Strict Selection Criteria Are Vital To Boerperd Breeding

This popular indigenous breed is a hardy and muscular all-rounder that excels in many equestrian sports.

- Dr Mac

The Boerperd can trace its origins back to Java ponies imported by Jan van Riebeeck. It is one of the three indigenous South African breeds (the others being the Nooitgedacht and the Cape Boerperd) registered with SA Studbook.

The first Boerperd breed society was registered in 1973 in Memel, in the Free State, and was subsequently renamed Die Historiese Boerperd Vereniging in 1977. It became the South African Boerperd Association in 1998. The breed registry was closed in 2002.

All Boerperd foals have to be birth-notified and DNA-tested. They are inspected at two years old, but are allowed to be used for stud purposes only once they have passed and been branded with a B inside a circle.

In 2018, a total of 19 active breeders, with 1 526 mares, 705 stallions and 309 geldings, were registered on the SA Stud Book’s Logix database.