Nando – Ambassador for the Breed Building a Champion’s Legacy Submitted by Chuck Hendershot The 2018 summer show season added another chapter to Nando’s story and his legacy as a champion and a sire of champions. Nando (Jessica X Notaris) was imported from the Netherlands in 1999 as a weanling stallion prospect by Hendershot Haflingers. He developed on our farm in upstate New York over the next few years and as a three-year-old was the AHR National Champion Stallion, and also won the National Champion Western and English titles at the AHR National show. Although he still retains his athletic nature and
ability to perform in all equine disciplines, Nando drives, rides English, Dressage and Western, jumps, reins, works cows, and races barrels and poles. Today Nando is content enjoying his personal paddock with a great view of the Appalachian Mountains. He also enjoys the reports of how his offspring are carrying on his championship legacy, a legacy that is being built in the halter ring, both as young futurity prospects and as old halter competitors and in the performance rings at all levels and disciplines. The summer of 2018 is a prime example of how this terrific
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stallion is passing on his traits and promoting the Haflinger breed in the United States. Although it was a shortened season in 2018 with the loss of the Walnut Hill Driving Competition, Nando’s offspring started out of the gate fast and kept the pace up all summer. The season started in June with the traditional Father’s Day competition at Morven Park in Leesburg, Virginia. Three years ago, Haflingers were not a common sight at this event. However, in the last three years Haflingers have grown in numbers at the show and in 2018 were represented in
