New Website for Dansk Pinto Forening
I launched pinto.dk today. Built with Statamic, with collections for breeding programs, stallion registries, rating results, and a horse database mapped from decades of breeding data.
Today I launched the new website for Dansk Pinto Forening, the Danish breeding association for piebald horses and ponies. The organization has been running since 1992 and operates three EU-approved breeding programs under Seges Heste.
The build
The site is built with Statamic. The interesting part is the data modeling. A breeding association isn't a blog or a corporate site. It's a database of horses, stallions, breeding programs, ratings, championships, and results going back decades. The challenge was mapping all of that into Statamic collections with relationships that make sense both for the administrators and for the members browsing the site.
Breeding programs. Three separate EU-approved programs (Sports-Pinto, Barok-Pinto, Pinto-Araber), each with their own rules, approved stallions, and rating criteria. Each program is a collection with entries for individual horses linked to their lineage, ratings, and competition results.
Stallion registry. Approved stallions with detailed profiles: breed type, birth year, color, height, owner, and breeding history. The 2025 roster includes horses like Florisco (166 cm brown piebald Sport Horse) and Haurums Action Mann (170 cm brown piebald). Each stallion entry links to their offspring and rating results.
Hestekartotek. The horse database is the backbone. Internal registry of all registered horses with breeding data, ownership history, ratings, and competition records. Decades of data mapped into structured Statamic entries with relationships connecting horses to their sires, dams, and offspring.
Rating results and championships. Historical results from ratings (kåringer), material and riding tests, and championships. Structured data that administrators can update after each event without touching code.
Why Statamic
A breeding association needs a CMS that non-technical board members and committee heads can use. Statamic's control panel lets them manage horse entries, publish rating results, update stallion rosters, and add news without calling me. The flat-file storage means the entire site is version controlled and deployable without database migrations.
The blueprints map directly to the domain: a horse has a name, registration number, breed, color, height, birth year, sire, dam, owner, and a set of ratings. A breeding program has rules, approved stallions, and elite designations. Statamic's fieldtypes handle all of this natively.
Full circle
There's something fitting about this project. I built Heste-Nettet back in 2003, one of Denmark's biggest online horse communities. More than two decades later I'm still building for the Danish horse world. Different technology, same domain, same attention to how horse people actually work with data.
Check it out at pinto.dk.