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Przedswit II, born 1931 in Weiselburg |
Przedswit was the lightest of the halfblooded lines bred in the formal
state “stud farms” in Austria. The founder was an English halfblood
Przedswit (Senior), born 1872. His sire was Knight of the Garter who was a
grandson of the famous Melbourne from the Eclipse line. Przedswit’s dame
was The Jewel, who was the daughter of Stockwell from the line of Eclipse,
resp. Darley’s Arabian.
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Przedswit alone
was 168 cm (16'2 H) tall, bay horse and very refined and harmonious build,
with solid back and long muscular hind end. Przedswit was also excellent
racehorse, winning the Austrian Derby in 1875 and in 1876 winning the
Grand Prix of Bade-Baden. He was primarily used to breed with English
halfblooded mares and his offspring were mainly used as military (cavalry)
riding horses. He died in 1889 from pneumonia. At the time of his death the interest in thoroughbred was on the decline. The actual founder of the Przedswit line is considered to be his son of the same name out of Anglonorman mare 54 Eclatante, born 1878. He was active as a stallion in reproduction of the Przedswit line of English halfbloods from 1882 to 1898.
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Translated by
Ludvik K Stanek a.k.a.
Lee Stanek
from the 1953 Special Zoo-Technique - Breeding of Horses
Published in 1953 by
the Czechoslovakian Academy of Agricultural Science and certified by the
Ministry of Agriculture.
Written by: MVDr Ludvik
Ambroz, Frabtisek Bilek, MVDr Karel Blazek, Ing. Jaromir Dusek, Ing. Karel
Hartman, Hanus Keil, pro. MVDr Emanuel Kral, Karel Kloubek, Ing. Dr. Frantisek
Lerche, Ing. Dr Vaclav Michal, Ing. Dr Zdenek Munki, Ing. Vladimir Mueller, MVDr
Julius Penicka, pro. MVDr Emil Pribyl, MVDr Lev Richter, prof. Ing. Dr Josef
Rechta, MVDr Karel Sejkora and Ing. Dr Jindrich Steinitz.
