More Lewitzer breeding rules - tobiano and solid-colors:
The Lewitzer Studbook is very clear about tobiano being the preferable coat, especially in stallions. Tobiano is a dominant gene, which means that heterozygous individuals also have a tobiano coat. When you cross two such individuals together, you have a 25% chance of getting a solid-colored (non-tobiano) foal.
That Lewitzer studbook does allow crossing a Lewitzer with a solid-colored horse if the latter is approved for Lewitzer breeding. Therefore, in Horse Isle, we made a special sub-registry for solid foals called Lewitzer - Solid Breeding Stock.
You can use horses of this sub-registry as breeding stock for purebred Lewitzers. That said, this sub-registry has very strict breeding rules, so make sure to read them first if you plan on using solid Lewitzers as your main breeding stock (see 'Lewitzer - solid breeding stock' for more info).
Even more Lewitzer breeding rules - beware the double-cream dilutes:
The breed standard welcomes smoky-black, buckskin, and palomino Lewitzers into its ranks, but specifically warns against breeding double-ream diluted ponies. Such ponies (smoky-cream, perlino, cremello), are prohibited from registration because their tobiano pattern is barely apparent.
Crossing two cream-diluted Lewitzers has a 25% chance of generating a double-cream diluted grade foal. Crossing a cream-diluted Lewitzer with non-cream one guarantees a foal with a proper coat color.
Conformation:
As mentioned above, the Lewitzer is a German breed of sport pony. However, its conformation is slightly heavier and more compact than that of a 'typical' sport pony (including the German Riding Pony to which some Lewitzers are closely related).
Lewitzers have large eyes, a straight or slightly concave profile, a wide forehead, and medium-length ears (contrary to short ears as usually seen in ponies). The neck is of medium-length as well (contrary to the long neck usually seen in other sport ponies), the withers are prominent, and the girth is deep. The croup is rounded and muscled, and the body is wide.
The mane is short or medium in length, but the tail grows long. The legs might be clear of feathering or have some feathering behind the fetlocks.
Performance metrics:
The following are the: range, average, (SD), and MOE of performance metrics of ordered Lewitzers in Horse Isle (not bred ones). In rare cases,horses might have metrics outside of the range. Breeders can produce horses that are beyond this range.
Speed: 14.4-16.1, 15.3 (0.4), 0.08.
Sprint: 42-58, 49 (3), 0.65.
Accel: 0.88-1.07, 0.99 (0.05), 0.01.
Decel: 0.99-1.13, 1.06 (0.03), 0.01.
Jump: 5.21-5.49, 5.32 (0.06), 0.01.
Pull: 2.04-2.79, 2.38 (0.18), 0.03.
Turning: 47.38-61.01, 55.12 (3.06), 0.60.
Reverse: 2.3-2.9, 2.6 (0.2), 0.03.
Stamina: 46.88-51.70, 49.09 (1.08), 0.21.
Reaction: 0.73-0.83, 0.79 (0.02), 0.00.
Coats & Height:
Colors: bay, black, brown, chestnut, smoky-black, buckskin, palomino.
Cream note: crossing two cream-diluted Lewitzers has a 25% chance of generating a double-diluted grade foal (as double-cream individuals are not allowed in the Lewitzer registry).
Additionals: flaxen, minimal-mealy, sooty. The coat is always tobiano.
Height: 12.3hh to 14.2hh.
A beautiful pony from a beautiful area:
Lewitz area in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (also Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania) is famous in Germany for its outstanding natural beauty and picturesque landscape. For avid German equestrians, it is also known as the birthplace of an equally beautiful pinto pony.
The pony in question is the Lewitzer, which was created during the 1970s out of local pinto stock crossed with small Arabians and Thoroughbreds. It took a good while before the breed received official recognition by the relevant authorities, but today it is an official German breed of a small sport horse that has its own studbook and a dedicated breeding program.
The Lewitzer today:
Barely known outside of Germany, the Lewitzer is a rare breed even within its homeland. This might be because, while it is a sport breed, it is not as competitive as the more widespread German Riding Pony. Still, it makes an excellent sport pony for both driving and riding at recreational levels, and for both children and young adults, with its colorful coat being an extra bonus.
Breeding Lewitzer ponies - purebreeding and a closed studbook:
The Lewitzer studbook accepts influence from a number of other breeds in order to avoid excessive inbreeding due to a small genetic pool. However, the breeding rules are very strict in order to maintain the purity and bloodlines of this breed, and clarify that one parent must always be a Lewitzer pony.
In Horse Isle, things are different. There is no issue of rarity, and therefore the Lewitzer has a closed studbook. This means that crossing a Lewizter with other breeds will result in a non-pure foal.
More Lewitzer breeding rules - tobiano and solid-colors:
The Lewitzer Studbook is very clear about tobiano being the preferable coat, especially in stallions. Tobiano is a dominant gene, which means that heterozygous individuals also have a tobiano coat. When you cross two such individuals together, you have a 25% chance of getting a solid-colored (non-tobiano) foal.
That Lewitzer studbook does allow crossing a Lewitzer with a solid-colored horse if the latter is approved for Lewitzer breeding. Therefore, in Horse Isle, we made a special sub-registry for solid foals called Lewitzer - Solid Breeding Stock.
You can use horses of this sub-registry as breeding stock for purebred Lewitzers. That said, this sub-registry has very strict breeding rules, so make sure to read them first if you plan on using solid Lewitzers as your main breeding stock (see 'Lewitzer - solid breeding stock' for more info).
Even more Lewitzer breeding rules - beware the double-cream dilutes:
The breed standard welcomes smoky-black, buckskin, and palomino Lewitzers into its ranks, but specifically warns against breeding double-ream diluted ponies. Such ponies (smoky-cream, perlino, cremello), are prohibited from registration because their tobiano pattern is barely apparent.
Crossing two cream-diluted Lewitzers has a 25% chance of generating a double-cream diluted grade foal. Crossing a cream-diluted Lewitzer with non-cream one guarantees a foal with a proper coat color.
Conformation:
As mentioned above, the Lewitzer is a German breed of sport pony. However, its conformation is slightly heavier and more compact than that of a 'typical' sport pony (including the German Riding Pony to which some Lewitzers are closely related).
Lewitzers have large eyes, a straight or slightly concave profile, a wide forehead, and medium-length ears (contrary to short ears as usually seen in ponies). The neck is of medium-length as well (contrary to the long neck usually seen in other sport ponies), the withers are prominent, and the girth is deep. The croup is rounded and muscled, and the body is wide.
The mane is short or medium in length, but the tail grows long. The legs might be clear of feathering or have some feathering behind the fetlocks.
Performance metrics:
The following are the: range, average, (SD), and MOE of performance metrics of ordered Lewitzers in Horse Isle (not bred ones). In rare cases,
Speed: 14.4-16.1, 15.3 (0.4), 0.08.
Sprint: 42-58, 49 (3), 0.65.
Accel: 0.88-1.07, 0.99 (0.05), 0.01.
Decel: 0.99-1.13, 1.06 (0.03), 0.01.
Jump: 5.21-5.49, 5.32 (0.06), 0.01.
Pull: 2.04-2.79, 2.38 (0.18), 0.03.
Turning: 47.38-61.01, 55.12 (3.06), 0.60.
Reverse: 2.3-2.9, 2.6 (0.2), 0.03.
Stamina: 46.88-51.70, 49.09 (1.08), 0.21.
Reaction: 0.73-0.83, 0.79 (0.02), 0.00.
Coats & Height:
Colors: bay, black, brown, chestnut, smoky-black, buckskin, palomino.
Cream note: crossing two cream-diluted Lewitzers has a 25% chance of generating a double-diluted grade foal (as double-cream individuals are not allowed in the Lewitzer registry).
Additionals: flaxen, minimal-mealy, sooty. The coat is always tobiano.
Height: 12.3hh to 14.2hh.
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