Breed Facts and History
 
 
 The internet is a wonderful tool, but it also allows for incorrect information to be published and appear to be fact.
The world of the Gypsy Horses has quite a bit of that going on.
Please be careful about your sources.
 
 The "Gypsy Horses" came from England and Ireland and were bred by
the Romani nomadic Gypsy people for a hundred years to provide for the family's needs of pulling their wagons.
The "true proper Cob" was bred with a quiet temperament to be safe for the family and quiet on the roads.
Many Romani do not read or write so the pedigrees of these horses were not kept in a true studbook overseas
but rather handed down verbally.

The Gypsy people didn't call the horses "Gypsy horses",
 the highest compliment was to call them a "proper coloured cob". ( spelled that way )

It took an American trying to market the breed at a ridiculous high cost to begin referring to them as "Vanners"
in the late '90's.

The Gypsy people definitely do NOT refer to the horses as "Vanners" and do not consider it a compliment
 that some Americans began calling them that.  
Again, it was a marketing ploy to deceive some Americans into believing a "vanner" was different
from a Gypsy Cob, Gypsy Horse,  Irish Tinker, Irish Cob, or any of the other names they are referred to as.

If you Google "vanner definition" you will find it says two things :

1.  a person who owns a customized van
2.  a machine for concentrating ore.
 
The true registry for the Gypsy Horses and the ONLY registry to not only put on it's own
Gypsy Horse World Show at the Fort Worth Stock Show
is the Gypsy Horse Registry of America in Texas.

This ranch will NEVER refer to the horses as "vanners" as it is not respectful of the Romani people, nor correct.
 
 The foundation breeding stock from A Wizards Spell Ranch was flown over from England
except for the first two mares born here which we kept. 
We have been an hugely successful breeding ranch since 2004 being home
to three amazing stallions and approx. 13 brood mares as well as multiple performance/trick geldings. 
 
 
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