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8 – STALLION rANKINGS... IT’S THAT TIme OF YeAr (actually it is usually earlier, but there seems to

have been a delay this year) when the WBFSH stallion rankings appear, and with them the perennial complaint that they do not take into account the number of mares covered in evaluating the success of the stallion...

18 – WBFSH-rOLeX AWArD LeADING BreeDerS 2017-2018

As usual, the WBFSH-ROLEX annual breeding awards will take place during the CHI Geneva, at the magnificent Palexpo, which runs from December 6-9, during which each leading breeder will each be presented with a coveted ROLEX timepiece.

22 – cHANGING STALLION BeHAVIOUr mAY cOme AT A rISK

For as long as people have been showing horses, there have been trainers, exhibitors and owners who have sought to use substances to alter a horse’s behavior or performance. One hundred years ago, heroin and cocaine were used to stimulate horses and enhance performance, now it’s chemical castration!

31 – mArY HAZZArD: FIVe DecADeS OF eVeNTING AND BreeDING

At 75 years of age, with a lifetime of being involved with horses and passing her 50th anniversary in eventing, Mary Hazzard has to be considered an educational resource. She grew up around horses and fondly recalls the Morgan that would wait for her to return from school. Hazzard still rides as many as three or four horses a day.

CORRESPONDENTS IN THIS ISSUE: GEMMA ALEXANDER

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he 2018 World Equestrian Games ended last September in Tryon, NC, and we at Breeding News decided to study, to analyze the results with regard to the level of breeding in the three Olympic disciplines, to determine whether any major changes were notable in each of them.

At first glance we noticed that German breeding has, for some 50 years now, dominated dressage, and there is no sign that they will lost their ranking anytime soon. Of the 77 starters in the Grand Prix, 34 originated from eight different German studbooks (including Sammy Davis Jr., registered with Deutsche Sportferde).

So more than one-third of the horses starting at world championship level came from the same country. It is for sure the result of a solid system going from the teaching and practice of riding to the breeding, and vice versa, encompassing its operators at all levels, including trainers, coaches, brokers, auctioneers.... A very well oiled machine!

The Hanoverian studbook alone was represented by 16 products – the same as KWPN, the main studbook of the Netherlands. However, we noticed a slight difference in that KWPN had four horses in the top 12 whereas Hannover had two....

However, Hannover is just one part of a country challenged by a dozen studbooks – especially by Oldenburg with six horses in the field – while KWPN has almost the entire nation behind it, and is also more influential than Hannover in terms of the jumping scene.

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Behind the leaders we can also see changes. Danish Warmblood (DWB) consolidated its position with six horses (equal to Oldenburg), but it is interesting to point out that not one of the Danish riders selected for the 2018 WEG rode a home-bred horse!

This was not the case with regard to the Germans or the Dutch (three out of four) or, even more, the Belgians, who are known to be very ‘open minded’, but not reputed as dressage breeders. This time, in a surprising way, they aligned three BWPs out of four selected couples (Isabel Cool, Aranco V [KWPN] finally not taking part in the competition).

The Swiss with two home-bred horses out of four seemed especially attentive to the fact that their riders are the best promoters of their breeding.

In this spirit, Portugal is undoubtedly wearing the ‘volunteer’ crown as the best example of partisanship. Every dressage rider starting exclusively with a Lusitano. And, above all, they keep progressing.

Indeed, we should note, moreover, that the Lusitano studbook (APSL) with seven representatives appeared in third place behind Hannover and KWPN.... Sixteen years after the first appearance in the arena of Rafael Soto and Invazor. What an achievement!

Above all, the Lusitanos are the only ones that have dared to try and upset a well-established world hierarchy, the engine of which is in the golden triangle of the sport horse world which goes from Denmark to Germany and on to Benelux. Their efforts must be applauded as they go hand-in-hand with the changing vision of dressage judging.

The wheels turn... but slowly.

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BWP Top Stallion Auction: Internet auction and online bidding at the BWP Top Stallion Auction! From January 17-19, the Second Phase of the BWP Stallion Approval takes place at Azelhof, Lier. The BWP Top Stallion Auction is scheduled on Saturday, January, 19.

New for 2019 is the internet auction. Stallions that are not selected by the commission to take part in the third day of the Second Phase of the BWP Stallion Approval, can be auctioned via the internet auction. Before, these stallions were not permitted to participate in the auction. The internet auction will start immediately after the live auction and will end on Monday, January 21 at 8 pm. Online bidding will be possible at the live auction on Saturday, January 19. Customers from all over the world will be able to place their bids and become the new owner of a talented young stallion! December 26, pedigrees and videos of all the auction stallions will be available on www.belgianwarmblood.com. Information on the x-rays of every auction stallion will be available at the BWP secretariat. A simple request from the veterinarian of the buyer will satisfy to obtain the information. For all information on the auction stallions, please contact Sven Bols +32(0)495551405 or Tom Van De Vijver + 32(0)476442185. More information on the 2019 BWP Stallion Approval and the BWP Top Stallion Auction: www.belgian-warmblood.com WFFS – good news and bad news: It appears that as from January 2019 the EU is going to introduce a new regulation that IF studbooks/federations make genetic testing for WFFS mandatory, the results MUST be made available to the public. However, the EU will not be demanding that all stallions have to be tested – this decision remains with the studbooks, and does not apply to private owners. While it seems a step in the right direction, it remains to be seen whether this decision goes far enough?

The Süddeutsche Pferdezuchtverbände Vermarktungs GmbH has announced with regret that their manager, Roland Metz. has resigned from his position. He took over the job at the end of 2014 and will remain until the end of February 2019. The 45-year-old has managed marketing for the five South-German associations with great success, but as from March 1, 2019, he will become managing director of marketing and auctions for the Holsteiner Verband. Previously, Metz spent several years with the Hanoverian auction team, and moved to his first marketing position with the Baden-Württemburg association before managing the marketing for the five South-German studbooks that amalgamated in 2014 and have since been breeding under the common DSP (German Sport Horse) banner. According to their chairman, Karl-Heinz Bange: “First, our preparations for the 16th Stallion Days of the German Sport Horse are already in full swing, but we will be having conversations about the future of DSP marketing in the coming weeks.” More information will follow.

S.G. NZ World Cup league: Six rounds, 27 horses – two currently leading with 20 points after round two. The first of these is Ulysses NZPH (Cabdula du Tillard - Quiet Time NZPH x Twist Kerellec) for Lily Tootill. This super chestnut gelding, a New Zealand Sport Horse with Selle Français bloodlines, was 2017’s Horse of the Year. He was bred by NZ Performance Horses. Ulysses NZPH won the opening round of the World Cup, in Hastings in October, and finished equal 10th in round two at Hawera one month later. He is an 11-year-old, and could be heading to the Northern Hemisphere next year. The other leader is also 11 – the Germanbred mare LT Holst Andrea (Casall Ask - Palaune x Lavaletto),who was second to Ulysses NZPH in the opening competition, and finished sixth at Hawera. Andrea was bred by Hans-Joachim Gerken and is owned by Lake Taupo Holsteiner’s Ewen McIntosh and ridden by Brooke Edgecombe. The Hawera competition was won by another first-time World Cup contestant, the exceptional eightyear-old NZ Warmblood gelding, Windermere Cappuccino (Corofino II - Vespa x Voltaire II). This young horse was New Zealand’s leading five-year-old in 2016, leading six-year-old in 2017, and rounded things off by winning the seven-year-old series last season.

No better start to his 2018-19 season than by winning at World Cup level! He is owned by his breeders, the Parkes family, and ridden by Tegan Fitzsimon, who was also having her first World Cup start. The pair jumped the only double-clear in the competition and are now lying seventh in the rankings. The 2018 Horse of the Year, Veroana (Indoctro - Strawberry x Ramon Off ), also made his World Cup debut at Hawera with owner/rider Briar Burnett-Grant, to finish second. He is now ninth in the rankings with 17 points. Currently third overall, just one point behind the leaders on 28 points, is 11-year-old NZ Sport Horse gelding, Mandalay Cove (Wishing Well - Milly Matrix x Festal xx), a consistent performer with rider Maurice Beatson.

S.R. Eventing NZ Super League: There’s a long way to go in this series, but the clear leader after four events is DSE Cluny xx (Traditionally xx - Flirtatious xx x Elnadim xx) for Donna Edwards Smith, with 51 points. This 11-year-old chestnut has ‘the fastest knees ever’ according to his rider, and won the South Island CCI3*. He is owned by Gaye McClunie and was bred by R. and A. Peard.

Three horses share second place, each with 38 points: first, a Thoroughbred, Shoot the Breeze xx (Sunray xx - Sea Nymph xx x Yachtie xx), ridden by Kirsty Sharapoff; the other two being Warmblood crosses: Samantha Felton’s 10-year-old gelding Ricker Ridge Rui (Littorio - Rei-huia Patriotic x Corlando) and Matthew Grayling’s NZ Sport Horse, Trudeau (Magistad - Clarify x Valiant). Ricker Ridge Rui won the CIC3* at Arran Station recently and was bred by Rei-Huia Sport Horses in Masterton. The relatively inexperienced Trudeau won Taupo CIC3* in November. He was bred and is owned by Winkey Foley.

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Stallion rankings: It’s that time of year again!

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CHRISTOPHER HECTOR AND GEMMA ALEXANDER FEI/MARTIN DOKOUPIL

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Around about this time (actually it is usually earlier, but there seems to have been a delay this year) the WBFSH stallion rankings appear, and with them the perennial complaint that they do not take into account the number of mares covered in evaluating the success of the stallion. It is a pity that we do not have a universal disclosure of how many foals each stallion produced, each season, and over the lifetime of their career, so that we could meaningfully calculate the success rate as a percentage of the foals born across all the studbooks.

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here are partial disclosures, and some studbooks are more upfront than others. For example, the KWPN, last month, released a very valuable analysis of their stallions. It showed that of the 552 licensed dressage stallions with approximately 12,000 KWPN offspring competing at Z1-level or higher, the one with the highest success rate was – surprise, surprise – Jazz, with 666 offspring at Z1 or higher.

The next most prolific was Gribaldi with 477, followed by Flemmingh with 378.

Using KWPN as a statistical example The percentage that went on to Grand Prix would indicate that GP success is a tricky business, perhaps even the realm where rider/trainer skill outweighs genetics? Jazz is recorded with 131 Grand Prix offspring, that is just 4.2%, and he is the most successful of them all – although it might be noted that of the 666 offspring that made it to Z1, 19.669% went on to Grand Prix. Contango despite only spending a couple of seasons in the Netherlands before he was exported to the USA (and his semen did not freeze, so it was those first couple of seasons that counted), produced 24 GP horses at 3.8%.

The list then goes: Painted Black (21 GP offspring, 3.6%), El Corona (10, 3.5%), Welt Hit II (21, 3.2%), Aktion (11, 2.9%) Gribaldi (82, 2.7%), Krack C (39, 2.5%), Cocktail (13, 2.5%) and Chronos (13, 2.5%).

However we can push a little further and then we come up with a somewhat startling result. If we consider the number of progeny and the number that reached Z1 level or higher, THE MOST successful stallion is Sir Sinclair (by Lord Sinclair out of a Flemmingh x Le Mexico mare) with 21.9% of his progeny ranking at Z1 or higher – though scrolling through the names of the 48 horses by Sir Sinclair that have made it onto the Hippomundo database, I doubt there is one single name you would recognize.

The second best producer is Cocktail with 21.4%, followed by Jazz who is tied with Ziesto on 21.2%.

Ziesto (Lancet x Clavecimbel) is described on several databases as a Grand Prix competitor, if that is the case,

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someone neglected to inform the official FEI database, which records a couple of Inter I wins with Hans Peter Minderhoud, as the highlights of the stallion’s international career. Still he produced 104 offspring in the Dutch book, with 22 of them as Z1 or higher.

El Corona is at 18.3%, Welt Hit II, 18.1%, Painted Black, 18%, Krack C, 17.5%, Olivi, 17.4% and Cabochon on 17.2%.

It is harder to get a handle on the percentages for the German horses because while the German FN obviously has the numbers, the various studbooks will not let the FN make the numbers public....

We can get a good indicator by using the Hanoverian publication, Jahrbuch Hengste 2018. Thus as we look to De Niro’s entry we find he has produced 1,195 competitors (these are FN figures, so for horses from all the German studbooks, not just the Hanoverians) of whom 220 have competed at S level, that’s 18.41%, and we might note in passing that as you glance through the 34 De Niro’s who have won €10,000 euros or more, you do recognize a galaxy of international stars.

For comparison, we can look at two much-used stallions, Don Frederico, who was very popular, though perhaps not now that he has been revealed as a WFFS carrier, and Sandro Hit, probably the first stallion to cover mega-books of mares.

Don Frederico is credited with 1.047 competitors, with 129, or 12.32%, at S level, while Sandro Hit has produced 1,227 competitors, 178 at S or better, which is 14.506%.

Still it would be nice to have a meaningful worldwide comparison, using the same parameters to give us some clarity.

What then of the Dutch jumpers? Now we are getting some largish numbers to play with. Over 19,000 horses registered with the KWPN have jumped 1m30 and higher and there are 508 KWPN stallions that have sired that group.

The great Indoctro is well in the lead with 933 offspring, followed by Burggraaf with 614 and Numero Uno with 582.

Again one would have expected these stalwarts of Dutch dressage breeding to be there by longevity and sheer force of numbers.

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progeny, a different picture emerges. Now the leader of the pack is Bacardi VDL since 36.4% of his offspring made it to 1m30, 12 of the 33 he has sired thus far.

Bacardi is a son of ‘keur’ Grand Prix jumper Corland Corland is by Cor de la Bryère out of a Landgraf mare. He was a respectable 1m60 jumper with Wout Jan van der Schans. Bacardi is out of a mare by Kannan. Bacardi himself has been a moderate performer at the highest level, good enough to make the Swiss team for Tryon with Janika Sprunger, but the best result I can find for the pair is a fifth place in a five-star at Valence in France. Still the bay stallion is bred to jump, not only is his dam by Kannan, but you can add to that the blood of jumping stallion Jasper ('Little One' with Hugo Simon), and then comes another Grand Prix jumper/sire, Fresco.

I guess we might worry about the small numbers involved in Bacardi's result, and the fact that while 12 of his foals have jumped 1m30, none has jumped above that. By way of an enormous contrast, the stallion with the second highest percentage of 1m30 jumpers to foals is Heartbreaker on 33.8%, followed by Cantos with 30.2%, Hors La Loi II with 29.9%, Mr. Blue with 29.1%, Utopie with 27.9%, Padinus with 27.6%, Ukato with 26.9%, Carthino Z and Cartano with both 25.5% and Oklund with 25.4%.

But is the figure for Bacardi really 'reliable'? So far two of Bacardi's progeny have jumped at 1m45, most of his crop, at 1m35. Heartbreaker is recorded with 1,420 progeny on the hippomundo base, with a staggering 105 competing at 1m60.

Like they say there are lies, damn lies and statistics, but I know which stallion I would rather have cover my mare....

Because a horse must be six years old before it can jump 1m30 it is not surprising that we see 'older', proven stallions in this top 10 while the young sires have not had the opportunity to prove themselves. A horse that is now six, was born in 2012. Stallions approved in 2011 for KWPN breeding are the youngest stallions with offspring at 1m30m. These are Durrant (one), Dantos (one), Dutch Design (one), Dakar VDL (four) and World Cup winner Q.Breitling LS

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Julia Krajewski riding Contendro I son, Chipmunk FRH (11). Breitling is, however, two years older than his colleagues from the D-year and of these eleven offspring who are competed at 1m30, six were born in 2012. The other five were born in 2010 or 2011. The C-year is a year older: Carrera (one), Cédric (two), Charisma (four) and Crespo VDL (eight).

In 2010, the stallions Eldorado van de Zeshoek, Falaise de Muze, Saffier and Spartacus also received approval for KWPN breeding. However, these stallions are slightly older and therefore have more offspring at 1m30 level: Sapphire has four, followed by Falaise de Muze with six, Spartacus with 68 and Eldorado van de Zeshoek with 120.

The results at Grand Prix level present no surprises.

Burggraaf takes the lead with 101 Grand Prix offspring, followed by Indoctro with 100 and Concorde with 91 in third place. If we measure the number of Grand Prix offspring against the number of KWPN-registered foals, Libero H takes the lead with 7.6%, he has produced 44 KWPNregistered Grand Prix horses. Followed by Heartbreaker (62 GP horses, 6.3%), Silvio II (14 GP horses, 4.7%), Animo (43 GP horses, 4.7%), Celano (30 GP horses, 4.5%), Andiamo (27 GP horses, 4.4%), Hors La Loi II (17 GP horses, 4.4%), Lux (41 GP horses, 3.5%), Guidam (36 GP horses, 3.5%) and Calvados (54 GP horses, 3.4%).

WBFSH year-end sire rankings: Eventing Looking at the top 15 eventers at the 2018 Tryon WEG, six are French bred, three Irish, two KWPN and two from Germany. This is not an entirely unexpected result – since 2004, the Irish have headed the studbook standings no fewer than 12 times, while the fortunes of the French have fluctuated, runners-up five times (to the Irish), once finishing first, but twice sixth, and once dropping as low as seventh.

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the eventing sires rankings, for the fourth year in a row (two more and he will equal the great Heraldik xx who stood at the top of the standings six times). His success is based largely on two four-star German eventers, both Hanoverians, Andreas Dibowski's mare, FRH Corrida (Espri) and Julia Krajewski's gelding, Chipmunk FRH (Heraldik xx), who has had two three-star CIC wins this year, at Aachen and Bramham. They are ranked 23rd and 34th in the world, respectively, the next most successful being Candy Girl (Carolus) at 124, and Chatwin (Oldtimer xx) at 145 – after which there's one at 397, and the rest are all ranked lower than 500, most lower that 1,000. So Contendro crossed with a couple of mares in Lower Saxony, but since then he has moved to the GFC stable in Normandy, and it will be interesting to see if he works with the Selle Français and Anglo Arab mares he encounters.

Contendro I was primarily bred as a showjumping sire.

When he won his stallion performance test at Adelheidsdorf, he topped the jumping test but finished a very respectable fourth in the dressage standings. Still he has only bred three dressage competitors with winnings of more than €10,000 while he is the sire of 34 showjumpers who have each earned more than €15,000, headed up by Codex One with €1,410,505! At the same time he has produced four eventers with earnings over €5,000.

I guess when Bernard le Courtois bred Jaguar Mail (Hand in Glove xx x Laudarnum xx, that’s three-quarters Thoroughbred, with the remaining quarter divided between Almé and Gotthard) he had the showjumping arena in his sights, and sure enough Jaguar Mail took Peter Erikson to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in Kong with the Swedish showjumping team. However, it has been as a sire of eventers that Jaguar Mail has earned his keep.

The shooting star at the WEG in Tryon was Andrew Hoy's Vassily de Lassos, the gelding he bought from French eventer, Thomas Carlile. Carlile himself has had considerable success with the Jaguar Mail/Anglo Arab cross, riding Tenareze (Quatar de Plape AA) to six- and seven-year-

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old world championships. Carlile told me at the time that he thought the Jaguars could be a bit loose in front, and he liked a jumping Anglo Arab dam to tighten them up – and sure enough Vassily is out of a mare by Jalienny AA. Currently Vassily is ranked 10th in the world. The next most successful is Jum Jum (57th) out of a mare by the Thoroughbred, Papi's Boy xx, followed by another product of Le Courtois breeding, Tresor Mail (74th) who is out of a mare by the Dutch stallion, Iowa.

It is interesting that where a stallion stands can so dramatically affect their success rate. Bernard le Courtois has written that if Cor de la Bryère had stayed in France he would have not been a significant stallion (he would have 'bred rabbits' I think the assessment was), he needed the big Holsteiner mares to work with. The reverse is also true, there are a handful of Holsteiners who moved to Ireland where on the rich soil of the heavily Thoroughbred influenced Irish mares, they flourished. Had they remained on the marshes, they may well have ended up feeding some honest hound....

Courage, sometimes known as Courage II, is a case in point. He is certainly well enough bred, by Capitol out of Vamara (Cor de la Bryère x Liguster) who was also the fullsister of sometime world number one eventing sire, Cavalier Royale – whose success also came thanks to his Irish mares.

Courage arrived in Ireland in 2002 as a 12-year-old (seemingly from Switzerland, and without the Holstein stallion seal of approval), and in just a couple of seasons sired a goodly number of eventers while standing at Thomas Meagher's Kedrah House Stud. Courage's highest points earner is Ballaghmore Class (the mare is by that former mainstay of Irish breeding, 'unknown'), a star with Oliver Townend, including a first at Burghley four-star CCI in 2017.

They are ranked 17th on the current standings. His next highest ranked are Ringwood Sky Boy (Sky Boy xx) 26th and Camebert (Colin Diamond) 29th.

Grafenstolz in fourth place is perhaps the first stallion on our list who was bred with eventing in mind, although the stallion achieved the rare distinction of qualifying for the Bundeschampionate in eventing and dressage and showjumping, actually winning the eventing class with one Michael Jung on board.

Jung also won the world six-year-old eventing title with Grafenstolz that year (2004), and while the pair went on to compete three-star, the Trakehner stallion didn't really make the grade – although we might remember what Andrew Nicholson said of Jumbo, the eventing stallion he rode, and who features in 11th on these rankings: Stallions “are not really made to be cross-country horses, especially the older they get – they get very protective of themselves. A lot of people criticize

some stallions as they get a little older, thinking they are not brave enough to be eventers, but really it is just their nature taking over. They are not meant to be going places they haven’t been before, that’s their nature.”

Grafenstolz’s most successful eventers are Guccimo R (Exquis Carnando), 360th in the world and Grand Prix I West (Grafenstein) 361st.

I'm quite certain Paul Schockemöhle didn't go out looking for an eventing sire when he bred the fifth-ranked Balou du Rouet (Baloubet du Rouet x Continue), and indeed there is nothing much in the stallion's pedigree that would suggest eventing. For a start he has only 31.85% 'blood', and he has negative FN breeding values for dressage, (96 for young-horse competition, and 92 for open competition). The Hanoverian values are even less encouraging: He is given an overall dressage value of 73, and is negative in all three gaits and rideability: 67 trot, 82 canter, 75 walk and 81 for rideability. His Hanoverian jumping value is 147, his FN jumping value for young horse classes is 142, in open competition, 127. He is the sire of 23 horses that have won more than €15,000 in the showjumping arena. The Hanoverian stallion book doesn't even mention eventers – yet there he is, fifth on this year’s rankings! This is largely due to two horses, Reve de Rouet and Billy the Red, who between them contributed 439 points to the stallion's total, while his other nine representatives muster a mere 236 in total.

Reve du Rouet (14th in the world) is out of a mare by the Jalisco son, Oscar de Revel, out of a Contender mare. Sarah Bullimore rode the gelding to second at Pau four-star CCI last year, fourth at Burghley four star, this year. Billy the Red (32nd), is out of a mare by Stan the Man xx, sire of Biosthetic Sam, and was Kristina Cook's ride at the recent WEG where they finished ninth. They won team gold, and placed an individual fourth, at last year’s Europeans.

The Irish didn’t only get their new blood from Holstein, there were two Belgian horses that left their mark, Ramiro B and Don Juan de la Bouverie. Don Juan doesn't make the top 100 this year, but Ramiro B is right up there in sixth thanks to horses with the Cooley prefix – as we've pointed out previously, this is not a stud prefix, but a marketing brand put together by the clever duo who run Cooley Farm, Georgina Phillips and Richard Shearne. They don't breed horses, they scour Ireland looking for eventing prospects, polish them a bit and sell to a who's who of the world eventing. And they like Ramiro B, indeed Phillips told us, he was her favorite stallion.

You might be forgiven for thinking Ramiro B had something to do with Ramiro, the Holsteiner who stood at Zangersheide, but he is not. Ramiro B is by the Caretino son,

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Calvani, out of a mare by Wenderkreis. Ramiro B was imported to Ireland as a youngster, and ridden at Grand Prix showjumping level by Edward Doyle.

Ramiro B is the sire of Cooley SRS (Kitealy Spring x King of Diamond), 42nd in the world and second this year at Badminton with Oliver Townend. Then there is Cooley Ramiro (out of a Cavalier Royale x Clover Hill mare), 112th in the world rankings. Cooley Monsoon, out of a Krakatan (who IS by Ramiro) mare, 129th, and Cooley Master Class (out of a Master Imp x Cavalier Royale mare) first at Lexington this year, ridden by... yep, Oliver Townend. Master Class ranks 137th this year.

Seventh to that stalwart of eventing breeding, Heraldik xx, still supplying top quality eventers, 13 years after his death. His highest ranked this year is Hamilton (Furioso's Sohn) in 99th.

It seems odd to find L'Arc de Triomphe in eighth. For all his very French name, he is a German, by Landor S out of a Pilot mare. A star at the Fences Auction, he soon became quite controversial, so I’ll let Bernard le Ccourtois tell the story in his inimitable style: “This is a horse that I know well, having selected him with my Fences associates at the age of three, when his loose jumping naturally impressed me… Then for having followed him as a four-year-old in Bruno Souloumiac’s stables and then finally two years later during an unsuccessful competing period of a few months with Patrice Delaveau and the help of a ‘whisperer’… This over-gifted horse has a more than borderline temperament and has never taken kindly to competing. This was to be expected, as his breeding by Landor S, as well as Pilot, is reputed to produce quality horses, but of a difficult temperament... Neither force nor whisperers were to reason with him. This horse, probably far more intelligent than his counterparts, has always done what he wished. Whether in hand, ridden or serving. He once again gave proof of this at the stallion show in Poitiers in February 2008, when he refused to enter the ring to be presented to the public. And his sporting career was effectively very short and delicate, he in fact only really jumped as a five-year-old.”

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For all that, L'Arc covered hundreds of mares, producing seven 1m60 showjumpers, and thanks to one horse, the mare, Romantic Love (out of a Thoroughbred mare by Shercame xx) who carried France's Gwendolen Fer to first place at the 2017 Pau four star (and 37th in the world), he makes the eventing sires top ten. The next best of his get is in 209th – then it is out in the two, three, four, and five thousands. Which I guess proves that it still doesn’t take much to make it into the top ten in eventing, especially when you look at what it takes to top the jumping standings.

The final two placings go to two of the historic greats: Master Imp and Contender.

Dressage: Who’s in and whos out There have been four changes to the top 10 in 2018: ‘Out’ are Gribaldi (Kostolany - Gondola II x Ibikus), Sir Donnerhall I (Sandro Hit - Contenance D x Donnerhall), Florestan I (Fidelio - Raute x Rheingold) and Don Schufro (Donnerhall - Fiesta x Pik Bube I). ‘In’ are Johnson (Jazz Roxane x Flemmingh), San Remo (Sandro Hit - Donja Anjana x Donnerhall), Diamond Hit (Don Schufro - Loretta x Ramino) and Dimaggio (Don Primero - Winnipeg x World Cup I).

Sandro Hit (Sandro Song - Loretta x Ramino) is a standout, not only coming second in the rankings, but also being joined in the top 10 by two sons, San Remo and Stedinger (out of Bold Fantasy x Landadel). Jazz (Cocktail - Charmante x Ulster) in fourth place is also joined by his son Johnson, ranked sixth. Donnerhall (Donnerwetter - Ninette x Markus) is the stallion with the greatest influence on the top 10, with two sons, De Niro (Donnerhall - Alicante x Akzent II) and Don Frederico (Donnerhall - Cleopatra x Consul), plus one grandson in San Remo.

There's not a lot more we can say about De Niro. He was Number one dressage sire in 2012, and has held the spot every year since then, save 2014 when he slipped behind Gribaldi. To celebrate yet another win, his son, Delgado, took out the Madrid Grand Prix in the same week the

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standings were announced. It is interesting that Burkhardt Wahler who ‘found’ De Niro at the Hanoverian licensing, came from a Trakehner background and was prepared to swim against the tide in making his selection: “I love to buy the Donnerhall blood but I don’t like the very popular Donnerhall x Pik Bube cross – very heavy big horses, and I didn’t like that so much because I am from the other side, from the Trakehner side and I like more an elegant horse. I really liked De Niro, because he was out of a mare with Wiesenbaum x Akzent breeding.

Akzent is through Absatz, Trakehner, Wiesenbaum is from Thoroughbred – so in my opinion, this was a very interesting bloodline.”

De Niro has put seven horses into the dressage top 100: Delgaro (Weltmeyer) 19th, Deep Impact (Rubinstein) 26th, Delatio (Rubinstein) 31st, D'Agostino (Shogun xx) 32nd, Danilo (Andiamo) 33rd, Du Soleil (Caprimond) 44th and Degas 12 (Regazzoni) 79th.

In second place we have Sandro Hit. I confess that I never thought he would be a producer of Grand Prix progeny, but there they are. Adrienne Lyle has won a five-star Grand Prix in Wellington on Salvino (Donnerhall) to take him to 20th on the rankings, then there's Sir Donnerhall (Donnerhall), 52nd, and Selton HW (Hohenstein) in 59th.

The fourth-ranked dressage stallion is Rubin Royal, who seems to have single handedly rescued the ‘R’ line of Rubinstein. The general complaint against the Rubinsteins, aside from their tendency to wind suck, was that they were cutesy things that lacked power or impulsion. Rubin Royal may have escaped this curse, since his dam is out of the extremely athletic mare band of Harli Seifert, who started with an eventing mare, Chico, and bred her to the half blood, international eventer, Volturno to produce the progenitors of her two lines. Rubin Royal is out of Siefert’s 'dressage' line, but there's plenty of jump there as well – Grande and Gotthard, and plenty of Trakehner, Semper Idem and Absatz.

Rubin Royal is by the Rubinstein son Rohdiament, so there is a dash of French Anglo Arab from Inschallah, over a mare who paid her way working in the fields....

Rubin Royal's highest points scorer is Rubin Al Asad, ridden by Britain's Lara Butler, the highlight of their career thus far, victory in the GP Special at Rotterdam last June.

Again the Hanoverian gelding has power on his dam line – the Hanoverian Wanderbursch II, better known as a sire of jumpers, and the Thoroughbred, Lemon Tree. They are ranked 36th, and there are two more in the top 100, Rubins Nite (Limbo) 42nd and Real Dancer FRH (De Niro) 49th Jazz continues to influence the sport although he is slowly slipping down the rankings. His front-liner is Adelinde

Cornellissen's Zephyr (Farmer) who recently won the threestar GP and Freestyle at Exloo. The pair rank 71st in the world.

There is another Donnerhall in the top ten, Don Frederico (Consul) in fifth. His number one is Isabell Werth's Don Johnson (Warkant) ranked 11th in the world.

Jazz’s influence lives through his son, Johnson whose top-liner is Ben Johnson (Ferro) who took third place in the GP and Freestyle at Cappln four-star, ridden by Marlies van Baalen, and was bred by distinguished Breeding News correspondent, Claartje van Andel. The pair rank 132nd in the world.

It is interesting the number of horses that seriously competed Grand Prix in the top ten: De Niro, Rubin Royal, Jazz, Johnson, Diamond Hit, and just outside the ten, in 11th, Gribaldi, and Rubin-Royal's full brother, Romanov (14th).

Seventh place, the Sandro Hit son, San Remo (Donnerhall!), his best product is Dorothee Schneider's team gold medalist at Tryon, Sammy Davis Jr (Wenckstern), who is ranked seventh in the world.

Then we are back on the ‘D’ line gravy train: eighth to Sandro Hit's half brother, Diamond Hit, by Don Schufro out of the redoutable Loretta by Ramino. His best product is Kasey Perry Glass's Goerkintgaards Dublet (Ferro), sixth at Tryon, second at Aachen five-star, 14th in the world, followed in 23rd place by Carl Hester's new star, Hawtins Delicato (Regazzoni). Ninth to Dimaggio (Don Primero x World Cup I), the sire of Headmore Delegate (mare by the Akzent II son, Akut), a successful under-25 competitor with Rebecca Jane Edwards, and in 73rd place.

Tenth to Stedinger (Landadel), a young-horse winner and the sire of world 82nd, Fil Rouge (Argentinus) – 29th in the Grand Prix at the Tryon WEG with Belgium's Laurence Roos.

As would be expected, the average level of ‘blood’ for the dressage sires is considerably lower than for the jumpers, at 34.04%. No Thoroughbred appears in these stallions’ pedigrees earlier than generation three; 40% have Thoroughbred first appearing in the pedigree in the thiurd generation, 50% in the fourth generation and 10% in the fifth generation. The top-10 stallion with the highest blood percentage is Johnson at 43.36%, even though a Thoroughbred ancestor is not seen in his lineage until generation four.

The stallion with the lowest blood percentage in the top 10 is San Remo, at 24.80%.

Similar to the jumping sires, all of the dressage top 10 sires have a degree of line-breeding within their first six generations; in fact all of these stallions had line-breeding first appear in the pedigree in generations four or five. Of these top 10, 60% had the first incidence

of line-breeding in the fourth generation, and 40% in the fifth. The stallion in the top 10 with the greatest degree of line-breeding is De Niro: Ferdinand (Ferrara - Herzenskind x Helgoland I) appears 4x5, on the bottom of the pedigree only, and only through daughters. The Thoroughbred, Neckar xx (Ticino xx - Nixe xx x Arjaman xx) appears 5x5, dam side only, sex balanced, while the TB mare Waldrun xx (Alchimist xx - Walburga xx x Aurelius xx) appears 5x6, dam side only and is sex-balanced through both a daughter and son representative.

And the strike rate of offspring who have reached Grand Prix level, based on offspring and their performances listed in the Horsetelex database? Such a top five would read: 1 Dimaggio (6.05%); 2 Rubin-Royal (Rohdiamant - Rumirell x Grundstein II) (4.94%); 3 San Remo (4.73%); 4 Diamond Hit (4.30%); 5 Sandro Hit (3.90%). Dimaggio also had the highest strike rate of offspring who have reached at least Prix St George level at 15.61%, followed by San Remo with 14.79% and Rubin-Royal at 11.59%.

WBFSH showjumping sires It is no surprise to find Chacco-Blue heading the showjumping rankings, the stallion has gone from strength to strength as a sire, and the latest Hanoverian stallion book credits him with progeny earnings of €3,047,633 from his 1,021 competitors in Germany alone. His current flag-bearer is Ben Maher's Explosion W (out of Uarina x Baloubet du Rouet) who in the last two months has cleaned up two GCT five-star 1m60 Grand Prix, in Doha and Rome, to take the gelding's earnings to €771,672. When he literally ‘exploded’ onto the international scene the gelding was jumping 1m45 classes at thebeginning of the year, and had his first 1m60 start in Shanghai in April, for a win and €47,850! Currently ranked fifth.

Chacco-Bue has eight offspring in the top 100 world rankings, aside from Explosion: Chacna (Narew xx) 34th, Chacco Kid (Come On) 49th, Chapilot (Pilot) 58th, Chacanno

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(Kannan) 60th, Chalou (Baloubet du Rouet) 61st, Blue Movie (Pilot) 63rd, and Miss Untouchable (Aldatus) 64th.

It is somewhat amazing that Chacco-Blue, born in 1998, with his career cut short when he died in 2012 should amass so many more points – 31,387 to 19,405 – than the French great, Diamant de Sémilly, who was born in 1991, and whose semen is still being offered – fresh even – from the Haras de Couvains in the 2018 season.

Diamant de Sémilly has just one horse in the top 100 rankings, the very successful Don VHP Z NOP (Voltaire) comes in at 46th. This stallion has career earnings of €1,459,753 with Harrie Smolders. The next most successful is Inca Boy van’t Vianahof (Cash), ranked 119, whose best result so far was a third in the five-star Grand Prix at Rome, with Edwina Tops Alexander. More recently he has been mainly competing in the 1m35-1m45 classes, so far earning €162,916.

There is only one surprise in the other 28 stallions that make up the top 30 (in order): Casall; Cornet Obolensky; Kashmir van't Schuttershof; Berlin; Toulon; Cardento; Balou du Rouet; Nabab de Rêve; For Pleasure; Kannan; 13 Tangelo van de Zuuthoeve; Clinton; Quidam de Revel; Verdi; Lord Z; Calvaro; Contendro I; Numero Uno; Cicero Z van Paemel; Baloubet du Rouet; Indoctro; Colman; Mylord Carthago; Heartbreaker; Thunder van de Zuuthoeve; Quasimodo Z; Cassini I; Vigo d'Arsouilles.

Cicero Z van Paemel did I hear you splutter? Unlike all the others, this is not exactly a household name. The stallion had a moderate international jumping career with Dirk Demeersman from 2008 until it was ended after surgery in 2013, winning €18,635, with their biggest payout €5,875 for a 1n50 class win in Antwerp. He is by the great Carthago and

out of a mare by Randel Z – from a mare line that has produced many jumpers. Randel Z is the classic Zangersheide cocktail: Ramiro, Almé, Gotthard, and he was a modestly successful sire, producing three 1m60 jumpers, none of them stars.

Cicero is the sire of an impressive 33 1m60 jumpers, and another 13 that have gone 1m55. His major points scorer is the 130th placed, Jewel de Kwakenbeek, who is out of a Quidam de Revel mare with another cross of Ramiro on his mare line. So far, Jewel has amassed €101,034 with his best payout, €6,250 for winning a 1m45-1m50 class inLiege.

Even though the top-20 rankings show no surprises, the figures contain some sigificant changes to the top 10: megastars For Pleasure (Furioso II - Gigantin x Grannus), Kannan (Voltaire - Cemeta x Nimmerdor) and Baloubet du Rouet (Galoubet A - Mesange du Rouet x Starter) are all out; Baloubet even plummets out of the top 20! New entrants to the top 10 are: Cardento (Capitol I - B-Estelle x Lord), Toulon (Heartbreaker - Nikita x Jokinal de Bornival) and Nabab de Reve (Quidam de Revel - Melodie en Fa x Artichaut). This is something of a comeback for Cardento and Nabab: Cardento also featured in the top 10 in 2014 and 2016, while Nabab has been top-10 in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012. Nabab also gets an honorable mention for sharing the top-10 with his son Toulon.

The stallions with the greatest paternal influence on the top 10 are Caretino (Caletto II- Isidor x Metellus) with one son – Casall (Caretino - Kira XVII x Lavall I), and one grandson – Berlin (Cassini I - Estia x Caretino); and Heartbreaker (Nimmerdor - Bacarole x Silvano) is also represented by one son – Toulon, and one grandson – Cornet Obolensky (Clinton - Rabanna van Costersveld x Heartbreaker).

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generation, with 30% of these top-20 stallions being line-bred this close. A staggering 60% of these stallions see their first line-breeding appear in generation four, while 10% see it in generation five. These findings are fairly consistent with Federico Tesio’s famous theory concerning linebreeding, whereby he recommends that it is most successful when used in the ‘engine room’, otherwise known as generations four through to six. The most heavily line-bred stallion in the top 20 is Contendro I (Contender Bravo x Reichsgraf). Contendro I is line-bred to Ramiro Z (Raimond - Valine x Cottage Son xx) 3x4x4, with him appearing in both the top and bottom of the pedigree, and through both male and female offspring (i.e. sex-balanced).

Chacco-Blue son Chacco Kid (out of Solara x Come On) ridden by Eric Lamaze (CAN) The Anglo-Arab, Ramzes X (Rittersporn xx - Jordi x Shagya X-3) appears 5x5x5x6x6, There has been a lot of discussion recently about just how again top and bottom and sex-balanced. We also see the much ‘blood’ is needed in the modern showjumper; looking at great TB Ladykiller xx (Sailing Light - Lone Beech x the 2018 top 20, the average amount of blood seen in these Loaningdale) and the Holsteiner Heintze (Heinx - Omlette stallions is just under half: 48.03%. So does that mean that x Wildfang) appear in the pedigree, both at 5x6. most of these stallions are half Thoroughbred? Absolutely not.

And finally, our own version of the top 20 by ‘strike This high blood percentage in jumping horses is generally rate’. While this information is by no mean infallible, it does maintained by crossing high-blood horses together. provide a standardized means of comparison of these Of the top 10 stallions, none had a TB appearing in the stallions. It is based on strike-rate of offspring that have pedigree earlier than the third generation (sire and dam being reached the 1m60 level out of the total number of progeny first generation). When we consider the entire top 20, there by that stallion that appear on Horsetelex pedigrees. are three stallions that have TB in the second generation, i.e.

1 Chacco-Blue (8.29%); 2 Kashmir van’t Schuttershof grandsire and/or granddam: For Pleasure, who has 32.23% (Nabab de Reve - Fines van Kameren x Tenor Manciais) blood, Tangelo van de Zuuthoeve (Narcos II - Olympia van de (8.07%); 3 For Pleasure (6.94%); 4 Clinton (Corrado I - Urte Krekebeke x Laudanum xx) who has 58.20% blood, and Lord x Masetto) (6.01%); 5 Toulon (5.03%).

Z (Lord - Thia x Calando I) who has 64.45% blood.

Chacco-Blue also had the highest strike-rate of the top The stallions with the highest blood percentages in the 20 when it came to offspring competing at 1m40 level and top 20 are: Lord Z at 64.45%, Quidam de Revel (Jalisco B above, at 42.39%. So yes, over 40 PERCENT of offspring by Dirka x Nankin) at 63.28%, and Nabab de Reve at 60.55%.

Chacco-Blue, as recorded in the Horsetelex database, have Interestingly, despite Nabab’s high blood percentage, a TB competed to a level of 1m40 and above. Just, wow! ancestor is not seen in his pedigree until the fourth ■ generation. The most common position for the first TB ancestor to be found in the pedigree of this top 20 is in the Editor’s note: For timing reasons, this analysis was compiled from third generation (45% of top-20 stallions) followed by the database information supplied by the WBFSH, but before they fourth generation (40% of top-20 stallions). published the verified results. We, therefore, apologize if any Another interesting statistic from the 2018 top 20 anomalies have occurred – which cannot be attributable to the jumping sires is that ALL of these stallions have some degree authors. But please be assured that any irregularities will only be of line-breeding in their first six generations. The closest that very minor and will not impact the overall content and conclusions line-breeding appears in these pedigrees is in the third contained in this article.

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WBFSH-rOLeX award leading breeders 2017-2018

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CLAARTJE VAN ANDEL AND ADRIANA VAN TILBURG FEI

PHOTOGRAPHY:

As usual, the WBFSH-ROLEX annual breeding awards will take place during the CHI Geneva which runs from December 6-9. During a special breeding evening, this year’s winning breeders will each be presented with a ROLEX timepiece. They are, in dressage, Piet Crum for Verdades (Florett As x Goya); M.M.A. (Mario) Everse for Zinius (Nabab de Reve x Kannan) in showjumping ; and A.M.C.M. van Bezouw (NED) for Albano Z (Asca Z x Babouche van het Gehucht Z), the leading eventer. but he sadly never witnessed the results of Verdades himself.

Verdades: 2002 KWPN gelding

The late Piet Crum from Herwaarden, the Netherlands, is the breeder of 16-year old Verdades, ridden by Laura Graves (USA). This Floret As son out of star prestation mare Liwilarda (Goya x Renovo) made his jump forward in the WBFSH dressage horse ranking after winning double silver medals at the FEI World Equestrian Games™ Tryon 2018. This wellknown duo become the first American partnership to be ranked number one in the world.

Piet Crum’s original business was producing pigs, as well as a little sales and transportation. His daughter, Meggy van der Linden-Crum recalls; “My father bought the mare Liwilarda from the Van Manen brothers, who have agreat expertise in harness horses. Liwilarda’s pedigree was based entirely on harness horses, with famous old names like Gloriant in her pedigree. He bought Liwilarda especially to breed with her, and she also learned to pull a carriage.”

From the very start, Liwilarda was a very striking horse among her group. Linden-Crum explains: “She really had character. Visitors always noticed her immediately, with her power and striking presence. She had powerful movements and strong hindlegs, and was no doubt my father’s favourite.

She was a very good mother but had characteristic behaviour as well, not always the easiest to deal with! This type of behaviour can also be recognized in her offspring.”

The 1993-born Liwilarda produced nine offspring. Aside from Victor C, who was renamed Verdades (2002), his half brother Wilco C (2003, by Florencio) was also produced and trained for dressage. “My father liked to thiunk out of the box and he recignized her dressage qualities. That’s why he chose dressage stallions for her.”

Crum’s daughter also remembered a visit by Ferro’s owners, Jan Lamers and the late Adriaan van de Goor, who advised him to use Ferro for Liwilarda – a mating from which Together was born. After a break from breeding, Liwilarda gave birth to Zilarda C (Florencio), Flair (Florencio), Biwilarda C (Sandreo), Dream Girl C (Spielberg), Ewilarda C (Sir Oldenburg) and Salitos (Spielberg).

In good years almost 15 foals were born at Crum’s farm,

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Following an illness, he died in 2013, at the age of 63. Meggy van der Linden-Crum picked up the story; “One day visitors from Spain arrived, they were attracted by Liwilarda and my father sold her because he had to sell horses due to his illness.

We never heard anything more about her from Spain.”

However, in 2014 the Crum family received a phonecall from the USA. “It was really amazing – the Graves family was calling,” Linden-Crum said. “Since we have kept in contact and I’m very grateful to have met Verdades in Belgium last year with Laura Graves and with my mother. Now we will travel to Geneva to collect this great reward on behalf of my father. It’s my father’s dream we are now living.”

The late Piet Crum also bred Rabiola, the 2009 and 2010 Devon Breed Show winner; the 2011 Westfalian licensing champion Dubrovnik (Diamond Hit x Regazzoni), who was sold to Sissy Max-Theurer; as well as the 2013 Oldenburg reserve saddle licensing champion Viva Bechta (Vivaldi x Ferro).

Albano Z, 2008 eventing gelding Thomas van Bezouw (25) will be receiving the best eventing horse breeder aware on behalf of his father, Adriaan, who bred Albano Z (Asca Z - Bellabouche x AD Babouche)

Zinius (Nabab de Reve) ridden by Harrie Smolders (NED)

saying, “I bred Albano together with my father, and when he was a yearling my father passed away quite suddenly.

Albano Z was one of the last horses he bred.

I feel privileged that a few people around me and my mother have Verdades (Florett As x Goya) ridden made it possible that

by Laura Graves (USA) I can still breed with one mare, who is not from Albano’s damline.”

Adriaan van Bezouw bred Albano Z in 2008 and registered him with Zangersheide as a son of the upcoming sire Asca Z. It is worth mentioning that Asca Z is a son of Askari, who is also the sire of DSP Alice, individual showjumping gold medalist with Simone Blum in Tryon, and father of Asha P who became seven-year-old eventing world champion in Le Lion d’Angers this year under the saddle of Germany’s Ingrid Klimke.

Van Bezouw continued by saying; “My father bred mainly with two lines. The one of Bellabouche and with a line out of which I now have the fifth generation. My father started with that line 30 years ago. We purchased the grandmother of Albano Z, La Belle (Landadel - Griselda x Tin Rocco, bred by Gerd-Günther Frels) as a 17-year-old broodmare from a breeder in Ganderkesee in Germany. She was then in foal by Con Capitol, but we sold that foal. The second offspring was Bellabouche, we covered her with Asca Z when she was three.

She had an amazing technique and a lot of blood. We used Asca Z to add more size and scope, then sold Bellabouche as a seven year old to Kuwait.”

Explaining what Albano Z inherited from his damline, Van Bezouw said; “The blood and the electricity clearly comes from his damline, also the willingness to perform. I jumped Bellabouche myself at home at 1m45 level. I am not a very skilled rider but she never let me down, she always tried. She also never stopped and I never fell off. The grandmother, La Belle, is a full sister of the Oldenburger stallion Landjonker.

You can find this stallion in several dressage and jumping pedigrees. La Belle also produced the 1m55 jumping horse Casanova Junior (Exquis Carnando) under the saddle of James Paterson-Robinson.”

Albano Z’s success has been built up by a few riders.“We sold Albano Z when he was a year-and-a-half to Gert Jan van Olst. He then went to England, where his owner sold him to Portuguese rider, Duarte Seabra who jumped with him at 1m45. This rider also started him in eventing and finished sixth in the young-horse world championships of Le Lion d’Angers. In 2015 Albano Z was sold to Philip Dutton with whom he’s had some amazing results.”

Thomas van Brezouw concluded by saying; “It is a great honor to receive this award. Our priority is mainly with

breeding jumping horses, but eventing is also a beautiful sport.

I realize that this is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.”

Zinius, 2004 KWPN showjumper Mario Everse bred Zinius in 2004 and registered him with KWPN as a son of Nabab de Reve, out of Winia van’t Vennehof (Kannan -Special Girl Sinea x Codexo: Nini-stam, Merrielijn 18, fokfamilie 58). Everse (49) has for 20 years been a hairdresser and owned several businesses employing some 300 hair stylists. He has more than 30 years experience in breeding sport horses: “I started breeding with one mare when I was 15.

In the year that Zinius was born I had seven foals. This year I had 38 foals and for next year I will have 22.” Almost 12 years ago he made the decision to devote himself to his horses, when his ‘hobby’ became his job, and he is now following a successful career as a horse dealer and breeder. He is perhaps best known for buying Rio 2016 Olympic gold medallist Big Star as a threeand-a-half-year-old stallion, and selling him again at the age of four-and-a-half.

In 2003, Mario Everse chose Nabab de Reve for Winia van’t Vennehof: “Winia is a mare with a lot of blood, with a size of 1m64 and she is very sharp. Nabab de Reve was known for his scope and good character so we thought that would be a good match.” Explaining what Zinius inherited from his damline, Everse said: “Zinius inherited sharpness, willingness to perform, size, and the way of jumping from his mother. We had one more offspring out of Winia, Coriander van’t Vennehof (Triomphe de Muze).” Coriander competed with several riders at 1m60. “Winia van’t Vennehof received her jumping education in our stable. Then we sold her to California, where she had a meritorious career at 1m45.”

Stal Everse was also where Zinius was educated. Their stable rider, Doron Kuipers, competed him in young-horse classes as a six-year-old and they continued together up to 1m60. They debuted at five-star level in the Gijon Nations’ Cup and, soon after, he was sold to Victoria Gulliksen, who never competed with him internationally. Audrey Coulter rode him at one show before Harrie Smolders definitively took over the reins.

In his broodmare herd Mario Everse has many interesting damlines: “As you can tell by the number of foals, we have quite a few mares. I have already bred for a while with Carthagena (Carthago x Burggraaf) and Sunrise (Heartbreaker x Pilot). At this moment I am breeding also with several mares from the van’t Roosakker family, and we flush embryos from mares that are well-bred and that jump very well under saddle.”

It is seen as a great success that a Dutch rider is so sucessful with a Dutch-bred horse. “It is a very good advertisement for us that Zinius is doing so well with Harry Smolders. It still feels as though he is our horse when he wins. For our stable it is an excellent advertisement; we breed, we buy and we educate young horses, with the thought that they can perform at the highest level in sport. For sure the horse still needs to end up with the right rider, but if everything falls in the right place, it is a dream that comes true.”

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017 Gold in Ermelo 2016 and 20 Golld in Verden 2015 FIO NTINI by Fassbinder/ Blue Hors Romanov

5th in Zangersheide in 2 FENDI A SK K by Favorit A Carthago

Gold in Ermelo 2016 Gold in Verden 2014 and 2015 SE ZUAN by Blue Hors Zack/ Blue Hors Don Schufro

5th in Zangersheide 2015 HIPH O P A SK by Ci Ci Senjor Askk/Charmeur Bronze medal in Ermelo 2017 HE SSELHØJ HØJ DO NKE Y B OY

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CLAARTJE VAN ANDEL

Eight showjumper stallions and nine dressage stallions were approved following the KWPN stallion test in Ermelo, which was harmed by an interruption in the training time due to an outbreak of equine herpes virus. The winners in showjumping and dressage were, respectively, Komme Casall (Comme il faut x Cassall), bred by L. Steuer, and the Negro son Kjento (out of a Jazz dam), bred by the Van Os family.

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tarting with the winning showjumper, Komme Casall is a huge chestnut stallion who received no fewer than 86.5 points for his abilities, capacities and power. Measuring 175, he excelled with his focus: Cor Loeffen, chairman of the selection committee praised the fact that; “He has a kind of instinct to make the distances fit.” Komme Casall is the third approved son of Comme il faut owned by Herman Seiger.

Kitt SB (Emir R x Sam R) from Stal Brouwer was sent home last year because of his way of jumping looked too tense and forced. However, he didn’t waste his second chance by finishing as the runner-up. Loeffen was very happy to be able to approve four E-sons because, apart from the Emir R descendent, sons of El Salvador, Etoulon VDL, and Entertainer were also approved. Loeffen expressed his satisfaction with the approved group overall. However, when questioned about perhaps less-inspiring stallions also being approved he said that it was always difficult to set limits but, for instance, he liked the trainability of the Arezzo son, Kuala Lumpur.

The list of approved showjumpers, with information in order – name (parentage), points, breeder/ owner: • Komme Casall (Comme il faut x Casall x Contender) 86.50, L. Steuer, Pansdorf (GER)/Herman Seiger, Harbrinkhoek • Kitt SB (Emir R x Sam R x Voltaire) 85.50, Stal Brouwer, Gieten/Stal Brouwer • King Salvador (El Salvador x Numero Uno x Voltaire) 84.00, J. Sturkenboom, Schalkwijkl/Ann Popvichenko (Russia) • Key West (Tangelo van de Zuuthoeve x Phin Phin x Zelhem) 83.00, Roelof Bril and Wiet ten Brinke, Westendorp/Bril and ten Brinke • Kardesh (Etoulon VDL x Zirocco Blue VDL x Corland)82.50, L.A.M. Droste, Ruurlo/Stal Ribbels BV, Eibergen • Kaiden (Chaman x Crawford x Calato x Romino) 80.50, A.M. Angenent-De Bruijn, Woubrugge/Prima Showjumpers, Okotoks (Canada) • Kuala Lumpur (Arezzo VDL x Indoctro x Nimmerdor) 76.50, J. Reitsma, Driezum/H.C. Verhagen, Schoorl • Karamba (Entertainer x Calato x Fridericus) 76.00, T & L Collins, Riethoven/E. Schep, Tull en ’t Waal

Kjento heads dressage group Negro son Kjento was the outstanding winner of the dressage stallions, with several nines, as well as a 9.50 for his canter. This year has been one of ups and downs for Van

Olst, which began when his stallion Everdale tested positive as a carrier of the WFFS gene. Then, in the summer, his stallion Glamourdale ((Lord Leatherdale x Negro) won the seven-year-old young-horse world championship, and now, again, he was praised for his winner; “Finally, 20 years after the approval of Negro, I now have a very complete son by him back in my stables,” a delighted Van Olst said.

Bert Rutten, chairman of the dressage stallion selection committee emphasized Kjento’s ability to carry himself quit naturally, saying; “We need this type of horses for dressage.”

He also stated that the abilty to show a good walk as well as ridability were very visible in all the approved stallions.

“KWPN-breeding has really moved upward with those two features,” said Rutten.

Two renowned Grand Prix dressagestables each had stallions approved: Leunus van Lieren and Coby and Marlies van Baalen. However, two stallions that were not approved were Kratos de Jeu (H-Ekwador x Voice x Cocktail), bred by Emmy de Jeu, and owned by Stoeterij Turfhorst BV (72.50), and Koning (Governor x Bretton Woods), bred by S. Duinstra, Eastermar and owned by Ad Valk, Gorinchem. Valk didn’t agree with the decision and points awarded, asking for a second opinion and sight of the training book. “I didn’t understand the note of 6.00 for walk, also the lower mark for his posture and ability as a dressage horse.” This is being reconsidered and, meanwhile, Valk could be happy with the runner-up spot for his Toto Jr son, King.

The list of approved KWPN dressagestallions: • Kjento ((Negro x Jazz x Juventus) 90.00, A.J. van Os, Sprang-Capelle/Gertjan van Olst, Den Hout.

• King (Toto Jr x Turbo Magic x Flemmingh) 85.50, Jan Zeewuster, Sleen/Ad Valk and Vasco Janke • Kilian (Sir Donnerhall x De Niro x Prince Thatch xx) 84.50, Gattermann, Hamburg/Theo Driessen, Heelsum • Kyando (Arlando x Uphill x Flemmingh) 83.50, Appie Hofenk, Toldijk/A.P. Both, J.J. van der Meulen & S.J. Kat • Kaiser DVB (De Niro x Johnson x Ulft) 83.00, Dressuurstal Van Baalen BV/Dressuurstal Van Baalen BV • Kaygo (Capri Sonne jr x Westpoint x Rubiquil) 81.00, Stal Hexagon, Schore/Stal Hexagon, Schore • Kevin (Dream Boy x Kennedy x Highline) 80.50, H. Melis, Gemert/Jacques Maree, Tim Coomans and Koen Brinkman • Kyton Platinum (Ferguson x Ferro x Weyden) 80.50, W.J.J. Goesten, Enschot/Titan Wilaras, Riel • Kenzo Us (Bordeaux x Ferro x Wisconsin) 80.00, J. van Laar, Rhenen/Joop van Uytert, Heerewaarden.

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changing stallion behaviour may come at a risk!

BY

CINDY REICH

For as long as people have been showing horses, there have been trainers, exhibitors and owners who have sought to use substances to alter a horse’s behavior or performance. One hundred years ago, heroin and cocaine were used to stimulate horses and enhance performance. Nitroglycerin, ginger, capsaicin, belladonna, snake venom – all are substances that have been used in the past to gain some advantage. Usually it was to increase speed or endurance. But not always. One could also use sedatives to control an unruly animal.

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ain-killers could be used to keep a horse running, showing and winning – up to a point. However, once rules were enacted to test for drugs both at racetracks and show venues, the landscape shifted. And as quickly as a test became effective for a performance-enhancing drug, another drug arrived on the scene. Those wishing to influence a horse’s behavior became amateur pharmacologists, staying one or two or three years ahead of the development of tests for what they were using.

For quite some time, it has been something of a ‘dirty little secret’ in the sport horse world, as well as the racing industry, regarding the use of agents to block the hormone Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone (GnRH) production in the horse. What does that do and how does it affect a horse’s performance? GnRH is sort of the ‘master’ hormone that regulates two other hormones, Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) and Luteinizing Hormone (LH) in the horse. In the stallion, for example, if GnRH is blocked, then it cannot stimulate the production of LH, which is what causes the Leydig cells in the testes to produce testosterone. If there is no LH production, the testosterone production decreases. When testosterone decreases, unwanted stallion behavior also decreases. However, this also has a negative impace on sperm quality and fertility.

In earlier times, progesterone was used as a means of reducing unwanted behavior in both stallions and mares.

Progesterone, the hormone of pregnancy in mares, when given to stallions, decreases both testosterone levels, and LH levels. A seminal study done in the mid nineties at Colorado State University (USA) demonstrated that synthetic progesterone did reduce testosterone production and libido in stallions. And was often used in the show arena for that purpose. However, progestogens are weakly anabolic, and thus considered a steroidal hormone so became prohibited for use in horses in many countries and is on the FEI’s Equine Prohibited Substance List (EPSL).

There are certain substances that can also be used to decrease testosterone in stallions, in effect, ‘chemically castrating’ them. While the FEI does not prohibit chemical castration of stallions, the two substances most generally used, chlormadinone acetate (sold under brand names such as Non-

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Ovlon, Gestafortin and Chlordion) and Delmadinone acetate sold under the brand names ( Tarkak, Delmate and Estrex among others) are both on the EPSL of the FEI. However, another way was developed to control a stallion’s behavior by lowering his testosterone level and it involved vaccinating the animal against the hormone Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone (GnRH). Currently, there are two GnRH vaccine products that are being used for this purpose in the show and race world. One, available In Australia, goes by the name Equity™, and was developed for use in mares. It was developed to suppress estrus in mares and to decrease the unwanted behavior linked to estrus. It was a more labor friendly and economically useful product to use as opposed to Altrenogest™ (synthetic progesterone) which must be given to mares on a daily basis and can be quite expensive. Also, because of the anabolic hormone properties, Altrenogest™ is on the FEI’s EPSL. Equity™ is specifically labeled not to be used in mares that will be used for breeding and is not labeled for use in stallions at all. Another product produced in Europe for use in pigs, goes by the name Improvac™. Improvac™ was developed to decrease the amount of ‘boar taint’ in pork meant for human consumption. This occurs by decreasing the testosterone level in boars given the product.

When a GnRH vaccine is injected into either stallions or mares (one injection and then a ‘booster’ after four weeks) the vaccine will cause the horse’s own immune system to develop antibodies to GnRH. This would, in effect, ‘block’ the ability of GnRH to function. In horses, the use of a GnRH vaccine has been useful to cause a profound drop in testosterone in stallions as a means of birth control in wild horse populations.

It is also used for birth control in mares, preventing them from developing mature follicles and ovulating. This use of a vaccine against GnRH for population control in wild populations of horses (Gona-Con Equine) is well documented.

The equine venereal disease, Equine Viral Arteritis (EVA) causes abortion in mares and can cause death in young foals.

Some stallions that contract EVA can continue to shed the virus, even when all symptoms have stopped. There has been some documented success in stallions that persistently shed the EVA virus, and when treated with the GnRH vaccine were able

to clear the virus from their system. This occurs because of the dependence of the EVA virus on testosterone. However, this result has been variable.

While the vaccine is clearly labeled ‘not to be used on breeding horses’, the apparent possibility of controlling unwanted stallion behavior has proven to be irresistible to some in the show and racing industry. It must also be said that there are many anecdotal reports of using the vaccine in mares to decrease their unwanted estrus behavior as well. It would seem, therefore, that controlling horse behavior by an introduced substance could be considered a performance enhancing situation. An exhibitor whose dressage stallion stays focused and does not respond to mares in the vicinity has an advantage over another exhibitor whose stallion or mare vocalizes, or becomes belligerent or uncooperative at a competition. As in the past, testing for any performance enhancing substance has to keep up with the substances being used. However, at the present time, the FEI does not prohibit the use of a GnRH vaccine in stallions as long as it is recorded on the horse’s passport.

Initially, there was much anecdotal evidence that giving these intramuscular (IM) injections to stallions often resulted in large, painful swellings at the injection site. This can usually be attributed to the adjuvant (carrier for the vaccine). In more recent years, the reports of adverse reactions have decreased and most likely the adjuvant has been modified or changed.

The biggest issue, however, in using these products is in the effect on the stallion’s reproductive future.

Several studies have been done over the years on the effects of the GnRH vaccine on stallion fertility. The takehome message from these studies is that the effect on the stallion’s fertility can, at best, be variable. The majority of stallions exhibited a significant decrease in testosterone production by two weeks after the first injection. Also the majority of the stallions exhibited a decrease in libido and stallion sexual behavior. However, while many of the stallions returned to their pre-treatment fertility status, many stallions did NOT. In fact in some instances, stallions still had reduced fertility six months later and some up to a year after treatment had stopped. Since none of the papers followed the stallions after one year, it is unknown how long the effect lasted in these stallions. There was not a consistent response in stallions and several stallions did not respond to the treatment at all. The reason for this would appear pretty clear cut. According to Dr. Patrick McCue of the worldrenowned Equine Reproduction Laboratory at Colorado State University, USA; “We cannot control the immune system. When you are looking at an immune response, you cannot control it or standardize it. Therefore, you are very likely going to get different responses from different stallions. The GnRH vaccine is not intended to be used on stallions, nor on any horse that is to be used for breeding.

The use of it to modify stallion behavior is not what it was intended for.”

More disturbingly, there have been many reports of stallions being sold as breeding animals that have had very

different fertility parameters pre and post show career.

Certainly, there are many factors that can affect a stallion’s fertility during a competitive career. Age, stress, health status – all can have an influence. However, what if one wanted to find out if, in fact, a stallion had been given a GnRH vaccine product?

Because of the concern over the use of GnRH in race horses, a study was conducted in France and published in 2015. A small number of stallions (n=4) were given the Improvac™ vaccine and tested in two ways. First of all the blood was tested by the ELISA method for the detection of antibodies to GnRH. It was found that the antibodies to GnRH could be detected for up to 200 days after the first injection of the vaccine. Secondly, the stallion’s urine was tested for testosterone levels. In all four stallions, their urine tested in the same testosterone range as mares and geldings, thus identifying them as having abnormally low testosterone levels.

Therefore, it appears that there may be methods available to test for the use of a GnRH vaccine in stallions by combining both methods of testing. It certainly bears further examination if testing for the GnRH vaccine is determined to be of value.

At the end of the day, if a stallion owner, trainer, veterinarian or exhibitor decides to use this product off-label in stallions, it is at their own risk. It could result in a stallion that may have reduced fertility for a long time. It is something of a devil’s trade off – you might have a stallion that is tractable and has a stellar show career. However, when mare owners come calling to breed to that stallion, they may find no joy.

(Editor’s addendum) According to Tullis Matson, managing director of Stallion AI Services/Cryogenetics in Shropshire, England, “If people go down the route of chemical castration they need to be aware of the potential breeding issues in the future, as many of the stallions being treated in this way may well become infertile or sub-fertile without any way of reversing this effect. It is very much an outcome that is individual to each stallion and I think we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg now that some of the stallions that have had this treatment are finally retiring to stud. However, in the right circumstances it does have its place.”

But, is chemical castration worth the risk?

■ Editor’s note: This article was researched and published at the request of a ‘concerned’ European breeder, and will hopefully generate debate among the key stakeholders in the sport horse breeding industry. We are extremely grateful to our regular ‘Health & Vet’ contributor Cindy Reich for speaking to Dr. Patrick McCue (see photo), who received a PhD in Comparative Pathology, with an emphasis on reproductive endocrinology and ovarian pathology in the mare from UC-Davis in 1992.

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marbach weekend sees five new DSp stallions

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From the 14 presented stallions at the DSP licensing in Marbach, November 3/4, five were licensed by the committee that included stud managers Carina Krumbiegel, Cornelia Back, Hans-Willy Kusserow and Uwe Mieck, as well as Dietmar Schulz, plus sport advisors Ina-Kathrin Schmid and Helmut Hartmann. The Marbach Weekend auction was also a great success with an outstanding sales quota of 48 sport horses and stallions, that entered the auction ring.

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ohlenhof Freienfels was rewarded with two licensed stallions: the first being Catch me (Casallco - Lady Star x Lone Star), who was presented by Richard Hirschäuser, was described as a stallion with good reflexes and a lot of flexibility in loose jumping. Their second success was Feliciano (Fürst Fohlenhof - Sinfonie x Sir Donnerhall II), bred by Rainer Lechl from Postmünster, and shown by the SH Sportpferde in Oberderdingen. He presented himself excellently in all licensing respects.

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Muze son, Ivanhoe (out of Cera x Contender) convinced the licensing committee. This dark-brown stallion was bred by the Greim Stud in Bärnau and presented by Roland Dittrich from Ebermannstadt. Subsequently, he was sold to Switzerland during the Marbach auction.

The final two licensed stallions are both offspring of offspring of Millennium (Easy Game - Merle x Ravel): Malibu (out of Queensberry x Quaterback) is a noble horse with dynamic basic gaits and was bred by Frank Klakow from Osterburg. The second was Master Piece (out of Whitney x

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Skrollan (San Amour I - Fiorella x Fidermark) Drakdream). This dark-brown stallion was DSP champion of the three-yearold stallions in Nördlingen. His presentation under the saddle was outstanding in the hands of his owner Kay Pawlowska from Radeburg. Master Piece was bred by Horst Füllmich from Stennschütz.

Highest price for Skrollan During the auction, Skrollan (San Amour I - Fiorella x Fidermark) reached the highest price of €70,000 (US$79,887. Bred by Katharina Hadeler from Rhaden, the dark-brown, four-year-old mare has great basic gaits and was presented by the Greim Stud.

Un Fiero (Un Amore - Scania x Rivero II), a seven-year-old dressage horse with results in S-level classes, changed hands for €65,000 (US$ 74,181).

However, the most expensive stallion from the saddle licensing was the handsome, licensed Malibu (Millenium/T. – Queensberry x Quaterback), who was purchased by a

rider from Germany who bought the elegant black for €52,000 (US$ 59,344).

The highest price for a showjumping stallion was achieved by the aforementioned Ivanhoe, who sold for €51,000 (US$58,203) to a Swiss sport stable. He was presented by Roland Dittrich from Ebermannsstadt who bought Ivanhoe three years ago at the DSP elite foal auction in Nördlingen. Astrid von Velsen-Zerwick from the Marbach Stud immediately reacted and secured an on-going breeding agreement for this stallion with international genetics.

There was a useful group of foreigners in Marbach, with horses being sold to Austria (two), Switzerland (two), plus one apiece to Italy, Sweden and Thailand. Four horses will also be leaving Germany on their way to the United States. The average sales price this year was €25,643 (US$ 29,265) which is nearly €1,000 (US$ 1,141) higher than last year.

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eventers: Trending towards showjumping bloodlines

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An examination of the top eventers from the World Equestrian Games in Tryon (North Carolina) shows a definite trend towards jumping blood, and blends rather than purebreds.

Although there were pure Thoroughbreds in the competition, their numbers are decreasing over time, yet the Thoroughbred influence is still relevant based on these results. Interestingly, the top 10 all have jumping blood, not dressage blood.

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ndividual gold: Allstar B (Ephebe for Ever x Ekstein) comes from the Galoubet A sire line (jumping) and has the same broodmare sire as Hickstead (individual showjumping gold at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in Hong Kong). His dam has produced jumpers and eventers, while his second dam produced jumpers, with the exception of one mid-level dressage horse.

• Individual silver: The sire of Mr Chunky (Jumbo x Sergeant Drummer xx) descends from the typical Irish Sport Horse of the past (a Thoroughbred/Irish Draught cross) and his broodmare sire is pure Thoroughbred. Also typical of ISH from the past, his pedigree contains some unkowns.

• Individual bronze: SAP Hale Bob (Helikon xx Goldige x Noble Champion, bred by Rolf Lück) has a Thoroughbred sire and his broodmare sire is highpercentage Thoroughbred, tracing to largely jumper lines through Warmblood ancestors. His dam has also produced a two- and a three-star eventer, plus one jumper.

• Fourth: Vassily de Lassos (Jaguar Mail [SF] - Illusion Perdue [AA]x Jalienny[AA]) is by a jumper sire who competed internationally at 1m60 and was three-quarters Thoroughbred. His Anglo-Arab dam, Illusion Perdue (Vulcain) produced a 1m60 jumper by Quidam de Revel.

The second and third dam also produced 1m40 jumpers.

Vassily was co-bred by Jerome Berges, Jean-Louis Beth and Sonia Eyraud in France.

• Fifth: Horseware Stellor Rebound, by VDL Ricochet/ex Romke, is listed as an Irish Sport Horse, but his sire is KWPN (by Ahorn) from a Holsteiner dam line descending from Lord. His dam is unknown, but one finds two crosses to Ladykiller xx in the fourth generation and three other Thoroughbreds in the fifth generation.

• Sixth: Qing du Briot*ENE-HN (Eolien II - Henriette x Etalon Or AA) is Selle Francais, a 1m40 jumper, and a greatgrandson of Grand Veneur via Sioux de Baugy. His dam is largely AngloArab, but Qing is the star of his immediate female family. Another eventer who was co-bred; by Patrice and Patricia Planchat, and Claude and Liliane Bardon.

• Seventh: Vinci de la Vigne (Esterel des Bois Korrigane de Vigne x Duc du Hutrel) descends from jumpers through most of his pedigree, especially through

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the Papillon Rouge (Jalisco B) sire line. The tail female line represents an AngloArab/French Trotter blend. His pedigree shows three Thoroughbreds in the fourth generation and four others in the fifth generation. Vinci was bred by Lucien Villotte.

• Eighth: Cekatinka (King Kolibri - Katinka x Julio Mariner xx) descends from a mix of German Warmblood registries and jumper lines through her sire. Her dam has also produced two showjumpers. Her damsire is pure Thoroughbred, and her second dam was a 1m10 jumper in the United States who was registered Oldenburg.

• Ninth: Billy the Red (Balou du Rouet - FBW Simply Red x Stan the Man xx) descends from the same blueblooded jumping sire line as Allstar B. His dam had a Thoroughbred sire and a dam of German Warmblood heritage. Bred by Michaela Weber-Herrmann in Germany, he appears to be the star of his direct female family.

• 10th: Quarrycrest Echo (Clover Echo - Royal China x Cavalier Royale) represents the type of breeding that was common in the Irish Sport Horse not so long ago. His pedigree boasts Clover Hill (ISH), Cavalier Royale (Holst), King of Diamonds (RID), and an unknown maternal line beyond the second dam. His dam and his second dam both produced jumpers (1m40 and 1m60). He was bred by John Dooley in Ireland.

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Transition Period The sport has been in a transition phase since the change to the shortened format. At first it seemed that a strong emphasis was placed on dressage, and we saw horses that scored well in dressage drop well down in the rankings after cross-country and stadium. Conversely, we saw horses that did not fare as well in dressage make dramatic moves up the scoreboard based on their penalty-free rounds in the other two phases.

At the 2018 World Equestrian Games only two of the horses in the final top 10 were outside the top 15 after dressage and they were both within the top 30. Yes, a good dressage score remains important, but that no longer seems to come at the expense of the ability to jump, which should bode well for the future of the sport.

Could it be that riders are improving their dressage training? It seems so. Earlier this year, Ingrid Klimke stressed the importance she places on training for dressage – from the opening halt. “Train the halt. Halt and breathe. The horse must halt until cued to move. This is education. You must be precise, because this is the judge at C’s first impression of you.” Halt the horse square on all four legs with a quiet head like a statue. Every horse can do this! “My father said this too,” she added. Her father, of course, was renowned dressage master Reiner Klimke.

A mere two years ago, at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, some of the eventing pedigrees had stronger dressage influences and some carried less Thoroughbred blood.

However, the individual medalists were of similar heritage to the Top 10 at WEG. Sam FBW (Baden Wurttemberg), the repeat gold medalist, was by Stan the Man xx and out of a mare by Heraldik xx. His second dam was a Hanoverian by Godehard (Gotthard). His pedigree balance of 75% Thoroughbred was the exception in Rio 2016, despite it being the norm in recent decades.

Piaf de B’Neville (Selle Francais), the silver medalist, was by Cap de B’Neville, a Starter x Quastor cross who also traces to Ibrahim and Fra Diavolo xx. His dam traced to Jalisco B (Almé) and Kayak (Anglo-Arab, by Nitthard). This is a pedigree filled with jumping and eventing influences.

Mighty Nice (Irish Sport Horse), the bronze medalist, was by Ard Ohio (KWPN), who combines the influences of Pilot (Westfalian sire noted for jumpers), and Voltaire (Hanoverian – used in KWPN breeding and by Furioso II).

His dam was of unknown heritage, but his sire was of predominantly jumping lines with a touch of multidiscipline blood added.

Apparently jumping blood once again trumps dressage blood in eventing. Perhaps the transition phase is drawing to a close, but that leaves breeders in a quandary. Where will the ‘blood’ come from? Will pure Thoroughbreds be influential in the future, or will artful blends such as Jaguar Mail be the norm?

Danehill xx (Danzig xx) a paternal grandson of Northern Dancer xx

Time and evolution There are at least two things worth noting here: 1) The years of birth for the stallions we are used to seeing in eventing pedigrees, and 2) The evolution of Thoroughbred breeding for racing.

Influential Thoroughbred stallions born in the 1970s: Hand in Glove xx, Miners Lamp xx, etc. And those that were born in the 1980s: Master Imp xx, Heraldik xx, Brilliant Invader xx, Stan the Man xx, Amerigo Vespucci xx, Condrieu xx, Fines xx, Eighty Eight Keys xx, etc. These stallions all had pedigrees loaded with sport progenitors and were predominantly built for distance, which equates to scope.

Since a stallion is at least in his early teens before his offspring are at an international level, the ability to predict the next relevant eventing sire is desirable. That is easier said than done, however. Even Jaguar Mail (Hand in Glove xx x Laudnum xx), who competed as a jumper and is now a top sire of eventers, was foaled in 1997. His sire was born in 1978 and his broodmare sire was born in 1967.

And adapting a race-bred stallion to the sport market is no longer as viable a solution as it once was. Thoroughbred racing has evolved considerably since the 1970s and 1980s. The horse that preferred distance races and stayed sound through several seasons is a rare find in the racing world. According to Jockey Club statistics, less than 1% of races in recent decades were run at over one-and-a-quarter miles, which is where we would expect to find a stifle placement commensurate with the long strides and scope required for jumping and eventing. These stats are not encouraging if one hopes to find strong sport influences from racing stock.

In Europe, steeplechasers and hurlers fall under the ‘National Hunt’ banner, where sire rankings are available, and it is not uncommon for National Hunt sires to appear in sport pedigrees, especially those of eventers. In addition, National Hunt races are not at sprinting distances. But, unless one considers more than just the pedigree, the National Hunt stats can be misleading since horses that fail on the flat are often given another chance over jumps, and hurdlers do not require as much jumping ability as steeplechasers. A hurdler December 2018

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attempting the Aintree Grand National could be disastrous.

And then we have to consider the narrowing of the gene pool. There is little doubt that the Canadian-bred stallion, Northern Dancer, is the dominant influence in racing around the world: North America, England, Ireland, Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, etc. When one looks at the leading National Hunt sires, one also finds Northern Dancer, predominantly through Sadler’s Wells, who bred a staggering number of mares in both hemispheres due to his years shuttling. Are we likely to see Sadler’s Wells in eventing pedigrees of the future? Not unless the balance of the pedigree is strong for sport and the individual is not built like Sadler’s Wells.

If we find eventers that are Northern Dancer descendants, is that due to his prevalence in the gene pool or does that mean that he should be a sought-after name in a sport pedigree? Or maybe it depends on other factors such as what other influences were in the pedigree and the physical traits of that particular descendant. For example, we have seen Nijinsky II (Northern Dancer xx x Bull Page xx) in successful sport pedigrees, but he was more like his broodmare sire than like his sire.

Recent evolution in the racing Thoroughbred shows physical differences, most notably a higher stifle to accommodate sprinting, lower neck sets, more weight on the forehand, the pillar of support emerging behind the heel, and a femur shorter than the ilium. None of these traits are advantageous for sport purposes.

Although they have remained an integral part of sport horse breeding and are regularly used by several registries for enhancement, it is not just any Thoroughbred that will provide the desired result or results. Eventers and jumpers primarily descend from Thoroughbreds that are built for distance (have a low stifle placement). Dressage horses primarily descend from Thoroughbreds with mid-range (miler) stifle placement.

And all three disciplines require lightness in front of the pillar of support plus factors for soundness/longevity.

So, finding a Thoroughbred stallion with a strong pedigree for sport as well as a build for sport and longevity is no easy task. And, even if one does find such a horse, promoting him and waiting until his offspring prove his value usually means he has fewer representatives in the gene pool than one would hope by the time he is ‘discovered’ in his teens.

This is where frozen semen may make a difference in the future by allowing a stallion to ‘breed on’ well past his fertile years. It may also allow the artful blenders to produce eventing breeding stock not just competition horses.

The perfect eventing Thoroughbred While it has been the norm to choose the influential sport Thoroughbreds from what the racing breeders produce, recent trends in racing have narrowed the choices and increased the risk of failure for the sport market. Current evolution in the racing Thoroughbred shows physical differences, most notably a higher stifle to accommodate September 2018 2018 2828December

#3 Rock of Gibraltar xx (Danehill xx) sprinting, lower neck sets, more weight on the forehand, the pillar of support emerging behind the heel, and a femur shorter than the ilium. None of these traits are advantageous for sport purposes.

Although they have remained an integral part of sport horse breeding and are regularly used by several registries for enhancement, it is not just any Thoroughbred that will provide the desired result or results. Eventers and jumpers primarily descend from Thoroughbreds that are built for distance (have a low stifle placement). Dressage horses primarily descend from Thoroughbreds with mid-range (miler) stifle placement.

And all three disciplines require lightness in front of the pillar of support and soundness/longevity.

To illustrate the differences between pure racing Thoroughbreds and those with sport qualities, we will look at four stallions that descend from Northern Dancer. Why Northern Dancer? Because he is prevalent in the gene pool and proves that there is more to selecting the sport Thoroughbred than just a name in a pedigree.

Horse #1: He is the aforementioned Sadler’s Wells, a son of Northern Dancer. He was a successful racehorse and a phenomenal sire of flat racers (14 times the leading sire in England and Ireland, three times the leading sire in France and once the leading sire in North America) as well as a dominant influence on the National Hunt list before expiring at age 30 in 2011. Five of the six Northern Dancer descendants on the top-ten NH list are Sadler’s Wells descendants and he is number 13 on that list. In terms of numbers alone, his opportunities exceed most stallions since he had more than 2,200 offspring.

As we would expect, the longest part of his rear triangle is from point of hip to stifle, which equates with the ability to jump from a gallop stride, and his stifle is below sheath level for scope. However, his stifle is not as low as we would want for an Olympic jumper or eventer.

His pillar of support emerges well in front of the withers for lightness of the forehand and into the heel for soundness.

His humerus shows a fairly steep rise from elbow to point of

shoulder, which adds to lightness of the forehand and aids in quickness of the forelegs over fences. And finally, his base of neck is well above his high point of shoulder for additional lightness of the forehand.

It is possible for him to show up in the pedigree of a top eventer or jumper in the future if a lower stifle is evident, but, since his private stud fee was rumored to be between €250,000 and €500,000, a direct offspring being sent to the sport market is unlikely.

Horse #2; Danehill was a son of Danzig (by Northern Dancer), nine times the leading sire in Australia, three times the leading sire in England and Ireland and twice the leading sire in France. At one point, his stud fee in Australia was $200,000.

While his physical traits led him to being a successful sprinter/miler, they are counterproductive for sport. His stifle is too high, his femur is slightly shorter than his ilium, he has minimal rise of the humerus from elbow to point of shoulder and his base of neck is low. If he does appear in a sport horse pedigree in the future, that descendant will not carry his physical traits.

Horse #3: Rock of Gibraltar is a 1999 son of Danehill, was also a successful racehorse (€1,164,804 in earnings) and carries two crosses to Northern Dancer in his third generation. He is a successful sire in England and Ireland, Australia and Chile and was advertised at €17,500 in Ireland. He appears on the NH sire list, but well down.

Although his pedigree contains fewer sport ancestors than the previous two stallions, his build is better suited for

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sport. His rear triangle is equal on the ilium and femur sides, which equates with jumping. He is light on the forehand as seen through a pillar of support emerging well in front of the withers, good rise of the humerus from elbow to point of shoulder and a base of neck well above a high point of shoulder.

Unfortunately, if he had been asked to jump or event, the fact that his pillar of support emerges behind the heel would likely have spelled injury to the suspensory apparatus of the foreleg. It is interesting to note that despite his lightness of the forehand, he has developed the muscles on the underside of his neck in order to protect the lower portion of his forelegs.

Horse #4: Hero’s Tribute is a 1998 Northern Dancer descendant that was also a successful racehorse (earnings of $862,950), but in racing terms he was not a successful sire in Kentucky, where he stood for $5,000 before being sold into the sport market in the fall of 2010.

His sire, Sea Hero (a Danzig grandson), also failed to sire speedy two-year-olds, but did get some notable steeplechasers and the sport horse Sea Accounts before being sold to Turkey. Additionally, his dam exhibits a very strong sport pedigree.

Physically he has the traits one would seek in a sport sire. His rear triangle is slightly shorter on the ilium side (a dressage trait and sometimes an eventing trait) and the longest side is from point of hip to stifle protrusion (a jumping and eventing trait). His stifle is the lowest of the four stallions and corresponds with international level jumping or eventing ability.

His pillar of support emerges well in front of his withers for lightness of the forehand and into the rear of his hoof (as seen on the right fore due to his leaning-back stance in the photo) for soundness. His humerus is steeply angled from elbow to point of shoulder for lightness as well as quickness of the foreleg over jumps, and his base of neck is well above his high point of shoulder for additional lightness of the forehand.

But will he be given the required opportunity to prove himself a worthy sport sire?

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mary Hazzard: Five decades of eventing and breeding

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At 75 years of age, with a lifetime of being involved with horses and passing her 50th anniversary in eventing, Mary Hazzard has to be considered an educational resource. She grew up around horses and fondly recalls the Morgan that would wait for her to return from school. She still rides as many as three or four horses a day despite having a double mastectomies, a broken neck, two hip replacements, a shoulder replacement, four cardiac procedures and assorted other injuries.

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It’s mind over matter,” she says, adding, “I’m not happy if I can’t ride; I get grumpy.” She stopped competing at age of 68, and was campaigning a young horse at the time.

In the beginning Hazzard completed a tour of duty in Vietnam as part of the US Army Nurse Corp in 1967, returned to Pennsylvania and began riding horses for Dr. Jacque Jenny from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine, who owned ex-flat racers and ex-steeplechasers as well as doing layups for competition horses. As a result, Hazzard did the ‘legging up’ of such USET jumpers as Snowbound and Sinjon. She also assisted when Dr. Jenny was doing his ground-breaking orthopedic research, including developing the equine recovery pool.

In 1968 Dr. Jenny’s friend, Bengt Ljungquist, conducted an eventing clinic and Hazzard attended, riding Bounder, a full sibling to a showjumper. “It all began then!” she declares.

She was given the ride on Cabalistic xx (Mystic II xx Plucky Flower xx x Panacean xx) because the horse was deemed an unrideable rogue, having bucked off all comers and never getting to the track. Hazzard says, “I learned about neck straps, and, after about a year, I stayed on him most of the time. He was my ride in the 1978 world three-day championships and was one of two horses that jumped clear

Mary Hazzard riding Cabalistic xx

on cross-country and showjumping,” adding, “If they can buck, they can jump!”

Hazzard also owned a Thoroughbred mare named Bad Fix (Flashy Fleet - Windy Heels) that she evented. “She developed an eye problem and Dr. Jenny’s friend, Dr. William Hazzard MD (an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist) took care of her. I evented the one-eyed mare at the selection trials, and she was unphased by the handicap. So to thank Dr. Hazzard, I married his son, William Jr.” When Hazzard decided to breed Bad Fix, she found that she could not afford the fee for Mystic II (sire of Cabalistic; Eclipse Award steeplechasers, Life's Illusion and Soothsayer; several other successful steeplechasers; and Springer, a Canadian Equestrian Team jumper). However, she found that Frank Chapot was standing a Mystic II son named Babamist (1969) for Mr. Valentine. The Babamist/Bad Fix cross produced Mystic High, the 1988 United States Combined Training Association’s mare of the year. “She was a Badminton and Rolex veteran,” says Hazzard.

When Mr. Valentine died, Hazzard acquired 90% of Babamist (Mystic II x Flushing II), while the trust retained 10%. She then moved him to her farm and the rest is eventing history.

Babamist raced on the flat, over fences, hunted, evented and bred mares. Hazzard says, “He was a gentleman of the first order.” As a sire, he tended to stamp his get, siring such notables as Little Tricky (Rolex Kentucky veteran), Heyday (Pan-Am gold medalist, Olympic silver medalist, world championship bronze medalist, and young-rider gold medalist), Mystic Mike, My Turn, Snowy River (member of the USET team at the European championships at Burghley 1997), and Mystic Milo, the first horse – under Hazzard’s guidance – to jump the Rolex Kentucky footbridge.

Babamist was not only a world-leading sire of eventers, he has sired more Kentucky four-star horses than any other stallion.

He also sired the champion show hunters, River Bend and Field of Dreams. Hazzard says, “I like to put my horses where they are best suited.”

Mystic Replica xx (1995), who competed to the two-star level, replaced his sire in Hazzard’s breeding barn and is still December 2018

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available, showing the longevity and fertility of his sire.

Mystic Replica (out of a mare by Judge J B) has sired horses the likes of Red Pepper (intermediate eventing champion and Grand Prix jumper), Astrana de la Galerna (two-star eventer in 2018), Chusinmyconfession (one-star eventer at age seven in 2018, and Hazzard thinks she will be a four-star horse), etc. And now the grand-get are starting to make their presence felt: Vandiver (four-star eventer by Windfall and out of a Mystic Replica daughter). There’s no doubting the claim that the farm has raised more international event horses than any other farm in the United States of America.

Lanefield Farm Hazzard’s residence, Lanefield Farm near Unionville, Pennsylvania, was established in 1971 as a training and breeding base. The goal of Lanefield Farm is to promote equestrian sports (including eventing), preserve open space by promoting agriculture, and ensure the welfare of the horse. The horses, young and old alike, live outside in large paddocks that can include hills, ditches, cross-country jumps, banks and mature trees.

After 50 years as a nurse-anesthetist Hazzard is now retired. Yes, while training, competing, breeding, instructing (Pony Club and others), going to competitions as an owner, and organizing international events, she worked full time.

In addition, she is the co-inventor for adhesive-bonded horseshoes, which she promotes through SoundHorse Technologies, located on the farm. “SoundHorse is devoted to helping horses and teaching farriers another technique of shoeing.”

The farm’s slogan is: “If you want an event horses, breed to one.” Hazzard admits that her goal is to breed four-star eventers, but she places her horses where they are best suited without letting her ego get in the way.

A changing sport With such a diverse background and so many years of experience, how does she think the sport has changed? “The sport changed with the short format and the explosive growth of the sport at all levels. And, of course, dressage changed the game, but I still believe that a Thoroughbred – well trained and well ridden – can compete with our dressage friends. Blackfoot Mystery and Courageous Comet were wonderful in dressage.”

When asked if the long format functioned to ‘weed out’ those horses that could have issues with soundness and/or longevity before they got to the higher levels, she responded, “That is an interesting theory, and I think there is some validity to it. The demand for fitness and a program for training for the long format also made horses stay sounder, and, we had fewer competitions to go to. The footing wasn’t manicured either.

“The rules have changed too. Now, if you fall off, you’re done. There are no more penalty zones, and that is a big deal as it affects the course design as well as the ability of the rider to ride. Courses are works of art, not just big solid jumps. Is that

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Chusinmyconfession ridden by Ryan Wood a waste of money? The venues have changed too; they’re pristine and manicured now.

“The calendar has changed; there are more opportunities and more events. Most of the events are run over several days to accommodate more horses and riders with more rides. The real pro in the old format would find it physically impossible to ride so many horses in one event.

“The one-day horse trial is becoming hard to find, mostly for organizational reasons, except in some meccas such as Aiken (South Carolina) and Ocala (Florida) in the winter when there are events on weekdays to enable young horses to get a start.

“We are competing year round for so many reasons, but horses need to be given a break or they will take one on their own. Modern veterinary medicine has pushed the limits of what a horse can do and science has helped with so many aspects from nutrition to reproduction. Alternative therapy has provided a new occupation. My horses did not need a daily massage or chiro; they lived outside because I think that limiting a horse’s movement is wrong. I never had a horse break down. In fact I only had one with any issue: tendonitis.

“The economic impact to the venues and the surrounding area is great for local economies. And some non-horse people even find out there is something fun going on for the family.

Kudos to the organizers!

“The prize money is starting to become important as owners and sponsors would like to hope they might see a little help with expenses. The increase of CICs and CCIs quadruple the expense of the organizer and competitor. Do we need them?

“Marketing and the goal of a quick return on investment is sad. It is a business, but instant gratification is not the right way. Some seem to be lacking a long-range plan for the benefit of the horse. You need time to develop them mentally and physically. It used to take five or six years to make a four-star

horse, not the two or three years you see today...because of the almighty dollar.”

The changes in horses “I have a better eye for a horse now, but the type is set in my mind: the classy Thoroughbred type.” That does not mean it has to be a pure Thoroughbred, it just has to have that lightness, that gallop, that engine, that endurance and that spirit.

“There’s a need for all levels of horses. There’s a need for the horse that can accommodate the less-than-professional rider. I think the Warmblood has become very important in the sport. The lower levels have a predominance of Warmblood or cross-bred entries. Not everyone can ride a Thoroughbred well. The infusion of Warmblood with Thoroughbreds in their second or third generation is going to produce a modern event horse for most because of movement and rideability, but the upper levels still require about 70% blood.

“Now there seems to be a prejudice against the Thoroughbred, in part because the Thoroughbred has definitely changed. Most have less substance now because people are breeding on paper and not looking at the individuals. I find that the heavy Warmbloods have a hard time doing all three phases in one day, especially if it is hot. I have bred mares by my stallions to Warmbloods who have Thoroughbred ancestors in the second and/or third generation with great results. I also competed on cross-breds by Babamist and Mystic Replica: Dynamite, Josephine, Mystic Joe, Bunny, etc. And I loved them all.”

So who did she choose for the daughters of her stallion?

“I used High-Scope (ISH: Touchdown x Silbersee) in my breeding program because I knew him from his competition days, and particularly liked his jump and his disposition.”

High-Scope competed at the four-star level, including the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, where he was one of only five horses to finish without jumping penalties in both cross-country and showjumping. He also has two pure Thoroughbred and one halfThoroughbred ancestors in his third generation.”

She also has some young stock by Jaguar Mail (Hand in Glove xx x Laudanum xx) due to his high-percentage Mary Hazzard of Thoroughbred

blood, his performance record as a jumper and his success in siring eventers. She has recently used Soprano (Oldbg: Sandro Hit x Contender) and Herald III (Holst: Heraldik xx x Lorenz).

The future of eventing “The future of the sport is bright, but it needs some help.

The showcase at Wellington was wonderful, and it introduced people to the sport who I hope will venture to the ‘regular events’ and become owners, sponsors or competitors. There is room for many varieties of competition, but a different type of horse may evolve for each one. The Warmblood will have a huge influence. The economic impact of eventing in the equestrian community is profound. The preservation of open spaces and welfare of the horse are fringe benefits.”

Regarding moving up through the levels; “We need a way of judging previous competitions – maybe video. It is not just that you survived, but that you did it well. It is not fair to expect a horse that is not physically built to do a job to be asked to do it. Who determines when that horse has reached its limit? It should not be ego or the almighty dollar. At a competition I watch the horses and riders I am associated with, but I do not watch the rest. It’s too scary to watch. And I am appalled at some of the coaches. I think teachers should have some sort of credentials and training. The USEA has started with the certification program, but anyone can be a coach. Just listen in the warm-up ring! Now we even have divisions where the coach can assist. Does that promote the sport, the horse or just the pocket book of some coaches?

“It would be neat to be able to track the true longevity of horses. Too bad we can’t even get a reliable pedigree on most horses. Why isn’t the American breeder rewarded? Why do you have to buy a horse from abroad when we have all we need here? Buy American and have divisions for American-bred horses, even if they have imported parents.

“Marketing is great and American warmblood breeders are beginning to do it. Dressage at Devon has helped on this side of the Mississippi. I don’t care what kind of horse someone has if they love it and take care of it. They should ride and/or compete at the level they - horse and rider - are comfortable with.

“What has happened to kids working as working students in order to become horsemen and riders, not just riders? I fear we may have riders, but not horsemen. We all need to help, so please volunteer. Be active in your area of interest. Speak up.

Register your horses. Read and study the classics, bloodlines and results. Be a student of the horse. Become a horseman.

“The relationship with a horse is unique and to be cherished. I rode and competed many horses, and I believe I won every time out, even if it was not the blue ribbon (first place). I just loved it, as did the horses, whose welfare always came first. How lucky can you get?”

So far, that is Mary Hazzard’s life with horses. “It was not planned; it’s just the way it evolved, but I wouldn’t change it for the world.”

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canadian breeding success for Klondike Victory Farm

CHRIS GOULD/CWHBA PHOTOGRAPHY: LORRIE JAMIESON, ANDREW RYBACK, AMANDA UBELL BY

A Canadian Warmblood breeding farm, located in the heart of Alberta, near Red Deer, has developed a formula for success that incorporates high tech breeding, astute horse acquisitions, a solid training and development program, a busy show and lesson schedule, and active volunteerism. It is a formula that has bridged the gap between breeders and the show world and made them friends throughout the industry.

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londike Victory Farm (KVF) is operated by Lorrie Jamieson and her sister Coreen, along with their parents Dave and Ruth Jamieson. Working closely with her husband, veterinarian and reproduction specialist, Rick Katchuik (Alberta Veterinary Centre), Lorrie and her team have successfully added embryo transfers to their breeding program and Rick is now working with the Intracytoplasmic Sprerm Injection (ICSI) protocol.

Over the years KVF has imported young stallions with excellent bloodlines and Lorrie has developed them into high level jumpers. Tacorde (Concorde x Goodtimes), Tempranillo (Calvados x Damiro B), Zeno (Quattro B x Burggraaf), and most recently Jethro Tull (I'm Special de Muze x Voltaire).

In addition to horses from their own breeding program, KVF has been an active buyer and reseller of locally bred Warmbloods. Once in their comprehensive training and show program, many of these horses go on to successfully compete at high levels.

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Top: Izzabria (Tacorde x Calvados,) five-year-old jumper champion 2018 at the Royal West Left: The Jamieson family (l-r) Coreen, Ruth, Lorrie and Dave • Three Tacorde daughters, all bred by KVF, received premiums with very high jumping scores in the 2018 CWHBA National Mare Test: Ilana 2013 (ds: Contender), Izzabria 2013 (ds: Calvados), Klover 2015 (ds: Zeno) • Elle Carrera, a 2009 Tempranillo x Indorado mare, successfully making her debut in FEI classes with top-10 placings in the 1m45 at Royal West and Las Vegas • Hooz Da Kat 2012 (Zeno x Tempranillo) National CWHBA mare champion in 2017, and multiple 1m20 champion in 2018 with success to 1m30 • Izzabria (Tacorde x Calvados,) five-year-old jumper champion 2018 at the Royal West with owner Tayler Vick • Jethro Tull, champion jumper at the 2018 NA Stallion Sport Test.

• Hiroko (Tacorde x Burggraaf), approved stallion at 2017 CWHBA SPT and successful six-year-old jumper

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Elle Carrera (2009:Tempranillo x Indorado) successfully making her debut in FEI classes with top-10 placings in the 1m45 at Royal West and Las Vegas • Two KVF-bred horses competed and placed in the $25,000 Atco Cup at the Edmonton Classic Horse Show: Elle Carrera and Anthony (Ovidius x Damiro B) • The embryo of Jethro Tull x Ilana, sold at the 2018 Fall Classic Breeders Sale auction for $11,000 Capping their success as breeders, trainers and competitors, Lorrie and Coreen bring a huge volunteer component to the CWHBA. Every year Coreen and her team of volunteers, clients and students from KVF take on

the task of decorating the venue for the Fall Classic Breeders Sale. KVF supplies and sets up the jump material as well, and Rick, through Alberta Veterinary Centre, hosts a reception and does the pre-sale vet checks.

With an expected foal crop for 2019 of 23 foals, 75% of them via embryo transfer, KVF with its strong commitment to community engagement, is well positioned to continue leading the way for Canadian Warmblood sport horse breeding.

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Unikum fetches top price at Holsteiner riding Horse sale

BY ADRIANA VAN

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Those responsible for the elite riding horse auction were more than satisfied, with auction director Jörgen Köhlbrandt saying: “It had already become apparent in advance that there was a great interest in our collection”. So he was especially pleased that “so many horses have got their dream horse”.

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he top horse from this year's Holstein Elite Riding Horse Auction in Neumünster comes from the successful breeding enterprise of the Köhncke family in Badendorf: Unikum (Uriko - Sarese x Contender, Stamm 4539) was sold by auctioneer Dr. Günther Friemel for €142,000 to an international showjumping stable in Peru.

The four-year-old bay, from whose dam line the three-time derby winner Collin (Toni Hassmann) comes, will move into his stable with Alonso Valdez Prado. The latter recently rode in the saddle of another former Holsteiner auction horse – Chichester (Casall - Ulina XIV x Cosimo, Stamm 18A2, bred

by Andrea Mietz) who represented the flag of his homeland at this year’s World Equestrian Games in Tryon. Unikum will accompany Universal (Untouchable - Biscaya VIII x Ibisco xx, Stamm 1859, bred by Jens Hauschildt). The three-yearold, an interesting broodmare prospect, went under the hammer for €77,000.

Cascadello I, the reserve winner of the Holsteiner licensing of 2011, sired the second most expensive horse of this year's riding horse auction. The five-year old Carlton (out of Ulme IV x Contender, Stamm 318D2, bred by SR Sportpferde) has already been jumping successfully in competitions, including victory in a Bundeschampionat qualificatier, and sold for €115,000. The owner of Cascadello I, Professor Bernd Heicke, bought the youngster, Carlton, for Hannes Ahlmann.

Another horse that cracked the €100,000 mark was Big Hope (Baloubet du Rouet - Urmel VI x Casall, Stamm 104A, bred by Hark Martensen). This four-year-old mare sold to the Ukraine for €102,000.

In addition to Germany, Peru and the Ukraine, buyers came from Brazil, Estonia, Finland, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Slovakia and the USA. They paid an average price of €49,314 for the 35 riding horses, which represented a substantial increase of €8,000 compared to last year. “The auction team has done a very good job,” exclaimed Ronald Schultz, managing director of Holsteiner Verband Marketing and Auction GmbH, and his thanks extended to those employees behind the scenes, “without whose help these good results would not have been possible.”

Polón Valdez, the father of Alonso, explained his relationship with the Holsteiner Verband: “My son Alonso has been in the jumping sport for many years, training with

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the Sydney [2000] Olympic gold medalist and winner of the World Equestrian Games in Caen, Jeroen Dubbeldam. I also rode jumping horses, and so did my father, but never at Alonso’s level. The horses in Peru were Thoroughbreds that were used for jumping, but they aren’t as good as the horses specifically bred for jumping. So about nine years ago I started to investigate the top jumping horses. The Holsteiner Verband was and is very serious in their breeding and training programs. They have always wanted to breed the best, so at that time I decided to get in contact with them. I was told there was a very modern stallion called Diarado, so I asked them to find me a Diarado.

“Then eight years ago I met Sigrun Günther, who knows everything about the bloodlines and the best motherlines, which are very important. Buying horses is also a matter of trust and Sigi is absolutely trustful. Together, Sigrun and Norbert Boley found for us a black Diarado son whose name is Diabolo. In 2017 Diabolo finished fifth with Leslie Stark Modonese in the individual ranking at the Bolivarian Games.

Diabolo was the first horse we bought in Holstein.

“Over these eight years I have bought several foals, mares and young horses with good motherlines. Sigrun Günther is my advisor and we are a team with my son Alonso.

I always ask him his opinion about which horses he likes and why. I think that the Holsteiner Verband is looking for modern type jumping horses and their breeding is oriented to the horse type required today for jumping sport horses.

The breeders in Holstein are producing lighter horses with good head, scope, type, movement and careful. I think Unikum is representing all what I just mentioned.

“It is also very important to notice that the vet Dr. Brigitte Otto is very trustworthy. We always ask her about the horse’s health and vet exam. For me, the best age to buy a jumping horse is when they are three to six years. After that, the good horses are too expensive. But you also need to be very lucky.

“A few years ago I bought a very good colt (born in 2013) together with the Holsteiner Verband. He is by Cayado (Caretino x Lord). We presented him at the Holsteiner stallion approvals but he was not approved, so I bought him myself and Callao La Quadra is now in Peru. All our horses carry the ‘La Quadra’ suffix, and he seems to be a great horse.”

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Hanoverian price record causes tremor in Verden

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At the Hannoveraner stallion sales which took place following the annual licensing, all records were broken. A premium stallion by Vivaldi x Dancier went under the hammer for the sensational top price of €2,010,000 (US$2,293,215). In fact, the 2016 generation of offspring sparking a veritable fireworks display of prices, with an average price of €130,960 (US$139,367) being invested in 50 licensed stallions.

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he spectators in the sold-out Niedersachsenhalle could no longer sit in their seats when auctioneer Frederik De Backer, following a 20-minute bidding duel, auctioned the premium stallion by Vivaldi x Dancier off to stallion owners Paul Schockemöhle and Andreas Helgstrand for a fabulous price of €2,010,000. It was a price far exceeding any that had previously been reached at an auction organized by a breeding society in Germany.

The modern liver chestnut with breathtaking movements was bred by Ulrike Buurman, Greifenstein, and exhibited by Hengsthaltung Kemper, Heiden. Earlier, Schockemöhle and Helgstrand had invested €800,000 for a

typey stallion by Lord Leatherdale x Boston (bred by ZG Pleines from Uedem, exhibited by Sabine Rüben, Würselen), the first premium stallion to enter the auction ring.

Another premium stallion by Dimaggio x Sir Donnerhall showed how well the Verden marketing system works. As a foal, Ernst Kemper discovered this athletic liverchestnut bred by Dieter Hilz, Spiegelau, at this same venue.

Two years later, the stallion caused his exhibitor to cheer for the second time on this memorable day, when a Norwegian stallion owner secured the exceptional talent for €570,000.

Sensational prize for the premium stallion by Vivaldi x Dancier. l-r: Hans-Henning von der Decken, Ulrike Buurman (owner), Rosemarie Kemper, Arnd Schwierking and Ernst Kemper (exhibitor) were delighted to receive a cheque for over €2,010,000

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Outstanding showjumpers, too The showjumping stallions also represented an outstanding group.

After the convincing appearances during the free jumping, it was a premium stallion by Kannan x Stolzenberg, bred and exhibited by Ulrich Heuer, Bienenbüttel, who was the best youngster with a show-jumping pedigree and lined his breeder’s pockets with €150,000 as this dark bay with enormous ability over the jumps will move into Olympic hands. As at the 135th Verden Elite Auction some 14 days ago, Irish international Cian O'Connor acquired the top horse, and the London 2012 Olympic bronze medallist now ads another Hanoverian to his string of championship hopefuls in Verden.

According to their breeding director, Dr. Werner Schade, “This stallion licensing set new standards for breeding and marketing and is the result of the continuous developmental work within the Hannoveraner Verband".

Even before the stallion sales opened, the outstanding quality of the 2016 vintage was evident at the licensing on the triangular track, during lunging and also during the free jumping and free running.

A total of 93 high-calibre two-anda-half-year-olds had faced the licensing commission, from which 46 dressage stallions were licensed, with 12 leaving the Niedersachsenhalle as premium stallions. Of the 14 licensed showjumping stallions, seven were premium awarded. “The quality was very high. The vintage presented itself with diverse bloodlines and very modern horses,” said Heike Kemmer, a member of the licensing commission. Hans-Heinrich Meyer zu Strohen added: “The very high average quality has increased even more every day”.

Successful international showjumper Jörg Münzner, also a member of the licensing commission, was likewise full of praise: “We can be very satisfied with the quality of the jumping stallions. The vintage was

top class, and all the stallions showed themselves well”.

The unlicensed stallions also garnered a lot of interest, in particular a brown stallion by Le Vivaldi x Rotspon, bred by Elizabeth Kapp, Clüversborstel, exhibited by Heiko Klausing, Eydelstedt. This former Verden auction foal sold for €54,000 to a Hanoverian breeder from the Lüneburger Heide.

The average price for the 32 horses was €18,750 representing an increase of more than €1,000 compared to last year.

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Golden Badge of Honour The Golden Badge of Honour of the Hanoverian Verband was awarded three times during the show program and ahead of the stallion sales. For many years Klaus Bünger, from Oetzen, Willi Koppelmann, from Freiburg-Elbe and Rudolf Rehkamp, from Bersenbrück, have decisively shaped the image of the Verden stallion licensings as both successful breeders and stallion exhibitors.

However, a special highlight was the selection of the Hanoverian stallion and mare of the year for 2018. Bred by Dieter Niesar, from Kranenburg, Belissimo M (Beltain x Romadour II) Kranenburg) was awarded as the 2018 Stallion of the Year, while Dorina (Drosselklang II x Grannus), bred by Wilhelm Leymann from Bassum, was honoured with the Hanoverian Mare of the Year title.

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Honour where honour’s due

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Once again this year, upholding a long tradition, a VTV jumper stallion and a VTV dressage stallion were crowned during the Oldenburg licensing. This highly prestigious award is given to a licensed Oldenburg stallion for his outstanding achievements in sport and breeding. On the –occasion of the Stallion Gala, the two athletes – Spirit of the Age OLD and Diaron OLD – were decorated with the VTV sash in the Oldenburg Horse Center Vechta.

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eiko Meinen, head of the R+V VTV General Agency, specializing in animal insurance, once again took the opportunity this year to reward the breeders, Manuela Lachnit and Michael Mehrtens, as well as the owners, Paul Schockemöhle and Bernadette Brune, by handing each of them a generous check in the amount of €1,000 for their great achievements in breeding.

VTV jumping stallion Diaron OLD (2012: Diarado - Lenda-Cara x Come On x Aldatus), bred by Manuela Lachnit and owned by Paul Schockemöhle, inspired this year as well as last year with the title of five- and six-year-old Bundeschampion showjumper in Warendorf under the saddle of Patrick Stühlmeyer. Even as a foal, the grey stallion was able to convince with his elastic and great movements, as well as later in the free jumping.

After his inaugural wins in 2016 in young-horse showjumping classes with Basile Rubio, Patrick Stühlmeyer took over the ongoing training of Diaron OLD in 2017. Due to his success in sport, he was licensed in the same year at the Springpferdezuchtverband Oldenburg-International (OS).

This year, the couple’s meteoric rise continued, celebrating numerous successes in showjumping classes up to 1m35, and becoming state champion of six-year-old showjumpers at the Oldenburg Landesturnier in Rastede. His dam, Lenda-Cara (Come On - Lindauway x Aldatus), was also bred by Manuela Lachnit. She has so far produced five successful competition horses, especially the large-framed

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grey Campitello (Concetto) born in 2002, who has recorded good results with Alexander Hinz in international four-star classes, for example, in Donaueschingen, Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Opglabbeek, Diaron’s grand-dam Lindauway gave birth to six successful jumpers, including VDL Groep Miss Untouchable (Chacco-Blue), born 2007, who attracted attention in 2017 at the CHIO in Aachen with several international placings with Dutchman Leopold van Asten. Also from this dam line, the 1m40 Blue Balou (alou du Rouet), ridden by Diaron’s breeder; Balous Day Date (Balou du Rouet), with Molly Ashe-Cawley (USA); Pentagon (Padarco) in the hands of Katharina Werndl (GER); Tiger Lily (Balou du Rouet) with Jessica Springsteen (USA); and Day Date (Domino) ridden

by Beat Mändli (SUI).

On his sire’s side, Diaron goes back to the Diamant de Semilly son, Diarado, who had already registered 70 successful advanced-level horses, 43 licensed sons, and 41 state premium mares in Germany. He was 2007 champion stallion of his licensing, won the stallion performance test one year later, secured the bronze medal at the Bundeschampionat for five-year old showjumpers with Bastian Freese, and then went up to three-star level in international sport.

VTV dressage stallion Spirit of the Age OLD (2004: Stedinger - Ultra Davenia x Donnerhall x Rohdiamant), bred by Michael Mehrtens and owned by Bernadette Brune, began his career at the age of three and four with series victories in riding and dressagehorse tests under Sascha Böhnke. He was then auctioned in Vechta and started his journey to New Zealand, where he became champion at the age of five.

Back in Germany, the dark bay stallion celebrated several podium finishes in medium-class dressage tests in 2011 with Thomas Rive, before Bernadette Brune discovered the dressage talent at the Fall Elite Auction in Vechta 2012.

With Spirit of the Age OLD, she enjoyed a meteoric rise on the German and international dressage scene, winning an Intermediaire I at the two-star CDI in Biarritz, France. In 2012, for the first time, the stallion effortlessly transitioned into Grand Prix classes, celebrating his first GP victory one year later at the Biarritz three-star CDI. With his many

successes in advanced-level classes, the imposing Spirit of the Age OLD was licensed for Oldenburg in 2012.

A former highly successful showjumper, Bernadette Brune continued to build up her stallion, so that in 2015 they contributed significantly to Germany’s win in their first Nations’ Cup appearance at the four-star CDIO Vidauban, and took bronze in the Grand Prix. During the five-star CDIO in Rotterdam, the duo delivered a top-ten ranking, and enjoyed a good result in their first World Cup event in Lyon, France. In concluding the same year, the pair was appointed to the prospective squad due to his achievements, and Spirit of the Age OLD was named the most successful Oldenburg horse in Germany. He then ranked sixth in the world.

After more than 20 placings in 2016, the stallion and his rider delivered one success story after the another in 2017, with highlights being ribbons at the four-star CDI shows in Dortmund and Hagen a.TW. in Grand Prix and GP Special. His sire Stedinger became Champion Stallion of the Oldenburg Stallion Days in 2002 and two years later became the first Reserve Champion of the main premium. In 2013, the dark bay moved to Australia where after only a few months he was able to win dressage tests up to Intermediaire I and also became Australian Champion in 2014.

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IRISH SPORT HORSES TRIUMPH AT THE EVENTING FEI-WBFSH WORLD BREEDING CHAMPIONSHIP IN LE LION D’ANGERS The Irish Sport Horse Studbook won the overall title for the second consecutive year at the eventing FEI-WBFSH World Breeding Championships for Young Horses at Le Lion d’Angers in France. In addition, Irish Sport Horses also won three individual medals out of a possible six.

Great Britain’s Tom Jackson rode the Irish Sport Horse Capels Hollow Drift (ISH) to claim individual silver in the seven-year-old age-group. Capels Hollow Drift (ISH) was bred in County Clare by Jeanette Glynn.

Irish Sport Horses also claimed both silver and bronze medals in the six-year-old division, with the former going to Emerald Jonny (ISH) and Great Britain’s Piggy French.

Emerald Jonny (ISH) was bred by Donnacha Quinn in Co Mayo. The USA’s Liz Halliday-Sharp and Irish Sport Horse Cooley Moonshine (ISH) won bronze, ensuring that two of the three medals went to Irish Sport Horses. Cooley Moonshine (ISH) was bred in Wexford by Michael J Kavanagh.

The full breeding details of the medal winning horses are listed below: • CAPELS HOLLOW DRIFT (ISH) – by SHANNONDALE SARCO ST GHYVAN (BEWB) and out of LUCKY CREST (ISH) [TIH], by LUCKY GIFT (TB). Bred by Jeanette Glynn Co Clare. Owned by Sarah Webb.

• EMERALD JONNY (ISH) – by WALDO VAN DUNGEN (KWPN) and out of Z ROYALTY VAN DE HEERNIS (KWPN), by RUBELS (OLD). Bred by Donnacha Quinn Co Mayo. Owned by Thomas March.

• COOLEY MOONSHINE (ISH) – by COBRA (HOLST) and out of KILPATRICK DUCHESS (ISH), by KINGS MASTER (ISH) [TIH]. Bred by Michael J Kavanagh Co Wexford. Owned by Deborah Halliday.

Emerald Jonny (ISH), bred by Donnacha Quin, ridden by Piggy French (GBR), silver medallists in the 6yo division in Le Lion d’Angers (Photo: Solène Bailly)

(l-r) Heiko Meinen, head of the R+V VTV General Agency; Diaron OLD under the saddle of Laura Dieckmann; Holger and Manuela Lachnit; Oldenburg president Wilhelm Weerda; Christoph Hinkel (representing Paul Schockemöhle)

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Sezuan dominating the Herning field

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THOMAS BACH JENSEN/DWB RIDEHESTEN.COM

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Bred by Linette Jæger, Suzuan (Blue Hors Zack x Blue Horse Don Schufro), the Danish Warmblood (DWB) stallion and triple world champion for young horses is making a huge impact in Denmark as a dressage sire, producing high-scoring offspring at saddle gradings, performance tests and young-horse championships.

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ifteen of the 35 qualified dressage horses for the Danish Warmblood young horse championships in Herning next March (6th to 10th), and five of the six highest-placed horses are

by Sezuan, who has had an impressive show record himself. As a three-year-old he became a record-scoring winner of the 35day stallion performance test; as a four-year-old he won the Danish Equestrian Federation’s championship finals for dressage horses, and then went on to win the FEI/WBFSH World Breeding Championship for Young Horses (WBCYH) for five- and six-year-olds in Verden, and for seven-year-olds in Ermelo. The 15 young horses qualified for Herning are out of the 2014 generation, from which Sezuan has 157 foals registered with Danish Warmblood.

The highest-scoring dressage horse from the Herning qualifiers was the gelding Elverhøjs Raccolto (Sezuan) and out of the first DWB horse to win a medal at the WBCYH, Polka Hit Nexen (Sandro Hit) who won silver in 2008. He scored 920 points under the saddle of Germany’s Meike Lang, and was bred by Berith Nielsen. Runner-up was the gold medal mare Queenparks Wendy (Sezuan x Blue Hors Soprano), bred by Kurt Gosmer, with 900 points ridden by Søren Wind.

The other qualified Sezuan offspring are (with damsire in brackets): • 4th – Sauternes (Londonderry), ridden by Cathrine Dufour (870) • 5th – Sundance (Blue Hors Romanov) ridden by Søren Wind,

Elverhøjs Raccolto, the highest placed dressage horse in the qualifier for the DWB young-horse championships, ridden by Meike Lang

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Queenparks Wendy – the second highest placed Herning qualifier, ridden by Søren Wind • 6th – Saigon Majlund (Blue Hors Hertug) ridden by Manuel Springhetti (860) • 10th – Shirley (Solos Carex) ridden by Camilla Ahlers Pedersen (855) • 17th – Safir V (Pablo) ridden by Emma Ahlberg (830) • 18th – JJ Sancerre (Blue Hors Romanov) ridden by Jan Møller Christensen (830) • 20th – Diaz By Zaber (De Niro) ridden by Carina Cassøe Krüth (830) • 26th – Sazerac Havdal (Come Back II) ridden by Jan Møller Christensen (820) • 29th Shanghai (Don Frederico) ridden by Mette Brandt (815) • 30th – Sorbét (Swarovski) ridden by Ida Hofmann-Bang (815) • 31st – Zidan-DN (Blue Hors Future Cup) ridden by Kenneth Damgaard (810) • 32nd – Rosenkildes Schumacher (Blue Hors Don Schufro) ridden by Ida Hofman-Bang (810) • 33rd – Smiley Pax (White magic) ridden by Camilla Ahlers Pedersen (805) When Sweden’s dressage international Patrik Kittel tests the best of the dressage horses at the 40th DWB stallion licensing in Herning, he may well be riding a lot of talented and very promising Sezuan offspring!

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New Zealand young horse showjumping rankings

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No sire is dominating the current top-six rankings, but three have two representatives each.

They are the imported Holsteiner Corofino II (Corrado x Fernando x Lord), the NZ Sport Horse Double J Repicharge (Voltaire II - Replica x Oregan xx), and the Selle Français stallion Quool du Bois Margot. There is also a definite standout among the mares: Vicki Prendergast’s Powerfee daughter, SoFee (see separate heading).

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entral Park (Euro Sport Centavos - Silk and Spice x Omnicorp xx), the joint winner of last year’s six-year-old series, is now leading the seven-year-old series with 28 points after four rounds of competition. This beautiful NZ Sport Horse gelding was bred by Imogen Neale, and is owned and ridden by Maurice Beatson. The horse who shared top sixyear-old honours with him last year, Double J Barman (Double J Repicharge - Double J Chatalaine xx x Backchat xx), has not really begun his seven-year-old campaign.

Central Park’s sire, ES Centavos (Escudo I x Annabell Staatsprämie x Argentinus), is an imported Hanoverian and a magnificent showjumper, who won the Olympic Cup (Horse of the Year) in 2015. He has a number of national title-holders among his progeny, all of whom are still under 11 years old; he also has progeny in the USA. Centavos has just enjoyed back-to-back Grand Prix wins with his owner/rider Claudia Hay, and seems to pass on his superb jumping technique to his offspring. He was bred by Heinz Schüette of Spelle, Germany.

Two more NZSH geldings, both bred by New Zealand Performance Horses (NZPH), fill the next places in the seven-year-old series. The very scopey Cadenza NZPH (Kannan - U Can Dance NZPH x Fuego du Prelet) has 24 points after four rounds for Rose Alfeld, and the equally impressive Cadillac NZPH (Jokus Latour Untouched NZPH x Cabdulla du Tillard) has 22 after three, for Samantha Peters. This horse finished second in last year’s six-year-old Horse of the Year.

Sharing fourth spot with 20 points after three rounds each are two NZ Warmblood mares, LC Taste of Diamonds (Lindberg des Hayettes Cenarco x Corlando) bred by Steve Cohen at LC Horse Farm, and Lotte (Corofino II - Moll Flanders x Brilliant Invader xx). Lotte’s breeder is unrecorded, but her sire, the Holsteiner Corofino II (by the late, wonderful Corrado) is an Elite NZWB stallion and was bred by Hobe Bernhard. He is a full brother to Corofino I. An Indoctro gelding, Monte Carlo MVNZ Central (Indoctro VDL - Auburn Princess MVNZ x Senator

VDL), who has jumped three rounds so far, is sixth with 17 points. He was bred by Mount View Sport Horses. Although he’s listed as a New Zealand Sport Horse, Monte Carlo has all-European bloodlines. His dam, Auburn Princess MVNZ, was the first embryo transfer foal to be born at the stud, and her own dam, Charming Princess, also known as H-Princess (Cordeur x Grannus x Hartgold), was imported from Belgium, where she was the national champion filly of her year.

Superb six-year-olds hitting their stride At the head of this field with 18 points from three outings, is the gorgeous LT Holst Elizabeth (Clinton I - LT Holst Andrea x Casall). Breeder Ewen McIntosh of Lake Taupo Holsteiners has always had high hopes for this young mare, who is based with Oliver and Brooke Edgecombe.

Elizabeth was yet to be born when she arrived in New Zealand: her dam, LT Holst Andrea (Casall - Palaune x Lavaletto), was in foal with her when she was imported from Germany. Andrea, who is currently showing terrific form on the Grand Prix circuit, was bred by Hans-Joachim Gerken of Hammoor. Expect to hear more of her and her super

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daughter Elizabeth as the season progresses. Two embryo transfer foals from Elizabeth are due this season, one by the Olympic winner Big Star and the other by VDL Harley (KWPN preferent).

A pair of NZ Warmbloods share second place, and both have interesting pedigrees. One is a mare, Constellation (Cassini d’Eclipse - Milly x Anamour) bred, owned and ridden by Daniel Webb; she is on 16 points from four outings. The other is a gelding, Scotsmans Valley (Quinar Power Girl x Powerfee), bred and owned by Penny Stevenson and Samantha McIntosh at Chestnut Glade Farm in Cambridge. Scotsmans Valley has contested three rounds so far and is looking very impressive in the hands of young rider Oliver Croucher. His damsire Powerfee (Fedor Toverfee x Erdball xx) is the damsire of two other talented representatives in this series: Selena C in the six-year-olds, and Shawnee ECPH, who is lying second in the five-year-old group.

Six horses share fourth place in the six-year-olds with 12 points apiece. One of them has competed in only two rounds: the big mare Drama NZPH (Orlando - Vidal NZPH x Pezetas du Rouet), ridden by Kathryn Alabaster. Her

NZPH stud-mate, the gelding Dolce NZPH (Quool du Bois Margot - Vogue Blue NZPH x Mr Blue) is also on 12 points, and has had three outings. He is owned by Nicola Smith and ridden by Jeremy Whale. Both are New Zealand Sport Horses.

Chio MS (Chacco Silver - Dollar Girl x Dollar de la Pierre), a New Zealand Warmblood gelding bred by Matawhio Sport Horses, has also had three outings. He is ridden by William Willis.

The others sharing fourth place have all competed four times in the current series. One is the beautiful Holsteiner mare, Selena C (Cardento VDL - SoFee x Powerfee) who finished second in the five-year-old series last season. She was bred by her rider, Vicki Prendergast of Matamata, who is also a successful racing trainer.

The other two are from Wendy and Robyn Jacobs’ Double J stud, both sired by its sole stallion, JJ Repicharge.

They are last year’s five-year-old series winner, JJ Kelvin (JJ Repicharge - JK Madam Seattle x JK Mazurati) for Logan Massie, and the mare JJ Barista (JJ Repicharge - JJ Chatelaine xx x Backchat xx) for Harry Feast. Chatelaine xx is also the dam of Double J Bouncer, who won last season’s Grand Prix series for Harry Feast.

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One of the top two on the leaderboard is a New Zealand Warmblood and the other a Holsteiner, and both showing serious potential.

Fleur DeLacour (Corofino II - Jazz x Lio Caylon), a very appealing NZWB, is at the top of the leaderboard with 22 points from five outings. She was bred by Butch Thomas and is owned and ridden by Samantha Matthews; the pair won the four-year-old championship at Takapoto at the close of last season and seem to be going from strength to strength.

In second place is the Holsteiner, Shawnee ECPH (Pacific VDL - SoFee x Powerfee), with 18 points from just three competitions. She was bred by East Coast Performance Horses, and is owned and ridden by Vicki Prendergast.

Prendergast also rides and owns – and in this case bred – the six-year-old Selena C. Both Selena and Shawnee are from the same mare, SoFee, who was also bred by Prendergast, using the excellent Powerfee for her four-star eventing mare, Sanderston. Ironically, East Coast Performance Horses leased SoFee for a breeding season, and the resulting foal, Shawnee ECPH, proved irresistible to Prendergast. More on SoFee at the foot of this story.

Eye Catcher NZPH (Kannan - United Blue NZPH x Mr Blue), a big chestnut gelding who

lives up to his name, is lying third on 16 points, also from three rounds. He was bred

by New Zealand Performance Horses and is owned and ridden by Rose Alfeld. His damsire, the influential Mr Blue –a posthumous recipient of Predicate status – is a horse who features frequently in NZPH pedigrees, including that of another leading five-year-old in this series, Encore NZPH (see below).

Fourth equal is shared by a mare and a gelding, both with 12 points from three rounds. The mare, Camberley Phoenix AF (Camberley Mercury - By Gone Era AF x Littorio) is a New Zealand Sport Horse, bred

by Camberley Stud, and owned and ridden by Jeremy Clark.

The gelding, Casanova Xtreme (Corofino II - JK Good Looks x JK Lucas), is Fleur DeLacour (Corofino II - Jazz x Lio Caylon) owned and ridden by a New Zealand Warmblood, and another of Samantha Matthews Corofino II’s progeny, so he, too, carries the blood of the Serguei Fofanoff. “I brought her home after the Olympics, to mighty Corrado. He was bred by Sharlene Workman at breed from her,” says Prendergast. “SoFee was her third Xtreme Sport Horses and is owned and ridden by Jaime foal.”

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SoFee’s sire, Powerfee (Fedor - Toverfee x Erdball xx) A mare and two geldings share sixth place. The mare is was bred by P.L. Van der Voort in the Netherlands. He had Encore NZPH (Quool du Bois Margot - Truly Blue NZPH x great success at five-star level with Harrie Smolders, and has Mr Blue), who has 10 points from only two outings. She was just a handful of progeny competing, to date, as he was used bred by NZ Performance Horses. Quool du Bois (L’Arc de very lightly as a sire during his career. Oddly enough, his Triomphe - Spiree x Grand Veneur) was a champion himself most successful offspring is a New Zealand gelding called as a five-year-old and has an excellent mare line. He has two Lucca, who is out of a Lio Caylon mare and competed to progeny in these classes: Encore NZPH and the six-year-old World Cup level with Katie Laurie. Powerfee is owned by Dolce NZPH. Euro-Horse in Belgium and stood at Drumhowan Stud in Puro Qualita (Eyeopener - Arnie x Kiwi Emillion) also Ireland for the 2018 season. has 10 points from two rounds for Natalia Lammers; the SoFee’s dam Sanderston has other progeny – Solano breeder of this NZ Sport Horse gelding is unrecorded, but (2003: Senator VDL); Sacramento (2005: Corland VDL); his damsire, the Holsteiner Kiwi Emillion (Emillion and Surreal (2008: Cardento VDL) – who have jumped at Servalan x JK Sacramento), has good jumping bloodlines.

World Cup level, but SoFee was injured as a foal so was never His own damsire, JK Sacramento was a Holsteiner imported ridden. to New Zealand in the 1980s.

Instead, she has proved herself to be a simply wonderful Also on 10 points after three rounds is Souther Field broodmare. Her first foal was Sangster (Corland VDL). “He (Sangster - Chloe x Glendevon Commander), who is another sired quite a few before I gelded him,” says Prendergast. bred by Vicki Prendergast from the SoFee x Powerfee line.

“He’ll have quite a few in the four-year-old classes this year, Souther Field’s sire, Sangster (Corland VDL - SoFee x and has one in the five-year-olds. They’re out of average New Powerfee), is a half-brother to the six-year-old Selena C, and Zealand mares, but lovely all the same.” Sangster was sold to has now been gelded and sold to Australia.

Clem Smith in Australia, and won the Gatton Future Stars Championship for him in August this year.

Spotlight on SoFee SoFee has now had six foals, one of which is still at foot.

This is a colt by the fabulous BWP Hector van d’Abdijhoeve The most influential mare in the series so far is Vicki (Cabrio van de Heffinck x Utrillo x Fuego du Prelet). There Prendergast’s SoFee, who is the daughter of a four-star is also a yearling filly by Cohinoor VDL (Cornet Obolensky x eventer, Sanderston (San Mellay xx - At Easer x Winnebago) Stakkato x Contender), and a three-year-old gelding by and the KWPN five-star jumping stallion, Powerfee.

Cassiano (Cassini I x Calypso II x Maestose xx) an NZWA Sandertston’s damsire Winnebago (Winnetou - Wulfine elite Holsteiner stallion who stands at Xtreme Sport Horses. x Wulf), an F-line descendant, was the first Hanoverian So, some potential champions waiting in the wings. stallion to be imported to New Zealand, and arrived here in Meanwhile, SoFee herself is having a well-earned year off 1977. Sanderston herself was a member of the sixth-placed from breeding.

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eSH developments: “We are new, we try harder”

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RAIGO KOLLOM (ESHB/ESH) HAIDE WESTRING

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The Estonian Sport Horse Breeders Society has borrowed this headline slogan from the business world. We are one of the newest WBFSH member studbooks, launched in 2000, from impoverished beginnings – both financially and genetically. Estonia has traditionally been a country of much-loved, hardworking horses, with the Toric breed being a good example of a multidisciplinary equine for both agriculture and for driving to church.

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ore recently, another tradition was thinking of Trakehners as the ideal riding horse, as they’ve been popularly bred in Estonia since 1968. The country has certainly not had a reputation for jumping, and Estonian riders were not happy with the available choice of horses, although some more talented home-bred Trakehners rose to 1m50, and even 1m60 classes.

So, in 2000, a group of 25 small-scale breeders with riding roots and future ambitions founded a new studbook, using the performance goals of the KWPN and Zangersheide studbooks as examples based purely on performance. The new studbooks principles were quoted as ‘European breeding without borders’, and ‘A breed is not a goal but a tool,’ on the road to producing better horses.

Although Estonia was not then a member state of the European Union, they complied with all the EC regulations and achieved good support from government officials, including minister for agriculture, Ivary Padar (now a member of the European Parliament).

The studbook’s first task succeeded in creating an electronical database for AI, and identifying contacts within Western European studbooks. The first supply of imported semen to be used in Estonia was from Voltaire (Team Nijhof), which produced two foals. Today, around 40% of the foals in the ESH main studbook have been born using imported semen. As Estonians are, or think they are, very individualistic, almost every breeder tries to buy something different from his neighbours, so between 2015 and 2017, a total of 79 international stallions were used to produce 112 foals. Only one BWP stallion, I’m Special de Muze, had 11 foals during this period, while all the others had only three or less. the neighbours have. Principally, any stallion licensed with a member studbook of the WBFSH is accepted for AI. So Estonian don’t form their own stallion lines, nor do they imagine they have a special breed. According to Board Chairman Raigo Kollom, “In reality, we are a small studbook within the great big European sport horse breeding world. We make the same kind of selections as most studbooks, but maybe sometimes we take more risks. For example the most influencial stallion in the pedigrees of our best horses are: A Pikachu de Muze (2000: Kannan x Cin Chin, WBCYH six-year-

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old champion) was licensed only because of his jumping ability (10 points), with seven points or less in other criteria. Verso de Paulstra (1987: Almé x Furioso xx), with 61 foals is the most popular stallion, although he was licensed according to his pedigree – related to Jalisco B – because he’d suffered an injury.

“On the other hand, we sometimes don’t take risks at all: Spartacus (2003: Stakkato x Grannus) we licensed at first sight.

But we prefer to use the stallions selected by the best studbooks according to stricter and more reliable testing. Among the ESH horses competing internationally, the descendants of Verdi, Clinton, and Heartbreaker are ranked highly.”

Paradoxally one reason for the success of ESH horses is that, lacking wealthy sponsors, all the best products are owned by their breeders and/or riders. Kollom continued: “From the one side it is bad, and we are sad to see the wonderful BWP mare Ibelle van de Grote Haart jumping now for Brazil. In the World Cup Final in Paris our rider, Urmas Raag, finished eighth with her in the final and most difficult class. From the other side, this situation compels our best riders to jump mostly with ESH horses, who have shown themselves to be better than, or at least equal to horses from other studbooks.”

In Soviet times, and for some years later, the majority of Estonian riders were competing with Russian, then German, Dutch or Belgian horses. Now, the Russians and riders from Italy, the USA, Great Britain, Poland, Ireland, even from Turkey, Bahrain and Argentina have had international starts with ESH horses, as have the Estonian riders themselves.

In recent years, Estonian riders have definitely discovered the qualities of ESH horses, and have been competing internationally with 47% Estonian-bred horses. For four years in a row, Estonian horses have won their own showjumping championship, and every year between 2012 and 2017 in dressage. The ESH studbook is in the Horsetelex rankings for jumping horses in 36th place, while the Bodjonny breed from Russia, once so admired by riders, ranks 83rd. It’s gratifying that our best friends in neighbouring countries, once so far ahead of us in breeding, are now a little behind us. The same can be seen in the WBFSH studbook rankings where ESH is placed 31st.

In continuing, Kollom said, “We have always paid special

attention to taking part in the World Breeding Championship for Young Horses, competing in eventing and dressage, but especially in jumping. In 2015 and 2016 our horses qualified for the final in Lanaken (two five-year-olds in 2015, one sixyear-old in 2016), and in 2017 the ESH gelding Ping Pong V (Ponsee V - Dalvi x Calvino Z), bred by Peeter Viiard, placed sixth in the five-year-old class final. It’s very rare for small studbooks to be in the Lanaken finals.

“While maybe, in reality, we are not as good as we appear, we have focused more on performance testing and promotion.

One reason for some success is how we’ve used our political and economic situation. Estonia made a very abrupt jump into privatization and, in terms of horse eonomics, the number of horses rapidly decreased, but this has forced us to work hard on their quality. Tougher competition standards left weaker breeder and horses behind.

“Horse breeding as a lifestyle can be good for endangered breeds – which make up half of Estonia’s horse population – but sport horse breeding is also competitive. All our best breeders are new, coming from sport or other horse businesses. Some have bought their farms with money earned from working abroad as riders or grooms, some have competed successfully and won good prize money, especially from Russia. At first, our fast development in sport was trailed by breeding, but we still remember the words of Jan Greve (Dutch veterinarian and well-known breeder), who told us 10 years ago, ‘Don’t think about what you have, think about what you want.

“We are eager to discover and use what others have already achieved. We have been a country in transition in terms of riding sports, and quite good at it. One of the best known horses is the Budjonny, Rhythmical, who was brought to Estonia by a phone call to Rostov, arriving here as a two-yearold colt, in extremely bad condition, then sold for almost nothing to Finland after winning a 1m50 class with a boy who was jumping such obstacles for the first time. Later, Rhythmical was a member of the United States team in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, with the George Morris-trained Nona Garson.

“From Russia we found the wonderful Thoroughbred stallion Beg xx (Helikon xx - Baschma xx x Murmansk), who

Ping Pong V in Lanaken 2017 with Paul Argus (EST)

later became one of the best stallions in Trakehner breeding in Germany. Some remarkable Western European horses were also discovered in Estonia, like the aforementioned A Pickachu de Muze or Spartacus. But, more important for our breeders, is to find the right rider for their horses, and our performance testing must also help them.

“We are very grateful to all who have helped us to improve, have taught and advised us at our seminars or as judges at our young-horse finals: Jan Greve, Jeannette Nijhof, Henk Nijhof senior and junior, Frans Koeman, Nico Schulpen, Michel Spaas from the Netherlands; Stefaan de Smet from Belgium; Maria Mõller, Heli Junnila, Christopher Wegelius, Hakan Wahlmann from Finland; Svend Sörensen from Denmark; Lars Berglund and Jan-Ove Olsson from Sweden etc. And a very special role in our development belongs to Professor Ingvar Fredricson from Sweden, who was our patron and adviser in being granted membership of the WBFSH from 2005.”

Systematically, the EHS year begins with the two- and three-year-old inspections, which has a very popular final show.

Higher levels are evaluated by test riders, and we hold the young-horse championships for four-, five- and six-year-olds.

Sending young horses to the WBCYH has been an important goal for every good EHS breeder. The final level of performance testing is finding the right riders for the best horses. One way to achieve this has been to allow the best riders to ride as many horses as possible in the young-horse championships, sometimes with as many as five and more horses in one class.

It’s often the case that breeders give their own-trained horses to the best riders for championship testing, making it easier to determine the ability of a horse, and leading to contacts between riders and breeders. EHS encourages breeders to put pride aside and to generate such contacts. The best EHS horse at the moment is Alfons Ra – who belongs 50/50 to his breeder and rider.

Of course, many breeders prefer to sell their foals, but the worst time for the breeder and the horse is to fall between opportunities – to have no good rider, no work, just a happy life at pasture.

In conclusion, Raigo Kollom said, “Of course we understand that our development is nothing special. In Eastern Europe we have had a relatively fast start, and studbooks with larger foundations may soon pass us by and be better, but we will try to stay small and sharp.

Maybe we’ll have good cooperation to create a Baltic brand sport horse, so that the Baltic states improve their position in the world market.”

And his final remark: “In reality, our acronym should be ESH (Estonian Sport Horse), although ESHB (Estonian Sport Horse Breeders’ Society) is used by the WBFSH and the FEI.” Kollom apologized for preferring the shorter ESH, and also added a reminder that despite what many may think, Estonia is not in Eastern Europe but fully recognized as being ‘Central European’ which is where they like to be.

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International top stallions

TOBIAS HEMKEN (OLDENBURG VERBAND) PHOTOGRAPHY: FELDHAUS BY

As the new champion stallion of the Verband der Züchter des Oldenburger Pferdes (OL), a son of Grand Galaxy Win T x Don Schufro x Rawage Quintus x Donauwind/Trak., bred by HH Horses from Denmark and exhibited by HH Horses & Helgstrand Dressage from Denmark, positively shone. The sire, Grand Galaxy Win T, was a finalist at the 2016 dressage WBCYH with Severo Jurado Lopez from Spain.

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ldenburg’s Breeding Director, Dr. Wolfgang SchulzeSchleppinghoff had this to say about the champion stallion: “This son of Grand Galaxy Win T is a very successful mix of the best dressage bloodlines in Europe. The black stallion has developed excellently since the pre-selection. His movement, especially shown during lunging, couldn’t be much better. In the trot he has shown impressive dynamics and enormous power from the hind leg. His movement trough the body is nearly perfect, so we could only honour this with a 10.0.

A correctly made stallion, nice in the type characteristic, from which we will hopefully see many offspring.”

A son of Don Diarado x Conthargos x Lordanos x Landadel, bred by Marion Diese from Fresenburg, and exhibited by Zuchthof René Tebbel, Emsbüren, was awarded with the champion stallion title of Springpferdezucht-verband Oldenburg-International (OS). This stallion comes from the famous Heida dam line. Sire Don Diarado won the team bronze medal at the 2018 World Equestrian Games in Tryon, USA, with Maurice Tebbel, son of the exhibitor.

Oldenburg’s breeding director complimented this young jumping talent by saying: “This young stallion appeared to be the most complete stallion of the jumping lot this year.

The dark-brown stallion impresses with his outstanding modern type and has great gaits. In the free jumping, he was able to convince with superior assets, his attitude and quick legs. A complete stallion from head to toe.’A Second place in the lot of Oldenburg premium

Above and right: Champion OS stallion – a son of Don Diarado x Conthargos x Lordanos x Landadel, bred by Marion Diese 48 December 2018

stallions with emphasis on dressage went to a stallion by Diamond Hit x Fürst Heinrich x Don Schufro x Sandro Hit, bred by Christine Arns-Krogmann from Lohne, and exhibited by Madeleine Winter-Schulze from Wedemark.

This Oldenburg vice champion comes from the famous Weissena dam line. His grandmother is none other than Weihegold OLD, gold medal winner at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

Third place was awarded to a son of Millennium/Trak x Rubin-Royal x De Niro x Rubinstein I, bred by Heinrich Vahle, Friesoythe, and exhibited by Albert Sprehe from Essen. The noble stallion is the brother of the 2014 Oldenburg champion stallion Morricone I and Morricone II. The Springpferdezuchtverband Oldenburg-International (OS) awarded second place to a stallion by For Pleasure x Carthago x Ramiro x Jasper, bred by G. van de Winkel from the Netherlands and exhibited by Wiepke van

de Lageweg, the Netherlands. For Pleasure won team gold at the Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games under the saddle of Marcus Ehning.

Bronze in the OS lot was received by a deserving stallion by Casino Berlin x Conthargos x Silvio I x Landadel, bred by Horst Schlüsselburg from Stuhr, and exhibited by Johannes Westendarp, Wallenhorst. He was discovered as a foal at the Summer Mixed Sales in Vechta and rises from the well-known Kateste dam line as well as the world championship silver medal winner from 1978, Volturno by Vollkorn xx in the hands of Otto Ammermann.

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2017/2018 BN WORLD STALLION RANKINGS (JUMPING) EXTRACTED FROM THE WBFSH-ROLEX BREEDER/HORSE YEAR-END RANKINGS – SEPTEMBER 30, 2018 BN/WBFSH 1 2 3 4

5 7 8 16

5 6 7 8 9=

17 19 31 33 37

9= 11 12 13

37 46 47 54

14 15 16= 16= 18 19 20 21 22 23 24= 24= 26 27=

56 60 61 61 65 77 79 83 85 87 91 91 97 105

27= 29 30= 30= 32 33 34 35

105 109 114 114 117 119 123 126

36= 36= 38= 38= 40 41= 41=

135 135 140 140 145 147 147

43 44 45=

155 164 168

45= 47

168 171

48 49 50

178 182 187

50 December 2018

Hansson WL (2008/SWB/st Hip Hop - Indra WL x Iowa) Walltorps Lantbruks AB Royce (2004/OS/st Café au Lait - Petula x Grandilot) Paul Schockemöhle Tobago Z (2008/Z/st Tangelo vd Zuuthoeve - Woopie C x Mr. Blue) Jonas Bellemans Bull Run's Faustino de Tili (2005/BWP/st Berlin - Bijou van de Vijfheide x Darco) Tim van Tricht & Lieven Bruyneel Breitling LS/ex Quebracho LS (2006/SLS/st Quintero - Armonia La Silla x Accord II) Alfonso Romo Cornado NRW (2003/Westf/st Cornet Obolensky - Acobata x Acobat) Antonius Schulze-Averdiek Rouge de Ravel (2005/SF/st Ultimo van ter Moude x Quouglof Rouge) Jean-Noel & Priscilla Pottier Bacardi VDL (2006/KWPN/st Corland - Supardi x Kannan) F. van de Linden Silver Deux de Virton HDC (2006/SF/st Kashmir van Schuttershof - Vestal de l'Othain x Heartbreaker) Marc Discret/Françoise Hanus Caracas (2005/AWHA/st Casall - Colthaga x Colman) Unknown Don VHP Z (2004/Z/st Diamant de Semilly - Sara van het Parelshof x Voltaire) Guy de Schuymer Halifax vh Kluizebos (2007/BWP/st Heartbreaker - Dalida vd Heffinck x Fetiche du Pas) Stefaan Delabie Garfield de Tiji des Templiers (2006/BWP/st Quasimodo - Paloma de Lauzelle x Goldspring de Lauzelle) Tim van Tricht Comme Il Faut 5 (2005/Westf/st Cornet Obolensky - Ratina Z x Ramiro Z) B&S Sportpferde GmbH Chacanno (2007/OS/st Chacco-Blue - Siljanna x Kannan) Paul Schockemöhle Chalou (2009/OS/st Chacco-Blue - Skylubet x Baloubet du Rouet) Paul Schockemöhle H&M Chilli Willi (2008/Holst/st Casall - Caletta VIII x Lord) ZG Diedrichsen Winning Good (2009/NRPS/st Winningmood van de Arenberg x Sir Corland) W.F.M. van Gestel Hearts Destiny (2009/AES/st Heart Throb x Rabino) Caspar 232 (2006/OS/st Casper - Depardienne x Padarco) Paul Schockemöhle Suspens Floreval (2006/SF/st Clinton - Oseilla Floreval x Damiro) Haras de Floreval Tonic de Mets (2007/SF/st Ogrion des Champs x Damoiseau d'Or) Jean & Marie Renner Rubens LS La Silla (2006/SLS/st Rebozo LS La Silla x Cash) Alfonso Romo Cayenne WZ (2005/Holst/st Claudio - Octavia x Ramirado) Adelbert Sporn Clintrexo (2009/Z/st Clintissimo Z x Rex Z) Darry Lou (2008/KWPN/st Tangelo van de Zuuthoeve - Venus x Nabab de Reve) Roelof Bril Balou du Reventon/ex Cornet's Balou (2006/OI/st Cornet Obolensky - Georgia x Continue) Paul Schockemöhle MJT Nevados S (2008/PZHK/st Calvados Z x Romualdo) Stanislaw Szurik Tokyo du Soleil (2007/SF/st Montender x Papillon Rouge) Marianne Eichenberger DSP Cashmoaker (2006/DSpf/st Calido I - La-Fayette x Lafitte) Frank Timmreck Safari d'Auge (2006/SF/st Diamant de Semilly - Marquise de Grimeux x Papillon Rouge) Julien Epaillard Can Ya Makan (2006/Holst/st Canturo - Aroma x Fier de Lui) Gerald Lenaerts Curtis Sitte (2008/sBs/st Ugano Sitte - Casta Sitte Z x Chellano Z) Daniel Boudrenghien/Horse of Belgium Quabri de l'Isle (2004/SF/st Kannan - Dinastie de l'Isle x Socrate de Chivre) Etienne Poisson VDL Glasgow vh Merelsnest (2006/BWP/st Nabab de Reve - Wendelina van't Merelsnest x Darco) Merelsnest Ares (2006/KWPN/st Cardento 933 - Emmanuella x Zandigo) J. Kroodsma Argento (2002/AES/st Arko III - Flora May x Gasper) Keeley Durham Chianti's Champion (2008/Westf/st Champion du Lys x Cornet Obolensky) Balzaci (2003/Westf/st Balou du Rouet - Luisa x Ex Libris) Christel Noltmann-Kroeger RMF Echo/ex Echo de Laubry (Virus de Laybry - Jasmine 'D' x Feo) Haras de Laubry Contagio (2004/Holst/st Colman - Odyssee II x Lordanos) Wolfgang Harjes Un Diamant des Forets (2008/SF/st Diamant de Semilly - Grace des Forets x Papillon Rouge) Fabrice & Guy Paris Tower Mouche (2007/SF/st Diamant de Semilly x Bleu Blanc Rouge II) Chardonnay 79 (2007/Holst/st Clarimo - Pamina III x Corrado I) Ernst-Uwe Sachau Hector van d'Abdijhoeve (2007/BWP/st Cabrio van de Heffinck - Lady Dy M x Utrillo van de Heffinck) Hugo Boelens Chaplin (2007/KWPN/st Verdi - Jaltha B x Concorde) G. Knoop Utamaro d'Ecaussines (2004/sBs/st Diamant de Semilly - Arizona van Arenberg x Quidam de Revel) Christophe Ameeuw Emerald NOP (2004/BWP/st Diamant de Semilly - Carthina Z x Carthago) Bert van den Branden Contendros 2 (2007/Hann/st Contendro I - Diaspora x Drosselklang II) Wilhelm Berghorn Chacco's Son (2007/Westf/st Chacco-Blue x Falkenhof's Lancer)

2017/2018 BN WORLD STALLION RANKINGS (DRESSAGE) EXTRACTED FROM THE WBFSH-ROLEX BREEDER/HORSE YEAR-END RANKINGS – SEPTEMBER 30, 2018 BN/WBFSH 1 8 2 9 3 12 4 13 5 15 6 20 7 21 8 28 9 31 10 35 11 41 12 45 13 51 14 52 15 54 16 57 17 58 18 60 19 61 20 65 21 68 22 70 23 71 24 80 25 89 26 92 27 94 28 97 29 98 30 99 31 100 32 107 33 110 34 112 35 117 36 120 37 121 38 128 39 131 40 135 41 139 42 142 43 143 44 145 45 151 46 156 47 161 48 171 49 172 50 185

Damsey FRH (2002/Hann/st Dressage Royal - Ria Grande x Ritual) Hengsthaltung Kothe Glock's Zonik (2008/DWB/st Blue Hors Zack - Romanik x Romanov) Linette Jaeger Unee BB (2001/KWPN/st Gribaldi - Ilarichta x Dageraad) J.J.H. Spronck Blue Hors Zack (2004/KWPN/st Rousseau - Orona x Jazz) Dante Weltino (2007/Oldbg/st Danone - Rihanna x Welt Hit II) Olaf Bahls Salvino (2007/Hann/st Sandro Hit - Dynastie x Donnerhall) Joachim Essink Cennin (2007/KWPN/st Vivaldi - Vitana V x Donnerhall) J.E.J. Cuppen Apache (2005/KWPN/st UB40 - Tolanda x Krack C) A.A. van der Koppel Delatio (2004/Hann/st De Niro - Rubina x Rubinstein I) Ulrike & Reinhold Bosse Sanceo (2006/Hann/st San Remo - Rivera x Ramiro's Son II) Gerhard Dustmann Glock's Dream Boy (2008/KWPN/st Vivaldi x Ferro) T.J.M. Coomans Imperio 3 (2003/Trak/st Connery - Isar VI x Balfour xx) Hartmut Keunecke Santurion de Massa (2006/CDE/st Münchhausen x Estoiro) Sylvain Massa Sir Donnerhall II OLD (2006/Oldbg/st Sandro Hit - Contenance D x Donnerhall) Maik Kanitzky Franziskus (2008/Hann/st Fidertanz - Antara x Alabaster) Elisabeth Albers Aqiedo (2005/KWPN/st Undigo - Ranirma x Metall) Van Baalen-Roebers Zanardi/ex Zeerow (2004/KWPN/st Rubels - Ilieze x Avignon) A. Spronk-Franken Dragao (2008/APSL/st Unico - Valerio x Xaquiro CIP) Bartlgut's Quebec (2007/DSP/st Quaterback - Philadelphia F x Paradiesvogel) Lutz Freimann Zuidenwind 1187 (2004/KWPN/st 00 Seven - Serendy x Jazz) H. van Helvoirt Raffaelo Va Bene (2001/Bavar/st Royal Diamond - Rubina Roxana x Lanacar) Benedicte Fischer Coroado (2007/APSL/st Rubi - Luxelia x Xaquiro CIP) Coudelaria de Alter Heuberger TSF (2007/Trak/st Imperio - Heubluemchem x Michelangelo) Gestüt Webelsgrund Wall Street JV (2007//st Wie Weltmeyer x Starway) Unknown Bluefields Floreno (2005/DSP/st Florencio I - Riffifi x Roy Black) Unknown Bariloche (2006/APSL/st Rouxinol - Orgulhosa x Hostil) João Pedro Rodrigues Finckenstein TSF (2002/Trak/st Latimer - Fatima XVII x Kennedy) Karl-Heinz Moll Duendecillo P (2004/FWB/st Don Romantic - Apres Pearl x Midt-West-Ibi-Light) Anne Niemi Sun of May Life (2009/Rhein/st San Amour x Rubioso N) Unknown Xerez (2003/DSP/st Unknown origins) Unknown Kastel's Nintendo (2003/KWPN/st Negro - Rodieni R x Monaco) C. Rommens Zodiac MW (2004/KWPN/st Rousseau - Mieranda H x Amethist) H.Z. Waterink Alcaide (2005/APSL/st Lobito - Paloma x Novilheiro) Unknown Fogoso (2010/APSL/st Rico - Amelia x Raja) Coudelaria Torres Vaz Freire Hexagon's Double Dutch (2008/KWPN/st Johnson TN - Ushimanda x Rubiquil) Van Lieren Flavio (2005/DSP/st Florencio I - Gazelle x Glückspilz) Roland Hald Indoctro vd Steenblok (2008/BWP/st Rubin Royal OLD x Gribaldi) Unknown Vistoso de Massa (2009/APSL/st Maestro JGB - Xoxa x Xaquiro Cip) Sylvain Massa Arlando NOP (2005/KWPN/st Paddox - Herlanda x Mytens) A.J. van't Klooster Dzeko (2006/Oldbg/st Dimaggio - Chita x Continue) Josef Hannöver Boston STH (2006/KWPN/st Johnson x Quattro) J.W. Temmink Into The Blue (2006/AES/st Ublesco - Viva x Calvaro Z) Unknown Charmeur (2007/KWPN/st Krack C - Vobria x Gribaldi) A.J. Groen Sai Baba Plus (2007/Hann/st Sir Donnerhall x De Niro) Robert Gaus Bakkely's Onandt (2007/DWB/st Onassis - Bakkely's Michel x Michellino) Unknown Spirit of the Age (2004/Oldbg/st Stedinger - Ultra Davenia x Donnerhall) Michael Mehrtens Euclides Mor (2009/APSL/st Riopele) Unknown Xiripiti (2003/APSL/st Qualificado - Reboleira x Moscatel) Coudelaria Torres Vaz Freire Blue Hors Zepter (2008/Oldbg/st Blue Hors Zack - Who's Sunlight x Wolkentanz II) Unknown Mango Jacaro (2005/ANCCE/st Rondeño IX - Eslida-Cen x Endrino) Yeguada Centurion SL December 2018

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The 2018 WBFSH annual meeting and general assembly will be held in Budapest, Hungary this year, and horse welfare is one of the main topics. From a breeding point of view, Sweden’s Sofia Mikko will be giving a presentation on Warmblood Fragile Foal Syndrome (WFFS) and other hereditary diseases in sport horse breeding.

In the spring of 2018, the topic of WFFS exploded when an affected foal was born who had been sired by an extremely popular and extensively used sire. Since then there have been a great many factual articles written and published, but also an abundance of speculation initiated by social media. We still know very little about the carrier frequencies in different breeds and populations of Warmblood horses. Do we need to panic, or can we relax and make informed choices in our breeding schemes?

In her talk Sofia Mikko will describe the WFFS disease, and other related disorders. She will also discuss carrier frequencies, how a lethal autosomal recessive disorder is inherited, and how such mutations are spread in a population. Furthermore, she will show the risk of crossing two carriers producing an affected foal, carrier frequencies in different breeds, and the risk of an affected foal in relation to carrier frequencies. A disease-associated mutation could potentially spread quickly in the population, therefore there is a need for adequate breeding strategies so that the mutation does not spread in the population.

Sofia Mikko is a researcher in molecular genetics and has a strong interest in understanding the biology behind different traits and diseases in animals, primarily in horses. In her research she focuses on congenital traits and diseases with neurological and/or developmental functions, and she applies state-of-the-art molecular methods like large-scale genotyping and whole genome sequencing to detect mutations. Over the years, she has worked in many different projects to identify genes involved in immune response, equine sarcoid tumors, coat colors (eg. grey, silver dapple, and dun), naked foal syndrome, gaitedness, and other performance traits. In collaboration with the Swedish Warmblood Association she is currently investigating the carrier frequency of a mutation in the PLOD1 gene, which causes Warmblood Fragile Foal Syndrome. As the director of the service laboratory at Animal Breeding and Genetics, she has had extensive contact with horse breeders, breeding organizations and stakeholders when performing parentage testing and gene testing.

Sofia Mikko’s presentation on WFFS and other hereditary diseases in sport horse breeding will take place on Sunday, December 2 from 9.45 to 10.30 a.m., during the Horse Welfare Workshop at the WBFSH’s annual meeting and general assembly in Budapest, Hungary.

Live streaming of the annual meetings Not everyone interested in the presentations is able to make the journey to Budapest and, therefore, the WBFSH will be live-streaming selected meetings and seminars to the benefit of those not able to attend in person. The WBFSH has experienced an increasing focus and interest in the organisation and its work, and this will be the first live-streaming of their General Assembly and seminars in Budapest. It is expected that selected meetings at future annual meetings and other WBFSH events will also be live-streamed.

The 2019 WBFSH annual meetings and general assembly will take place at Tryon International Equestrian Centre in Tryon, NC – site of the 2018 World Equestrian Games.

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WBFSH President Jan Pedersen (Photo: Ridehesten.com) Other horse welfare topics: Sunday, December 2 9.00-9.45: Welfare – from a stallion selection point of view: Clinical relevance of routine stallion screening with focus on x-ray, endoscopy and skin problems (Gábor Bódó, professor of equine surgery at Vet. School Budapest) 9.45-10.30: Welfare - from a breeding point of view: WFFS and other hereditary diseases in sport horse breeding (Sofia Mikko, scientist at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) 11.00-11.45: Welfare – from a management point of view: Maternal transmission of behaviour (Janne Winther Christensen, scientist at University Aarhus and president of International Society for Equitation Science) 11.45-12.30: Welfare – global overview of ethics and responsibilities in horse sport – from birth to death (Roly Owers, chief executive of World Horse Welfare) CIGA Workshop (Collaborative Implementation of Genomic Applications in Sport Horse Breeding) Monday, December 3 1:00-4:00 p.m: Set up in 2017, the aim is to facilitate and support information sharing, collaboration, and cooperation among WBFSH member stud books in the areas of linear profiling, breeding evaluations, and genomic.

(Chaired by Emma Thorén Hellsten, with a report from the International Workshop on Linear Profiling and related activities by research Kathrin Stock).

The status on implementing genomic selection within the different studbooks will be presented by Sofia Mikko (SWB); Karina Christiansen (DWB); Inge Workel (OS); Danielle Arts (KWPN); Bérengère Lacroix (SF). Lastly, Parentage Testing – the move from microsatellite to SNP chip – pros and cons, presented by André Eggen, Illumina December 2018

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2018 DECEMBER 30/11-3/12 Budapest (HUN) WBFSH General Assembly Tel: +45 (0)87 475400 Fax: +45 (0)87 475410 www.wbfsh.org 6 Online (BEL) Hippochamp online breeding auction (foals, mares, embryos and youngsters) Tel: +32 477 693 773 bormans.management@gmail.com www.hippochamp.com 5-8 Vechta (GER) Oldenburg Winter Meeting Tel: +49 (0)441 93550 Fax: +49 (0)441 935599 info@oldenburger-pferde.com www.oldenburger-pferde.com 6-9 Geneva (SUI) CSI-W/Swiss Breed Classic Finale Tel: +41 (0)26 676 6340 Fax: +44 (0)26 676 6345 info@swisshorse.ch www.swisshorse.ch 7-9 Kreuth (GER) ZfDP Stallion Grading Tel: +49 (0)4231 82892 Fax: +49 (0)4231 5780 info@zfdp.de www.zfdp.de 8 Vechta (GER) 65th Oldenburg Winter Mixed Sales Tel: +49 (0)441 93550 Fax: +49 (0)441 935599 info@oldenburger-pferde.com www.oldenburger-pferde.com 8/9 Ankum (GER) 39th PSI Auction Tel: +49 (0)5462 74230 auction@psi-sporthorses.de www.psi-auction.de

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2019 JANUARY 17-19 Liege (BEL) BWP Stallion Selections (2nd phase) Tel: +32 (0)16 47 99 80 Fax: +32 (0)16 27 99 85 info@bwp.be / www.bwp.be 30-2/2 Ermelo (NED) KWPN Stallion Show Tel: +31 (0)341 255555 Fax: +31 (0)341 255535 info@kwpn.nl / www/kwpn.nl

MARCH 6-10 Herning (DEN) Danish Warmblood Stallion Show Tel: +45 (0)87 47 5400 Fax: +45 (0)87 47 5410 varmblod@varmblod.dk www.varmblod.dk 9/10 Lanaken (BEL) Zangersheide Open Days Tel: +32 (0)89 730 330 Fax: +32 (0)89 718 410 studbook@zangersheide.com www.zangersheide.com 14-16 Moorsele (BEL) BWP Stallion Selections (3rd phase) Tel: +32 (0)16 47 99 80 Fax: +32 (0)16 27 99 85 info@bwp.be / www.bwp.be

APRIL 4-7 Lanaken (BEL) Z-Tour CSI2*/1*, young horses and U25 showjumping Tel: +32 (0)89 730 330 Fax: +32 (0)89 718 410 studbook@zangersheide.com www.zangersheide.com 5/6 Vechta (GER) Oldenburg 90th Spring Elite Auction with 8th Saddle Licensing Tel: +49 (0)441 93550 Fax: +49 (0)441 935599 info@oldenburger-pferde.com

www.oldenburger-pferde.com 11-14 Lanaken (BEL) Z-Tour CSI2*/1*, young horses and U25 showjumping Tel: +32 (0)89 730 330 Fax: +32 (0)89 718 410 studbook@zangersheide.com www.zangersheide.com 18-21 Lanaken (BEL) Z-Tour CSI2*/1*, young horses and U25 showjumping Tel: +32 (0)89 730 330 Fax: +32 (0)89 718 410 studbook@zangersheide.com www.zangersheide.com

JUNE 12-15 Vechta (GER) Oldenburg Summer Meeting Tel: +49 (0)441 93550 Fax: +49 (0)441 935599 info@oldenburger-pferde.com www.oldenburger-pferde.com 15 Vechta (GER) Oldenburg 66th Summer Mixed Sales Tel: +49 (0)441 93550 Fax: +49 (0)441 935599 info@oldenburger-pferde.com www.oldenburger-pferde.com 23 Marl (GER) Zangersheide Germany foal championship Tel: +32 (0)89 730 330 Fax: +32 (0)89 718 410 studbook@zangersheide.com www.zangersheide.com 30 Westdorp (NED) Zangersheide Netherlands foal championship Tel: +32 (0)89 730 330 Fax: +32 (0)89 718 410 studbook@zangersheide.com www.zangersheide.com

JULY 14 Deauville (FRA) Zangersheide France foal championship Tel: +32 (0)89 730 330