APRIL 2011
Kate’s Knowledge - Stereotypic Behaviours in Horses Tash’s Training Tip - Keuring Lovely Loes’ Learnings Keuring Results
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When I was learning how to ride I was all alone and feeling very much on the outs. Dressage seemed like this other world I wasn’t good enough for, or allowed into. I felt like I couldn’t talk to other high level riders, as they would have no time for me, and I thought there was something wrong with me anyway. I thought no one else struggled with riding, and I was all alone in my problems. I laugh now looking back on it, as my thoughts weren’t reality, but at the time I was quite stuck and unmotivated. So to assist you in your riding journey, I have developed and have now very excitedly launched the Your Riding Success Club! To celebrate the launch of my Club, I am giving you the opportunity to try one month for only $1.00!! :) This is only available to those of you who take action this week, as this special offer ends on Tues 12th April (where the price will go back to the original $17.00 per month). Click here to join for only $1.00!! In this club you will see what I – an FEI rider – goes through every day. It’s not all good and it’s certainly not all easy! But I give you an honest, no holds barred, warts and all, inside, behind the scenes look at my training. Now what use is that? I tell you what has been happening, but then I give you THREE learnings that YOU can use to improve your riding today! You have me telling you how I get through, bad tests, let downs, setbacks, training issues, limiting thoughts and beliefs. All in the comfort of your own home. But of course that’s not all you get! Come on! You know I love to give the most value I can so you also get: ■
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IN THIS ISSUE •PAGE 4: KEURING RESULTS 2011 •PAGE 5: TASH’S TRAINING TIP • PAGE 6-7: KIND KATE’S KNOWLEDGE STEREOTYPIC BEHAVIOURS • PAGE 8 - NOTE FROM TASH AND 2011 DATES • PAGE 9 - LOVELY LOES’ LEARNINGS
From the Editor
Wow!! Can’t believe it is April already! You might think with the Keuring over and done with for another two years, and the breeding season over, we would be getting the quiet time of the year...but you would be so wrong!! :) Natasha is launching the first workshop of her Dream Team in a couple of weeks (if you have missed out, we are planning to have another team starting in another month or so - look out for our ad in Chaff Chat this month!) and we are flat out preparing for that - check out the photos in next months Mag! Last week was absolute pandemonium with preparations for the Keuring, so thanks very much for all of the helpers - we couldn’t have done it without you! I would like to say a big thankyou to Nadeen Davis, who has taken some lovely photos of our horses while we are at the Keuring (see a gorgeous one of Jorrit below) and to Jessie who in between helping us get horses ready took some shots for us! If anyone has any photos of Ebony Park horses at the Keuring last week that they would like to share with us, we would love to see them and perhaps put them up on the website! You can email them to to info@ebonyparkstud.com.au Until next month!
• PAGE 10 - PHOTO GALLERY
• PAGE 11 - 5 MINUTES WITH IMKE SCHELLEKENSBARTELS
To Your Dreams Becoming Reality,
Kate Langdon
• PAGE 12 - CONTACT INFORMATION
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AUSTRALIAN & NZ KEURING 2011 RESULTS!! Congratulations to every gorgeous Friesian and their owners that attended the Keurings all over the country in the last few weeks! They all looked spectacular and it was great to see so much support for the breed! Here are the results (WA isn’t included as we don’t have results just yet!). For explanations on what everything means, please refer to previous EP magazines!! :)
TASMANIA 080 Isis van Wallbrook - 2nd premie 081 Fenna van Wallbrook - 2nd premie 082 Femke van Berkley - 2nd premie 085 Anneka - 3rd premie 083 Vanja - 3rd premie 084 Vamke-Giske - not admitted to studbook Champion - Isis van Wallbrook Reserve Champion - Fenna van Wallbrook SA 065 Hermione van Gelder 1st premie 066 Isabel van Gelder - 2nd premie 067 Karlijn van e’Oldambt - studbook – no premie 068 Jewel - studbook 3rd premie 069 Silka S - studbook 3rd premie 070 Pascalle fan stal Ghia - not admitted to studbook 071 Nynke fan Augsbuurt - studbook no premie 072 Rosalien N fan de Ketting studbook 3rd premie 073 Geluk P.H. studbook 1st premie - ster 075 Ulbe - no ster State champion Geluk P.H. sponsored by Pryde's Easifeed Reserve champion Hermione van Gelder NZ South: 051 - Wimke fan Limbrook - not studbook 052 - Damian - observed only North: 055 - Hugo - 2nd premie 057 - Teora TK - studbook 061 - Fernando of Glenrose Friesians - observed only 062 - Sytske - 3rd premie 060 - Xodo - no ster Champion: Sytsche Roos fan d' Ald - sponsored by Pryde's Easifeed Reserve: Teora TK
QUEENSLAND 02 Gilbertof Sikisikawa Friesians 3rd premie 18 Kiora of Cacharel - 2nd premie 03 Garielle of Sikisikawa Friesians2nd premie 05 Else BOF - 3rd premie 19 Isadora - 3rd premie 01 Eris - 3rd premie 30 Dakari of Graymayre Stud - 3rd premie 31 Deja Voo of Graymare Stud - 2nd premie 04 Esme van Gelder - 2nd premie 11 Chevelle - 3rd premie 06 Thesse H v Bellingeweer - 2nd premie 07 Taja - studbook 08 Yasmine van Gelder - 3rd premie 09 Zaretta - 2nd premie 13 Argent - studbook 10 Yasmin BOF - no studbook 12 Maaike - 2nd premie 16 Yasper van Gelder - no ster State Champion - Thesse H v Bellingeweer - sponsored by Pryde's Easifeed Reserve Champion - Zaretta TK NSW 27 Merel L. van Stal Linde - 2nd premie 28 Helen-Christina - 3rd premie 29 Anneke-Johanna - 3rd premie 32 Merel L. van Stal Linde studbook - np 34 Anneke-Djura H - studbook - np 35 Zalika TK - not admitted to stb 36 Wietske-Helen - studbook - np 37 Klaske-Nina - np - remain studbook 38 Metsje fan Twillens - 3rd premie 42 Jelco - remain foalbook 44 Fardau - Geartsje N - np 45 Willemien fan it Huningspaed 3rd premie IBOP certificate awarded to Jacana TK - 85 points NSW Champion - Metsje fan Twillens - sponsored by Pryde's Easifeed Reserve - Willemien fan it Huningspaed
VICTORIA! 090 Jos of Kardella – 2nd premie 092 Hercules of Ebony Park – 2nd premie 095 Image of Kardella – 2nd premie 096 Glory – 2nd premie 098 Helena of Ebony Park – 3rd premie 100 Illusion of Ebony Park – 3rd premie 101 Intrique of Ebony Park – 2nd premie 110 Zwenneke fan Wildcroft – 1st premie stb ster 108 Vamke fan Wildcroft – 3rd premie stb 111 Willow of Blackwood – stb 106 Vrolijk fan Wildcoft – 3rd premie stb 105 Teela – stb 107 Vrouwke fan Wildcroft – 3rd premie stb 112 Yuliya – 3rd premie stb 109 Tineke van Akarana – stb 113 Zelke fan Wildcroft – 1st premie ster stb 103 Deirdre of Sheppard’s Hill – 3rd premie 127 Wouter fan Wildcroft – 3rd premie stb 124 Sybren fan Wildcroft – 2nd premie ster stb 123 Paulus Sybren fan Wildcoft – ster 128 Willem fan Wildcroft – ster 122 Klaas fan Bokkum – no ster 129 Zeus of Ebony Park – no ster 125 Tyske fan Wildcroft – no ster 126 Wilbert van Gelder – no ster Champion - Zelke fan Wildcroft – sponsored by Pryde’s Easifeed (champion rug) and Carpentar Gold (saddle blanket) Reserve Champion – Zwenneke fan Wildcroft - sponsored by Carpenter Gold (showrug)
Source: ANZFHS Website
Loes and Jorrit at the Keuring
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Terrific Tash’s Tremendous Training Tip Well, I thought this month I would include some of the things I learnt at this years Keuring. I'm not sure how much you know about Keurings, and my guess is it could probably be the same as me. Six years ago when I imported the three Friesians from Holland, I had never heard of a studbook, the KFPS, any society, anything to do with ster or anything else. I was looking for a dressage Friesian and that was my only focus. When I brought the horses over I was told I should register them, I should show them, and I had to do this thing called a Keuring. Ever since then I have participated in the Keurings... but never really 'getting' it. You know, when you do something and you just don't get the fuss, you don't get the whole idea of it! I know! I run a Friesian stud, I should be 'into' it, but it’s just not me... maybe time for some delegating!!! :) But anyway here is what I learnt at this years Keuring: 1. If you are to present a young stallion for ster you should do an IBOP test. An IBOP test looks at the Friesians suitability to do dressage, and this score is in the judges mind when they score the horse in the class
to upgrade it to Ster, so it’s like your upper hand. Perhaps if your horse goes better ridden, then they forgive him in the class if he doesn't show as well. It just helps the judges assess the horse. It can also be hard as these young stallions are just three and it can be a lot of pressure to put them under to be ready to do a dressage test. Friesians do mature later and I prefer to not rush these things, but as we only have a Keuring every two years you need to make the decision on each horse if they are mature enough or not. 2. They judge the foal partly by the mother. I didn’t know this; I thought they judged the foal purely on the qualities of the foal. But I was told when I brought my 6 month old filly to be judged, who had been weaned for a week, that they could't really judge her properly as they needed to see the mother! How do you know this? Well, you know this if someone tells you... so now you all know! Again, with only one Keuring it’s hard to get all your foals under 6 months at the right time, so you may have to wait another 2 years before you present your horse. I was talking to Hans Maes, the president of the ANZFHS, and he is lovely, as he said to me, you are welcome to ask
any questions you want, and for anyone who wants to get involved with the KFPS, Hans is the one to go to they support you and help you as much they can, but I explained to him that what you don’t know, you don’t know, so how do you know that you need to ask a question?! Maybe I will write the next Keuring for dummies special! :) My belief is a good score at the Keuring doesn't mean you will have the next Grand Prix horse. it also doesn't mean the horse loves to go on trail rides and cuddle you for hours. EVERY horse is different, and not every horse can be ster, but when you are looking for your next horse, you need to look at what you want out of it, what you want it for, and if you think the one you are looking at can do exactly that job. To your success
Tash
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Kind Kate’s Knowledge - Stereotypic Behaviours Before the horse was domesticated, it was an animal that spent a large proportion of its time grazing, eating for up to 18 hours per day. Since then the horse has been used to assist humans in many activities, including war, agriculture, and more recently for entertainment and sport. Although most horses are able to adapt readily to their environment, domestication has caused a restriction in movement and a minimisation of the time a horse is allowed to spend consuming food for energy. In a stabled environment, this divergence from a horses natural instincts is even more pronounced: vulnerability through isolation, prevention of escape, and restriction of foraging time. These conflictions seem to be linked to the prevalence of stable ʻvicesʼ or stereotypic behaviours in a significant proportion of the stabled horse population. Stereotypic behaviours are those behaviours that some horses exhibit which are repetitive and serve no obvious function to the animal. It has long been thought that stereotypic behaviours in horses such as cribbing and weaving were able to be ʻtransferredʼ from one animal to another, as horses are social animals, and react as a herd together through so-called grouprelated behaviour. In recent years, the debate as to the cause of stereotypic behaviours has continued with the general agreement that it is the prevention of a horseʼs inbuilt natural urge to behave a certain way that leads to the development of abnormal behaviours, and that these behaviours are not able to be learnt from other horses – rather it is the management practices for horses in the same facility that leads to a higher rate of stereotypic behaviour. Stable vices or stereotypies can be separated into two broad categories: oral (involving the mouth) and locomotor (involving the legs). The main types of vices in both categories are described and discussed below.
LOCOMOTOR Weaving Weaving involves the horse standing in one place and rocking from side to side, shifting weight from one forefoot to the other and back again, sometimes involving the hindquarters as well as the swaying of the head. This habit is thought of as a vice. Aside from its unappealing aesthetics, it expends a great deal of energy; the horse can become lame due to the extra pressure on the forelegs causing muscle damage and abnormal bone strain. Some experts believe that weaving is a product of too much food (or energy in the food) and insufficient regular exercise; whereas others say weaving is as a result of a bored horse waiting for food - there appears to be an increase in the prevalence of weaving in anticipation of feed time. In all cases, this behaviour seems to be as a result of poor management practices, coupled with the fact that a stable is not the natural environment of the horse; it has no c l o s e c o m p a n y, f e e d i n g i s restricted and the horse is in a confined space where there is a reduced opportunity to expend energy Domestic horses are provided with more easily consumable, high energy feeds, hence spending less time feeding than in a natural environment. Therefore stabled horses need to occupy the remaining time in each day. To make the horse spend more time consuming food, feeding hay from nets with small holes, making the horse work harder to obtain food, or feeding concentrates mixed with chaff, or giving the horse lower energy feeds that take longer to consume. A simple solution is allowing the horse to spend more time in the paddock. With a horse that is a well established weaver, a weaving grill on the top half of the stable door is often fitted, to prevent the lateral movement of weaving. The success of this method is limited, as it only prevents the horse from weaving when it has its head over the stable door.
A study aimed at combating the cause of weaving considered increasing the visual horizons of the horse by opening up the sides of the stable boxes, as well as having windows at the back of the boxes. The windows allowed the horse to engage in more environmental activities, such as interaction with companions, resulting in a reduction of the available time for weaving behaviour. Another method that has been recently tested successfully is the use of a mirror to control weaving behaviour! The advantage of this method over altering the stables to increase the horseʼs visual horizons is that it is cheaper! Box Walking This nervous behaviour is considered a vice as it consumes a great deal of energy. The horse paces around the box as if in a trance, and will often be oblivious to people, making box walking a potentially dangerous behaviour. Often horses exhibiting this behaviour will also display a loss of condition. Generally box walking is displayed when a horse is fed a highly concentrated diet, but is not exercised enough to burn off the e x c e s s e n e r g y, e v e n t u a l l y becoming ʻaddictedʼ to the behaviour. This behaviour may also be an indication that the horse is unhappy or stressed.
A foodball occupies a horse that gets bored easily (Source: horse-
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Kind Kate’s Knowledge - Stereotypic Behaviours There are a number of ways that box walking can be contained. Car tires can be placed at intervals around the floor of the stall, or hang bottles from the ceiling; this slows down the movement of the horse, encouraging it to stand still in the box. However, although these methods make it awkward for the horse to pace, box walking may be a method of coping with another problem, and hence the cause of the behaviour needs to be addressed. Feeding more roughage with less energy, or allowing the horse to spend more time in a paddock may be more long-term solutions to this behavioural problem ORAL Cribbing and Windsucking Cribbing involves a horse biting its upper incisor teeth against an object, pulling backwards and audibly sucking/gulping in air. Windsucking is the same but the horses doesnʼt hold onto anything with its teeth. These behaviours are thought to lead to colic and other digestive problems. Cribbing and windsucking become obsessive, and often occur around the time of a concetrated feed. Cribbing and windsucking are less than desirable behaviours, as they may not only lead to a loss of condition, but also the hypertrophy of the strap muscles in the neck, and abnormal wear of the upper incisors in the case of cribbing. Windsucking and cribbing may be as a reaction to a stressor, or due to insufficient roughage or bulk food being provided in the diet. It has also been suggested that cribbing and windsucking could be inherited, explaining in part why there are horses that do not display these behaviours even when another horse under the same conditions does. In its natural environment, the horse grazes for much of the day and saliva is produced all the time. Many performance horses are fed concentrates as the main source of food, as they are high in energy quick for the
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horse to consume. However, these concentrates allow only a short period of time for the horse to produce saliva (which is alkaline), hence causing the stomach to become more acidic. Cribbing is thought to be a substitute, as this behaviour causes the horse to produce saliva. A windsucking strap can be fitted, fastened around the neck up under the throat, preventing the strap muscles from contracting and hence preventing the behaviour. “Crib-Stop” can be painted onto all horizontal surfaces to prevent the horse from cribbing. High fibre feeds are thought to reduce the incidence of cribbing by increasing the time available to forage. In light of the proposal that cribbing and windsucking may be as a result of acidity in the stomach, there is some evidence that treatment with antacids may cause a reduction in t h e s e behaviours. Cribbing Another option is to use a foraging device such as the ʻFoodballʼ, which is a cylinder shaped casing containing an internal food source that can be accessed through a food dispensing hole. This was found to take up more of the animals time in ʻforagingʼ to obtain the high fibre, pelleted food in the device, reducing the time spent cribbing or windsucking. The really annoying thing about windsucking is that once the horse starts doing it, it becomes addictive, as it has been shown to release endorphins in the horse, making him feel good!! Wood-Chewing As well as being a destructive behaviour in that a horse chews on horizontal wooden surfaces, this habit can be dangerous as the horse can swallow splinters of wood that it has chewed off.
Wood-chewing results in the abnormal wear of the incisor teeth, and in the long term may prevent the horse from feeding properly. This behaviour is common in horses that are under five years of age because new teeth are cutting through, but may develop into a habit for the horse is proper management is not exercised. Chemicals can be used on all wooden horizontal surfaces to try and prevent the wood chewing from occurring. Alternatively, metal coverings could be used to cover these surfaces. Often electric fences are used in paddocks where the horses are wood chewing, to precent the horse from even approaching the fence. However, these are preventative measures that do not look at the cause of the problem. Increasing the fibre intake of the horse by providing less concentrated foods and more roughage is a better long-term solution, as is hanging a mineral block from the roof as something to play with. Although stereotypic behaviours in horses come in all different forms, they all appear to be indicative of the same cause: poor stable management. In order to prevent the occurrence of these undesirable behaviours, the natural environment of the horse needs to be mimicked as much as possible, to reduce the stress and frustration that may lead to abnormal behaviour - remember, once you have a horses with a stereotypic behaviour, it is very hard to stop! An increase in the time available for foraging, along with as much social contact and exercise as possible is a good way to prevent these behaviours. To Your Dreams Becoming Reality
Kate Langdon For a full list of sources, please contact Ebony Park
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DIARY DATES FRI 1 APRIL FRIESIAN GALA FRI 1 & SAT 2 APRIL KEURING SAT 16-SUN 17 APRIL - DREAM TEAM WORKSHOP (PLATINUM 18 & 19 COMPETITION AT LARA (ABE IS COMPETING) COMPETITION VICTORIAN DRESSAGE CLUB (ABE IS COMPETING)
Note from Tash
Hi superstars! :)
Well March has come to a close and with it the Keuring and the Gala night are over! All the foals, mothers and stallions were exceptional, with Famke, Jorrit and Abe performed fantastically in the gala. It was so much fun to come together with other friesian riders and put together something like the gala. Grace is to be commended for all the hard work she put in, and everyone who rode or helped... thank you!!! It’s one of those things that needs everyone to help out to make it happen!!! :) Time now to focus on some other projects we have been itching to get into for you! I need to thank so many people for their assistance last week including Kim, Brittany, Jessie, Kim, Sarah, Ginger, Loes, Kate, Cathy, Phil!!! There would have been nothing organised and prepared without you, so I deeply thank you for everything you did!!! :) I would also like to congratulate Sue on her purchase of Paris. I know she is going to the very best of homes and I can’t wait to hear how your journey progresses! I wish you all a sensational April with your horses, stay warm, have fun and enjoy! To your success,
Natasha )
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LOVELY LOES’ LEARNINGS Hi guys! We have been so busy with so much going on this month! It was great to be a part of the Victorian Keuring - it is very different here than it is in Holland! :) I was also fortunate to be able to participate in a number of acts in the Friesian Gala on Friday night (1st April). The first act was the Quadrille, which involved 4 Friesians (black of Loes leading Gjanna and her foal course - I rode one of our mares, Famke) and Hercules at the Keuring 4 Andalusians (grey) - but at the last minute one of the Andalusians had to pull out due to float issues, and so we had to bring it down to 3 and 3 - with only an hour until we had to perform, it was a bit of a rush to make sure everything still worked!!! :) Then after Tash and Abe’s awesome Kur performance, Tash and I rode the stallions (Tash on Abe, and I rode Jorrit) in a Pas De Deux in red corsets, and the stallions with red leg bandages on - it was so much fun (see the pic in the gallery!). I had a great time learning the carefully choreographed movements, and the boys were so well behaved on the night, it was a real thrill to be able to be a part of it! :) Loes and Lotte on Paris
Lotte
The other news I have, is that I recently got a puppy!! Her name is Lotte and she is a cavoodle. Check out the photo of us on Paris! :)
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Jorrit poking his tongue out!!
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Tash and Loes on Jorrit and Abe at the Gala
Loes and Jorrit (by Nadeen)
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5 Minutes with Imke Schellekens-Bartels In keeping with the Dutch theme for international dressage riders, this months interview is with a dressage rider that has been to the last two olympic games, Imke Schellekens-Bartels. Her mother Tineke started off as an eventer, but later went on to compete in 4 Olympic games in dressage. At what age did you start competing, and in what discipline? I started competing in dressage, at the age of 17 in Switzerland. Why Riding? Riding belonged to the daily practice of mother Tineke. When Imke finished high school, she went for ten months to Kyra Kyrklund being in Flyinge in Sweden by that time, to find out whether a professional life in horses would be her life. When she returned home, she had made her choice: a rider she liked to be! Most memorable riding experience? From my recent acquaintance to famous piano virtuoso Wibi Soerjadi, comes my most memorable riding story. The way he talked about his feelings watching Sunrise and me training and translated those feelings into music was too inspiring! His used words like movement, energy, power, balance and most of all future promises and harmony. And he translated this in his unique theme for the Freestyle of Sunrise and me which we rode for the first time at the World CupTM Qualifier in Amsterdam 2007 which we won. The nicest was his remark that when he is touched by a movement or pattern of Sunrise, the only thing he really wants to do is to play the piano. It was his way to communicate, just like we riders feel we like to express ourselves through our horses. Just like he only wants to play, we only want to ride when we are happy. Our acquaintance has deepened my riding feelings in a different way. Hobbies? Making photographs and reading, two hobbies that perfectly go together with travelling to a show. Superstitions? Of course I rely on a certain timing and ritual, but I have taken other things out of my system as it should not be something which is in your mind. Putting your trust in wearing a Lancet bracelet or Gestion belt should not take your thoughts Most influential person and why? My parents. because they raised me and gave me the feeling and knowledge for horses Most looked up to person and why? In riding both Anky van Grunsven and Isabell Werth. And Kyra Kyrklund. Because they never give up and show they are capable to come back and bring new horses after their first Olympic winner Ambitions during sporting career? Winning an Olympic gold medal Ambitions after sporting career? Being a mother. The children of my brother Gijs and sister in law Esther are adorable Source: FEI Official Website
Imke and her mare Sunrise Photo: Dirk Caremans
FACTS DOB: 15.03.1977 Country: Netherlands Website: www.academybartels.com Current World Ranking: 51 Education: Master class riding Deurne Current Trainers: My mother Tineke and Sjef Janssen
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YOUNGSTOCK STILL AVAILABLE We currently have a number of young crossbred Friesians - this could be your next dream horse!! We have 4 two year olds and 3 yearlings that need to go to a wonderful new home! Click here to see our catalogue. Does anyone have photos of Ebony Park horses at the Keuring that they would like to share with us? We would love to put them up on our website! :)
If you are interested in any of our young stock, or if you have anything you would like to share with us, please email us on info@ebonyparkstud.com.au or visit www.ebonyparkstud.com.au or call Kate on 0422 227 364 As always we would like to thank our sponsors:
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