Lipizzaner horses are born dark. They gradually become lighter with each change of coat as they grow older, until they are silvery white. Although originally the breed represented different colours, today the Lipizzaner is almost exclusively white.  Only a tiny percentage still today remains bay or black.

 

Today the Lipizzaner Centre has two bay stallions to uphold the century old tradition of colour in a Lipizzaner. Both Siglavy Arva 1 and Conversano Arva will remain bay for the rest of their lives. In addition a colt born in 2006, Siglavy Odaliska, shows signs of remaining black. He would take up the place of Conversana Pablo, our last black Lipizzaner stallion at the Centre, who unfortunately died in 2005 at the age of 22.

 

Our “coloured” stallions always get trained to highest levels and form an integral part of the performance.