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Special Message to LANA Members:

(April 15, 2012) Well, it is time to renew your LANA Dues. And we have good news: LANA is keeping its dues at the same low $45.00 for a full year membership. This price is the same for a person, for a family, for a farm or for a business/corporation.

Even with the same low dues as 20 years ago, your membership benefits have increased. In addition to receiving the quality Haute École magazine, LANA members have unlimited access to our online pedigree database (containing about 5,000 living and historic Lipizzans), a 10% discount on purchases from the LANA store, a 50% discount on advertising, and reduced fees on horse registrations and transfers.

Consider adding your farm to our Lipizzan Farm & Breeder Directory for only $35 per year. Your listing will be on the LANA website for a full year and your listing will appear in the entire year’s issues of Haute École. The LANA website has received more than 275,000 visits in the past couple of years, many of those people looking at the listings of farms, breeders, training, stud service and horses for sale. Great visibility at a great bargain!

As an incentive for you to renew early, if you renew by May 10, 2012 you will receive a listing in the Lipizzan Farm & Breeder Directory for only $25 per year, a 30% discount off the regular price.

You may renew your membership on-line through our secure website by going to: Join or Renew LANA Membership page. The Directory information can then be emailed to: info@Lipizzan.org.

Or you may renew by mail and send a check with the completed Directory form to: LANA Membership, PO Box 426, Valley City, OH 44280.

Director of the Spanish Riding School joins LANA Board of Directors

Mrs. Elisabeth Guertler, the Managing Director of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, has joined the LANA Board of Directors.

It is an understatement to say that Mrs. Guertler is a remarkable and accomplished woman. She is an experienced equestrienne and was a member of the Austrian Dressage Team before retiring from riding. For many years she was Chair of the Vienna Opera Ball. Mrs. Guertler and her family own and manage the Hotel Sacher in Vienna and Hotel Sacher in Salzburg. She continues to enlarge and expand the family holdings of this prestigious and elegant hotel business.

LANA has always maintained a strong international profile. We continue our close relationship with the Spanish Riding School and the Piber Stud Farm, as well as with the Lipizzan International Federation (LIF). LANA, through its original organization, the Lipizzan Association of America, was the first American Lipizzan organization recognized by the Lipizzan International Federation. LANA’s studbook is the only USA or North American book recognized by the LIF.

The current LANA Board now has three Directors who are tied closely to the Spanish Riding School in Vienna: former Director Jaromir Oulehla (who served as Director from 1983 to 2001), current Director Elisabeth Guertler (who assumed management of the School in 2007), former First Chief Rider Johann Riegler.

We are all very excited that Mrs. Guertler has chosen to join LANA in supporting and perpetuating the Lipizzan breed across North America. We will all benefit from her valuable advice and guidance.

New Year Greeting from LANA

Dear Fellow LANA Members:

A new year is beginning and we are again looking forward to spring, with rebirth and, for a fortunate few, foals on the way. Again we are grateful to have had these magnificent horses touch our lives, and again we are reminded of our responsibility to insure the perpetuation of this historic breed and of their critical pedigree records.

This new year will bring some excitement to the LANA community:

• Gary Lashinsky, a member of LANA’s Board of Directors and President /Producer of Lipizzaner Stallions, hopes to bring the Spanish Riding School of Vienna back to North America soon for another series of performances. We will keep you informed of when and where the SRS will appear and what associated events LANA will plan. Gary just returned from Bahrain where his horses were invited to perform for the King. We are so pleased that one our Directors continues to bring Lipizzan performances to appreciative audiences around the world.
• LANA has been working toward having the pedigree records available online, through a secure website, so that members may log in to review current pedigree information for breeding purposes or for researching bloodlines. LANA has available, not just currently registered purebred and partbred horses, but all known horses born in or imported into North America, Get of Sire, Produce of Dam, DNA data, and an AKA list for horses whose names were changed from their European form.
• LANA has interesting new historical articles planned for its Haute Ecole newsletter.
• LANA has expanded its online store with new Lipizzan-related merchandise, including several newly available classic books. Please revisit the Lipizzan Horse Gift store.
• LANA continues to represent Lipizzan competitors through its involvement as an Affiliate Member of the USEF (United States Equestrian Federation).
• The LFA (the Lipizzan Federation of America) will continue in its present form, as an organization of three organizations (LANA, ALBA, USLR) which represents North America to the LIF (the Lipizzan International Federation). Though an attempt to change the LFA into a member organization has failed, there is no change in our interaction with the international community, nor is there any change in the international recognition of our pedigrees. LANA is a member of the Lipizzan International Federation. LANA’s studbook is recognized by the LIF and remains part of the LIF records. All LANA registered Lipizzans are recognized by the LIF.

Any LANA member who would like to become more involved in the organization’s activities, or business operation, or in the governance of LANA, please just speak up. Your involvement is welcome and appreciated. Let us know what you would like to do.

LANA wants to continue to meet the needs of our members. Our primary focus as a breed registry has always been the horses, and the maintenance of accurate, verifiable pedigree data in order to preserve and promote the Lipizzan breed in North America and abroad.

HAPPY NEW YEAR from LANA’s Board of Directors:

• Dr. Delphi Toth
• Gary Lashinsky
• John Nicholas Iannuzzi, Esq.
• Melody Hull

USEF Affiliate

We are pleased to be able to announce that the Executive Committee of the United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) has chosen our organization, the Lipizzan Association of North America, to be an Affiliated Association.

We at LANA are proud to have been chosen to represent the Lipizzan breed. The USEF has more than 90,000 members and recognizes 120 Affiliated Associations.

This recognition as an Affiliated Association is the first step toward being able to promote the Lipizzan horse through USEF national shows and competitions.

Our next step is to compile and submit competition rules for the Lipizzan Breed to the USEF for inclusion in the USEF Rule Book. Anyone interested in helping to put these rules together is welcome to contact any members of LANA’s Board of Directors to become part of the Show/Competition Committee.

About LANA

In 1992, members of the oldest American Lipizzan registry, the Lipizzan Association of America, joined with members of the Lipizzan Society of North America to combine their interests and form the Lipizzan Association of North America (LANA). LANA is a North American representative to the Lipizzan International Federation, a world-wide association of Lipizzan owners and breeders.

The LANA website includes information on classical dressage training, contact information for Lipizzan breeders, photos of Lipizzans, the history of the Lipizzan horse, links to the Lipizzan stallions of the Spanish Riding School & Austrian Piber Studfarm, and gift items featuring Lipizzan and Baroque horse pictures.

LANA’s prime objective is to provide members with accessible, accurate, and verifiable pedigree information, not only from American breeders, but also from overseas sources. To this end, LANA has established the Lipizzan Pedigree Trust to research and maintain pedigree records of purebred Lipizzans. This trust operates under a separate Board of Trustees and functions as a historical repository and research center. Partbred Lipizzan horses are recorded in a separate division of LANA.