Mission Statement: This registry has formed to help specify, identify and preserve rare western bloodlines of curly stockhorses that are in danger of extinction due to lack of awareness (and / or out-crossing).

Curly Stockhorse Registry Goals:

• Preserve critically endangered bloodlines of curly stockhorses:
  • KRT25 rare Bad Warrior bloodline of ranch horses
  • -xxxxx- novel Spanish Sulphur curly coated horses
  • -xxxxx- novel Colonial Spanish curly coated horses
  • KRT25 wild BLM Checkerboard Square curly horses
  • KRT25 old line Lp Curly Horses
  • KRT25 Fredell curly horses
  • -xxxxx- Cook curly horses
  • KRT25 Canadian (Cypress) curly horses
  • KRT25 Working Ranch Morab curly horses (pure Damele line)
  • KRT25 wild BLM Owyhee Desert curly horses
  • KRT25 Homestead type curly horses (drafters)
  • -xxxxx- South American Curly Criollos
    
    
• Preservation GOALS through education:
  • halt crossing of diverse types & lines
  • increase quality of diverse types & lines
  • increase numbers of rare bloodlines
  • get them out in public, the right kind of horses doing the right things
  • incentivize both preserving old lines AND breeding better horses
    
    
• Raise Public Awareness About Rare Curly Stockhorses
  • Publish latest research in Curly Horse Journal (CHJ) of Rare Horses
  • Distribute information to Educators, Scientists, Conservancies, Allergy Doctors
  • Educate about history, bloodlines, conformation, type, training, use
    
    
• What CSR offers members:
  • pedigree research, recording in database
  • horse registration certificates, with official (international) animal ID numbers
  • optional microchip ID with international database registration
  • Additional Services:
  • support for breeders--advertising, references, programs, education, networking, directories
  • breed promotion
  • media kit supplies, pamphletes
  • CHJ subscriptions (science research rare horse journal)
  • articles in CHJ
  • member rates for advertising in CHJ
  • horse performance recognition (trade fair expos, displays, competitions, incentive funds, awards)
  • certification for breeding goals
  • CONFORMATION TYPE EVALUATION: Distinctly different types among the whole curly horse population, and different histories, and different regional development of bloodlines, are a reality in the Curly Horse. Crossing distinct types, can work well, or, it can not work well. Consciously making the decision to cross 2 divergent types should be done with awareness. Also very rare bloodlines have been led to near extinction by indiscriminate outcrossing of their specific bloodlines. These facts are not about criticizing or judgement. They are about increasing education, awareness, and promotion of rare horses that need protection to survive. Type identification is simple, and is not a big deal. We offer that option on exclusive registrations for horses, at a reduced rate for rare horse breeders. If you can judge your own type, and don't need IHHA to do it for you, please do, and fill out an application based on your own understanding.
  • CONFORMATION CARD GRADING: The objective of card grading is to evaluate individual animals relative to a breed or type standard and assess their potential as breeding stock. Card grading, with its evaluation of all individuals within a group of animals, strengthens breeders’ understanding of the characteristics and attributes of their type and/or breed and, in turn, encourages the protection of genetic diversity within the breed. This is in contrast to competitive judging, which encourages uniformity by rewarding only a single “best” animal within a show class. This works in hand with type evaluation, in identifying the differences within curly horse bloodlines & types.
  • Additional Products:
    • DNA test kits: genetic health panels tailored to specific horse's pedigree
    • equine semen sexing agents--for fresh or thawed frozen semen--sexing for fillies or for colts ($7.50 / dose)
    • equine pregnancy pee-test kits ($5 / test)

Curly Horse Journal
of Rare Horse Research & News:

time will tell... regarding

this illustration represents
theories about known (identified) and unknown (unidentified) dominant curl mutations in horses
as reported in 2019 to CHJ by esteemed Research Liaison, Dr. Mitch Wilkinson.
However, as of this writing, we are still not entirely convinced that this illustration
accurately depicts what we know about dominant curly mutations.
I have asked for clarification, (awaiting answers)
about whether un-identified variants could be the same mutation...
And an explanation for how more than one "extinct variants" could be suspected, if they are gone... ?
That was where we left off... and we know inquiring minds want to know.
Stay tuned for 2020 eMagazine journal editions... (email any questions to: heritage.horse.assn@gmail.com).

Curly Stockhorse Preservation Program founded March 2014 CurlyStockHorses.com published online January ©2020 by Vintage Press, LLC. last updated August 2020; author: Hiedi & Donna Grace heritage.horse.assn@gmail.com

The Curly Stockhorse Registry (CSR) is a new studbook division of the
International Heritage Horse Association is a cooperate of International Livestock Registries
CSR supports the preservation effort, but being a member of one is not required by the other
CSR is owned & administrated by Bucking V Outfit, LLC. & Vintage Press, LLC.