Equine Services Bureau

The Equine Services Bureau, established on 12.XIII.1702 AN and headquartered in the Western Natopian principality of Whales. A subsidiary of the ESB Group (Cibola), the primary offices and cantonment of the Equine Services Bureau are situated in the Lordship of Neufeld.

The unsettled and underdeveloped conditions of southern Cibola have produced a number of military, militia, and paramilitary formations, as well as private military companies, that rely upon horses as their primary means of conveyance when traversing the continental interior.

In addition to the cantonment at Neufeld, the Equine Services Bureau is working to establish a number of ranches, stud farms, and equestrian schools distributed throughout the lordships of the provinces of Asara Eliana and Monovia. The business model of these facilities will rest upon the large-scale importation of hardy Amokolian ponies, well accustomed to the sub-Boreal conditions of northern Benacia, cross-breeding them with such varieties of local horse as demonstrate promise, and then selling the ponies born of the new lineages to prospective customers such as the ESB-Kosaken-Brunïakis-Afzælt and the Dragonerkorps Ludwigshafen who have a proven and enduring requirement for remounts, as well as other entities, such as the Rossheim Dragoon Guards and Steerswick Guard Hussar Regiment, whose cowled emissaries have toured the lands of southern Cibola - expressing an intense interest in acquiring horseflesh in great quantities.