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10 – WBCYH eveNTING: moNDIAL DU LIoN

Le Lion d’Angers is the place to be every October to celebrate the talents of the six- and sevenyear-old eventing horses competing here for the eventing World Breeding Championship for Young Horses titles. On this occasion, it was a third young-horse title for Germany’s Ingrid Klimke.

16 – PerrY De WINTer: DreAmS oF BreeDING AN oLYmPIC HorSe

Many breeders dream about breeding a once-ina-lifetime horse who competes in prestigious arenas like Aachen. Others dream about breeding an approved stallion. We interviewed a breeder who has realized both, as well as producing a string of world-class showjumping horses.

20 – YeAr-eND rANKINGS 2017-2018

Following publication of the WBFSH/ROLEX ranking lists for breeders of showjumping, dressage and eventing horses, as well as the final studbook results, Christopher Hector has written an in-depth analysis, while Gemma Alexander produced a wealth of extraordinary charts that provide valuable information ‘at a glance’. 30 – SHoWJUmmPING evoLUTIoN, ACCorDING To NeLSoN PeSSoA

In competition and in breeding, excellence and consistency will be rewarded. This was especially demonstrated throughout all the rounds at the World Equestrian Games – encompassing at least five rounds for the top 25, and six rounds for five of those horses due to a jump-off between the Americans and Swedes in the team competition. CORRESPONDENTS IN THIS ISSUE: GEMMA ALEXANDER AGATA GROSICKA

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Corrado I: End of a special era for Holsteiner Verband mares in competition: The exceptions and the rules oldenburg horseds achieve €2.5 at auction: Golden prices in Vechta CWHBA Fall Classic Sale: Took place on October 5-6 in Red Deer, Alberta Stallion favourite added to Zangersheide catalogue: Dourkhan Hero Z Baborowka Horse Show: In pursuit of lightness NZPH horses: Star in all age groups down under A star is born: 2018 Swedish Warmblood Breeders Trophy Silver lining for Irish Sport Horse Studbook: Dislodged in year-end studbook rankings Cornet’s Air: Special new stallion for New Zealand HSI 2018 foal championship: Dovetailing with Cavan Equestrian Centre show Diversity is key for SF: Hard to find a 100% SF stallion

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editorial: Kudos to the Flemish for their skills and expertise Briefs and last-minute news Stallion Secret: Panama Tame (SF) WBFSH News

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Calendar of events

PHoToGrAPHS Cover PHoTo – HANOVERIAN FOAL (HANNOVERANER VERBAND) CoNTeNTS PHoToS – PG 3 (TOP TO BOTTOM): ASHA P (FEI/LIBBY LAW); PERRY DE WINTER (JO STUDBOOK CHART (GEMMA ALEXANDER); BALOUBET DU ROUET (PETER LLEWELLYN)

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KUDoS To THe FLemISH For THeIr SKILLS AND exPerTISe

ast month, in this

results from London 2012 Olympic Games, WEG 2014

column, we wrote: ‘If

in Caen... An indicator that BWP is the most successful

Europe is still the largest sup-

studbook on the planet. With 20 performers out of

plier of sport horses, an analy-

approximately 3,000 births (0.66%), it scores double

sis of Tryon’s results shows

the appeal of all its competitors. But we should also be

deep evolutions within a quar-

ter century. Trad-itional market

precise in terms of comparing the geographical sizes of

the Netherlands (41,543 km2) and Belgium (30,528

leaders (Germany, Ireland and

km2), as well as population density (respectively, 395

claimed 80% of world champi-

times larger in land mass (547,030 and 357,386 km2,

France)

who

previously

onship-qualified horses in

showjumping, fell to 38% (48 horses: Holsteiner (7), Olden-

burg (7), OS (7), Westfalian (5), Hanoverian (2), Mecklenburg

(1), Rheinland (1), DSF (1), SF (11), ISH (6)), where Benelux

vs 364/km2). Whereas, France and Germany – over 10

respectively) – have lower densities (113 and 231

inhabitants per km2).

Why do we make such comparisons?

Because everyone knows that whatever the equine

(Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg), through its four

species, one needs space in order to breed – which

horses....’ And we promised to return to this same subject this

European countries in this analysis where land price

studbooks (KWPN, BWP, sBs, Zangersheide) supplied 51 month.

Firstly, we should specify that the Netherlands,

through the KWPN, aligned 19 horses, whereas Belgium counted 32: 20 BWP (Belgian Warmblood) products; seven

Studbook Zangersheide; and five sBs (Belgian Sport Horse). If we argue by nation, these ratios are the best in the world.

The Netherlands produces approximately 10,000 foals per year, but breed 50/50 for dressage and jumping, so

posts an average ratio of 20 world-championship-class

jumping horses per 5,000 head (0.38%). Taking the

three Belgian studbooks collectively (+/- Zangerseide

5,000, BWP 3,000, sBs 1,000), we arrive at a ratio of

32 out of 9,000 horses) – 0.35% is a comparable result, let us admit! However, because it’s our philoso-

phy, we should be attentive to the notion of horses ‘born and bred’ in Belgium. Because, it seems, espe-

cially for Studbook Zangersheide, that an important

obviously is no longer the case for the two smallest

(pasture) is often four-times higher than its larger

neighbours. But space and land are only one part of

the equation; people and knowledge are another.

Both Belgium and the Netherlands are emi-

nent for their knowledge in agricultural domains: ani-

mal or vegetable. For some 30 years they have made

powerful inroads into their French and German neigh-

bours, never stopping in terms of refining their choices

and crossings. Population density is perhaps more an

argument than an inconvenience to the Flemish. Hard

workers, accustomed to ‘soil-less’ breeding, and indif-

ferent to climate hazards, population density has

become an asset since they have adapted their natural

instincts to revitalize their activity. Their real interest,

passion for horses, capacity for observation, business agility in a favorable economic environment where freedom and fiscal opportunities are compatible, have

number of their foals are being born outside Belgium

led to this dynamic success.

are Zangersheide registered, and for reasons likely

cultivate their differences as well as share their sense

(Argentina, France, Germany, Netherlands, etc…) but

arising more from skillful marketing than uniform

breeding policy, soil or territorial arguments, Zangersheide progress is undeniable.

Let us add that the Flemmish know how to

of party! One only has to go to the shows to find the

proof of this!

Belgium has consistently appeared in the Timeo hominem unius libri

Xavier Libbrecht

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LET YOUR

D DREAMS COME TRUE! C U BREED

HA ANNOVER RANER.

A ll auc tion dates and infor mation relating to the Hanoverian hor s e as well as the Hanoverian S o ciet y are available at:

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High demand for the Fürstenball-son in Darmstadt: At the Last Chance auction of the “Süddeutsche Pferdevermakrtungs GmbH in Darmstadt, Lord Fauntleroy (Fürstenball x Belantis) was the most sought-after colt. Bred by Reinhold Distel, he presented himself in a brilliant manner and with lovely movements. He is out of dam by the dressage star DSP Belantis (Benetton Dream - Philharmonie x Expo’se), ridden by Isabell Werth, by Fürstenball (Fürst Heinrich - Maradonna x Donnerhall), and was sold for €12,700 (US$14,665) to a stable in Baden-Württemberg. He was followed by Rubineska (Valverde - Royal Cala x Scolari), a lovely little dancer out of vice champion Valverde (Vitalis - Amicella x Ampère) bred by Andreas Meyer. She changed hands for €11,000 (US$23,702) to Gestüt Fohlenhof in Hassloch. The average price of the 30 foals was €6,776, which is quite a bit less than last year’s auction. Roland Metz, Manager of the SPV explain this with the fact that there was no international tournament in Darmstadt this year, “and the weather was very cold, rainy and stormy.” But 25 foals still found new owners. One was sold to the United States and one to the Netherlands. Two foals, Qualità de Bock (Qusimodo van de Molendreef - Cim x Casskeni II) and Himalchuli (Hickstead White - Diarada x Diarodo) went to the Gestüt Sprehe in Germany. S.G. Twelve Celle stallions test positive for WFFS: In recent weeks, Celle stallions being offered via fresh or frozen semen have all been DNA tested, with 12 being announced as carriers of this genetic disorder, including 21 year old Don Frederico (Donnerhall x Consul trak) and the deceased Londonderry (Lauries Crusador x Warkant). The latter two are still available with frozen semen. Don Frederico has many approved stallions sons in German, including Dramatic (out of a Weltmeyer dam) who is KWPN approved, but inactive, therefore, wasn’t tested in the Netherlands. Londonderry, the winner of the 1997 stallion licensing has had great influence in Germany, and also has many approved sons. The other carrier stallions are: Don Index (Don Crusador); Don Romanov (Blue Hors Don Schufro); Don Vino (Donnerhall); Edward (Embassy I); Londontime (Londonderry); Quaterhall (Quaterback); Sarotti Mokka Sahne (Soliman de Hus); Balou Peggio (Balou du Rouet); Chivas (Conteur); and Comte (Contendro I). On the news page of the Landgestüt Celle website, breeders are being encouraged to test their mares for WFFS, although the risk is “only 25% when two carriers of the gene are mated”. Celle concluded by saying: “After all, we don’t want your mares to remain without foals because of the hereditary disease WFFS.” The 2018 Hanoverian Mare of the Year has been announced as Dorina (2000: Drosselklang II x Grannus), whose daughter, Fine Lady, has become one of the world’s best showjumpers under the saddle of Canadian international Eric Lamaze. Her breeder, Wilhelm Leymann from Bassum, was honoured in the sold out Niedersachsenhalle. With Drosselklang II and Grannus, Dorina has powerful genes in her pedigree from the damline of Flindra. Don Carlos, one of the best Hanoverian showjumping sires of his time, can be found twice in the second and fourth generation. According to Leymann, “Dorina is a very special horse. She is very sensitive and a bit ‘electric’.” Dorina has produced a total of 13 foals in 18 breeding years, and is now in foal to Hannover’s legendary showjumping sire, Stakkato. Fine Lady (Forsyth) was Dorina’s first foal and two years ago won individual bronze with Lamaze during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Since then, she has celebrated numerous victories and top placings in the world’s major showjumping arenas. But she is not the only one who has turned her dam into the Hanoverian Mare of the Year. Fine Lady’s full brother, Fighter, younger by three years, competes for Russia with rider Anna Shatunova and collected his first World Cup points at the Moscow CSI-W. In spring 2011, he was one of the showjumping-collection gems of the Verden Elite Aucton. Third in the group is the seven-year-old Landstreicher-daughter Lilly Le, who is at the beginning of her international career with Greek rider Angelos Touloupis. Belissimo M (Beltain x Romadour II) has been awarded as Hanoverian Stallion of the Year. Privately owned Belissimo M was bred by Dieter Niesar from Kranenburg, who received his valuable prize during the show program of the stallion licensing. The expressive chestnut, one of the most popular dressage sires, presents himself from the head to toe as an athlete. His sire, Beltain, demonstrated his extraordinary competitive talent with Leonie Bramall, and is a representative of the dam line of Alferate, which makes him a direct relative of the legendary Brentano I and II as well as Wolkenstein I, II, and III. His dam is the full sister of the important State Stud stallions Garibaldi I and II. Belissimo M, born in the Rhineland in 1999, made his way into the dressage ring following his licensing. He completed his 30-day test in Zweibrücken in 2002 with top marks, and became Bundeschampion of four-year-old riding horses in Warendorf in 2003 with Holga Finken. This success was followed by fifth place at the dressage WBCYH, before he won silver with Kathrin Meyer zu Strohen in Warendorf in the class of five-year-old dressage horses. With Australia’s Hayley Beresford, Belissimo M appeared on the international circuit in 2011. Belissimo’s name stands for rideability and type, combined with exquisite basic gaits – outstanding qualities he passes on to his offspring, including Isabell Werth’s double world champion Bella Rose, currently the best dressage horse in the world. No fewer than five of his offspring became Bundeschampions in Warendorf. His offspring have promoted Belissimo M to a leading position in the breeding evaluation, estimated by the German FN as 135 – a Hanoverian breeding value of 136. Eighty of his daughters have so far been awarded with premiums, while 27 sons have been licensed for Hanover. Belissimo M stands at the Westfalenhof stallion station in Steinhagen. It’s the first time the Hanoverian Stallion of the Year has been awarded to a horse from the Rhineland. Timeo hominem unius libri

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Corrado I: end of a special era for Holsteiner verband

BY ADRIANA VAN

TILBURG PHOTOGRAPHY: JANNE BUGTRUP

Corrado I (Cor de la Bryère - Soleil x Capitol I, Stamm 6879, bred by Eduard Struve) was owned for 31 years by the Holsteiner Verband – one of a quartet of important stallions, including: Caretino (Caletto II - Isidor x Metellus, Stamm 862, bred by Lothar Völz); Cassini I (Capitol I - Wisma x Caletto II, Stamm 3389, bred by J. Hermann Claussen); and Contender (Calypso II - Gofine x Ramiro, Stamm 2472, bred by Niko Detlef).

hese four stallions are unmistakably connected to Norbert Boley and Gerard Muffels. What made Corrado I so special?

Soleil: A special dam The mother of Corrado I, Soleil, was sold as a two year old to Eduard Struve. Jutta Struve explains; “My late husband wanted to have a good broodmare, and first did a lot of research on different bloodlines and learned that this Stamm was very good. Through talking with several people he found out that Soleil was for sale, as she’d suffered a bad injury and so could no longer compete in sport. The deal was that her first foal should be given back to the breeder, .” Eduard Struve wasn’t so fond of using direct Thoroughbreds, and he liked Cor de la Bryère (Rantzau xx) a lot, discovering that Soleil produced really well with him. Their very first foal was Corrado I. According to Jutta Struve, “Corrado I was at our farm until he was two-and-a-half years old. He had a great character, he was kept outside day and night, and they had a big open stable where they were fed and where they could sleep. The reason why my husband kept him as a stallion was because he was very easy to handle. My husband never expected that he would be approved and that he would have so much success.”

The early days The beginning of Corrado I’s breeding career was not without some major hurdles. Norbert Boley, now the stallion manager of the Holsteiner Verband, recalls: “Corrado was very tall and long when he was young. Not many people favored his type.” When he was two he was not approved, but one year later was accepted for his incredible jumping ability. Mr. Boley continues: “When he was five he had another development setback, so people were again very negative about him.” (Because of his size, measured as 173 cms, and the fact that was long-bodied, he was still developing physically.) He started first under the saddle of Thies Luther, then he continued with Bo Kristofferen. Gerard Muffels has been managing the Holsteiner Verband’s stallion barn for more then 30 years, and recalls:

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“Corrado I came to Elmshorn when he was two. When we started him under saddle I was the first one who climbed on his back – it was what I had to do. I took him with me to the Siethwende stallion station (which no longer exists) where he covered naturally. I also worked with his first sons like Corofino I (out of Valeska IV x Fernando, Stamm 318D2), and Coriano (out of Option x Lord, Stamm 318D2, both bred by Hobe Bernard). I don’t know much about his time with Franke, only that he came from time to time to be collected for frozen semen.”

Success with Sloothaak The real deal for Corrado I began when he was entrusted to German international showjumper Franke Sloothaak. They won several Grand Prix (Leeuwarden, Kiel, Neumünster), two World Cup qualifiers (Dortmund and Aarhus), as well as Nations’ Cup placings: second in La Baule, third in Aachen. According to Sloothaak, “He was a very intelligent horse. In the being he wasn’t easy to ride, he wasn’t used to being focused on jumping and had to learn to focus on me and to do his job. When he understood what he had to do he became a fantastic horse. In handling he was always easy and he behaved well with other horses. I achieved success at many outstanding shows with Corrado I, but my most memorable victory was in Leeuwarden as my roots are in that area.” Boley continued by saying, “The success we had in Holstein with Corrado I, with him building up his own line and making top sport horses like Corradina was, in the end, outstanding. I looked at the influence of Corrado I in Tryon with both sadness and a smile. It would have been better for us if all those horses had a Holsteiner brand, but this is how breeding has developed into everything now being mixed. But it is still very interesting to observe how strong his influence is in the international jumping scene.” Franke Sloothaak speaks highly about Corrado I’s offspring; “For example, Corradina is a fantastic horse. Her rider Carsten Otto Nagel did a fantastic job because she is also very intelligent and sensitive. All Corrado I’s offspring are horses for the top level, but they can be difficult for amateur riders because they need time and a lot of patience.”

Special moments Corrado I has left traces in many people’s hearts. According to Muffels: “I don’t really have just one special memory about Corrado I, although I will never forget his special character. It could happen that he would stand on his hindlegs during a presentation or a show. You knew this could happen, it was part of who he was.” Also in Norbert Boley’s heart: “I had the honour of riding Corrado I at home when he was in Elmshorn. It was during the time that he was competing with Franke. I had a close connection with him. To feel his power under the saddle was something really extraordinary. I was very proud about his World Cup victory in Dortmund, and also when he won the Prize of Europe in Aachen. He was also the first stallion for whom I made it possible that he could have a sport career. Also the connection we had with San Patrignano. They wanted to buy Corrado I, but we arranged to keep the breeding rights and they paid for putting the ‘San Patrignano’ prefix in front of Corrado I’s name. It was very special to have a horse in my life like Corrado I, he always stayed with us in Elmshorn and until the end he looked outstanding and that was made possible through the care of Christine (‘Shorty’) Broda.”

All four stallions have put their own mark on the Warmblood breeding that we know today. They have raised the level of Holsteiner breeding and jumping breeding in general. Corrado I was an exceptional stallion, with so much power. But he was also a joker around people he didn’t know or didn’t know well, myself included. I first got to know Corrado I in 2003, and in the 15 years since then his grooms, Astrid Venohr and Christine Broda, played a very important role in caring for his well-being. He had a successful international jumping career and covered until he was 30. With the love and care of a group of special people, he lived happily to the age of 33. RIP Corrado I ■

In conclusion On a personal note note. I have known all four of these great stallions: Caretino, Cassini I, Contender and Corrado I. I actually moved to SchleswigHolstein because of Contender. This is always a fact that gives people a reason to laugh when they want to know why I moved to Germany. fa November 2018

WBCYH eventing: mondial du Lion wraps up 2018

BY ADRIANA VAN

TILBURG PHOTOGRAPHY: FEI-LIBBY LAW

Le Lion d’Angers is the place to be every October to celebrate the talents of the six- and sevenyear-old eventing horses competing here for the World Breeding Championship for Young Horses titles. Taking place just one week after the announcement of the year-end WBFSH-ROLEX studbook and breeder rankings, it’s interesting to focus on a results comparison between the top studbooks represented at this final WBCYH of 2018.

hile KWPN claimed top spot in the WBFSH-ROLEX rankings, they could only manage eighth place in the seven-year-old age-group in Le Lion with Galant DHI (Indoctro - Urona x Hold Up Premier, bred by Jac F. de Jong) under the sadde of Cathal Daniels. We find in Galant’s third generation the Thoroughbred Lucky Boy xx (Compromise xx - Sejane xx x Ksarinor xx). In total, KWPN was represented by six horses in this age group. Having led the WBFSH-ROLEX year-end rankings since 2012, Irish Sport Horse was bumped into second place in 2018, but had 15 horses competing in the seven-year-old final, of whom the highest placed, finishing second, was Capels Hollow Drift (Shannondale Sarco St Ghyvan - Lucky Crest x Lucky Gift xx, bred by Jeanette Glynn) under the saddle of Tom Jackson. His half-sister, With Love (Beau Royale xx), is currently competing at three-star CCI level under the saddle of Francesca Reid-Warrilow. The second best Irish Sport Horse (7th) was Cooley Quicksilver (Womanizer - Kylemore Chrystal x Creggan Diamond, bred by Alan O’Brien), ridden by Elisabeth Halliday-Sharp (USA). Coincidentally, the gelding’s sire, Womanizer, is KWPN-bred from the jumping lines of Heartbreaker and Burggraaf. Selle Français, the third studbook in the year-end eventing rankings, had seven horses in the seven-year-old final. Best placed in third was the grey stallion Babylon de Gamma (Mylord Carthago Sunshine des Ka x Happy Vergoignan, bred by the De Wykerslooth de Rooyesteyn family from Champsac, France) under the saddle of Astier Nicolas. Other than SF stallion Oberon du Moulin in his third generation, Babylon’s damline is pure Anglo Arab.

I x Lavall I, Stamm 6582, bred by Ute Lill Bonnhoff) has made quite the name for himself this year, as he also sired DSP Alice, who won the individual showjumping world title with Simone Blum (GER), in Tryon last month. Asha P’s full brother, Araldik, is an approved stallion and stands at Gestüt Bonhomme in Germany. It’s a third young-horse title for Ingrid Klimke in Le Lion d’Angers, and she reflected on her success by saying, “This championship is very special, because the horses learn a lot. Especially the cross country is very valuable because it is customized to the age of the horses. So afterwards I have a very good idea about the quality of my horses. Asha P has very strong nerves, she is very sweet, has a lot of courage and quality. For me it is very important that the horses with whom I compete have Thoroughbred blood and I also like good jumping blood. This is absolutely the case with Asha P.” The fourth-placed horse in this final is very special and deserves a mention. The BWP bred stallion Leipheimer van’t Verahof (Vigo d’Arsouilles - Southern Queen xx x South Gale xx, bred by Joris and Peter de Brabander-van Damme) competed under the saddle of eventing veteran Karin Donckers. His dam, Southern Queen xx, produced the

Asha P claims seven-year-old title The winning seven-year-old, however, was the DSP-bred mare Asha P (Askari Hera x Heraldik xx, bred by Gbr. Pietscher) under the saddle of Ingrid Klimke. Her sire, Askari (Acord II - Elypse

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Asha P (Askari - Hera x Heraldik xx, bred by Gbr. Pietscher) ridden by Ingrid Klimke (GER) – 7yo age-group winner

1m60 jumper Heras van’t Verahof (Carabas vd Wateringhoeve) ridden by Christopher Kläsener, while his full brother, 13-year-old gelding Fletcha van’t Verahof, is competing at CCI four-star level, also with Donckers. Many more offspring are also successfully competing in both showjumping and eventing. The Holsteiner bred JL Dublin (Diarado - Zarinna x Canto, Stamm 1907, bred by Volker Goettsche-Goetze), finished fifth with Nicola Wilson (GBR). This gelding comes from a line of international showjumpers. His grandmother Donina (Lombard) produced; the 1m60 jumping mare Honina (Coriall) under the saddles of Peter Wylde (USA) and Albert Voorn (NED), as well as the 1m50 jumping mare Caldarina (Corrado I) with Merethe Jensen (DEN).

Cristal Fontaine (Chef Rouge - Nous Avons Gagne x Griot de Mara, bred by Clemence Duconge) SF 6yo winner in the hands of Kitty King (GBR)

Good breeding: Horses and riders t The best KWPN horse in the six-year-old final, Watermill Heejan (Boss - Donny x Celano, bred by J.A. Wijnveen) could only manage 17th in the hands of Christoffer Forsberg. At first glance this appears to be an ‘ordinary’ jumping pedigree, but with a Thoroughbred grandmother, via his dam, the blood for eventing is there (58.01%). Irish Sport Horse studbook had nine horses in this final, in which the best placed second: Emerald Jonny (Waldo Royalty vd Heernis x Rubels, bred by Shane Quinn) ridden by British team stalwart, Piggy French. Here we only find Thoroughbred blood in his fifth generation through Lucky Boy xx (30.66%). Interesting also is the SF-bred stallion Bijou de Taillan (Almè - Criniere au Vent x Nithard x) who has an Anglo Arab motherline that appears in the third generation of Emerald Jonny. Another Irish Sport Horse in third place with Cooley Moonshine (Cobra - Kilpatrick Duchess x Kings Master, bred by M.J. Kavanagh), also under the saddle of Elisabeth Halliday-Sharp. It is noteworthy that Irish Sport Horses placed four inside the top 10. The winning six-year-old, however was the Selle Français Cristal Fontaine (Chef Rouge - Nous Avons Gagne x Griot de Mara, bred by Clemence Duconge) under the saddle of Kitty King – daughter of another eventing veteran Mary King (GBR). Cristal’s sire, Chef Rouge is Holsteiner-bred out of the proven combination of Cassini I x Caretino, while his dam is pure Anglo Arab, descending from Iago C and Fol Avril. Staying with SF, the mare California d’Horset (Soliman de Hus - Palm Beach d’Horset x Trophee du Rozel, bred by SCEA Haras l’Horset) placed fifth. Soliman de Hus competed in Grand Prix dressage and is by Sandro Hit out of

a Donnerhall mare. California’s damline shows the names of renowned showjumping stallion Narcos II, and Starter – the dam’s sire of the great Baloubet du Rouet. According to Jeff Desevaux of Haras l’Horset, “We like to mix dressage blood with jumping blood to bring chic, flexibility and balance. California d’Horset’s mother, Palm Beach d’Horset, was dressage labelled. For us, this increased the orientation of foals for different disciplines.” Sixth was the DSP bred mare Tabries (Quaterback Tabaluga’s Zaubermaus x Ringo Starr, bred by Alois & Thomas ZG Wimmer). Also an interesting mix of dressage and jumping lines or, you could say, jumping that has developed from dressage lines. Tabries’ fatherline traces back to Qredo de Paulstra, while his damsire, Ringo Star (Ricardo - Taura x Lord, bred by Elfriede Bornhold) represents Holsteiner Stamm 790. This stallion competed at Prix St. Georges, while his half brothers Conally and Crocodile Dandy (both by Caretino) had very successful careers in jumping. Taura’s half sister, Kira XVII (Lavall I) is mother of the famous Holsteiner stallion Casall (Caretino), and the idea of using Caretino for Kira XVII was based on the success of Caretino with Taura. Unfortunately, Ringo Starr was not very popular as a sire and the German FN database only credits him with 28 offspring with sport results. I do not want to generalize but it was interesting to notice that in Lion d’Angers there were quite a few horses with little or no sport in the motherline. Unfortunately not all the old FEI results are available digitally, so it can happen that some horses in the older generations have competed internationally but that this information has lost over the years. ■ Full results can be found on: www.mondialdulion.com November 2018

mares in competition

Fischerrocana FST Ituango xx - rose II x Carismo, bred by mirko Glotz) ridden by michael Jung (Ger)

The exceptions and the rules!

JUDY WARDROPE FEI

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This author is old enough to recall the days when the majority of competition horses were male. They were either stallions establishing their abilities in hopes of a more successful breeding career, or geldings. Mares were primarily breeding stock, and sometimes to the extent that they were only given numbers, not names. Check the tail female line of such horses as Sandro Hit, and you will find such mares.

n those days, some experts said that mares did not have the right temperament for competition, nor the right pelvis, particularly for dressage. But were those things really true or just a common belief? The horses on the list of the 2005 World Cup classes were almost entirely male: Debbie McDonald’s medalwinning mare, Brentina (Brentano II - Lieselotte x Lungau would be the exception, of course. Conrad Schumacher of Germany, a highly respected coach on both sides of the Atlantic as well as a very popular clinician, had an explanation: “Mares have a different pelvis, that’s why we don’t see a lot of mares at the top of our sport.” As to temperament, Schumacher added, “Stallions sometimes work against themselves.” Brentina was certainly a door-opener when it came to mares being taken seriously in dressage, and the Danish Warmblood Blue Hors Matine (1997: Silvermoon - Matadie x Matador, bred by Inger Katballe) shone brightly a few years later. Now it is mares the likes of Bella Rose (2004: Belissimo - Cadra II x Cacir AA, bred by Heinrich and Wilhelm Strunk) that lead the way. Joe Fargis had a stellar reputation in the jumpers with mares: Touch of Class (1984 individual Olympic gold), Mill Pearl (1988 Olympic team silver), and Diams III (1991/SF: Royal Feu - Utelle d’Eawy x Duc de Ferce, bred by Romain and Marie Lecuyer). Ludger Beerbaum still refers to Ratina Z (individual silver and team gold at the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games with Piet Raijmakers, plus Atlanta 1996 team gold and 1994 WEG team gold with Ludger), as one his very best rides. And let us not forget Anka 191 (Argentinus Wenke x Waldmann, bred by G. Jansen), the 2003 World Cup showjumping champion with Marcus Ehning. Mares can certainly jump! As to the temperament issue, Fargis offered, “If you have a good gelding you have a good horse. If you have a good stallion, you have a good horse. But, if you have a good mare, you have a great horse.” He went on to explain that geldings can get lazy and that stallions can cheat, but a good mare will keep fighting for you, trying to keep you out of trouble.” In the eventing world, mares the likes of Jenny Camp

(Slyguff Joker VII - Mandy Offers x Ozymandias), Headley Britannia (Jumbo - Alan’s Bambi) and FischerRocana FST Ituango xx - Rose II x Carismo, bred by Mirko Glotz) have made sure that their male counterparts understood the definition of girlpower through the three phases of their demanding sport. But maybe that isn’t so new. In 1912, the first appearance of modern equestrian disciplines at an Olympic Games, the eventing gold medalist, Axel Nils August Nordlander (SWE), rode a horse named Lady Artist, while the bronze medalist, Jacques Cariou (FRA), was aboard Cocette – which certainly sound like female names. Although 2018 was not a ‘normal’ World Equestrian Games in terms of dressage, let’s see how the mares fared.

Dressage boasts two team gold mares In the team competition, there were a total of 15 teams of four horses comprising 31 geldings, 22 stallions and seven mares. Once the scores were tallied, two of the mares won team gold (TSF Dalera BB and Bella Rose, Germany), and one team bronze (Mount St. John Freestyle, Great Britain). The fourth-placed team (Sweden) also boasted a mare, Well Done de la Roche CMF. Amazingly not one of these mares represented the drop score for their respective teams. In fact, three of them had the highest scores on their teams, and the remaining mare represented victorious Germany. In the individual competition (Grand Prix Special), there were a total of 30 horses: 16 geldings, 10 stallions and four mares. Three of the mares scored high enough to make the cut (top 15) for the Freestyle, but sadly, never got to strut their stuff to music as that portion of the competition was cancelled. In the Grand Prix Special, however, those three mares placed first, third and fifth: Bella Rose, Mount St. John Freestyle, and Well Done de la Roche (Fürstentraum x Walt Disney). Of the 15 horses qualified for the Freestyle, nine were geldings (29% from 31 starters), three were stallions (13.6% from 22 starters) and three were mares (42.8% from seven starters). From the perspective of making the grade, the females definitely outperformed the males. Who has the wrong pelvis for dressage now? November 2018

Eventing: Geldings still rule A total of 83 horses were listed in the FEI jog (veterinary horse inspection) for eventing: 63 geldings, five stallions and 15 mares. At the end of the dressage phase the top 25 included one stallion, 21 geldings, and three mares: Wega (SWB: Irco Mena x Labrador 588, 5th); Cekatinka (KWPN: King Kolibri x Julio Mariner xx, 9th); and Pivoine des Touches (SF: Nykias x Elf d’Or, 24th). It was the same gender balance following the cross-country, although two of the individual horses had changed: Cekatinka (6th); Classic Moet (Classic x Bohemond, 12th); Tacome d’Horset (SF: Sandreo x Trophée du Rozel, 17th). At the completing of stadium jumping, the top 25 included one stallion, 20 gelding, and four mares: Cekatinka (8th); Classic Moet (19th); Pivoine des Touches (21st); Tacome d’Horset (23rd). On an individual basis, the mares fared slightly better than the stallions: four out of 15 made it into the top 25, but only one of the five stallions accomplished that. This discipline continues to be dominated by geldings.

Jumping: Five mares in top ten

Schuttershof x Animo’s Hallo) – plus two geldings, while bronze went to Germany: two mares – DSP Alice (Askari x Landrebell) and Catch Me If You Can OLD (Catoki x Acordplus) – one stallion and one gelding. The individual gold went to the amazingly rail-free combination of Simone Blum (GER) and her chestnut mare DSP Alice, making Blum the first female rider to become world champion since WEG began. Gail Greenough, the first female world champion, had won the jumping championships in 1986, before the World Equestrian Games concept was adopted. After all the rounds were complete, the list of top 10 individual horses included four geldings, one stallion and five mares: DSP Alice (gold); Bianca (bronze); Clinta (4th); Irenice Horta (Vigo d’Arsouilles x Diamant de Semilly, 7th); Zeremonie (10th). The next 10 places (11th to 20th) also included four geldings, one stallion, and five mares: Cristalline (11th); Blue Movie (12th); Catch Me If You Can OLD (14th); Luibanta BH (Luidam x Abantos, 17th); Lizziemary (Cabri d’Elle x Acord II, 20th). This means that a full 50% of top-20 horses were mares. Considering that the start of the competition boasted 60 geldings (43% of the total entries), 43 stallions (31%) and only 36 mares (25%), it is obvious that the mares seriously outperformed their male counterparts. What gender of horse has the wrong disposition for competition now? I do believe Mr. Fargis was right about mares at the top of sport. If they like their rider – and that may be the most telling criteria of all – they will just keep trying for you. ■

A staggering 139 horses entered the ring for familiarization/warm-up rounds: 60 geldings, 43 stallions and 36 mares – nearly three times as many males than females. The first competition, a speed class used as part of the team and individual rankings, paid prize money to the top 12, but, due to a tie for 12th, 13 riders were awarded. Their horses were six geldings, five mares and two stallions, with the top three being mare (Bianca x Balou du Rouet), stallion (Quabri de l’Isle x Kannan), mare (Blue Movie x Chacco-Blue) But there were several more rounds to come before the medals were awarded. In the team competition, the USA emerged with gold thanks to one gelding and three mares: Cristalline (Cristallo I x Caretello B); Zeremonie (Cero x Quick Star); Clinta (Clinton x Lord Pezi). Team silver went to Sweden’s two mares: Toveks Mary Lou (Montendro x Portland L) and H&M Indiana (Kashmir van World Champion 2018: DSP Alice (Askari x Landrebell) ridden by Simone Blum (GER)

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Perry de Winter: Dreams of breeding an olympic horse

JO DE ROO PHOTOGRAPHY: JO DE ROO BY

Many breeders dream about breeding a once-in-a-lifetime horse who competes in prestigious arenas like Aachen. Others dream about breeding an approved stallion. We interviewed a breeder who has realized both. In Aachen 2018, there were two jumpers bred by Perry De Winter, who has produced a string of outstanding horses performing at the highest international level, including Gancia de Muze, J’Adore van het Schaeck, Cacacha van het Schaeck, Like A Diamond van het Schaeck, and Caipiranja.

uring a recent visit to his studfarm, I saw a great number of promising youngsters, so in the future we will be seeing more ‘van het Schaeck’ showjumpers collecting victories and honourable placings worldwide. The breeder behind this famous studfarm is Perry De Winter. Born in 1959, De Winter is married to Tanja T’joens and is the father of Geoffrey and Bo. As De Winter is pleased to explain, his stable name comes from the name of the ‘van het Schaeck’ pub that used to stand on land close to the ‘Hof ter Saksen’ castle, where he is now living. After the pub ceased to exist, the name remained, so when De Winter bought the house, he used the same name as a suffix for the registered names of his horses. “When I bought this house, I owned almost 5,000 square metres. Nowadays, I own almost 10 hectares. I have all the things I need to take care of the horses, with all the facilities. Wooden fences surround all the pastures and we used wood to construct the stables as it contributes to the great, warm atmosphere.” Early on in his breeding programme he produced 10 foals, then and now using famous stallions such as For Pleasure, Darco, Diamant de Semilly, Plot Blue, Untouchable and Comme Il Faut. “I am very happy that I still own two daughters of Darco. I will never sell them,” De Winter said. Valentijn De Bock, Tim van den Broeck, Katrijn Van Hoecke, Klaas Koentges, and Stephanie De Vriendt are all riding some of his horses, and each year the latter also rides two of De Winter’s own-bred five-year-olds. De Winter explains how it all started: “For 22 years I had my own company, a wholesale trade of vegetables and fruit. After selling this, I started in the world of real estate, managing my own portfolio. Breeding horses is my hobby. In 1999 I bought my first foals, called Walloon and Walnut de Muze. Right from the beginning, I wanted to start with a top dam line and to have the best of the best. I especially bought two fillies in order to use them later on as breeding dams.” ◆ Why did you buy Walloon and Walnut? Their dam, Qerly Chin (Chin Chin - Kerly x Pachat II), jumped very well at that time. Nabab (Quidam de Revel) was also

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performing very well. Walnut and Walloon were full sisters, two daughters of Nabab out of Qerly Chin. Their dam line was one of the best. It was not by coincidence that I bought two products out of this dam line as I had been following this line for a long time. At a certain moment I have got the chance to buy both fillies. Werly Chin was another full sister to Walloon and Walnut, so I could make a choice. In my opinion Werly Chin was more valuable for breeding. However, Walloon produced, for instance, Daytona, a Cento daughter, who also became the dam of several outstanding showjumpers. So, afterwards I couldn’t complain about the fact that I bought Walloon and Walnut.’ I try to breed with mares that are very closely allied to the foundation dam. And I am not in favour of using young broodmares. I prefer them older, and quite often make use of embryo transplantation. The dam Like A Diamond (Diamant de Semilly) is an exception. I crossed her with Comme Il Faut (Cornet Obolensky) when she was only three years old. Afterwards, when she was competing in sports, we used the embryo transfer technique. From the moment when we see that the dams are competing very well in sport, we try to get some embryos, but it’s not always like that. For instance, if I only have one daughter of a highly valuable dam, it’s possible that I decide to use her exclusively as a broodmare. In that case, this young mare will never get the chance to show her showjumping qualities in sports. I always wanted to do something with showjumpers. My parents had nothing to do with horses. I must repeat that I wanted the best of the best and, meanwhile, I have built up my studfarm. In the same way that I ran a company dealing with vegetables and fruit, if you believe in your business and you work hard you will succeed. Talking about breeding showjumpers, it’s the same story. I try to inform myself via the internet. Starting with proven dam lines and combining the breeding dams out of these lines with the best stallions, is a great step forward. By ‘the best stallions’, I mean those that are from proven dams. This is very important. The stallion doesn’t need to perform himself at the highest level, but he has to come from a proven breeding family.

I will give you an example. In the past, I made use of Crown Z. Despite the fact that he didn’t prove a lot in sports, I used him.

◆ In this way, I imagine you sometimes discover stallions a long time before they become popular with the majority of breeders?

◆ Why did you choose him in particular?

Correct. Eight years ago, for instance, I used Mylord Carthago (Carthago). Nowadays, we see that he produces very good showjumpers. I could say the same about Zirocco Blue (Mr. Blue). Today, in the world of showjumping we see many good descendants of Zirocco Blue, including two that I have bred. Those are strong horses with a lot of scope. Choosing stallions for my breeding dams has a lot to do with feelings. If you have a dam that jumps a little bit without making use of her back, then you mustn’t use a stallion that jumps in the same way. In that case, use a stallion that jumps with a good technique. The sum of one-plus-one doesn’t equal two in the breeding world. Even full brothers or sisters can be completely different. Walloon, Walnut and Werly Chin are full sisters, but all three are very different. Walnut seems to be the most valuable of the three dams. Walloon was very difficult to ride, with a lot of blood, and she was very hot. Werly Chin had too little potential.

Because he was out of Ratina Z, who was one of the best dams in the world. Via Ratina Z, Crown Z has very interesting performance blood in his veins. Comme Il Faut was also out of Ratina Z. According to De Winter it’s an advantage when stallions perform for a long time: “Stallions like Taloubet Z and Plot Blue performed for a long time at the highest level, which means that those are strong horses. Carthago is another example. The performance blood of Capitol I is very good.” It’s rare that you will meet De Winter at a breeding event or a showjumping tournament: “I don’t like to visit showjumping tournaments. If I was obliged to do this each week, I would immediately stop my horse activities. I prefer to stay at home, taking care of my horses. I follow breeding and sports by visiting websites. The rest is done by intuition. I am not at all a breeder that makes choices based on pedigrees, indices, and so on. Sometimes, I use stallions simply because I believe in them. It happens that many other breeders don’t believe in those stallions.”

◆ You collaborated for a while with Joris De Brabander? At that time I was so occupied by my business that I didn’t have sufficient time for my breeding activities. The dams lived in my

Perry De Winter with AES-approved stallion Pafait van het Schaeck (Comme Il Faut - Like a Diamond van het Schaeck x Diamant de Semilly) November 2018

stables, except during the breeding season. Then, they moved to Joris because he used the embryo transfer technique. We made a deal: The colts that were born out of these dams remained with Joris, the fillies came to my stud farm. When more colts than fillies were born, Joris gave me another filly. That’s how I acquired, for instance, Gancia de Muze and Cacacha van het Schaeck. Almost ten years ago, my company was taken over and Joris and I went our own way. ◆ Walnut de Muze performed at the biggest five-star international showjumping tournaments... At a certain moment I had two daughters out of Walnut and decided to sell her. At that time, Walnut was seven years old and she was bought by Axel Verlooy. Out of Walloon de Muze I bred Daytona de Muze, as well as Centa de Muze, who was sold to the Veldeman family. Out of Daytona I bred four daughters: one by Vigo d’Arsouilles, one by Nabab de Rêve and two by Andiamo Z. One of the two Andiamo daughters was sold, the rest remained in order to use them in my breeding program so they didn’t make careers in sport. Some of my friends told me that it was a pity that such young dams didn’t start a sports career, but I wanted to have top female genetics to develop my breeding stable. Walloon was sold when she was five, Daytona at the age of four.

bit easier to ride and with a lot of scope. I am not going to tell you that Walloon’s offspring are really difficult to ride, but the fact is that they have more blood. They are hotter. I may not say that they have a greater competition spirit. J’Adore van het Schaeck is a nice example. She is a granddaughter of Walnut and has a very great competition spirit. J’Adore is performing at a high international level in partnership with Nicola Philippaerts. In the arena, we can see that J’Adore has sufficient blood. ◆ What are your main results as a breeder?

(De Winter responds without hesitation) Million Dollar van het Schaeck who is a son of Plot Blue out of a daughter of Daytona de Muze. The Holsteiner Verband bought Million Dollar. I have to thank Tim Van Tricht because he sold me the semen of Plot Blue at a time when it was hard to get. I had to transport my broodmare, Gin Tonic de Muze, to the Netherlands where the semen was kept. Once we arrived, she was inseminated with Plot Blue’s semen and that’s how Million Dollar was made. It’s strange that such a good stallion as Plot Blue is not used on a larger scale. He jumped for many years at the highest level and produces very good showjumpers and beautiful horses. Another breeding success is J’Adore van het Schaeck, who was sold to the Philippaerts family. As a breeder I am also very ◆ What are the particular showjumping qualities of the happy that I bred the dam Like a Diamond van het Schaeck, a descendants of Walnut and Walloon? daughter of Diamant de Semilly out of Cacacha van het Schaeck (Bamako de Muze). Like a Diamond was born out of Walloon produces horses with more blood than those of a completely different dam line. Recently, Jos Lansink and Walnut. In the arena, the descendants of Walloon always want Ashford Stables bought Like a Diamond. The Holsteiner to fight and perform. Walnut produces horses that are a little Verband has already bought two stallions: Million Dollar, and a son of Clicksem (Cardino - Ninken x Littorio) out of J’Adore van het Schaeck. The son of Clicksem will be presented at the stallion approval of Holstein in January 2019. I have several good descendants of Clicksem. They have inherited a lot of scope and blood. In general, Clicksem is not well known and, therefore, only has a small number of offspring. In my opinion, he is an outstanding stallion. He has a good mentality, a good canter, and a lot of scope and elasticity. Million Dollar’s Perry De Winter with a grey colt by Cornet Obolensky (right) and a chestnut colt by Odarco van het Schaeck dam, Gin Tonic de

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Muze, is the result of combining Vigo d’Arsouilles with Daytona de Muze. She produces beautiful descendants with great showjumping qualities. (She is the dam of two approved stallions: Million Dollar van het Schaeck and Odarco van het Schaeck, respectively by Plot Blue and Darco. De Winter has also bred other stallions, including Cazan van het Schaeck Z, a son of Comme Il Faut out of J’Adore van het Schaeck). ◆ What is the secret of your success as breeder? Taking good care of the horses and feeding them well. It’s very important to take care of the foals and Broodmare Gin Fizz (Andiamo) with her Untouchable foal young horses. Food is very instance never participated in a free-jumping competition. important, as well as sufficient time outdoors. If you give young The five two-year-old dams you have just seen have never free horses the possibility to move outdoors you will have strong jumped. I don’t have sufficient time to organise this because I horses. Of course, you need to provide good shelter so that the have another business. Breeding horses is a hobby, and most of horses are protected from bad weather, but they must be able the time I have to do these things alone. I am not saying that I to move around outdoors. And I also provide food in the don’t attach value to free jumping, but if you start this you pasture. should do it once a day for several days, and if a horse commits We never bring pressure to bear upon the horses. They errors during each of the days, then you don’t own a horse, you don’t have to perform at the age of four, and showjumpers that own a donkey! We are lucky that we have never seen such a have performed for five or six months in sport then return to horse in our stable. They need to be intelligent to discover how the pasture to relax. Most of them are sold at the age of seven, it works. Parfait van het Schaeck, a son of Comme Il Faut out but we keep them up to that age. It’s more expensive than of Like A Diamond, is a perfect example of how it should be. selling them younger, but that’s not a problem because we During a free jumping session he comes to me after each jump. prefer to build up their career without pressure. By doing this, I simply have to show my finger and he moves again to the at the age it all starts, the horses will have a mind to perform. fences. He is so smart. The more serious work starts when they are five years old, but (In 2019 De Winter is expecting foals that are sired by even then they don’t have to jump a lot. They don’t need to Parfait van het Schaeck, Diamant de Semilly, Casall, Clicksem, participate, for instance, in the final of the Belgian Cascadello, Chacfly, Ideal de la Loge, Cazan van het Schaeck championship for young horses. It’s important that the horses and Million Dollar. Several of his own-bred young stallions will are ready and can prove themselves when they are seven years be presented at approvals, in Germany and Belgium.) old. If they received a good education, usually they are ready to compete. We prefer to sell our horses at the age of seven. When the horses are two-year-old x-rays are taken. We ◆ You have achieved so many things in the world of breeding have healthy horses. How do horses become the victim of and showjumping. Do you still have a dream? OCD? One-third relates to genetics, one-third to injuries, and one-third to the lack of sufficient food and movement. The I can’t say ‘breeding a horse that can participate at foals grow up in big pastures and stables with sufficient light, Aachen,’ because I had two horses competing there this year, oxygen, and food. When the horses are two years old we don’t namely Gancia de Muze and J’Adore van het Schaeck, organize a free-jumping test. Sometimes we select a couple of respectively in partnership with Niels Bruynseels and Nicola horses to participate in a free-jumping competition for young Philippaerts. However, I do still have a dream: To breed a horse horses because it’s something we like to do, but mostly we that participates in the Olympic Games. That’s the ultimate. ■ don’t allow our horses to free jump. Like A Diamond for November 2018

Year-end rankings 2017-18: Who came out on top?

CHRISTOPHER HECTOR AND GEMMA ALEXANDER

Following publication of the WBFSH/ROLEX ranking lists for breeders of showjumping, dressage and eventing horses, as well as the final studbook results, Christopher Hector has written an in-depth analysis, while Gemma Alexander has produced a wealth of extraordinary charts that provide valuable information ‘at a glance’. Each ranking year begins on October 1, concluding on September 30. Eventing’s showjumping pretenders

eading the 2017 Eventing standings is Phillip Dutton’s WEG ride, Z, although apparently the horse’s full name is Albano Z, which does seem more likely. The gelding had showjumped to 1m50 with a Portuguese rider before he went to Dutton, and the breeding is pure jumping. His Holsteiner sire, Asca, competed 1m60 and has a pedigree containing all the names that made Holstein famous. (Incidentally, Asca’s dad, Askari is the sire of the 2018 WEG sensation – showjumping gold medallist, DSP Alice.) Albano Z’s dam Belle Bouche B is a right mix, by another 1m60 showjumper, Babouce VH Gehucht Z, who is by Selle Français showjumping star, Baloubet du Rouet, out of Grace Kelly, who is registered with that ‘other’ Dutch book the Nederlands Rijpaarden en Pony Stamboek (NRPS), although both her parents were KWPN. Her sire, another 1m60 jumper, N-Aldato (Nimmerdor x Ladykiller), while her dam was by influential Ramzes son Rigoletto. It is perhaps some measure of where the sport is going that the leading eventer is so solidly showjumping bred, however we might note that Albano Z finished 13th at Tryon, dropping down because of 6.40 time penalty over a course where the leading horses came home largely time-fault free… maybe that’s the price you pay for all that showjumping blood? The leading studbook for eventing was the KWPN, and

with that result the Dutch were on their way to a clean sweep of the three Olympic disciplines, although the sceptical observer might ask just how Dutch was the Dutch contingent? Their leading horse was Cekatinka, ridden into eighth at Tryon by Kiwi, Tim Price. The horse’s bloodlines are a panEuropean affair, although he is very much the product of the vision of leading Dutch breeder (and long time Dutch team vet) Jan Greve. Cekatinka is by the Hanoverian 1m60 showjumper, King Kolibri (who Greve brought to Holland), and out of a mare by the English St. Leger winner, Julio Mariner xx, a stallion that was not a huge success in the UK as a sire, and was bought by Greve to put more ‘blood’ into his mare band. On the final line, we have a mix of Hanoverian and Oldenburg blood.… The third and fourth members of the Dutch eventing team are by Selle Français sires. Maybe concentrating on the blood misses the point: the Dutch was the first major studbook that was prepared to take talent from wherever it found it and, a couple of decades down the track, the open door policy is now standard operating procedure for all the major studbooks. Certainly the Irish, so long the last bastion of the closed book, have no reason to complain as their number one, Stellor Rebound, is by a Dutchbranded stallion of Holstein breeding, Romke. Number two, Ardagh Highlight, is the classic Irish mix of Irish Draught and Thoroughbred, while their third and fifth ranked eventers are by Courage II, a Holstein import, separated by Quarrycrest Echo, all Irish on the topline, but out of a mare by another Irish import from Holstein, Cavalier Royale. Selle Français take third spot, with only one ‘foreign’ stallion, L’Arc de Triomphe (Oldenberg, Westfalian, Hanoverian) in their line-up, with the French attracting more attention (and buyers) with the strong showing of the Anglo Arab studbook in eighth place. The star of the Anglo book was Vassily de Lassos, who missed a bronze medal by a whisker (and some ludicrous dressage judging). Vassily is by Jaguar Mail, who almost had two in the top 50, Vassily at 10th and the Westfalian, Jum Jum in 51st. Courage II had three in the top 50, while

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Balou du Rouet sired two... Of Balou much more when we look to the showjumping tables but first a run through the stats…

From number cruncher, Gemma Alexander Taking a deeper look at the top 10 studbooks in the eventing rankings, just how many of the listed offspring are actually of the specified breeding, with the six representatives of each studbook (in the WBFSH/ROLEX rankings), only 56% of the parents of these horses were listed in the same studbook. Going back further to look at the grandparents, this falls to 37%. Interestingly, the eventers have the largest portion of ‘unknowns’ in the pedigrees of these star performers of the three disciplines. (Charts #1 and #2) The worst offender for labelling outside blood as their own – or conversely, the studbook with the most open-book policy – was the Landesverband Bayerischer Pferdezüchter e.V., or DSP (previously known as the Bavarian studbook) which ranked ninth of the top ten studbooks for eventing. Of the top six representatives of this studbook, just two parents were also registered DSP, and NONE of the grandparents. For the eventers, the most closed studbook was the Holsteiners who came in fifth, with all parents of the top-six also being Holsteiner-branded, and 79% of the grandparents also hailing from the studbook. Both the ISH and Sport Horse Breeding of Great Britain

(SHBGB) studbooks (second and seventh place respectively) shared the greatest number of ‘unknowns’ in the pedigrees of their top representatives, both with one parent and four grandparents each of unknown heritage. Bearing in mind that these are the very best eventers in the world, it seems quite unfathomable that there are so many blanks in the pedigrees. You certainly don’t see that happening over in the likes of Holstein…. Perhaps this is telling of the fact that ‘specialised’ breeding for eventing is some years behind the showjumping and dressage world? Which brings us to another question: If only 56% of parents and 37% of grandparents of these top-ranked eventing horses are registered in the same studbook as the offspring, which studbooks do they come from? For this exercise we just look at the top three eventing studbooks: KWPN, ISH and SF. Starting with the KWPN (#3): Apart from their own, the

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heritage. Holsteiners and DSP (previously Bavarian) were also found in the first two generations of these horses. “Thanks” Gemma.

Showjumping

second most represented studbook in the pedigrees of the topsix KWPN representatives was SF, with 17% of both parents and grandparents branded French. Next came Hanovarians, with 8% of both parents and grandparents hailing from this studbook. Then the Holsteiners, with none in the first generation, but 13% of grandparents. Other studbooks featuring in the pedigrees of these KWPN horses were Thoroughbred, Oldenberg and Mecklenburg. Next, to the Irish Sport Horses (#4): The most represented studbook in the pedigrees outside of the Irish was the Holsteiners, with 17% of parents and 25% of the grandparents registered to this society. Surprisingly, next came the ‘unknowns’, with 8% of parents and 17% of grandparents being blanks on the pedigree tree. Then came the Dutch with 8% of parents and 8% of grandparents of these horses branded KWPN. The other two studbooks that appeared in the first two generations of these pedigrees were BWP and Thoroughbred. And finally, the French: Given the strong influence of blood in the history of the breed, there is no surprise that the two most influential outside studbooks on the pedigrees of these top six Selle Français eventers were Anglo Arab (17% of parents and 21% of grandparents) and Thoroughbred (8% of both parents and grandparents). The third most represented outside studbook in these SF pedigrees was Oldenberg, with 8% of parents and 4% of grandparents hailing from this

The breeders’ title for showjumping horses goes to Mario and Mischa Everse, the Dutch breeders of Zinius, a winner of over half a million euros with Harrie Smolders. The pair’s biggest win in 2017 was just under €60,000 in the World Cup class at Mechelen. In 2018, their biggest pay cheque was €30,690 for a win in a 1m50/ 1m55 class at the London-Olympia five-star event. Again the KWPN brand is not obvious from the pedigree. He is by the BWP stallion, Nabab de Rêve (whose blood is entirely Selle Français) out of the BWP mare, Winia van’t Vennehof, who is by the KWPN stallion, Kannan, although their stallion commission failed him at the first inspection, and he had to wait until he was 19 years old to become an official KWPN breeding stallion. Winia competed 1m40 with American Zazou Hoffman, and aside from Zinius, she foaled his two-year-older brother, Coriander van’t Vennehof (Triomphe de Muze), a 1m60 competitor with Britain’s Keith Shore and Syria’s Baraa Jaboulieh. I caught up with Mario Everse and found that he, like so many others, had caught the breeding bug as a youngster: “When I was 12, I was given by my father, a three-year-old mare – she was of good breeding, and I got interested in the breeding. From that time on, I always had a foal at home. I’m now 48, so that was a long time ago. (But now it’s a lot more than one foal a year at Everse Horses!) We got bigger and bigger. This year I had 37 foals. I have a very good vet, who is good with embryos.” What stallions did you use? “From last season I had some Kassander van’t Roosakker (Echo van’t Spieveld x Carthago), he’s quite a young stallion, only eight years old. He’s doing quite well this year with Grégory Wathelet, but I knew him when he was younger. I’m quite interested in the Belgian breeding, they have scopey horses in Belgium, and I like the Roosakker line.” The first mare of this line, Usha van’t Roosakker, foaled 1997, by Chin Chin, jumped 1m50 herself, and produced two 1m60 horses, most notably Cella who starred with Ben Maher and Mario Deslauriers, while her daughters, grand-daughters, and great-grand-daughters, produced a swag of top jumpers. “I also used Cellestial (Cantus x Windesi xx), he’s a bit of an older stallion, but I like good conformation in my horses. He is a bit

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uphill and a ‘bloody’ horse, but actually quite modern, that’s why I use Cellestial. I bred with Vigo d’Arsouilles because he has so many good progeny, and I bred with Perigueux, because he is also uphill and light. I think lightness is important in the horses.” Can you tell me a little about the world number one, Zinius? “I bought the mare, Winia, when she was two or three years old. It is the line of Davinia (1958: Abgar xx - Sinia [KWPN] x Pastrocio xx). She had one foal and then we started riding her. When Winia was six or seven, we sold her to America where she jumped 1m45-1m50. She was a sharp mare and now she makes great foals.” It must be a great honour to win the WBFSH top breeder title, what is it about breeding horses that gets you in? “We really like the sport ourselves. We try to breed them, and educate them, until they come to the highest level. I also buy young horses, like Big Star, I bought him when he was four years old. I try to find the good ones, and when you sell them you can make money, it’s fantastic, it’s our hobby and we can live from it. It’s a nice life.” Usually at this point I would identify a breeder with more than one representative in the top group and suggest that this are the one who should get the Rolex, not the lucky breeder of one exceptional horse. This time I am not sure, the only breeder with more than one in the top 40 is Paul Schockemöhle at his Gestüt Lewitz, but the sheer size of Lewitz should disqualify it from the competition – 3,000 acres and accommodation for 4,000 horses – and I’m sure Mr Schockemöhle has more than enough watches already. Three of the four horses from Lewitz are by Schockemöhle’s outstanding stallion, Chacco-Blue. Chacco-Blue was also the best represented stallion – with nine competitors – in Tryon. Paul Schockemöhle told me that

the worst thing about Chacco-Blue was that he died way too early, at the age of only 14 in 2002. The best thing was the brain he gives: “Okay he could jump, but the best thing was his mentality. He tried always, even if you rode him at a wall of 2m50, he couldn’t have jumped it, but he would have tried, and this he gave absolutely to all his children. At the beginning they are not so fantastic jumpers, but they always learn and they are really willing to learn.” According to Alois Pollmann-Schweckhorst, who rode Chacco-Blue for most of his competition career, credit must also be given to Mr Schockemöhle and his breeder’s eye: “Paul Schockemöhle used him a lot because he realized very soon how to find the right mares for him. In his opinion ChaccoBlue fitted to a lot of his mares, he has around 1,000 mares but he knows every broo mare by name. If you say one name of a mare, he says, ‘yes, the grandmother of this mare, I bought from Hartwig Steenken, or Alwin Schockemöhle in 1970… She is related to this horse and this horse.’ That is a knowledge that no-one else has, and then it comes maybe by intuition that Chacco-Blue fits this mare. He has the best experience, and the best success.” The best of the Lewitz jumpers was Margie Goldstein Engle’s Royce, in fifth place, and registered with Schockemöhle’s OS (Oldenburg Jumping) studbook, although this time the bay stallion is not by Chacco-Blue, but by Cafe au Lait, a son of Contender, out of a Diadem mare. Royce headlines the OS team in fifth place, with three-fifths of the team by Chacco-Blue. The position of this relatively small, and relatively new studbook is all the more impressive when we consider the books below them: Swedish Warmblood (sixth); Hanoerian (seventh); Holsteiner (eighth); Anglo Europea (ninth); Zangersheide (10th).

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Gemma decided to look closer… When analysing the top 100 horses in the breeding rankings, and what studbooks they hail from, this observation regarding the OS and its fairly meteoric rise up the standings is backed up by the stats. Proportionally, the OS is punching well above its weight in terms of providing horses at the top of the sport. As a baseline we looked at foals born into the studbook in the years 2008 and 2009 (meaning offspring are now nine to 10 years old and starting to make their mark on the sport). What we found was that although only roughly 3,000 foals were born into the OS in 2008 and 2009; by 2018, 10 OS horses had made it into the WBFSH Top 100 Breeders Rankings – a strike rate of 0.33%. While it does not seem like much, when compared with the much larger and more established books of the KWPN (approximately 8,000 jumper foals, 0.21% strike rate) and SF (roughly 22,400 foals, 0.04% strike rate), it becomes apparent what an achievement this is! It is all about the context! “Thanks again”, Gemma The BWP continues to consolidate its place towards the top, second this time around, with their top performer, young Nicola Phillippaerts’ grey mare, H&M Harley vd Bisschop. The pair have won almost a million euros, with wins in major fovestar classes at Cascais GCT and Calgary. Harley’s sire, Dulf van den Bisschop, peaked at 1m45, but his breeding is all class: Heartbreaker over a Libero mare. Harley is out of the Holsteiner mare, Charisma (Coronado x Silvester).

The Selle Français book is third, their team headed by Timon d’Aure, by Mylord Carthago*HN. Mylord is by Carthago, and is perhaps the best of the 50 or so foals Belgian vet and breeding whiz, Joris de Brabander has coaxed out of his star broodmare, Fragance de Chalus (Jalisco B / Fury de la Cense). Timon is out of a mare by the Narcos II son, Drakkar des Hutins. In fourth we find Westfalia, and not surprisingly four of their team of six are by Cornet Obolensky, the Belgian colt that Westfalia adopted as their own, even if he was Ukranian owned. Gemma is back crunching the numbers… (Charts #7 and #8). A deeper dive into the top 10 jumping studbooks, and how closely the pedigrees match the ‘brand’, shows that 49% of the parents of the top-six representatives for each studbook also share the same registration of the competitor, and 35% of the grandparents. The showjumping studbooks also had the lowest

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incidence of ‘unknowns’ in the pedigrees, with all parents listed and all but two grandparents known. The Anglo European Studbook (AES ) which ranked 9thof the top ten jumping studbooks interestingly had NO parents and NO grandparents of their top six representatives also registered with the AES. This is likely due to the fact that the studbook is just that – a studbook for registration – as opposed to also being a recognised breed society such as the Holsteiners and Hanoverians. Registration into this studbook is more likely a result of proximity rather than pedigree, and as such does not really give us much insight into the heritage of their top performers. The AES is also the only top-ten jumping studbook to have a member of their topsix showing an ‘unknown’ – two grandparents of these competitors were of unknown heritage. Again, this comes down to this studbook being merely a means of registration, rather than an acknowledgement of generational breeding; registration is not dependent on the strength of pedigree. Again the most ‘closed’ studbook in the top ten is the Holsteiners (eighth place), with 92% of the parents and 96% of the grandparents of the top-six representatives also being Holsteiner branded. The Holsteiners have long prided themselves with being excellent producers of jumping horses and have only sparingly approved stallions from outside studbooks as ‘breeding experiments’, so it is perhaps no surprise that the top-six representatives of the Holsteiners are so classically ‘Holstein’. Pie chart #9 shows the

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proportion of ‘outside’ blood in the KWPN team: The most represented outside studbook in the top-six horses hailing from the KWPN was BWP, with 25% of parents and 12% of grandparents of these offspring being registered with this studbook. Next came the French with 9% and 21% being branded SF, and then Mecklenburg with 8% and 4% respectively. Parents and grandparents of these horses were also found hailing from the AES studbook, and Holstein. Next comes the BWP: We can immediately see by looking at chart #10 that this is a studbook that has accepted a fair amount of outside blood. The most influential outside studbook on these horses was the Holsteiners, with 17% of parents and 21% of grandparents from Holstein. Next came the Dutch with 9% and 21% respectively branded KWPN, and then Oldenburg with both 8% of parents and grandparents from this studbook. Other studbooks seen in the first two generations of these top-six representatives of the BWP were Selle Français, sBs, that other Dutch society the NRPS, and Hanover. And now the Selle Français (#11): The most represented outside studbook in these pedigrees was found to be the BWP, with 17% of both parents and grandparents of these horses with this brand. Next came Oldenburg and sBs, tied with 8% and 4% of parents and grandparents, respectively. Other studbooks found in these first two generations were Zangersheide, Holsteiner, DSP, and Anglo Arab.

Dressage: Eclectic bloodlines I am told that the dam of Verdades, the world’s number one dressage horse, has also produced some national level dressage horses, though they don’t show up on the Hippomundo database. Certainly, the bloodlines would have most breeders tearing their hair out. Verdades is by the Westfalian, Florett As, a good son of Florestan, who competed at an international Grand Prix level, with Patrik Kittel and Dominic Nathanael Erhart. But the dam, Liwilarda, is the product of an entirely different breeding program, the one that centres around the Dutch Harness horse, and with it, a hefty dose of Hackney blood. I guess the

KWPN breeding commission is not planning on introducing Hackney to its dressage population, no matter how successful Verdades is! Still the world’s number one dressage breeder is the late P. Crum† of Herveld. All the other horses in the top 50 ranking are obviously dressage bred, with the exception of one of the world’s best, the 43rd ranked Cosmo, who is jumping bred – Van Gogh x Frühling. Once again, veteran German dressage breeder, Inge Bastian, features in second place with Weihegold (Don Schufro x Sandro Hit), but this time there is no doubt in my mind that Rolex watches should have gone to Westfalian breeders, Heinrich and Wilhelm Strunk, since they produced the third ranked Emilio (by Ehrenpreis out of a mare by the Anglo Arab, Cacir) AND the fourth ranked Bella Rose (Belissimo, and out of another daughter of Cacir AA). Both these stars of Isabell Werth’s stable descend from the founding mare of the family’s breeding program – Pik Dame – by the great Pilatus (who carries on his dam side the invaluable blood of Duellant) out of an Allerhand mare. Actually, I am informed by the Westfalian Verband’s enormously helpful studbook editor, Sarah Schaller, that the official breeder of the two horses is ZG Strunk, an enterprise comprising of Wilhelm Strunk, his wife Heike Strunk and his brother Heinrich Strunk. The brothers have been breeding together for a while and added Heike several years ago. The ZG stands for ‘Zuchtgemeinschaft’, which could be translated as ‘breeding alliance’. Sarah sent me this examination of the damline of Bella Rose and Emilio which comes from the book, Zucht-schätze – Bedeutende Stutenfamilien in Westfalen by Franz-Josef Neuhaus. ‘The damline of these two top Westphalian dressage horses originates in the Strunk family’s foundation mare Pik Dame by Pilatus out of Astrid by Allerhand. The Strunk brothers Heinrich and Wilhelm bought this chestnut mare as a three-year-old and she was awarded the state premium title at the elite show. She stayed with the Strunks for 25 years before she died at age 28 in 1999. Her sire Pilatus is a well-known foundation sire in Westphalia, as he produced not just one but two legendary stallions – Pilot and Polydor. Pik Dame’s first daughter Comtess by Carrera became a highly influential broodmare at the Strunks’ yard in Bochum. Comtess was covered by the renowned Frühlingsball several times. The pairing produced state stud stallions Francisco I and Francisco II. Inbetween, a filly foal of that pedigree was bred and later named Franziska. Franziska is the granddam of Bella Rose. She was covered by the AngloArab Cacir and delivered among others, Bella Rose’s dam Cedra II. Pik Dame herself was covered by Frühlingsball and produced an

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exceptional showjumper from this pairing. The chestnut Feiner Kerl was one of Nick Skelton’s top horses in the 80s. The pair won international Grand prix classes. Feiner Kerl’s full-sister Flair remained in the breeding yard of the Strunk family and became the mother to yet another Cacir AA filly foal, namely Celina. Celina is the dam of Isabell Werth’s second Westphalian in the top ten of the world: Emilio by Ehrenpreis. As well, Celina produced the licensed brothers Fiderglanz I and II.’ Today the Strunks are focussing on dressage breeding only and are operating on a slightly smaller scale than they used to. Nevertheless, the qualities of the damline have been established further in the broodmares and the emphasised characteristics like rideability and basic gaits were maintained well. Today the yard keeps thoroughly selected and carefully planned broodmares to maintain this successful damline with the aim of producing further top

horses like Bella Rose and Emilio. I was also intrigued about the dam sire for both – Cacir AA. Again Sarah was able to fill the gap.… ‘The Anglo-Arab Cacir originated in France, born in 1981. He was moved to the Westphalian/Rhineland breeding area, while his older half-brother, the grey Inschallah AA by Israel, was quite influential in Oldenburg breeding and is well-known for siring Elektia V, mother to Rohdiamant and Royal Diamond. The dam of Cacir and Inschallah, Resena, was a daughter of Nithard out of an Infante dam. Cacir was quite popular during his years at the Gevelsberg station from 1989 to 1996, a local branch of the Northrhine-Westphalian state stud right at the Rhineland/Westphalian border. At that time he covered naturally, so the number of mares he covered was limited. Despite several promising offspring he was sold after standing just a few years. During the time he was available in Gevelsberg the Strunk brothers were convinced of the stallion’s quality. Heinrich Strunk remembers the excellent constitution and fine gaits of the stallion, which he passed to his progeny. The Strunk brothers always focused on rideability in their breeding decisions, and with Cacir they found a good match for their mares to pursue their breeding goals further. They brought several mares to Gevelsberg and appreciated Cacir standing at stud there.’ Thank you once again, Sarah…

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Dressage studbook rankings Now to the studbook rankings, headed by the KWPN: If we ignore Verdades, the highest ranked dressage horse of Dutch breeding, in 12th spot, is Unee BB, but he is by the German Trakehner, Gribaldi. In 14th we find the first really Dutch representative, Blue Hors Zack, by the Ferro son, Rousseau out of a Jazz mare. The second placed Hanoverian book, reminds us yet again, of the importance of Donnerhall, and his sons, particularly De Niro, who supplies two of the Hanoverian sextet. The highest ranked Hanoverian, is Charlotte Dujardin’s new star, Freestyle. The bay mare is by the Westfalien stallion, Fidermark (Florestan, again), out of a mare by the Oldenberger, Donnerhall. In third place we have the team from Westfalia, headed up by Emilio and Bella Rose, and we can reflect again on the re-emergence of the old Westfalien ‘E’ line, since Emilio is by Ehrenpreis, a son of the great Ehrentusch. This line received a real kick along at last year’s Nürnberger Burg-Pokal, when the stand-out star was Escolar by Estobar NRW, another son of Ehrentusch. The Oldenburg studbook took fourth, with their leading representative, Weihegold, while the Danes were lead into fifth spot by the charming Atterupgaards Cassidy (Caprimond x Donnerhall). Donnerhall, when we talk of dressage breeding we always get back to Donnerhall, and there is no other sire on the horizon who looks like challenging his pre-eminance in the world of dressage breeding. Back to Gemma: The dressage top-ten studbooks (chart #12) show the highest incidence of multi-generational registrations; 63% of the top representatives’ parents and 48% of grandparents were also registered with the same studbook as the offspring. The most ‘liberal’ studbook in the top ten was the 10thplacegetter BWP, with just 17% of the top-six representatives’ parents and 4% of their grandparents also being BWPbranded. This Belgian studbook also had the largest number of ‘unknowns’ in the first couple of generations, with one

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parent and two grandparents of unknown parentage. The most closed dressage studbook was the Lusitanos – ranked eighth, with all of the topsix competitors’ parents and 88% of grandparents also registered APSL. Interestingly, despite the apparent closed nature of the studbook, they do not seem to shy away from blanks in the pedigrees; three grandparents of the top six representatives are of unknown origin. And finally, a closer look at the composition of the top three studbooks: KWPN, Hanoverian

and Westfalen. Starting with the KWPN (Chart #14): It can immediately be seen that when it comes to the dressage horses, this is quite a closed studbook with the majority of the first two generations also being registered KWPN. The next most represented studbook was the Trakehners with both 9% of parents and grandparents’ registrations. Westfalia had 8% of parents and 4% of grandparents’ registrations, and Holstein, Hanover, Rheinland and Oldenburg all had no parents but 4% of grandparents registered to each studbook. Next the Hanovarians: A significant amount of Oldenburg blood is found in the first two generations of these Hanovarians, with 17% of parents and 38% of grandparents from this studbook. The next most represented outside studbook was Westfalia, with both 8% of parents and grandparents. The next most represented was Baden-Württemberg, which has now been amalgamated with a number of other studbooks to create the DSP, with 8% of parents registered to this book. The only other outside studbook found in the first two generations of these Hanovarians was Rheinland, with 4% of grandparents. And last but not least we look at the competitors from Westfalia: Already at first glance we can see that this is a studbook with quite an open-book policy. The outside studbook having the greatest influence is Hanover, with 17% of parents and 25% of grandparents branded HANN. Next we have Rheinland – which these days is almost seen as a mini-Hanover – with 17% of both parents and grandparents. The third most represented outside studbook was the Trakehners, with 8% and 9% of parents and grandparents respectively registered to the studbook. Other studbooks making an appearance in the first two generations of these horses were Oldenburg, Anglo Arab and Holsteiner. Once again, I thank Gemma for her excellent graphs. I think her analysis has added a whole new dimension to this year’s evaluation of the WBFSH rankings, I hope you found it enlightening, too. CH ■

oldenburg horses achieve €2.5 million at auction

TOBIAS HEMKEN/OLDENBURGER PFERDE PHOTOGRAPHY: FELDHAUS

Golden prices in Vechta as brilliant horses shone during the 89th Fall Elite Auction in Vechta. Customers from around the world purchased their future champions for a total that touched €2.5 million. The most expensive horse was Vivat Rex (Vivaldi x Samarant x Rubinstein I), bred by Heinrich Gerriets from Wilhelmshaven.

his dancer with awesome movements was sold to customers from the Netherlands for 200,000 Euro. The second most expensive horse Silver Black OLD by Sandro Hit - Donnerhall - Classiker, bred by Georg Sieverding from Emstek, was knocked down by Fabian Kühl for 150,000 Euro. The Brillantring Mare Tara by Tomahawk - Hotline Rubinstein I, bred by Maike Krause from Hameln, changed hands for 110,000 Euro to Switzerland. The showjumping collection also achieved an amazing result. Customers from Switzerland paid €80,000 for Levi (Lordanos x Luxano xLandor S), a bay gelding who was born at the Zuchthof Bauer in Emmerthal and who has already been successful up to advanced level in showjumping. The beautiful Cinderella (Christian x Balou du Rouet x Landgold) was also knocked down for €80,000, when this Oldenburger jewel, bred by Markus Rump from Drantum, was purchased by German customers. The price statistics of the foal collection was led by Vardy (Vitalis x Florencio I x Feinbrand), bred by Hans and Britta Scherbring from Visbek. This highly noble colt was sold to a well-known stud in Lower Saxony for €120,000. “Apart from long-term customers, we were able to win many new Oldenburg friends who secured their future champions in Vechta”, rejoiced auctioneer Fabian Kühl.

Vardy (Vitalis x Florencio I x Feinbrand)

Vivat Rex (Vivaldi x Samarant x Rubinstein I) Around half of the riding horses were sold to foreign countries and will be heading off to Sweden (five), Switzerland (four), the United States (three), Great Britain (two), as well as one apiece travelling to Australia, the Netherlands, Spain and Turkey. Nine of the talented colts and fillies from the foal collection will be leaving Germany to the United States (four), Spain (three), Austria (one) and Great Britain (one). In general, the average price for Oldenburg sport horses and foals was significantly higher than last year, while the average price for the riding horses of this outstanding collection was €49,000. This means an average increase of €10,000 compared to last year. The total turnover for riding horses was €1,950,000. The foal collection scored an average price of around €16,500, some €2,500 more than last year, with a total turnover of €558,000. ■ November 2018

Showjumping evolution, according to Nelson Pessoa

JUDY WARDROPE PHOTOGRAPHY: PETER LLEWELLYN

ho better to discuss consistency with than a person who has been involved with the sport for decades? Nelson Pessoa was the 1966 European Champion, and, who, in the 1992 Olympics, was the oldest rider (age 56) while son Rodrigo was the youngest (age 19). Nelson also did the early training and competing on Baloubet du Rouet before handing over the reins to Rodrigo, who then piloted the chestnut stallion to numerous championship successes. About consistency of type, Nelson Pessoa made the following comments: “Nowadays, with the development of the breeding, we have quite a similar conformation horse. Before, the horses were very different. The conformation model for showjumpers is more equal now – from all different breedings – they are lighter. Of course, for the jumper we like to have the best and the strongest

hindquarters and the most scope. “Baloubet has the conformation that you want. His breeding was wonderful and you see now what he is breeding. He had an unbelievable haunch, like a football player, and the scope. And the horse was very, very careful, sensitive and intelligent. He put all the five qualities [power, scope, carefulness, sensitivity and intelligence] of a showjumper together. That is the reason for his success. Baloubet continues to reproduce the majority of the good horses now.”

WEG Sires of Note (alphabetically) • Baloubet du Rouet (1989/SF: Galoubet A - Mesange du Rouet x Starter, bred by Louis Fardin Snr), Olympic Champion as well as three-time World Cup champion (1998, 1999, 2000), followed by three podium places (second, third, second – 2001, 2002, 2003) in the same event, seems to pass on a fair amount of ability, as does his sire, Galoubet A, who was the broodmare sire of one other WEG competitor. Baloubet du Rouet’s representation at WEG came through his sons as well as his daughters. He’s the broodmare sire of four of the competitors, sire of one, and paternal grandsire (through Balou du Rouet) of two, including Bianca (SWB out of Coco by Cardento), the individual bronze medalist. • Chacco-Blue (1998/Meckl: Chambertin - Contara x Contender, bred by K-H Koepp), who headed the jumper sire’s list in 2017, had a very busy stud career before he died of Lyme Disease in 2012. He is listed as the sire of eight of the jumpers at WEG: Chacco Kid, Chaqui Z, Chacco-Blue II, Chalou, Chactino, Chacna, Chacco-Balou, and Blue Movie. Only the latter, out of a Pilot mare, made it to the top 25 under the saddle of Australian Rowan Willis (12th). No Chacco-Blue offspring made it to the podium.

Baloubet du Rouet Galoubet A - Mesange du Rouet x Starter) ridden by Rodrigo Pessoa (BRA) 30 November 2018

• Cornet Obolensky/ex Windows van’t Costersveld (1999/BWP: Clinton - Rabanna van’t Costersveld x Heartbreaker), has been a leading sire of jumpers for several years, in part due to the sheer volume of offspring. He bred a lot of mares, including over 400 before his third birthday. He is listed as the sire of four jumpers at the Games (Clooney

51, Cannavaro 9, Carthagena, and Cornet), and as the broodmare sire of Chianti’s Champion (Champion du Lys). One of his offspring, Clooney 51, won individual silver with Martin Fuchs (SUI), and one of his paternal granddaughters, Cristalline (Cristallo I x Caretello B), contributed to team USA’s gold medal and finished 11th individually. Clinta, another member of team USA, finished fourth individually and is by Cornet Obolensky’s sire, Clinton.

Born: 2003

Colour: Chestnut

Bred by:

Denis Brohier, Haras de Tamerville, Saint-Côme-du-Mont, France

Owner:

Azienda Agricola Antonel Ancilla

Standing with:

Haras de Tamerville / Elevage de Tame

Approved by:

• Darco (1980/BWP: Lugano van la

Fee:

€660/six straws (not including shipping costs outside France)

Roche - Ocoucha x Codex, bred by Martinus Paesen) was an extremely prolific stallion, having literally thousands of offspring. You may recall him as the sire of Sapphire (USA team gold medalist at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in Hong Kong). At WEG 2018 he sired three competitors (Dublin van Overis, Idarquithago, Jeckle), and was the maternal grandsire of two more (VDL Glasgow vh Merelsnest NOP and Jumpy van de Hermitage), none of whom earned a team medal or made it into the top 25 individually.

Conditions:

Frozen semen

• Diamant de Semilly (1991/SF: Le Tot de Semilly - Venise des Cresles x Elf III, bred by Jules Mesnildrey), winner of a team world championship gold medal for France in 2002, as well as a leading sire, boasted four WEG contenders – Ilex VP, Utamaro d’Ecaussines, Twig du Veillon, Don VHP Z NOP – with the latter finishing 23rd with Harrie Smolders (NED). He was also the broodmare sire of one contender, Irenice Horta (Vido d’Arsouilles), seventh individually with Italy’s Lorenzo de Luca. • Kannan (1992/KWPN: Voltaire Cemeta x Nimmerdor, bred by M.G. Kramer van de Meer) was the big name a few years ago, especially with two daughters in the top three at the 2015 World Cup Finals in Las Vegas, NV: Albführen’s Paille/ex Paille de la Roque (winner with Switzerland’s Steve Guerdat), and Molly Malone V (third with Ireland’s Bertram Allen). At WEG

STALLION SECRET PANAMA TAME (SF) CARTHAGO [HOLST] - KASSAVE [SF] X FRENCH CANCAN [SF] Height: 168 cms

Offspring: His oldest offspring were born in 2008, after covering 25 mares in 2007. Daughter Virtuose d’Eole (2009: Osee des Pres x Helios de la Cour II) is competing at 1m55. Son Aston des Planques (2010: Marquise des Planques x Bout d’Zan II) is competing at 1m50. Daughter Australe d’Argouges (2010: Mam’Zelle Pierreville x Socrate de Chivre) is competing at 1m45. His breeder says: “Panama Tame produces offspring with an excellent work ethic. They are horses that will suit both amateur and professional riders.” Panama Tame has 132 products registered with SF, to date. Sport results: His career began with Eugenie Angot and he was later ridden by Pilar Lucrecia Cordon. Since 2014 he has been under the saddle of Italian Luigi Polesello (24). In 2014 they finished second in a the CSIO-YR GP in Arezzo, third in a 1m40 class at CSI-U25A in Manerbio, third in a 1m45 class at a CSIU-25-A Wierden. In 2017 they competed in their first 1m60 class (CSIO5* Dublin, CSI5* LGCT Rome...) where they showed strong potential. Best results recorded in 2018: 4th – a 1m50 class/CSI4* Samorin; double Nations’ Cup clear at same event; clear-round in World Cup GP in Verona. Competing for their first time in Aachen, they finished 14th in a 1m60 class with only two time faults. Breeding comments Panama Tame’s sire Carthago (Capitol I) competed at the highest level with Jos Lansink. French Cancan (Quidam de Revel) comes from the direct motherline of Narcos II and Quat’Sous and was also bred by Denis Brohier. Halfbrother Quebec Tame (For Pleasure) jumped at 1m60 with Abdelkebir Ouaddar and Benjamin Robert. Two cousins are 1m50 mares Parenthese Tame (Helios de la Cour II) and Nausica Tame (Flipper d’Elle). Current rider: Luigi Polesello (ITA) Rider comments: “Panama Tame is a really special horse. He is a leader, and in the stable all the horses know it and respect it. Even with people he is very special. He has his preferences. He is very lively and difficult to manage on the ground, but once I sit in the saddle he changes completely. In the work he is very concentrated even if he is really lazy at home. The thing that is most amazing is how he changes in the transition from being at home compared to being at a competition. The incredible thing is that he changes the way he is breathing, as if he is focusing on the effort he’s going to make. He is a born fighter. He does not fear any obstacle. I think he’s the best horse in the world.... At least for me.”

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2018, he sired one top-25 finisher (the Selle Français stallion Quabri de l’Isle – tied 24th), and was the broodmare sire of two entries: Bacara d’Archonfosse (Asca Z) and Bacardi VDL (Corland).

• Kashmir van Schuttershof (1994/SF: Nabab de Reve Fines van Kameren x Tenor Manciais, bred by Stoeterij Schuttershof) sired four competitors, including Reveur de Hurtebise (French team) and H&M Indiana (team silver for Sweden), alongside H&M Indiana and Fedor. He is also the maternal sire of Dublin van Overis (Darco) and maternal grandsire of Irenice Horta (seventh Darco (Lugano van la Roche - Ocoucha x Codex) ridden by Ludo Philippaerts (BEL) individually). His sire, Nabab de Reve (SF: Quidam de Revel x Artichaut), and his paternal continues to work well, and will likely continue. This blend grandsire sire, Quidam de Revel (SF: Jalisco B x Nankin), (no matter which studbook is maternal and which is long-time showjumping stalwarts and WEG competitors paternal), is evident in horses from a number of studbooks, themselves, did not, however, appear in the immediate and seems to produce the much-touted ‘blood’ that riders generations of any medallist or top-25 horse. are seeking, while maintaining the power required for toplevel sport. Examples include:

Patterns and anomalies • DSP Alice (2007/DSP: Askari - Land-blume x Landrebell), the only horse to not topple a rail or put a foot in the water through five grueling rounds, had no close relatives in the field. She stood alone in both respects.

• LizzieMary (2006/AES: Cabri d’Elle - Amandalear x Accord II) was 11th individually and by a stallion who was not used with great regularity. I am told that his 28-year-old sire, who competed at Grand Prix level until the age of 20, is still alive, but has been out of active breeding since 2011.

• For Pleasure (1986/Hann: Furioso II - Gigantin x Grannus, bred by Robert Diestel), a leading sire for the past several years, was surprisingly uncommon among the immediate ancestors at the 2018 Games – represented only as the broodmare sire of Global (61st individually). Under the category of fading patterns, I noted the following: 1) A total of five horses had Thoroughbred broodmare sires, but they did not rise to the top in team or individual competition; 2) The typical Irish Sport Horse of the past was strangely absent. In fact, the only ISH horse to make it into the top 25, Luibanta BH (2008/ISH: Zirocco Blue x Marlon) has two KWPN parents! It seems, that a combination of Holsteiner (predominantly of the C-line currently) and Selle Francais 32 November 2018

• Bianca (individual bronze medalist): Swedish Warmblood by Balou du Rouet (an example of the Selle Francais x C-line Holsteiner blend through Baloubet du Rouet and a Contender son), and out of Coco ( Cardento). • Timon d’Aure (ninth individually): Selle Français by Mylord Carthago (a blend of Capitol I, Calando I and Jalisco B) and out of a Selle Francais mare by Drakkar Des Hutins. • Zeremonie (10th individually): Holsteiner by Cero I (Calido I x Come On) and out of a Selle Francais/Holsteiner cross mare by Quick Star (SF by Galoubet A) and out of a Cassini II (Holst) daughter. • Good Luck (13th individually): Belgian Warmblood by Canturo (Holst) and out of Famoza Z by Furioso II (SF).

In conclusion As Mr. Pessoa stated: the successful jumper needs many traits. The tricky part for breeders is trying to produce all those traits in one horse; thus, being aware of the trends without falling for fads becomes a key factor in improving the odds of their success. Producing a quality horse is always a worthy goal. ■

CWHBA Fall Classic Sale

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The 2018 Fall Classic Sale of the Canadian Warmblood Horse Breeders’ Association took place on October 5-6 in Red Deer, Alberta, and is now in the books. This European-style auction, now in its 24th year and held annually during Canadian Thanksgiving weekend, made the move to Saturday evening this year. A wonderful pre-sale cocktail party, hosted by Alberta Veterinary Centre, and a during-the-sale event sponsored by Valleyfield Farm, Creekside Farm and Carousel Ridge, added to the fun factor for over 400 spectators and bidders.

he Westerner Park venue in Red Deer was beautifully decorated by the crew from Klondike Victory Farm under the direction of Coreen Jamieson. The horses were wonderful – well bred, well prepared, and an exciting offering to the public. Livestream video watched by nearly 3,000 viewers, plus online bidding, added to the excitment of the live action. Of the thirty-five horses that went through the ring, seven were sold online and three are headed to the United States. The increased proportion of foals, yearlings, and broodmares versus riding horses was reflected in the overall average which took a slight dip to $10,635. However, smart buyers invested in the future and the young prospects sold for a good average of $7,585. The high seller in this category at $15,000, receiving the Sparks Innovations cooler, was Nobu CR (Jethro Tull x Matterhorn) consigned by Carousel Ridge and purchased by Holly Dietz of Albuquerque, New Mexico. For the second year in a row Klondike Victory Farm offered an embryo in a recipient. This year the future offspring of Jethro Tull x Tacorde, sold for $11,000 to Joco Trucking Ltd of Bentley, Alberta. The consignment of two-year-olds was again very strong with good pedigrees, great horses, and a selling average of $9,000. The top-selling ‘two-year-old prospect’, winning the

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Key Warmbloods cooler, was the consignment of Thelma and Louise Sporthorses, Beaujolais (Buckingham x Sarkozy). This excellent dressage prospect sold to Carmen and Janet Strabel of Red Deer County, Alberta for $13,250. The combined categories of ‘performance horses’ and ‘prospects under saddle’ had a strong showing of lovely horses that averaged, $19,383. Winning the High Thorn Equestrian cooler at a selling price of $32,500, was Ellie Mae VF (Emerald van’t Ruytershof x Charisma), bred and consigned by Valleyfield Farm and sold to Katie Blanchard-Firth of Okotoks, Alberta. With so many young horses on offer there was a sense of anticipation for the future as these youngsters join the hundreds of sale graduates that have been so successful over the years. Congratulations to all of the purchasers for their clever shopping of this year’s offering, to the consignors for breeding such a strong contingent of horses for sale, and to the Alberta Chapter of CWHBA and its volunteers for putting Katrina van den Bosch (Sale Co-Chair), Deb Symes (Thelma & Louise), Beaujo■ lais, Carmen Strabel (Buyer), Rebecca Benedict, Doreen Kulcsar (Award Sponsor), on a great sale. Heather Smith (Thelma & Louise) November 2018

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Stallion favourite added to Zangersheide catalogue

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The autumn season brings a buzz to Studfarm Zangersheide. With an eye on the forthcoming breeding season, the arrival of new stud sires heralds a distinct surge in testosterone levels in the stallion quarters. The first new name to be announced by Studfarm Zangersheide, was the public´s favourite of the last stallion inspection and promptly promptly became a veritable star.

ourkhan Hero Z was undoubtedly the most discussed young stallion at the September inspection of Studbook Zangersheide. His name was circled by numerous breeders and his pedigree extensively praised. The son of Don’t Touch Tiji Hero Z out of Zinka de Kalvarie Z (Zandor Z) convinced the judges with his mighty expression and impressive jumping style. So in order to make such a high-quality stallion available for the large public, Stud Zangersheide immediately invested in him, thereby acquiring a paternal grandson of the great Selle Français sire Diamant de Semilly (Le Tot de Semilly). According to his new owner, Judy Ann Melchior; “To us, Dourkhan Hero Z was absolutely the most imposing stallion of the last stallion inspection. He has a fantastic model, powerful impulsion and jumps for a 10! He also stems directly from the line of Usha van’t Roosakker in his fourth generation, with his

third dam being Atoucha van’t Roosakker, a daughter of Darco and Usha van’t Roosakker (Chin Chin), and dam of, for instance, Electra van’t Roosakker.” Melchior concluded by saying; “I’m completely blown away by this young stallion and am looking forward to using him on my own mares in 2019.” The ‘Hero’ in the name of this new stallion refers to the successful breeding stud of Luc Henry where countless top international competitors have been born. According to Henry, “Dourkhan Hero Z has supreme athletic capacity with an extreme degree of blood and cautiousness. I’m definitely going to use him on my own mares in the future.” In 2019 Dourkhan Hero Z will be available with fresh semen at Stud Zangersheide, and he will be introduced to the large public during the Open Days of Stud Zangersheide on March 9-10, 2019. ■

November 2018

Baborowka Horse Show: In pursuit of lightness

BY AGATA

GROSICKA PHOTOGRAPHY: BABOROWKA HORSE SHOW

In recent years, Baborowko in the western part of Poland., just outside Poznan, has become a ‘must-visit’ on the eventing world’s map. Earlier this year the Baborowko Spring Festival attracted some elite riders including former world number one, Oliver Townend, as well as Andreas Dibowski – a frequent visitor to Baborówko events – and Sweden’s Sara AlgotssonOstholt. It’s a mark of the value placed in this top-ten eventing show by well-known riders.

t’s no wonder, therefore, that the autumn edition of Baborowko Show which ran from September 28-30, attracted Poland’s own top eventing riders, including Pawel Spisak, Jan Kaminski (the reigning Polish eventing champion), and Pawel Warszawski, as well as many riders from Sweden, Finland, Germany, and Italy. It was not only sporting rivalry that brought so many riders and eventing professionals to Baborowko. Many of them also came in pursuit of the lightness Polish-bred eventing horses can still offer. Breeders and riders were keen spectators during the Baborowko Horse Sale show organized on the Saturday evening (September 29) in a very picturesque 19th-century barn located in the grounds of the Baborowko Stud Farm. Sixteen horses of different breeds, mostly aged between four and six, were presented during the auction. They had been carefully selected in advance, and took part in a special training program in Baborowko during which they were strictly assessed in terms of their eventing potential, and trained by the team of riders led by Pawel Warszawski – the Auction Sport Coordinator. “We selected the horses through na open recruitment process. All horses were welcome. First we assessed them based on their jumping and eventing skills

via videos or photographs submitted by their owers. The horses were then ‘given’ to us for around two months for preparation training. We took full responsibility for the horses, ensuring that the risk from any injuries was minimized. Then together with the owners we set the starting price. Each owner also had the right to buy his or her own horse at the auction. Veterinary examinations were made available to prospective buyers, who could also consult the vets from the Equi Vet Service Clinic. They could also test ride the horses, who were officially presented before the auction in the main hippodrome. I personally presented five horses this year.” (Pawel Warszawski is one of the best Polish eventing riders and a medallist in the Polish Eventing Cup and Polish eventing championships). He continued by adding: “It was our third auction. Two years ago, when we started, 80 percent of the horses came from our Baborowko Stud Farm. So, how do we advertize? So far, all our PR activities have been conducted throughout Poland, with no foreign promotion. It has been ‘word of mouth’ advertising from people who have been to past auctions. Then, the athletes who come to the show from Sweden, Finland and, of course, Germany, they pass on the word. “I should mention here the name of Elmar Lesch, who was a kind of inspiration. For many years he organized auctions in Germany, where people attended the show, and athletes and fans attended the auctions which were organized at the site of the event.” Of the 16 horses presented during the auction, 12 were sold. The majority were Polish-bred (Polish half-bred, Malopolska and Wielkopolska breeds, as well as Polish Anglo-Arabs), with prices ranging from The prices ranged from PLN35,000 (US$9,263) to PNL80,000 (US$21,174). The highest price was reached by a five-year-old modern-type Polish half-bred gelding Lord Vulkan (Vulkan L - Lili x Lennon) bred by Bartosz Szymborski. His grandsire Vulkano successfully competed in World Cup qualifiers with Marcus Five-year-old Malopolska-bred stallion Lotos (Huzar - Lotta x Top Ehning (GER). The horse is a real eye-catcher with Gun xo) bred by Michal Wolski

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great jumping potential, and gaits good enough to be presented in international dressage arenas. Another horse of exquisite jumping pedigree was King BH, a five-year-old chestnut Wielkopolska-bred stallion (Elf - Ksiezniczka BH x Posejdon), whose sire is well know to most Polish showjumping fans. He is an accomplished competitor who has won many international competitions with Jacek Zagor, including the opening speed class at the 2002 World Cup Final in Leipzig, Germany. Bogna Hupa, King BH’s breeder, is very proud of her young stallion, saying; “He is a very gentle horse with ideal character and a great head. Not Five-year-old Polish half-bred gelding Lord Vulkan (Vulkan L - Lili x Lennon) only is jumping his main bred by Bartosz Szymborski quality, he is very good in all testing her”. Elmo Jankari and his partner Sally Siltakorpi three gaits which makes him a great eventing horse.” King BH was trained for the auction by Wanda Wasowska – the live and train in Germany. The majority of horses presented at the Baborowko legendary 89-year-old Polish dressage rider, trainer and Horse Sale Show were Polish-bred, and the event has Olympian (team fourth in Mosco 1980). definitely become one of the major venues promoting Polish Elmar Lesch – an acclaimed German eventing rider who eventing horses. Is it the direction the Baborowko organizers once inspired the hosts and came to Baborowko to compete want to maintain for the future? Henryk Swiecicki Jnr, the – also bought one horse during the auction. His choice was director of the event and a member of the Swiecicki family the five-year-old Malopolska-bred stallion Lotos (Huzar that owns the Baborowko Horse Stud, is definitely a man Lotta x Top Gun xo) bred by Michal Wolski. His sire, the with a vision. “We are really happy to be able to promote Anglo-Arab Huzar, was vice champion of young horses in Polish horses and see them later competing in international both eventing and showjumping. Lesch said, “I like the type competitions under many great riders. However, we are also of this horse and his handy size. I saw him and thought ‘let’s open to breeders from outside Poland. We are very fortunate try something and hope it will work out’. He’s of Anglo-Arab to have created a great team of passionate people – especially origin with a lot of Thoroughbred which gives him fighting the riders who spend a minimum five weeks preparing the spirit and the lightness. Warmer horses become lighter and horses and then presenting them in front of the audience in Polish horses still maintain this lightness unlike the horses of the best possible way. We get to know the horses and we foreign breeds.” endorse them. We also provide buyers with a full set of Lesch continued by saying, “I think it’s a very good idea medical records so they don’t have to do them by themselves. to involve the auction in the competition. You get riders and Eventually our efforts pay off. After the second edition we more audience members. This is a good auction and it thought we might experience some kind of regress, but it did should continue in this way. If I had to change something, I not happen. We managed to group together 16 very good would maybe do less jumping and showing of the horses horses. When it comes to the number of horses, I don’t think before the main event”. we should increase to, say, 30 horses. The value may suffer Lightness and rideability was also one of key factors for and we want to avoid that.” Elmo Jankari, the Finnish rider, who purchased a six-year-old Certainly, the value of the horses presented at the Thoroughbred mare Izolacja M xx (Rhodesian Winner xx Baborowko Horse Sale Show was more than satisfactory Isola Bene xx x Aunadler xx), saying: “The motherline is when compared to the lightness of their prices, so it’s worth very important for good eventing horses. If we want the following the instincts of many riders who turned up at the horse to reach Olympic level, the more Thouroghbred, the auction, and plan to check out this show next year. better. She is full Thoroughbred and she can jump, which is ■ a very good quality for a great eventing horse competing in four-star competitions. We decided to buy her even without November 2018

NZPH horses star in all age groups down under

SALLY REID PHOTOGRAPHY: KELLY WILSON

While the official standings in New Zealand’s age-group series are not yet available, the first few competitions have delivered interesting results for breeders. Warwick Hansen and David Kirk’s New Zealand Performance Horses, with their NZPH prefix and predominately Selle Français pedigrees, stand out as having made a very solid start to the season, across all three groups. Warmblood vs Thoroughbred 7yo battle and it was yet another NZPH victory, this time to Heloise

he first competition was at Taupo, where the winner was a Thoroughbred, Good Timing xx (Nom de Jeu xx Baloushe xx x Black Minnaloushe xx) for Amanda Pottinger. Bred by Goodwood Stud, Good Timing finished ahead of New Zealand Sport Horse, Festival NZ (L.A.X. - Strip) who was bred by his owner/rider Monica Oakley. Monte Carlo MVNZ (Indoctro - Auburn Princess MVNZ x Senator VDL) was third. All three horses jumped clear but with time faults. In the second leg of the series, which was held at Woodhill Sands, the win went to Cadillac NZPH (Jokus Latour - Untouched NZPH x Cabdulla du Tillard), a New Zealand Sport Horse gelding owned and ridden by Samantha Peters. The pair had no faults over their two rounds. In second place was the NZ Warmblood mare Lotte (Corofino II - Moll Flanders x Brilliant Invader xx) with four faults for Rosie Commons. Third went to Charcoal Xtreme (Cardento VDL - Red Rinse x Wikau), a New Zealand Sport Horse gelding bred by Xtreme Sport Horses and ridden by his co-owner, the international eventer Lizzie Green. Charcoal’s dam was bred at Ngahiwi Station by Bruce Holden, and is a full sister of the showjumping gelding Blue Rinse, who was sold to Australia. At the Central Districts Spring Show, the seven-year-old winner was Maurice Beatson’s gelding Central Park (Euro Sport Centavos - Silk and Spice x Omnicorp xx), a New Zealand Sport Horse bred by Imogen Neal. Second and third places were filled by two from NZ Performance Horses, the gelding Cadenza NZPH (Kannan - U Can Dance NZPH x Fuego du Prelet) for Rose Alfeld, and the small but super little mare Can’t Touch This NZPH (Untouchable M Questions NZPH x Fetiche du Pas [SF]) for Heloise Tolo. At Equidays, New Zealand Performance Horses made an almost clean sweep. Cadillac NZPH had his second win of the season for Samantha Peters, with Cadenza NZPH and Rose Alfeld again in second place. Charcoal Xtreme and Lizzie Green were third, and fourth went to Jessie Linton’s mare Caption NZPH (Jokus Latour - Manon des Souches x Arpege Pierreville). The next leg took place at the Hawke’s Bay Royal Show,

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Tolo and her lovely little mare, Can’t Touch This NZPH. Robert Steele was second with Two Eye See (One Eye - Mrs Grey x Telesun), and Ashley Hart was third on Kiwi Cheroso (Landioso - Kiwi Cherobee x Frisbee) bred by Graeme Hart’s Fernhill Stud.

Mares rise to the top in 6yo age group s Mares rose to the top at the first show in this series, which was another win for NZ Performance horses, this time with Daisy Duke NZPH (Non Plus Ultra II - Ophelia NZPH x Barbarian) who also performed well as a five-year-old. She is owned by the stud, and was ridden by Maddison Greatorex. A New Zealand Warmblood mare, Constellation (Cassini d’Eclipse - Milly x Anamour) was second for her breeder/rider Daniel Webb, while the beautiful Hanoverian mare Enya MH (Edward - Grandessa MH x Graf Landau) bred by Matthews Hanoverians, was third with Melody Matheson. This pair recently enjoyed a clinic with Dutch trainer Rob Ehrens, who was in New Zealand for Equidays. The next show, at Woodhill Sands, was another all-mare affair, with a tie for first place between Dynasty NZPH (Prezatas du Rouet - Majestueuse du Lys x Ulior des Iles) for Amanda Wilson, and Selena C (Cardento VDL - Sofee x Power Fee) for her breeder/rider Vicki Prendergast. Selena C finished second overall in last year’s five-year-old series. Dynasty’s dam was born in France at Elevage du Lys, and has had six foals for NZPH. Another mare, Nikama MVNZ (Canto - Jakarma MVNZ x Orame), bred by Mount View Sport Horses, was third for Laura Inkster. This mare’s dam was previously named Dolche MVNZ and finished second in the five-year-old championship at HOY 2012. At Central Districts, the six-year-old win went to Sun Flake (Lansbury Grosve - Wynyard Blue Legend x Laughton’s Legend), a New Zealand Sport Horse gelding bred by Maurice Beatson. Beatson himself was second in the class on Clearview (Clearwater - Grissaile x Valdarno), a gelding he also bred. The NZSH mare LT Holst Teacher’s Pet (Centrio - River

x Senator VDL) was third. She was bred by Ewen McGregor’s LT Holst Sport Horses, and is ridden by her owner Kim Best. At Equidays there was an extraordinary seven-way tie for first place, and some of those youngsters also have extraordinarily good pedigrees. They are: the Stal van Hoof mare Quintesse Z TWS (Quantum Cinderella Z x Cathargo Z) for Amanda Wilson; the imported licensed Holsteiner stallion Daminos TWS (Diarado - Blanca Nieve x Cachas), bred by KlausPeter Wiepert and ridden by his owner Vicki Wilson; LG Whata Balou (Balou du Rouet Whatanaughty xx x Magic Albert xx) a gelding bred by Laurel Glen Performance Horses in Australia and ridden by owner Tied for first place at Woodhill Sands, the 6yo Dynasty NZPH (Prezatas du Rouet Parys Marshall; Dolce NZPH Majestueuse du Lys x Ulior des Iles) ridden by Amanda Wilson (Quool du Bois Margot - Vogue Camberley Phoenix AF (Camberley Mercury - By Gone Era Blue NZPH x Mr Blue) ridden by Jeremy Whale; Enya MH AF x Littorio) bred by Camberley Stud, owned by Jeremy and Melody Matheson; Scotman’s Valley (Quinor x Clark and ridden by Brayden Aarts. Powerfee), a New Zealand Warmblood gelding owned by This seems to be the season of tied finishes, and there Takapoto Equestrian and ridden by Oliver Croucher; and was yet another at Woodhill Sands! This time it was a threelast but certainly not least, the excellent Double J Kelvin way affair between two mares and a gelding. One of the (Double J Repicharge - JK Madam Seattle x JK Mazurati), mares was Fleur de la Cour who was in the previous five-way who won last year’s five-year-old championship without tie (see above). The other was Shawnee ECPH (Pacific VDL having to contest the final. He was bred by Double J Stud. - Sofee x Powerfee), a Holsteiner bred by East Coast The six-year-old winner at Hawke’s Bay was Chio MS Performance Horses and ridden by Vicki Prendergast. The (Chacco Silver - Dollar Girl MS x Dollar de la Pierre), a New gelding was the New Zealand Warmblood, Bellick ST (Euro Zealand Warmblood gelding bred by Matawhio Sport Horses Sport Centavos x Genius), bred by Anthony and Michelle and ridden by his owner William Willis. Logan and ridden by Amanda Wilson. NZ Performance Horses progeny were second and Down at Central Districts, it was… no, not another tie, third: respectively, the gelding Dangermouse NZPH but another NZPH triumph, this time for the gelding Eye (Kannan - Times Right NZPH x Fuego du Prelet) for Heloise Catcher NZPH (Kannan - United Blue NZPH x Mr Blue) Tolo, and the mare Domino NZPH (Pezetas du Rouet with Rose Alfeld. Silent Witness, a crossbred gelding, was Paradise NZPH x Barbarian) with Lily Tootill. second for Jenna Lee Rose, and another gelding, Avenger The babies of the age-group classes Xtreme (Andretti x Collins x Latus I) bred by Sharleen Workman at Xtreme Sport Horses, was third with Anna The opening class in this four-year-old age group was a Trent. four-way tie between two geldings and two mares. The At Equidays, Shawnee ECPH had her second win of the geldings are the eye-catching Pure Playboy (Lordano - Molly series, beating Eye Catcher NZPH in the class of two. At xx Quorum xx) a Holsteiner/Thoroughbred, bred by Pure Hawke’s Bay there were again just two in the class and it was, Equestrian and ridden by Laura McGregor; and Kiwi Copper yes, you guessed, a tie! The horses were the NZ Warmblood (Kiwi Major - Habari Cat x China Cat), a New Zealand Casanova Xtreme (Corofino II - JK Good Looks x JK Lucas) who is owned by Takapoto Equestrian and ridden by Jaime Warmblood bred by Graeme Hart’s Fernhill Stud and ridden Campbell, and Eye Catcher NZPH with Rose Alfeld. Eye by Isabella Narracci. Catcher’s two wins in this series are particularly appropriate, The two mares are both NZ Warmbloods. They are as it is sponsored by the stud which bred him. Fleur de Lacour (Corofino II x Jazz x Lio Caylon) bred by ■ Butch Thomas and ridden by Samantha Matthews; and November 2018

A star is born: 2018 Swedish Warmblood Breeders Trophy

HILLEVI BRASCH PHOTOGRAPHY: ROLAND THUNHOLM

Before dwelling on the overall results, the breeders’ showcase and the elite foal auction, there is one thing we can say for certain; a star was born that Saturday night at Flyinge with the fouryear-old approved SWB stallion Springbank II (Skovens Rafael x De Niro) receiving rave reviews from none other than superstar dressage rider, Charlotte Dujardin. Dressage Breeders Trophy pringbank II was already the talk of the town at last year’s

Breeders Trophy. However as the four-year-old dressage horses are put under the saddle of a test rider in their final phase, it was Charlotte Dujardin’s words that stuck in everyone’s minds for days after the event: “He is by far the best four-year old I have ever ridden,” she exclaimed to the full house at Flyinge. Springbank II’s regular rider is Spain’s Severo Jurado Lopez, and he is co-owned by Helgstrand Dressage, Tina Hennix and Västra Hoby Stuteri. Västra Hoby Stuteri also bred this chestnut stallion that is taking everyone by storm – in breeding as well as mares covered worldwide this season. The Breeders Trophy is traditionally held at the beginning of October and is truly a highlight for any breeder in Sweden as it is the Swedish Warmblood Association’s young-horse championships. This is the event where not only horses, riders and owners are recognized, but breeders are also at the forefront. The overall prize money awarded is ample (close to €50,000) and comes out of the Breeders Trophy fund – fees originally deposited through the registration of each year’s new foals, dating back to 1985 when the Breeders Trophy was first established. But more importantly comes the pride of having produced a horse that not only qualified to compete, but perhaps also placed in the event. The competition is fierce, and only the top horses in the country, between the ages of three and seven in dressage, jumping and eventing, are invited to the finals. The event is only open to horses birth registered in SWB. For stallions originally registered with a ‘foreign’ studbook but who are approved for SWB breeding, there is the Swedish Warmblood Stallion Trophy and, throughout the week, close to 500 horses compete, representing owners who are vying for the fame and fortune (well, perhaps not so much fortune – this is horses!) that typically comes with a Breeders Trophy victory. It was an impressive week, with the SWB three-year-old mare championship, the Stallion Trohy, the SWB elite foal auction, and the highly anticipated test-riding classes by Britain’s Charlotte Dujardin in dressage and, from the Netherlands, Jeroen Dubbeldam in jumping. And, for those unable to attend, the whole event was live-streamed.

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Vesicula (Totilas x Ampere), a strikingly beautiful mare, could not have started her career in a better way – winning both the three-year-old division overall AND the national mare championships in dressage. Vesicula was bred and is owned by Lena Nyström and was expertly ridden by Sandra Sterntorp. However, it was the aforementioned Springbank II with Severo Jurado Lopez who won the four-year-old division, and also stole Charlotte Dujardin’s heart! The 2013-born Athena (Tailormade Temptation x Master) ridden by Rebecca Mauléon won the five-year-old division with her powerful and steady frame. She is owned and was bred by Christina Olsson. Olsson, a long-time breeder, celebrated a second victory with Astoria in the six year-old class. Truly a remarkable accomplishment with two horses totally unrelated to each other, but both coming out of the carefully selected lines of many generations. Astoria (Sir Donnerhall II x Qaterback), ridden by Jeanna Högberg continues her path to victories and international success. The striking mare with the oh so charming ‘floppy ears’ was, like last year, once again at the top of her class, this year winning the six-year-old dressage horse class. Astoria has represented SWB at the past two

A smiling Charlotte Dujardin test-riding the 4yo Springbank II – “The best four-year-old I’ve ever ridden”

World Breeding Championships for Young Horses. The seven-year-old dressage class was won by Sandra Sterntorp and Simmebros Martell (Insterburg x First Wish), a gelding owned by Emma Karlsson and bred by Ulrika Bynander.

Extra excitement in jumping division The gelding Captain Sparrow (Balou x Cardento), bred and owned by Maria Löw, won the three-year-old jumping division in fine style. Baloé Hp 1342, an approved stallion by Balou du Rouet x Clearway, ridden by Arnold Assarsson, brought down the house by receiving two perfect 10s from the judges in the four-year old division. He was bred and is owned by Malin Carlsson Hipparion HB. Meanwhile, the five-year-old jumping division held some extra excitement this year as a test rider was brought in for the 10 horses in the final. It was the first time that this has been done, and advance reviews for the new system were mixed, to say the least. However, with the Dutch Olympic, world and European gold medalist, Jeroen Dubbeldam, as the test rider, the tunes quickly changed, and test riding for this age group is most likely here to stay. Dubbeldam took his time and carefully evaluated every horse, with the winner finally being declared as Mr Vain GJ 1324, an approved stallion by Diarado x Lavirco, bred and owned by Gustaf Johansson. He is certainly making great strides having placed 10th in World Breeding Championships for Young Horses in Lanaken just a few weeks earlier. It is also notable that Mr Vain GJ’s regular rider, Victoria Almgren, had no fewer than three horses in the test-riding final. Heartcore L, a gelding by Heartbeat x Cortez in the hands of Magnus Jacobsson won the six-year-old class with clear rounds as well the fastest time in the jump-off. Heartcore was bred and is owned by Lögshögs Gård. Finally, the seven-year-old division was won by Cosmopolit, a gelding by Cohiba x Calido I, bred by Sören Savgreen, owned by Markan Strömsholm, and ridden by Jens Fredricson.

Eventing-horse round-up The four-year-old division was won by the gelding Albert V (Heartbeat x Irco Mena), ridden by Malin Josefsson, bred and owned by Miki and Per Josefsson. Bossanova, a mare by Boss x Voltaire, under the saddle of Hanna Berg, was the five-year-old winner. She was bred by Camilla and Mats Christensen, and is owned by Janson Automation. Co-bred by Lundens Djurhälsa, Ylva Rubin and Erik Lindahl, another mare, Veillonella (Conaisseur x Wildvogel xx) won the six-year-old division. She is owned by Lundens Djurhälsa.

SWB mare championship The top three-year old mares from the age-group tests in Sweden are invited to the prestigious mare championships, held in conjunction with the Breeders Trophy. It is essentially an in-hand class, with the mares having performed beforehand. Vesicula, this year’s winner was bred by Lena Nyström, just like last year’s winner, Tesla, She is also Nyström owned. The lovely Strawberry Daiquiri (Dakar x Onze Fonz Z) owned and bred by Monica and Sara Nilsson took victory among the jumping mares.

SWB Stallion Trophy results The Stallion Trophy is a competition within the Breeders Trophy division, open to any stallion approved for SWB breeding regardless of original registry. The results follow: • Dressage 4yo: Springbank II VH (SWB: Skovens Rafael De la Reinne VH x De Niro), breeder Västra Hoby Stuteri AB • Dressage 5yo: Bergsjöholms Valbonne 1376 (SWB: Blue Hors Zack - Via Veneto x Epson), Marita Strauch, Stall Bergsjöholm • Dressage 6yo: Klifton 1329 (SWB: Floricello - Kabri x Briar), Anette Syrén • Jumping 4yo: Baloé Hp 1342 (SWB: Balou du Rouet Unta x Clearway), Malin Carlsson, Hipparion HB • Jumping 5yo: Mr Vain GJ 1324 (SWB: Diarado - La Ghazzi Rose x Lavirco), Gustaf Johansson • Jumping 6yo: Cayenne de Clarence 1352 (SF: Baloubet du Rouet - Lipton de Roye x Alfa d’Elle), Rene Marcotte

The SWB Elite Foal Auction More foals than ever were presented in this year’s elite collection. Out of 230 foals viewed, 45 were selected for the auction, with an equal number of dressage and jumping foals. The selection was based on performance-oriented, international pedigrees and exceptional damlines. The venue was, as usual, packed with interested parties, and the auctioneer, Fredrik de Backer from Belgium, certainly had his job cut out for him. The evening started with two embryos, which was a first for SWB auctions. The foal generating the most interest turned out to be Prelude CML, a filly by Franklin x Don Primero, bred by CML Dressyr, that sold for €29,000. Main Menu (Cornet Obolensky x Nintender), bred by Anders Johansson, was the top selling jumping foal, going for €25,000. The overall average hammer price for the evening was €10,000. ■ All the foals in their glory, complete with videos, pedigrees and the hammer price, can be found on: http://swbelitfol.se/ November 2018

Silver lining for Irish Sport Horse Studbook SUSAN FINNERTY PHOTOGRAPHY: FEI/MARTIN DOKOUPIL

So, for only the third time in the history of the World Breeding Federation for Sport Horses (WBFSH) eventing studbook rankings, the Irish Sport Horse studbook was dislodged from its customary leading position. The Hannoverian Verband (2010), Selle Français (2011) and now the KWPN (2018) have won this title, so long regarded as Ireland’s own.

f course credit where its due, and a strong (VDL Ricochet - Teachan x Parliament xx, bred by Rhona Barnwall) is the highest Irish-bred (11th), followed by performance by KWPN-breds, including the individual gold medal winner Allstar B (Ephebe Forever - Narenca B x Horseware Ardagh Highlight (13th) and Ballaghmor Class Ekstein, bred by F.A.J. Van der Burg) at the World Equestrian (Courage II - Kilderry Place x Young Convinced xx, bred by Games in Tryon, was a major boost. Noel Hickey). Close behind was Ireland’s silver medallist Padraig According to Rhona Barnwell, “Teachan, (Stellor McCarthy on a horse with time-honoured Irish Draught- Rebound’s Thoroughbred dam) had five live foals and one thoroughbred bloodlines. The only ‘problem’ from an Irish dead, two colts and three fillies. She does not appear on viewpoint of course is that Mr Chunky (Jumbo - Avin Fun Capalloir (as HSI’s online database was known) as she was Bar, by Sergeant Drummer. Mrs. S.M Trump) was bred in never registered. I had to swear an affidavit as to ‘Rocket’s’ England and registered with the SHBGB studbook! breeding so that he could compete at the young event horse That said, Mr Chunky’s impressive WEG result is also in the RDS. reflected glory for traditional Irish bloodlines. And one that “Susie (Lanigan O’Keeffe) and Marily (Power) had some the Irish Draught Horse Society (North America) were quick great stallions over the years and it is a well deserved honour to capitalise on at Tryon with a special award by the society that two of Suma's progeny are so high up in the rankings,” she for his achievements. continued, referring to the fact that the Suma Stud owners will The 13-year-old produced one of the rare showjumping receive the equivalent showjumping breeder’s prize from HSI clears on the final day. Another was recorded by Horseware for breeding the ‘millionaire mare’ Suma’s Zorro (Ard VDL Ardagh Highlight (Puissance - Gentle Servant x Kings Douglas - Vixen’s Frolic x Horos xx). Servant, bred by Teresa Walsh) whose breeding is also about as traditional Irish as you can find nowadays. Interestingly, the fact that Ardagh Highlight competed in the Pony Club combined-training final at Dublin and was hunted for several years by the Whyte family from Co Longford, who bought him at Goresbridge foal sales, is another selling point for the Irish Sport Horse. Both Teresa Walsh and Rhona Barnwall will also receive their due reward with the just-announced news about Horse Sport Ireland’s breeders awards. Several breeders of the top-three Irish-bred showjumping and eventing horses in the WBFSH rankings, regardless of studbook classification, will divide up €6,000 in prize money. Horseware Stellor Rebound (VDL Ricochet - Teachan x Parliament xx, bred by Rhona Barnwall) ridden by Sarah Ennis (IRL) at WEG 2018 Horseware Stellor Rebound

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Although registered with the Anglo European Studbook by her breeders (on account of the NA2 classification given to Douglas by the Irish Horse Board), the Suma Stud owners are still eligible for the award in this new scheme. As mentioned in their Breeding News profile, they also stood Stellor Rebound’s sire, VDL Ricochet. Sadly Limerick breeder Noel Hickey has passed away since breeding Oliver Townend’s 2017 Burghley CCI four-star winner, Ballaghmor Class. Runner-up again at Burghley this September and fifth at another fourstar at Badminton earlier in the year, the 11-year-old is one of several Irish Sport Horses in Townend’s yard. Another is his Kentucky winner, Cooley Master Class (Ramiro B - The Swallow x Master Imp xx, John O’Hagan). Add in this year’s Burghley winner Ringwood Sky Boy (Courage II - Sky Lassie x Sky Boy xx, Myles Mahon) and conversely, despite finishing second in the WBFSH rankings, it proved to be one of the better years for Irish event horse breeding. Two four-star wins by Irish Sport Horses, a WEG team silver medal, (with three riders on Irish Sport Horses and the fourth being Mr Chunky), plus three medals at the WBFSH young event horse championships at Le Lion D’Angers last weekend and there was still plenty of good results to write home about this year. Plus, the reality is that the WBFSH showjumping rankings results will cause more of debate amongst Irish breeders, after the ISH studbook slipped another place this year down to 15th. Showjumping has always been the engine that drives the Irish horse world! For sure, there are a growing number of specialised event horse breeders and successful producers of them and connections to successful horses, so the fact that the Irish Sport Horse studbook has won the WBFSH rankings title for a record 22 years has brought great pride. No doubt that the majority will happily settle for that WEG team silver medal for this year! ■

RECORD-BREAKING FINISH FOR IRISH SPORT HORSES AND RIDERS IN 5YO WBCYH IN LANAKEN In a record breaking result Irish Sport Horses claimed the gold, silver and bronze medals in the five-year-old FEI-WBFSH showjumping world breeding championship for young horses in Lanaken, Belgium. The championships, which took place from September 1316, 2018, saw over 700 horses compete in the five-, six-, and seven-year-old age-group divisions. It was Sligo’s Richard Howley and the Irish Sport Horse Uppercourt Cappuchino (ISH) that won the gold medal. Silver went to Darragh Ryan (IRL) on-board CSF Sir George (ISH), while Mikey Pender (IRL) riding HHS Vancouver (ISH) earned bronze position. See below for a full list of results: Five-year-old final: 1m30 • 1st Uppercourt Cappucino (ISH) – 2013 gelding by Pacino (BWP) out of Uppercourt Posh, by OBOS Quality 004 (OLD). Breeder: Paul O’Byrne, Co. Limerick. Owner: HK Horses. Rider: Richard Howley (IRL) • 2nd CSF Sir George (ISH) – 2013 gelding by Sir Shutterfly (HANN) out of Norrira (ISH), by Cavalier Royale (HOLST). Breeder: Shane Connolly, Co. Galway. Owner: Molly Tracy. Rider: Darragh Ryan (IRL) • 3rd HHS Vancouver (ISH) – 2013 gelding by Incoctro (HOLST) out of La Jaunita (ISH), by Don Juan De La Bouverie (SBS). Breeder: Marion Hughes, Co. Kilkenny. Owner: Bravo Hughes Ltd. Rider: Michael Pender (IRL) Six-year-old final: 1m35 • 4th Cuffesgrange Cavadora (ISH) – 2012 mare by Z Wellie 72 (KWPN) out of Cuffesgrange Cavalidam (ISH), by Luidam (KWPN). Breeder/Owner: Clare Hughes, Co. Kilkenny. Rider: Gerard O’Neill (IRL) Five-year-old consolation final: 1m25 • 3rd Orestus Clover (ISH) – 2013 mare by Orestus (KWPN) out of Orestus Clover (ISH), by Clover Hill (ID). Breeder/Owner: Ralph Morgan, Co. Clare. Rider: Jessica Burke (IRL) • 4th Dawson Flex (ISH) (TIH) – 2013 by Flexible (ISH) out of Carnalway Gold (ID), by Kildalton Gold (ID). Breeder: Victor Bennett, Co. Wicklow. Owner: KM Sport Horses. Rider: Gerard O’Neill (IRL) • 8th BP Wakita (ISH) – 2013 mare by Pacino (BWP) out of BP Masterpiece (ISH), by Cruising (ISH). Breeder: Greg Broderick, Co. Tipperary. Owner: Klee Hellerman. Rider: Aidan Killeen (IRL) Six-year-old consolation final: 1m30 • 2nd Pearls Princess Gervantus (ISH) – 2012 mare by Luidam (KWPN) out of Guinness 38 (WURT), by Gervantus II (OLD). Breeder/Owner: Pearl Roach, Co. Kildare. Rider: Vincent Byrne (IRL) • 7th Miss Valent (ISH) – 2012 mare by Valent (KWPN) out of Miss Siss (ISH), by John Henry (ISH). Breeder/Owner: Lisa Rosbotham, Co. Armagh. Rider: Olivia Roulston (IRL)

Richard Howley and Irish Sport Horse Uppercourt Cappuchino (ISH) Photo: Sportfot

Horse Sport Ireland Beech House, Millennium Park Osberstown, Naas, Co. Kildare Tel: +353 (0)45 850800 Fax: +353 (0) 85085 info@horsesportireland.ie www.horsesportireland.ie www.irishsporthorse.com November 2018

Cornet’s Air: Special new stallion for New Zealand

SALLY REID PHOTOGRAPHY: GERD KÜST PRIVATE COLLECTION BY

‘Very special horses’ is the slogan of New Zealand’s Astek Stud, and there’s no doubt that its new stallion, Cornet’s Air (Cornet Obolensky - Dark Air x Diarado), fits that bill. He’s tall, dark and outstandingly handsome, with a veritable roll-call of legends in his pedigree. The threeyear-old Holsteiner is due to arrive at the stud shortly. He will be the first son of his fabulous sire to stand in Australasia.

t’s a major coup for Astek and a big emotional boost for stud owner Sue Fowler, who earlier this year farewelled one of her two foundation sires, the superb Voltaire II (Voltaire Daydyne ster prest x Nimmerdor). The sire line of Cornet’s Air needs no introduction. The mighty progenitor Cornet Obolensky/ex Windows van het Costersveld (Clinton x Heartbreaker) is currently number four in the world, represented by an ever-growing host of champion sons, daughters and grandchildren. Four of his offspring were at WEG, making him the third most represented jumping sire of the competition, and one of them (Clooney) took home individual silver. However, Cornet’s Air’s dam line is also extraordinary and worthy of much attention. The stallion was bred by Gerd Küst in Pinneberg, as was his Bezirksprämie dam, Dark Air, who is a half-sister of the approved stallion Quiwi Dream (Quidam de Revel) through her dam, Panam Air (Contender I - Landadel x Ramiro Z). Quiwi Dream, also bred by Küst,

won the Youngster Cup Final at Aachen in 2013 but died from an airway infection last year. Dark Air’s sire, Diarado, was a very empathic winner of the Neumünster licensing in 2007, and her dam, Panam Air, is a really special mare. A daughter of Contender and the lovely Lauda Air Eins (also known as I-Lauda Air), Panam Air is a full sister of the approved stallions Com Air I and Com Air II, and a double Bundeschampionate winner. She is also the dam of Gestut Bonhomme’s Prämienhengst Westfalian stallion Zinedream (Zinedine), the OS International Champion in 2016. Through her and her grandson Cornet’s Air, the blood of the mighty Ramiro Z, sire of Astek’s other foundation stallion, Ramirez (Ramiro Z x Roberto), will make a return to Astek Stud. Cornet’s Air has Ramiro Z five times in his breeding line. Dark Air, Panam Air, Lauda Air, et al, originate from Gerd Küst’s Holsteiner Stamm 8888, which now has four generations of elite mares and 12 licensed stallions. These

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Cornet’s Air (Cornet Obolensky - Dark Air x Diarado) include the gorgeous sire Akribori (Accord) winner of his stallion performance test at Landgestüt Zweibrücken in 2000. Also from the Stamm are the international show-jumpers Carriere Zwei (Cassini I), Lucentino (Linton) and Co-Pilot (Contender - Lauda Air Zwei x Landadel), a stallion who was exported to Australia in 2012 and has had success there at World Cup level with Robert Goodwin. Co-Pilot’s dam Lauda Air Zwei is the sister of Lauda Air Eins, the grand-dam of Cornet’s Air. Through her daughter Flybaboo Air (Florestan I), Lauda Air Eins is also the granddam of several super dressage horses, including: Sir Olli OLD, bronze medal winner at the 2016 dressage World Breeding Championship for Young Horses, and the star of that year’s Oldenburg elite autumn auction; the mare Sans Soucis K (Sir Donnerhall) who is winning at PSG level in the USA; and the stallion Greek Air (Gribaldi) who won his Bundeschampionate qualification as a six-yearold at Hof Bettenrode in 2017, with an 8.2 score. A tangled web, but yet another intriguing pedigree connection for breeders in the two countries ‘down under’ is that they and their various sport horse bloodlines are already familiar to Gerd Küst, who has made several trips out here for classification tours. Cornet’s Air is a very dark bay and entirely free of the genetic red factor, “Like the last four generations of his motherline,” says Küst. “So he can’t produce a chestnut foal.” He will join a trio of other excellent (and well-proven) stallions when he arrives at Astek Stud. They are the German-bred Oldenburg, Astek Quatermaster (Quaterback x Flemmingh x Weltmeyer), the G-line Hanoverian,

Kinnordy Gym Bello (Gymastik Star x Graf Landau) and the young Rheinlander, SWE Dempsey (Damsey FRH x Sir Donnerhall). Astek Stud was founded in 1995 by Sue Fowler, whose original aim was to help New Zealand become a competitive force on the world scene. It’s a goal she has adhered to, and the stud has produced an enormous list of champions over the years. She says that while the Cornet Obolensky blood did influence her choice of Cornet’s Air for Astek, it was only part of the equation. “The prepotent strength of his sire, certainly, but more so being able to bring this dam line of proven power to Australasia. The two combined in this horse’s veins are a truly exciting combination. Everyone knows the stallion has to be 100% worthy, but all serious breeders understand it’s the power of the damline crossed with a great sire that creates the extraordinary mix of superpower to the bloodlines.” It was Sue’s long-standing respect for Gerd Küst’s bloodlines, knowledge, and experience which led her to Cornet’s Air. Her own mares will cross well with the young stallion’s pedigree, she says, and he will offer breeders here the chance to breed world-class horses using fresh semen. “My great-grandfather Richard Irving imported five Clydesdale stallions from Europe in the 1800s, when horses to work the land were vital to New Zealand’s agricultural development. I’d like to think he’d be proud of my efforts to once again improve the bloodstock down under,” she says. “Sometimes in life, opportunities present themselves that just cannot be ignored. Having the chance to bring Cornet’s Air to New Zealand is the epitome of my career as a horse breeder. It’s very exciting – and life is meant to be exciting!” The arrival of Cornet’s Air will certainly generate excitement for mare owners throughout New Zealand and Australia. He is, says Sue Fowler, “the horse of everyone’s dreams.” ■ November 2018

HSI 2018 foal championship

SUSAN FINNERTY PHOTOGRAPHY: SUSAN FINNERTY

The Horse Sport Ireland foal championships, held on October 19, dovetailed in with one of the frequent shows held at Cavan Equestrian Centre. This is also where HSI hold their annual stallion inspections and, in both cases, it will be interesting to see how many graduates and their progeny go on to compete at Cavan and beyond.

ne damfamiliar with Cavan’s showjumping arenas is Rincarina (Cruising - Diamond Ballerina x Diamond Lad), bred by Noel Cawley, former chairman of the Irish Horse Board. Now 14, Rincarina’s second foal Carina (For Pleasure x Cruising) was champion showjumping filly on the night. “She thinks she’s back in Cavan to jump,” said Jonathan Cleary, who showed the mare in the final and who works parttime for Greg Broderick. Clearly pleased to be back in the limelight, Rincarina was previously jumped at 1m55 level by Broderick and is a former Lanaken finalist, having jumped there in the 2010 World Breeding Championship for Young Horses as a six-year-old. Carina’s share of the lucrative €13,000 prize fund was a cheque for €1,500 paid to each of the champions on the night. Divided into showjumping and eventing categories, each section was further divided into separate colt and filly sections with a champion and reserve awarded in each division. Foals had qualified at five regional qualifiers, held in each of Horse Sport Ireland’s electoral regions, and this was the third year of this HSI initiative, aimed at identifying, evaluating and rewarding breeders of foals with show-jumping and eventing potential. Carina’s reserve of only two finalists in the showjumpiing filly division was John Clarke’s Clarkes Jet Stream (Quidam Junior I - Clarkes Quite Optimistic x Lux Z). Quidam Junior I was also prominent in the showjumping colt final, producing the champion, John Buttimer’s Django Junior (out of Contend Heraldik x Contender, bred by Harm Johannsen). “Dad was on the lookout for a broodmare for a few years, and saw nothing suitable. It was fate that we happened to be at Kedrah House Stud chatting with Tom (Meagher – Kedrah House Stud, owner where MHS Going Global’s sire Quidam Junior I stands), and dad mentioned he was looking for a mare with the potential to breed quality showjumpers,” explained John’s daughter Melissa as to how they acquired the mare with strong eventing bloodlines too. “At the moment, we hope to hold onto him and have him produced through the ranks here in Ireland, and to keep him as a stallion. I suppose all we can do now is wrap him up in cotton wool, and hope luck stays on our side!” she added. Reserve champion showjumping colt was John Nash’s Moon Shiner (Celtic Hero B Z - Conolin x Radolin) whose exBelmont House Stud sire was sold to the US this summer. Until the new generation of Irish-breds catch and match up in greater numbers to their European showjumping counterparts, eventing carries the flag for Irish breeders. Interestingly, the winner of the eventing colt

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championship, Billy Daly’s Newmarket Leonardo (Newmarket Venture - Newmarket Dato Two x Aldato) is also intended as a future stallion prospect at his Newmarket Stud. As is now often the case with Irish Sport Horses, many have two, three and even four crosses of continental lines in their back breeding and like Newmarket Leonardo, so too did the reserve champion colt. This was Derry Rothwell’s Greenhall Heatwave (Dignified van’t Zorgvliet - Greenhall Catwalk x Mermus R), an imposing type who has really developed since Dublin where Catwalk and her first foal placed third in The Irish Field Breeders Championship. This year’s winning Breeders Championship foal MD Sandyhill Sir Charles (Clonaslee Captain Cristo Hallowberry Destiny x Ramiro B) was also in Friday’s final. The eventing filly division was won by Thomas Conlon’s Lisbrogan Grace (Tyson - Trewins x Hand In Glove xx) from the family of Oliver Townend’s eventer, Treglider, while reserve champion was Kieran O’Gorman’s Munthers Babe (Munther xx - Brookfield Miss Lux x Lux Z). As an added bonus, O’Gorman also stands the sire. Disappointingly for traditional breeding fans, there was just one traditional-bred foal forward at Cavan. Michael Dooner’s Annabelles Dream (Loughehoe Guy - Vanity Fare x Dunkerrin Grey Mist), bred on Thoroughbred-Irish Draught lines, won the special award for the best traditional-bred. With the latest foal statistics (2017) showing that Thoroughbred sires accounted for just 12% of the foal crop that year, the future numbers of traditional-breds looks set to decrease. British eventer Nicky Roncoroni, who judged the eventing foals with Maurice Coleman, lives in Ireland and was travelling the next day to compete at Pau with ISH Watts Burn (Zero Watt - Deards Lady of the Night x Knightley Park, bred by Deirdre and Frank Owens). Coincidentally, her horse’s USbred sire Zero Watt stood with Knockrath Stud’s Norman Allen. He and Tiernan Gill, who buys foals in Ireland and on the Continent, assessed the jumping category. “The two winners in the jumping section were exceptional. The filly, in particular, has an excellent pedigree. Her dam Rincarina was a prolific winner and her sire For Pleasure is producing top class foals. I see no reason why this filly wouldn’t go to the highest levels of competition with the scope, movement and attitude she showed. The colt foal had big, loose movement with plenty of scope. He could also be a top level competition horse in the future. I believe that this championship is a great initiative from HSI and gives spectators the opportunity to see some of the best foals in the country,” commented Allen. ■

Diversity is key for SF

BY ADRIANA VAN

TILBURG PHOTOGRAPHY: SF/LES GARENNES

There were 44 two- and 82 three-year-old stallions in the catalogue and, as breeding is becoming more international, there were several scouts from other studbooks who were looking for ‘Selle Français originel’. One breeding director actually said, “I cannot buy a Holsteiner x Selle Francais.” It is, however, hard to find a 100 % SF-bred stallion.

t can be mixed with the KWPN-bred Kannan or with Mylord Carthago – French-bred but with Carthago as a sire. Vagabond de la Pomme is sBs, Cornet Obolensky is BWP, Big Star is KWPN-bred, and so on.... Plus if you look at these names you might come to the conclusion that every studbook is using the same stallions. So the key factor is becoming more and more the motherline of a stallion.

Dancing Bride (Almé) Among the two-year-old stallions only two were bred ‘SF originel’. Second place in the final went to Gentleman d’Elle (Balko d’Elle - Devinette d’Elle x Natif de Corday, bred by Bertrand Pignolet), while third was Gandhi Savoie (Canturo Rafaele Savoie x Indoctro II, bred by Maurice Moine). There you already have your shot of Holsteiner blood. In fact, the type of stallions in the top 10 were very different. Jean Louis Lenoury, a member of the approval commitee for two year olds said, “Unlike other studbooks, we want to approve different types of stallions because our mare base has different mares. In many studbooks you see that they approve a similar type of stallions, but we don’t like to do that.” In the top ten were two stallions by sBs stallion Vagabond de la Pomme (Vigo d’Arsouilles - Sauterelle de la Pomme x For Pleasure, bred by Haras de la Pomme) who jumped at 1m60 under the saddle of Penelope Leprevost, while in ninth place came the stallion Grand Prix (out of Cori van de Helle x Ceasar van de Helle, bred by Laetitia de Moustier). However, the winning two-year-old stallion was Gousstavv Courcelle (Vagabond de la Pomme - Belle Amie Courcelle x Apache d’Adriers, bred by Yves Chauvin). The Courcelle mare line is very special as Gousstavv’s great-grandmother is Dancing

Champion 3yo Fibonacci de Lessac (Carinjo)

Bride (Almé). Yves Chauvin explains: “Dancing Bride’s mother, Kalinka L B (Sans Souci) was in that period one of the best French mares, and was selected for the Olympic Games. She was a daughter of Tournebride L A (Mexico), this line included several Olympic horses. It’s an exceptional line. I had the chance to buy Dancing Bride when she was two years old. When I saw her I knew immediately that she had a lot of quality. She looked so similar to Almé, with the same model. As a six-year-old she had a very bad accident on a truck where several other horses were killed. Only two horses survived the accident. She kept competing for a year under saddle of Frederic David and jumped even the finals as a six-year-old, but her jumping style had changed. When they checked her over it was discovered that one of her vertebra was broken (with which she had been jumping for a year). This was the real start to her breeding career. She already produced a few foals by embryo transfer and because of the accident that was the only way she could reproduce. I had quite some success with this line and I have kept almost all of Dancing Bride’s daughters. To now have the champion stallion is very special. I did the first selection near Lyon, when he came third. I wasn’t very happy with that result, but he qualified. Now he’s in a better shape, which resulted in winning the two-year-old final.”

Le Tot de Semilly The top five three-year-old stallions were marked by the blood of Le Lot de Semilly (Grand Veneur - Venue de Tot x Juriste, bred by Jules Mesnildrey). He was the damsire of Faust des Orcets (Type Top du Monteil - Qualiope des Orcets, bred by GAEC des Orcets) – third in the championship, and Fighter Semilly (Bisquet Balou C - Santana Semilly, bred by: Richard Levallois). One of the highlights, however, was Funky Music Semilly (Diamant de Semilly - La Mare x Apache d’Adriers, Richard Levallois), who achieved the highest score in free jumping of 18.25 and finished as reserve champion. Funky Music Semilly was also the only ‘SF originel’ stallion. Through Diamant de Semilly, Le Tot’s blood was present once again. The three-year-old champion was Fibonacci de Lessac (Carinjo - Noaly de Lessac x Bright Silver X, bred by Les Ecuries de Lessac), who recorded the best performance under saddle: 18.37. His sire, Carinjo (Cascavelle - Exquisite x Landgraf I, Stamm 703, bred by Klaus Hermann Hollm) was champion himself in 2003 at the Holsteiner stallion approvals before he started his international career under the saddle of Thomas Voss and, later, Frenchman Patrice Delaveau. ■ November 2018

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WBFSH STUDBOOK RANKINGS (based on validated FEI results from 1/10/2017 to 30/9/2018)

■ IMPORTANT DATES 2018

Dressage

■ WBFSH STUDBOOK RANKINGS

■ WBFSH BREEDER RANKINGS

WORLD BREEDING FEDERATION FOR HORSES VILHELMSBORG ALLÉ 1 8320 MAARSLET DENMARK

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1 2 3 4 5

13,745 13,407 12,749 12,680 12,465

Showjumping 1 8,621 2 7,390 3 7,034 4 6,915 5 6,782

KWPN – Koninklijk Warmbloed Paardenstamboek Nederland HANN – Hannoveraner Verband e. V. WESTF – Westfälisches Pferdestammbuch e.V. OLDBG – Verband der Züchter des Oldenburger Pferdes e.V. DWB – Danish Warmblood Society

KWPN – Koninklijk Warmbloed Paardenstamboek Nederland BWP – Belgisch Warmbloedpaard v.z.w. SF – Stud Book du Cheval Selle Français WESTF – – Westfälisches Pferdestammbuch e.V. OS – Springpferdezuchtverband Oldenburg-International e.V.

Eventing 1 2 3 4 5

1,470 1,373 1,235 1,062 982

KWPN – Koninklijk Warmbloed Paardenstamboek Nederland ISH – Irish Sport Horse Studbook SF – Stud Book du Cheval Selle Français OLDBG – Verband der Züchter des Oldenburger Pferdes e.V. HOLST – Verband der Züchter des Holsteiner Pferdes e.V.

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Top: Westfalian mare Bella Rose, reigning world champion under Isabell Werth, climbed to fourth place in the final rankings behind third placed Emilio (right), who not only shares the same rider, but both horses were bred by brothers Heinrich and Wilhelm Strunk (GER)

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UPDATE WBFSH BREEDER RANKINGS Dressage 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

2,714 2,713 2,680 2,586 2,583 2,416 2,390 2,365 2,356 2,325

P. Crum (NED) Inge Bastian (GER) H. & W. Strunk (GER) H. & W. Strunk (GER) Atterupgaard (DEN) Stephan Kurz (GER) H. & H. Volkert (GER) Dorit Kothe (GER) Linette Jaeger (DEN) Marie Harward (SWE)

Verdades (2002/KWPN/g Florett As x Goya) Weihegold OLD (2005Oldbg/mDon Schufro x Sandro Hit) Emilio (2006/Westf/g Ehrenpreis x Cacir AA) Bella Rose (2004/Westf/m Belissimo I x Cacir AA) Atterupgaards Cassidy (2003/DWB/g Caprimond x Donnerhall) MSJ Freestyle (2009/Hann/m Fidermark x Donnerhall) Samy Davies Jr. (2006/DSP/g San Remo x Wenckstern) Damsey FRH (2002/Hann/st Dressage Royal x Ritual Glock’s Zonik (2008/DWB/st Blue Hors Zack x Romanov Deja (2004/SWB/m Silvano x Don Schufro)

M.M.A. Everse (NED) Wilhelm Leymann (GER) Stall Hickey (SWE) Hubert Nienhaus (GER) Wijnen (NED) Walltorps Landbruk (SWE) Gestüt Lewitz (GER) Jonas Bellemans (BEL) Bertrand Chambry (FRA) E.J.M. Bleekman (GBR)

Zinius (2004/KWPN/g Nabab de Rêve x Kannan) Fine Lady 5 (2003/Hann/m Forsyth FRH x Drosselklang II) Bianca (2006/SWB/m Baloubet du Rouet x Cardento) Toveks Mary Lou (2006/Westf/m Montendro x Portland L) Explosion W (2009/KWPN/g Chacco-Blue x Baloubet du Rouet) Hansson WL (2008/SWB/g Hip Hop x Iowa) Chacanno (2007/OS/st Chacco-Blue x Kannan) Tobago Z (2008/Z/st Tangelo van de Zuuthoeve x Mr. Blue) Timon d’Aure (2007/SF/g Mylord Carthago x Drakkar des Hutins) Bintang II (2006/KWPN/g Kitile Horta x Orlando)

Showjumping 1 2= 2= 4 5= 5= 7 8 9 10

1,620 1,615 1,615 1,596 1,595 1,595 1,568 1,523 1,495 1,480

Eventing 1 2 3 4 5 6 7= 7= 9 10

310 307 294 291 286 284 280 280 258 257

A.M.C.M. van Bezouw (NED) Z (2008/Z/g Asca x Babouche vh Gehucht Z) Jan Greve (NED) Cekatinka (2007/KWPN/m King Kolibri x Julio Mariner xx) David Goodin (NZL) Balmoral Sensation (2004//g Senator VDL x Aberlou) Van de Burg, Berkel & Rodenrijs All Star B (2005/KWPN/g Ephebe For Ever x Ekstein) Morsink (NED) Zenshera (2004/KWPN/g Guidam x Matterhorn) Ralf Lück (GER) SAP Hale Bob (2004/Oldbg/g Helikon xx x Noble Champion) M. Trump (GER) Mr. Chunky (2005/SHBGB/g Jumbo x Sergeant Drummer) Breeder Unknown Koko Popping Candy (2007//m Bian Coni) Breeder Unknown Misty Isle Valentino (2008//g Tani Mani Dances With Wolves x Stirling Lucas) Eyraud Berges Vassily de Lassos (2009/AA/g Jaguar Mail x Jalienny)

Left: Lauras Graves (USA) riding Verdades Above: Eventing winner Z – ridden by Philip Dutton (USA) Photos: Ridehesten and FEI November 2018

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Swiss Breed Classic 18 November 2018 in Chalet-à-Gobet The best 3 year Swiss horses at one place

Free jumping and Gaits S. Petrillo

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