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39. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Christopher Hector has a new rant…</strong></p>
40. <p style="font-weight: 400;">The World Anti Doping Authority has become an out-of-control and vicious bureaucracy, happy to persecute individual athletes &#8211; ask runner, Peter Bol, or swimmer, Shayna Jack, they both were banned and had their lives turned upside down, before WADA conceded they were innocent. But it’s a different story when faced with the might of the Chinese Sports Federation, Oh! so twenty three of your swimmers proved positive to a banned substance, we’ll just hide that result and let them go and compete at the Games, after all, our sponsors love records being broken.</p>
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42. <p style="font-weight: 400;">The latest to fall victim of WADA is dressage rider Morgan Barbançon Mestre, banned for three months by the French affiliate of WADA, AFLD. But let’s get one thing clear, Morgan is not accused on ingesting anything untoward, her crime is that she did not let the anti-doping authorities know where she was. She told eurodressage that she never tried to avoid reporting her whereabouts:</p>
43. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“&#8221;Since 2012 I’m on <a href="https://www.wada-ama.org/en/what-we-do/adams">ADAMS (WADA) program</a> so that means since 12 years I have to tell them where I am everyday every moment of the day so that they can come and test me,&#8221; Morgan told Eurodressage. &#8220;In 12 years I have never complained and filled in everything, in 2022 I had had issues changing my localisation while I was in Leipzig and they came at home to test me while I was in Leipzig, second was on the 30th of September the system hadn’t registered my localisation and they realized it on the 3rd of October so they count it as a no show since the 1st and 2nd of October was not filled in. 3rd was when I was in Omaha having bad internet connection and no network while getting there only WhatsApp when I tried to change my localisation I couldn’t receive the SMS of connection and they showed up at home and I was in Omaha so counted it as a no show even though I was tested in Omaha the next day.&#8221;</p>
44. <p style="font-weight: 400;">The suspension will seriously interfere with Morgan’s preparations for the Paris Games, and may result in her being declared ineligible for the French Team. Pause a while to think, while I understand full well why it is necessary to protect horses by testing them for harmful, performance enhancing medications, what on earth could a rider take to enhance his or her performance? All riders are subject to the drug laws of their own country, that’s more than enough, they don’t need a bloated bureaucracy breathing down their neck… CH</p>
45. <p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Here’s an interview I conducted with Morgan… photos digishots, Roslyn Neave and Stefano Secchi</strong></p>
46. <p style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-46191" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Morgan-Barbancon-GOTH19L102258.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="483" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Morgan-Barbancon-GOTH19L102258.jpg 600w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Morgan-Barbancon-GOTH19L102258-300x242.jpg 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Morgan-Barbancon-GOTH19L102258-373x300.jpg 373w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></p>
47. <p style="font-weight: 400;">If you thought Morgan Barbançon was some sort of little rich girl, getting plonked on made ponies, think again. Morgan is a serious player, okay she obviously has financial backing, but she is no dolly rider, she has paid her dues with some of the world’s best trainers and along the way created her own training philosophy. Oh yeah, if you thought her current frontline, Sir Donnerhall II was a push button get on and ride, think again, Morgan made the horse, starting as a six year old, and then she and her family brought the stallion back from what the vets had decided was a career, even life, ending injury.</p>
48. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Share her story…</p>
49. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Morgan has been on a high ever since Doha , where in a split decision she finished second in the freestyle, but she left Qatar with new found confidence in her stallion, Sir Donnerhall II.</p>
50. <p style="font-weight: 400;">I caught up with her in Göteborg, at the World Cup final, but had already been impressed with her show in Qatar.</p>
51. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“I think Doha was one of the best feelings I’ve had with my horse since I’ve had him. He is improving, it’s not yet perfect, it is far from being perfect – dressage is only about improving, trying to reach perfection, but I must say the horse has improved so, so much, especially in the piaffe, which was never his strong point. He is never going to piaffe for a ten, or a nine, but he can easily piaffe for a seven, seven and a half, but the rest is so nice with him. He is really starting to give his all now. He’s feeling great here in Göteborg, so touch wood, we’ll see how the Grand Prix goes tomorrow, but I have a really, really nice feeling.”</p>
52. <p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>I was watching you warm up and compete in Doha, and I was thinking, it is difficult because the horse has so much scope, so much to give…</em></p>
53. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“It is all about keeping him together, that’s the key, and keeping him fresh. Happy, fresh and together. If I have him under himself, really collected and connected, I can ride the changes as big as I want them and he just won’t lose them anymore, but if I lose him in the corner, and I have him a little bit long at the start of the diagonal, then I’m screwed. Then I don’t reach the end with those big changes, I have no chance. With him, it’s all about the preparation in every single corner. Once he is in the corner, and I have him connected, under himself, then okay, I’m going, and I can ride those big huge one tempi, even twos, and he’ll just go through. It’s the same in the extended, if he’s there, then he goes and it is mega.”</p>
54. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“It’s very difficult to ride him, in the sense that he is always on a fine line, it can quickly drop to terrible, but just as quickly to mega in one second as well. It’s all about the preparation, it’s nice, he is really expressive which can go with you, or against you.</p>
55. <p style="font-weight: 400;">I have been riding him since he was six. I took him over after he won the bronze medal at the six year old World Championships. So he is self-made, he is my first self-made Grand Prix horse, so I know him inside out.”</p>
56. <p style="text-align: center;"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-45378" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/MorganPassage.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="692" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/MorganPassage.jpg 700w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/MorganPassage-300x297.jpg 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/MorganPassage-303x300.jpg 303w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></p>
57. <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Gus competing at Doha</em></p>
58. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“I know the mistake is going to happen before it happens. In Doha, I started the one tempis, and I felt him taking over and getting longer and I had no chance of getting him back together. That’s why I try to focus as much as I can, on preparing the exercise, because once I’m in it, it is very difficult to fix it. It’s a good thing, because when he has a good exercise, it is good from the beginning to the end. It’s not like it starts good and it ends bad, or starts bad and ends good, it is not a half and half with him, it’s all bad, or all good.”</p>
59. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-58978" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/PaintedBlack2.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="558" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/PaintedBlack2.jpg 700w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/PaintedBlack2-300x239.jpg 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/PaintedBlack2-376x300.jpg 376w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></p>
60. <p style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><em>Without being rude to Painted Black, your previous ride,, Sir Donnerhall is a rather different style of horse…</em></p>
61. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“He is so different and that’s what I love about my horses, every single one of them is not the same, at all. I have from lazy to super hot, to very naughty to very sweet, from willing to work to not willing to work. All of my horses are different people. They all have their own habits, and their own ways, their own warm-ups – I cannot warm them up the same way.”</p>
62. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-67900" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/PAINTED-BLACKretires.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="559" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/PAINTED-BLACKretires.jpg 600w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/PAINTED-BLACKretires-300x280.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></p>
63. <p style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><em>Painted Black – horse of a lifetime &#8211; retires at the Europeans<br />
64. (Photo Kenneth Braddick &#8211; Dressage News)</em></p>
65. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“Okay, Painted was the horse of a life time, he brought me to where I never thought I could go, and he’s taught me everything. He taught me how to ride the horses I have now. With PB there was something between him and me. I love this horse to bits, he is always going to have a special place in my heart. But Gus, the stallion I have here…”</p>
66. <p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>Gus!?</em></p>
67. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“Sir Donnerhall II is too long so we call him Gus, you know the fat little funny mouse in Cinderella? He reminds me of him…”</p>
68. <p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>But he’s not fat, he’s really leggy and elegant…</em></p>
69. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“That’s why, it is the total opposite, but he reminds me of the mouse because he is extremely clumsy, EXTREMELY clumsy. My horses are not horses for us, they are human beings. We spend a lot of time with them, that’s why I can tell you he makes me think of Gus, because even if he is a beautiful stallion, imposing and handsome, but I know him so well that I know he is not what he looks, he’s clumsy, he’s friendly, he loves to play and he is a big wuss. Not with riding, when you are on him, he is not scared of anything, but when he is in hand, a little mouse will scare him – <em>oh my god, mummy take me in your arms, I’m really scared.</em>”</p>
70. <p style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-46189" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Morgan-Barbancon-GOTH19L102249.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="333" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Morgan-Barbancon-GOTH19L102249.jpg 500w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Morgan-Barbancon-GOTH19L102249-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Morgan-Barbancon-GOTH19L102249-450x300.jpg 450w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /></p>
71. <p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>He’s a bit big to take into your arms…</em></p>
72. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“I know, but if I could, I would, I love him so much, and he’s got that special place in my heart, because he had a really big accident in Falsterbo in 2013, where we thought that night, we will have to put him down. He got stuck in his box actually. So he went to the clinic, he was operated on, and they told us, he will never be a sports horse again. He would be good for the field. But I am extremely stubborn, and when you tell me no, I say yes, I’ll try. So I tried to ride him again, and tried trot him out, and he was a mess at the start, and I thought to myself, maybe they are right, but with the equitrainer, and the spa, and the physios and the riding, and all the support the family gave him, we slowly started getting him back in shape and trotting and cantering. Then it was the changes, oh my god, his left hind leg was so weak that he couldn’t jump through.”</p>
73. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“Then I started trying to ride him more and more and I managed. Then I said, okay, I am going to start him in small tour. I couldn’t ride a pirouette, pirouette was always a hassle. Okay, I’ll go home and I will work on it, and slowly it got better. He got Limes Disease twice! So he was out for a long time but we never gave up on him.”</p>
74. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“He actually really picked up the work in January 2016, that’s when he really started working properly and he went to his first Grand Prix in July, 2016. He’s a fighter.”</p>
75. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“It was a mess the first Grand Prixs, then I got really badly injured, stuck in the stirrup and got dragged, so I was a little bit out for a while. I still kept on riding but I didn’t want to show. Then we gave him a little break, then we started working again, getting everything back together.”</p>
76. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“We qualified for the 2018 World Cup finals, which was a huge achievement for us, especially with a horse that was supposed to be put down in 2013. He has a big story behind him, that nobody really talks about, which I find really sad because he deserves it. They don’t know what this horse went through… they said, he can’t piaffe, he can’t this and that &#8211; but  just remember what happened to him, and you will realise how amazing it is that this horse is here right now, doing what he is doing.”</p>
77. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“Also for us, the family, for not giving up on him, because it would have been easier when he comes back from the clinic, okay never a sports horse again, fine, go in the field, make babies. Voila. But no, we didn’t give up on him. We knew he would do it. Many times I was told, he’ll never be a Grand Prix horse… But I believed in him, he will be a Grand Prix horse, it might take a bit of time, but he will be. So he has a big place in my heart.”</p>
78. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-46198" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/MorganCloser.jpg" alt="" width="650" height="650" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/MorganCloser.jpg 650w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/MorganCloser-150x150.jpg 150w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/MorganCloser-300x300.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px" /></p>
79. <p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>What drove you to be a dressage rider?</em></p>
80. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“I love the sport. I love riding and I love my horses more than anything. My mother was a rider, and my father was a rider, they both stopped, but maybe it is in the genes, this passion because from a very little girl, I don’t remember my life without horses. I never played with Barbies, I never played with dolls, I only had horses – I had a collection of 200 little horses and played always with the horses. Even in school, they got worried about me, because I would put stuff in my mouth, and reins, and have the other kids trot me round. Seriously. Like I would take wheelbarrows and a harness, and put my little sister in the wheelbarrow and carry her around. I destroyed my parents garden because I pulled out all the chairs to the garden, and with all the brooms and every stick I could find, I would make myself a jumping course, so I would do jumping – and then I was into three day eventing – so I would ride a dressage test, and I would go in the woods and jump some tree trunks, run through the water… crazy.”</p>
81. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“I got my first pony when I was six years old.  A little Welsh pony, he was blind in one eye, a blue eye and a black eye, half blind. He was a pony at the Pony Club, he was so beautiful that I fell in love with him, but he was extremely naughty. I would fall from him three or four times a day because he would stop, turn around, because he was scared of everything, he couldn’t see. The club estimated that the pony was too dangerous to have because he would throw all the kids off, he’s too dangerous, so they wanted to sell the pony. I wouldn’t have it because I loved the pony, and my mother fell in love with the pony, so we bought the pony. And that was the story of my first pony.”</p>
82. <p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>Where were you living at the time?</em></p>
83. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“Geneva, I grew up in Geneva. I was five years in Germany and that’s when I started riding horses with Jean (Bemelmans), I was thirteen when I went there. Then when I was eighteen, I was done with my IB (<em>International Baccalaureate)</em>. I went to the International School in Geneva, so I was flying or driving up and down every weekend, every weekend from when I was ten years old until I was eighteen because I still had to go to school during the week, because I had the normal life of a student until I was eighteen.”</p>
84. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“Then I moved to Holland where I stopped my studies for a year and a half to prepare for the London Games. I was nineteen when I went to the Games. It was amazing, it was the experience of a lifetime. I will always remember it, so young to have the chance to do it, with a horse that carried me around – it was fantastic. Now I’ve moved back to Geneva where I am building up my own business there, around horses of course.”</p>
85. <p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>But you train with Dorothee Schneider in Germany…</em></p>
86. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“She’s four hours away. Every two weeks I go for a few days, train with a few horses, then I come home, and she flies over as well, so that we can train with all the horses. And I see her at the shows…”</p>
87. <p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>She is such a cool professional…</em></p>
88. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“I love her, she is really cool, and I get along super well with her. We really have the same philosophy of riding, the way of riding and how we see our horses.”</p>
89. <p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>It must have been a bit of a change for you, coming out of (stage whisper) Holland…</em></p>
90. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“You know I’m the type, I learn everywhere I go. Everybody has their own ways, everybody has their own methods, if you look at every single rider riding here, there not two riding the same way. I’ve learned from many mega trainers, from Jean Bemelmans to Anky to Andreas Helgstrand… and even though I change course some times, it was important for me to find my own way. I think I’ve found a mix-match between all the trainers I have had and took all the positive out of each of them and I built my own riding now.”</p>
91. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“I know exactly what I am looking for in a horse but I had the chance with Andreas to learn a lot, riding many types of horses, which I think is a strong point in a rider, to be able to ride all types of horses and not specially one type. I think at one point it was, now it&#8217;s time to fly with my own wings and build my own place.”</p>
92. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“I have a little stable in Geneva, next to the Lake, where it is beautiful, a beautiful view of the mountains which I really really missed during those years in Holland which is really flat, nothing. And I love skiing and it allows me to go skiing, and I am close to my sister. It’s my little place where I have a beautiful outdoor, indoor, twelve boxes, walker, tons and tons of paddocks.”</p>
93. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“I have my little routine. I have started teaching, I have some students that I am going to start following on the shows as well, try and combine that they come with me to certain shows. I want to develop a little bit the dressage in this area of Switzerland, and try to make dressage well-known as much as I can. I’m a little girl with big dreams.”</p>
94. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-67902" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SirDonnerhallLiesdown.jpg" alt="" width="650" height="650" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SirDonnerhallLiesdown.jpg 650w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SirDonnerhallLiesdown-300x300.jpg 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SirDonnerhallLiesdown-150x150.jpg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px" /></p>
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96. <p style="font-weight: 400;"><em><strong>International Horse Breeders offer a great range of top European stallions to Australian breeders, including a full brother to Sir Donnerhall II&#8230;</strong></em></p>
97. <p>Go to www.ihb.com.au</p>
98. <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-65996" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/SirDonnerhall.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="364" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/SirDonnerhall.jpg 500w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/SirDonnerhall-300x218.jpg 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/SirDonnerhall-412x300.jpg 412w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /></p>
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109. <link>https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/2024/04/new-book-heroes-the-foundation-sires-of-the-sporthorse/</link>
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113. <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 04:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
114. <category><![CDATA[Breaking News]]></category>
115. <category><![CDATA[Breeders Club]]></category>
116. <category><![CDATA[Dressage]]></category>
117. <category><![CDATA[Eventing]]></category>
118. <category><![CDATA[Show Jumping]]></category>
119. <category><![CDATA[The Big Issues]]></category>
120. <category><![CDATA[christopher hector]]></category>
121. <category><![CDATA[Heroes - the foundation sires]]></category>
122. <category><![CDATA[Sporthorse Breeding]]></category>
123. <category><![CDATA[Warmblood Breeding]]></category>
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126. <description><![CDATA[Christopher Hector's new book is now available on Amazon, 477 pages packed with information, stallion profiles, breeding interviews, exclusive graphics and lots and lots and lots of photographs...
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130. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-67831" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/HeroesCover.tif" alt="" /></p>
131. <p>&nbsp;</p>
132. <p>The companion volume to <em>Gottard to Garibaldi &#8211; the making of the modern Warmblood, </em>has just been published in digital form on Amazon, so it is available worldwide&#8230; Here are the chapters</p>
133. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-67834" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.09.22-pm.png" alt="" width="978" height="701" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.09.22-pm.png 978w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.09.22-pm-300x215.png 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.09.22-pm-768x550.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 978px) 100vw, 978px" /></p>
134. <p>&nbsp;</p>
135. <p style="text-align: center;">And a few more pages to give you a taste&#8230;</p>
136. <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-67835" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.09.48-pm-1024x598.png" alt="" width="640" height="374" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.09.48-pm-1024x598.png 1024w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.09.48-pm-300x175.png 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.09.48-pm-768x448.png 768w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.09.48-pm.png 1028w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></p>
137. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-67836" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.11.37-pm-1024x712.png" alt="" width="640" height="445" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.11.37-pm-1024x712.png 1024w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.11.37-pm-300x208.png 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.11.37-pm-768x534.png 768w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.11.37-pm.png 1036w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></p>
138. <p>&nbsp;</p>
139. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-67837" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.12.21-pm-1024x703.png" alt="" width="640" height="439" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.12.21-pm-1024x703.png 1024w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.12.21-pm-300x206.png 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.12.21-pm-768x527.png 768w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.12.21-pm.png 1036w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></p>
140. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-67838" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.12.56-pm.png" alt="" width="1007" height="719" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.12.56-pm.png 1007w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.12.56-pm-300x214.png 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.12.56-pm-768x548.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1007px) 100vw, 1007px" /></p>
141. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-67839" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.13.26-pm-1024x618.png" alt="" width="640" height="386" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.13.26-pm-1024x618.png 1024w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.13.26-pm-300x181.png 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.13.26-pm-768x463.png 768w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.13.26-pm.png 1038w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></p>
142. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-67840" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.13.46-pm-1024x729.png" alt="" width="640" height="456" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.13.46-pm-1024x729.png 1024w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.13.46-pm-300x214.png 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.13.46-pm-768x547.png 768w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.13.46-pm.png 1029w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></p>
143. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-67841" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.15.04-pm-1024x573.png" alt="" width="640" height="358" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.15.04-pm-1024x573.png 1024w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.15.04-pm-300x168.png 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.15.04-pm-768x430.png 768w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.15.04-pm.png 1047w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></p>
144. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-67842" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.15.27-pm-1024x663.png" alt="" width="640" height="414" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.15.27-pm-1024x663.png 1024w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.15.27-pm-300x194.png 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.15.27-pm-768x497.png 768w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.15.27-pm.png 1035w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></p>
145. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-67843" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.16.23-pm-1024x664.png" alt="" width="640" height="415" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.16.23-pm-1024x664.png 1024w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.16.23-pm-300x195.png 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.16.23-pm-768x498.png 768w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.16.23-pm.png 1030w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></p>
146. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-67844" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.17.01-pm.png" alt="" width="1012" height="719" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.17.01-pm.png 1012w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.17.01-pm-300x213.png 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-15-at-2.17.01-pm-768x546.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1012px) 100vw, 1012px" /></p>
147. <h2 style="text-align: center;">To purchase the book, just go to Amazon, and search for:</h2>
148. <p style="text-align: center;">&#8216;Heroes &#8211; The Foundation Sires of the Modern Warmblood</p>
149. <p style="text-align: center;">by Christopher Hector</p>
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158. <title>No World Cup Final here!</title>
159. <link>https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/2024/04/no-world-cup-final-here/</link>
160. <comments>https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/2024/04/no-world-cup-final-here/#comments</comments>
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163. <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 23:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
164. <category><![CDATA[Breaking News]]></category>
165. <category><![CDATA[Dressage]]></category>
166. <category><![CDATA[Final in Saudi Arabia]]></category>
167. <category><![CDATA[World Cup Dresage]]></category>
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170. <description><![CDATA[The Horse Magazine will not be covering the World Cup Dressage Final in Saudi Arabia - we explain why...
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176. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-67811" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/WorldCupNO.tif" alt="" /></p>
177. <p style="font-weight: 400;">In a few weeks Riyadh in Saudi Arabia will host the Dressage World Cup Final, but you won’t be reading about it on our website. This is not a decision made lightly, I find the whole cancel culture hysteria offensive. The attitude that if an individual offends, then all mention of them is banned even if what they have written is helpful, wise, and nothing to do with their offence. If it turns out Shakespeare beat his wife, we ban the plays and the sonnets!</p>
178. <p style="font-weight: 400;">But this case is different. The sole reason the Saudis have spent billions of dollars  buying complicit sports, is to try and improve their reputation on the world stage – forget about the political prisoners, the repression of women and the LBGT community, the murder of a courageous journalist in a Saudi Embassy on the orders of their head of state, even forget about the shameful treatment of animals and the appalling record of drug infringements found in their Endurance races – let’s just sit back in front of the television and enjoy the exciting sport. And revel in all that prizemoney and the hefty fee for the FEI…</p>
179. <p style="font-weight: 400;">So if we cover the Finals we are directly assisting the Saudis in their sports-washing exercise. No way. I am sure there will be reams of gormless gush spewing out from the FEI publicity department telling you how wonderful the dressage is (no nasty tongues, or swishing tails or throttled necks), how magnificent the facilities and what a great time was had by all. Yeah, well they can answer to their own conscience, if they can find it.</p>
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181. <li>Christopher Hector</li>
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191. <title>Eventing Stallions the BN rankings</title>
192. <link>https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/2024/04/eventing-stallions-the-bn-rankings/</link>
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195. <pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2024 01:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
196. <category><![CDATA[Breaking News]]></category>
197. <category><![CDATA[Breeders Club]]></category>
198. <category><![CDATA[Eventing]]></category>
199. <category><![CDATA[BN eventing stallions rankings]]></category>
200. <category><![CDATA[Eventing breeding]]></category>
201. <category><![CDATA[Sporthorse Breeding]]></category>
202. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/?p=67779</guid>
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204. <description><![CDATA[The 2024 BN eventing stallions rankings have been released, and this time there are some really interesting stallions on the list, stallions you might want to send your mare to...
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208. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="font-weight: 400;">Christopher Hector looks at the 2024 BN eventing stallion rankings &#8211; rankings that are based on the stallion&#8217;s own performances&#8230;</p>
209. <p style="font-weight: 400;">The eventing stallions list is no longer inflated by horses that are stallions only in the eyes of the FEI database. Hopefully all the horses on this list are still entire since I’d consider at least a couple of them if I was looking for a suitor for an eventing mare.</p>
210. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-67781" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Ero-De-Cantraie.jpeg" alt="" width="800" height="800" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Ero-De-Cantraie.jpeg 800w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Ero-De-Cantraie-300x300.jpeg 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Ero-De-Cantraie-150x150.jpeg 150w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Ero-De-Cantraie-768x768.jpeg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" /></p>
211. <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Ero De Cantraie </em></p>
212. <p>Number one on the list is Ero De Cantraie and once again this piece is sounding like a PR gloss for Joris de Brabander. The stallion is by Querlybet Hero, a 1.60m jumper, and an ‘ambassador’ for BWP breeding. Querlybet is by Baloubet de Rouet, out of the Darco daughter, Narcotique de Muze II  from the famous Querly Chin line. Narcotique was herself a 1.60m competitor, and she is the dam of four 1.60 horses.</p>
213. <p>Ero De Cantraie is out of the Selle Français mare Iberiade by the Double Espoir son, Valespoir Malaby, out of a mare by the Thoroughbred, Quinquet. Which adds up to 50% blood, perhaps just a little less than the ideal for an eventing stallion, but let’s wait and see what he produces.</p>
214. <p>Ero is being ridden by one of the most talented eventing riders in the world, Julia Krajewski, and last year the pair won the 4* at Luhmühlen.</p>
215. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-67794" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/halo.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="600" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/halo.jpeg 600w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/halo-300x300.jpeg 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/halo-150x150.jpeg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></p>
216. <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Halo</em></p>
217. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Ranked 2<sup>nd</sup> on the BN list, and 48<sup>th</sup> in the world is Halo. In January 2022, Piggy March took over the ride on the three-star winner Scuderia 1918 Humphreys, who was renamed Halo. The grey stallion started his eventing career with Australia’s Kevin McNab.  Halo won Osberton CCI3* in October 2021 with Kevin. Ridden by Piggy, the stallion was third in the 4* at Ainwick in July 2023, but 53<sup>rd</sup> at Hartpury, a month later…</p>
218. <p style="font-weight: 400;">The horse has been acquired specifically for the breeding program of Piggy’s husband Tom. Bred by one of Holstein’s finest breeders, Bernhard Hobe, he is by Humphrey, a 1.40 jumper by the French Anglo-Arab, Hermes d’Authieux, out of a Carthago / Landgraf mare, that’s 63.87%  blood. Halo is out of one of Hobe’s legendary mares, Kimberly III (Contender / Lord).</p>
219. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-67796" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Polartanz-.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="560" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Polartanz-.jpg 700w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Polartanz--300x240.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></p>
220. <p style="text-align: center;"><em>TSF Polartanz </em></p>
221. <p style="font-weight: 400;">The third stallion TSF Polartanz was certainly bred to event. He is by the Trakehner, Konvoi (by the Anglo Arab, Kallistos), out of a mare by the greatest eventing sire of them all, Heraldik xx, out of a mare by the 4* eventing Trakehner stallion, Habicht. Ridden by Felix Elzel he won the short format 4* at Strzegom in September 2023. Polartanz carries 69.34% blood.</p>
222. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Fourth, Je’Vall is a mixture of Holsteiner, Dutch and French breeding. His sire, Zavall VDL is by Casall out of an Emilion mare, his dam, Wemillem is by Corrado and her dam, Nemile M is by Le Tot de Sémilly, out of a Jalisco mare. Ridden by Frenchman, Alexis Goury, Je’Vall won a 3* long format at Bazoges en Pareds, and was 6<sup>th</sup> at Lignieres CCI4*-L in September 2023. 48.44 blood.</p>
223. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-56402" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Sweetwaters-Ziethen-T.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="466" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Sweetwaters-Ziethen-T.jpg 700w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Sweetwaters-Ziethen-T-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Sweetwaters-Ziethen-T-451x300.jpg 451w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></p>
224. <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Sweetwaters Ziethen</em></p>
225. <p style="font-weight: 400;">I’ve written before about Sweetwaters Ziethen, another deliberately bred for eventing. Ridden by Sophie Leube, Sweetwaters Ziethen TSF topped the 7-year-olds at the World Young Eventing Championships in 2020. The German pair were on familiar territory having finished fifth in the 6-year-old division the previous year, and the stallion never put a foot wrong after posting the best dressage score of 27.6.</p>
226. <p style="font-weight: 400;">The stallion is from the Sweetwater Stud in Bulgaria, and is by the Trakehner stallion Abendtanz out of an Anglo Arab mare by Campetot. Abendtanz’s pedigree is studded with the names of the famous Trakehner stallions – Sixtus, Kostolany, Enrico Caruso and Kassiber. Sweetwaters Ziethen TSF was purchased as a foal at foot with his dam, and raised at Sweetwater. According to stud master George Muehlethaler: “Our aim is to breed Eventers with a minimum of 50% Thoroughbred, Anglo-Arab or Arab blood.”</p>
227. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Sophie and Ziethen had good three star placings in 2023, with a win at Langenhagen 3*.</p>
228. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-30541" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ThomasCarlile-and-Tenareze-ERICKNOLL-683x1024.jpg" alt="" width="511" height="767" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ThomasCarlile-and-Tenareze-ERICKNOLL-683x1024.jpg 683w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ThomasCarlile-and-Tenareze-ERICKNOLL-200x300.jpg 200w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ThomasCarlile-and-Tenareze-ERICKNOLL.jpg 750w" sizes="(max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px" /></p>
229. <p style="text-align: center;"><em> Tenareze</em></p>
230. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Sixth ranked Tenareze is one I would send a mare to. He was a star with Thomas Carlile, winning the 6yo World Young Event Horse title in 2013, and the seven year old the following year. He was sold in 2013 but has never looked quite so comfortable with Harry Meade in the saddle. The pair did get it together though in 2023 when they were fifth at Luhmühlen 5*.</p>
231. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Tenareze is by that good sire of eventers, Jaguar Mail who is by the showjumping and small tour Thoroughbred, Hand in Glove, out of a mare by the Thoroughbred Grand Prix showjumping stallion, Laudanum. Jaguar Mail  is seven-eigths Thoroughbred, with the last line a combination of Almé and Gotthard. Jaguar Mail showjumped for Sweden at the Olympics, but he was never the most careful jumper, and Thomas Carlile believes he needs Anglo mares to give his progeny a tighter front. Sure enough, Tenareze is out of the AA mare, Utopie du Maury (Quatar de Plape / Julienny).</p>
232. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-67798" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Leipheimer-van-t-Verahof.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="466" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Leipheimer-van-t-Verahof.jpg 700w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Leipheimer-van-t-Verahof-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></p>
233. <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Leipheimer van’t Verahof </em></p>
234. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Seventh to Leipheimer van’t Verahof and once more we are making a trip to the Stal de Muze in the beautiful city of Sint-Niklaas, where Joris Brabander’s Thoroughbred mare, Southern Queen (Southern Gale xx) has established a dynasty of top eventers. Bred to Vigo d’Arsouilles (Nabab de Rêve / Fleuri du Manoir), she has produced Fletcha van’t Verahof, a 4* star front liner with Karin Donkers, and the 3* competitor, Extebaria van’t Verahof. Karin rode Leipheimer  to third, at Boekelo 4* in October 2023.</p>
235. <p style="font-weight: 400;">I wonder who would happen if Joris turned his attention to dressage breeding?</p>
236. <p style="font-weight: 400;">There are only eight stallions on the BN list this year, and rounding out the collection is the Anglo Arab, Bolivar Gio Granno. Unfortunately the French Anglo has suffered from neglect, and by the time it was discovered just how fine the breed was as a source of eventers, there were virtually no Anglo stallions left. Thus, the most successful French Anglo Arab stallion of modern times, Upsilon, is by the Holsteiner, Canturo. Similarly, Boliva is by the Oldenburg stallion, Gio Granno (by Grannus) but out of an Anglo mare, Native de Sautussan by Faalem aa, out of a Thoroughbred mare by Mirgel xx.</p>
237. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Bolivar Gio Granno was eliminated at his last 4* start, Montelbrett in November 2023, after winning the 3* at Palmanova in September.</p>
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246. <title>Salvino retired!</title>
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250. <pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2024 21:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
251. <category><![CDATA[Breaking News]]></category>
252. <category><![CDATA[Dressage]]></category>
253. <category><![CDATA[Adrienne Lyle]]></category>
254. <category><![CDATA[Betsy Juliano]]></category>
255. <category><![CDATA[Salvino retires]]></category>
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263. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-67789" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SalvinoHeader.jpg" alt="" width="720" height="720" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SalvinoHeader.jpg 720w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SalvinoHeader-300x300.jpg 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SalvinoHeader-150x150.jpg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px" /></p>
264. <p><strong>Wellington, Fla. – April 4, 2024</strong> – Owner Betsy Juliano and rider Adrienne Lyle announced this week that 17-year-old Hanoverian stallion Salvino (Sandro Hit x Donnerhall) will not be a contender for the U.S. team for the Olympic Games in Paris and will be retired from competition. Salvino and Lyle were members of the silver-medal winning U.S. team at the Tokyo Olympic Games, as well as the silver medal team at the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games™. Most recently, they were members of the 2022 World Championship team and finished sixth overall for the U.S.</p>
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266. <p>Throughout a storied career in the international dressage ring, Salvino has collected wins throughout the world. In 2022, Salvino was named United States Equestrian Federation’s (USEF) International Horse of the Year—as a result of membership votes—while during the same year Lyle was named USEF International Rider of the Year.</p>
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268. <p>With great admiration for the stallion, Juliano noted, “Salvino is still quite fit and energetic, but Adrienne and I feel the rigors of the qualifying process, in addition to the leadup to the Olympics would not be in his best long-term interests.”</p>
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270. <p>Juliano has supported Lyle and Salvino’s career as the stallion’s sole owner since 2017, having been a member of the original syndicate that acquired Salvino in 2015. “He will soon transition to a life of retirement while still being ridden at home. We are also very proud to be able to offer Salvino for breeding,” said Juliano.</p>
271. <figure id="attachment_67790" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-67790" style="width: 900px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-67790" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Salvinobody.jpg" alt="" width="900" height="600" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Salvinobody.jpg 900w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Salvinobody-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Salvinobody-768x512.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-67790" class="wp-caption-text">TOKYO &#8211; Olympische Spiele / Olympic Games 2021 © www.sportfotos-lafrentz.de/Stefan Lafrentz</figcaption></figure>
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273. <p>Salvino will retire and stand for breeding in Wellington and Colorado. “There has always been a great deal of interest in Salvino as a breeding stallion,” said Lyle. “We feel it’s time to explore this as the next phase of his career. Salvino has far surpassed any expectations we ever had for him.</p>
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275. <p>“This has been a very difficult decision to make, but more than anything we feel it is the right decision for him,” continued Lyle. “He continues to be ridden at home; he loves to work and show the other horses how it should be done. He has given us so much, and Betsy and I are committed to making sure he keeps on living his best life.”</p>
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277. <p>Together with the international dressage community, Juliano and Lyle express their gratitude to Salvino for his contributions to sport, the U.S. Team and their personal experiences through the last nine years.</p>
278. <p><strong> </strong></p>
279. <p>The details of Salvino’s availability for breeding, including exact stud locations, are being finalized and more information will be released.</p>
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282. <p>Photos: Courtesy of Betsy Juliano &amp; © Stefan Lafrentz</p>
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290. <title>Toto Jr. honoured with Grande Prize </title>
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298. <category><![CDATA[Dressage breeding]]></category>
299. <category><![CDATA[Grande Prize]]></category>
300. <category><![CDATA[Hannoverian breeding]]></category>
301. <category><![CDATA[Toto Jr]]></category>
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304. <description><![CDATA[The first licensed son of Totilas - Toto Jr, has been honoured with the Grande Prize...
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309. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Influence from the sire’s side&#8230;</strong></p>
310. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-67785" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Toto-Jr.-Foto_Arnd-Bronkhorst.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="799" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Toto-Jr.-Foto_Arnd-Bronkhorst.jpg 600w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Toto-Jr.-Foto_Arnd-Bronkhorst-225x300.jpg 225w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></p>
311. <p style="text-align: center;"><em>(Photo: Hannoveraner Verband/Arnd Bronkhorst)</em></p>
312. <p>&nbsp;</p>
313. <p><strong>(Verden Press Release) Since 2009, the Grande-Prize has been awarded to a stallion between the ages of ten and twelve at the beginning of the breeding season. Toto Jr. is a stallion who is only rarely used in Hannover, but has proven his quality through his licensed sons.</strong></p>
314. <p>The awarding of the Grande-Prize to a middle-aged stallion is linked to the hope that he will have a lasting positive influence on Hannoverian breeding. Normally, this is the case when the stallion is widely used in the population, mainly via the mare base. In the case of this year&#8217;s winner Toto Jr. by Totilas/Desperados, bred by Zuchtgemeinschaft Schmidt from Naumburg, things are different. From the first phase of his breeding career in the Netherlands, his influence is currently more evident on the sire&#8217;s side. To date, only three of his daughters have been registered in Hannover, but ten of his sons have been licensed and registered in stallion book I.</p>
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316. <p>Toto Jr.&#8217;s dam, who is a full sister of the Moritzburg state stud stallion Decurio, came into the possession of the Zuchtgemeinschaft Schmidt via the Verden foal auction. Toto Jr. was her first foal. The black stallion was still quite young when he was licensed in Verden in 2013 and moved to the Glock&#8217;s Horse Performance Centre in the Netherlands via the stallion sales, where he was sold for 100,000 Euros. In 2014, Toto Jr. passed his stallion performance test in Ermelo/NED, where he excelled in walk and canter as well as rideability. This made him the first licensed and performance-tested son of his &#8216;super sire&#8217; Totilas not only in Germany, but also in the Netherlands. Edward Gal took over the training of the black stallion, whose sire and dam&#8217;s sire won Olympic gold, and led him to victory in international Grand Prix dressage competitions at the age of ten.</p>
317. <p>&nbsp;</p>
318. <p>Unlike other Grande Prize winners, Toto Jr. did not enjoy great popularity among breeders right from the start. Only gradually did the Hannoveraner breeders discover the well-constructed and well-bred stallion based in the Netherlands for themselves. The few competition horses that have competed in Germany to date are predominantly Dutch-bred. However, they have given him an FN breeding value for young horse tests in dressage of 147. Toto Jr. has already produced several Pavo Cup finalists in the Netherlands. He is a good ambassador for Hannover’s dressage horse breeding in the Netherlands and is also having an increasing influence on Hannoveraner breeding. The breeders will be honoured during the dressage stallion licensing in November.</p>
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328. <title>2024 BN Dressage stallions</title>
329. <link>https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/2024/04/2024-bn-dressage-stallions/</link>
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332. <pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2024 00:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
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335. <category><![CDATA[Dressage]]></category>
336. <category><![CDATA[BN dressage stallions]]></category>
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341. <description><![CDATA[Which dressage stallions are also stars in the competition arena? We look at the BN rankings for 2024...
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346. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2 style="font-weight: 400;">Christopher Hector looks at which dressage stallions are also successful competitors…</h2>
347. <h2 style="font-weight: 400;">We must approach this list with care, since it is based on the actual performances of the stallions, not the performance of their progeny, which if you are a mare owner you might be more interested in.</h2>
348. <p style="font-weight: 400;">There have been many great stallions that were not great performers and for that matter, many great performers who were not great sires…</p>
349. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-67136" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/lottieGlamourdale.jpg" alt="" width="799" height="533" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/lottieGlamourdale.jpg 799w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/lottieGlamourdale-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/lottieGlamourdale-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/lottieGlamourdale-450x300.jpg 450w" sizes="(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px" /></p>
350. <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Glamourdale</em></p>
351. <p style="font-weight: 400;">This year the BN list is once again headed by Glamourdale, and it might be noted that he is second on the WBFSH dressage competition standings. We know he is a great performer, even if some of us are not enamoured with the way he is shown, but will he be a great sire?</p>
352. <p style="font-weight: 400;">There Dutch breeding authorities seem to have decided that he will be, since they have already licensed 29 of his sons.</p>
353. <p style="font-weight: 400;">So far Glamourdale is the sire of five small tour competitors, a group that is headed up by the approved stallion, Kuvasz RS2. The handsome black is out of Dyor de Hus by De Niro, and the daughter of La Traviata, who is by Sandro Song out of Loretta, which makes her a full-sister to Sandro Hit.  <em>(For the trivia buffs, Kuvasz is a Hungarian breed of guardian dogs, indeed they look a little like the sheep they are bred to protect. Don’t ask why a horse is named after a breed of dog…)</em></p>
354. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-67774" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Kuvasz-RS2-1024x683.jpeg" alt="" width="640" height="427" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Kuvasz-RS2-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Kuvasz-RS2-300x200.jpeg 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Kuvasz-RS2-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Kuvasz-RS2-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Kuvasz-RS2.jpeg 1620w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></p>
355. <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Kuvasz RS2.</em></p>
356. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Kuvasz was second reserve on the Dutch team for the 2021 World Young Horse Championships but his last FEI results were a couple of placings in September 2022, and currently there is a note on his stallion entry on the Van Uytert page, <em>‘unfortunately we no longer offer Kuvasz RS2 for breeding’.</em></p>
357. <p style="font-weight: 400;">By merest happen chance, Kuvasz RS2 was listed to open the proceedings in the Prix St Georges at Jumping Amsterdam when I was there in January 2024. Perhaps the mystery would be unravelled. The ever-so-helpful team on the press desk at Amsterdam had found an article which heralded Kuvasz’s international debut, that records that he was out of the sport in 2023 for ‘health reasons’ unspecified.</p>
358. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Seemingly the stallion had recovered, since Mariek van der Putten rode him to victory on a score of 72.794. Mariek says that the problem was with the horse’s digestive system and he is fine now and that she has him  home to train for Grand Prix.</p>
359. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Glamourdale is something of an exception to the current trend of breeding to young, untested stallions that produce pretty foals for immediate sale. He tends to throw his dam sire Negro’s short neck, but thankfully there are mare owners who care more about the black stallion’s international performance career, rather than following the whims of fashion.</p>
360. <p style="font-weight: 400;">My friend Jens Meyer who I met up with at Amsterdam, is one stern critic of the trend to fashion breeding,  and he likes Glamourdale with his German / Dutch fusion. “I like the mix, we have the good back from the German horse, from the Dutch horses, we get the front technique and the canter. I use Glamourdale, he is a young top Grand Prix stallion and how many stallions do we have in the sport? Not many.  People say he does not produce, type, he is not a refiner for sure, but he throws  healthy conformation. His foals are uphill, and with power in the body. Okay sometimes with the Negros they have a bit of a short neck but what is important in the end ,is that they are rideable. I hate it at the moment, people just talk about problems with the stallions, not what they get from the stallion…”</p>
361. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-64028" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/hermes.jpg" alt="" width="799" height="533" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/hermes.jpg 799w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/hermes-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/hermes-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/hermes-450x300.jpg 450w" sizes="(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px" /></p>
362. <p style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"> <em>Hermès</em></p>
363. <p style="font-weight: 400;">The second highest BN dressage stallion, Hermès is another with a less than fashionable pedigree. He is by the Trakehner, Easy Game who was largely ignored by the breeders, indeed he was missing from the breeding barn for several seasons, chemically castrated and sent to Belgium in the hope of a Grand Prix career. It didn’t happen and he returned to the van Uytert Stud. He died in July 2023 but not before he gifted the world two of the great Grand Prix competitors, World number one, Dalera, while Hermès is currently 10<sup>th</sup> on the WBFSH dressage rankings even though he has not competed since attending the World Cup final in Omaha in April 2023 – a victim of the travel it seems.<em>(This piece, which was written for the BN Stallion Directory, composed in January 2024. Since then Hermès came back to win the Grand Prix from a star studded field at the Aachen Festival 4 Dressage on a score of 75.533 in March 2024)</em></p>
364. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-64401" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/FranziskusLast-1.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="552" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/FranziskusLast-1.jpg 700w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/FranziskusLast-1-300x237.jpg 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/FranziskusLast-1-380x300.jpg 380w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></p>
365. <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Franziskus</em></p>
366. <p style="font-weight: 400;">This year’s number three is another who suffered from the trip to Omaha, Ingrid Klimke’s frontliner, Franziskus (Fidertanz / Alabaster) currently 11<sup>th</sup> in the dressage competition standings. At the age of sixteen, Franziskus is the sire of three Grand Prix horses, none of them stars. The most successful has been Brazilian team member, Feel Good VO (Dimension) ridden by Joao Oliva.  Franziskus is, however, the sire of 34 stallion sons.</p>
367. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-43274" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Therese-Nilshagen-Dante-Weltino-Old-TRYO18L8965.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="467" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Therese-Nilshagen-Dante-Weltino-Old-TRYO18L8965.jpg 700w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Therese-Nilshagen-Dante-Weltino-Old-TRYO18L8965-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Therese-Nilshagen-Dante-Weltino-Old-TRYO18L8965-450x300.jpg 450w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></p>
368. <p style="text-align: center;"> <em>Dante Weltino</em></p>
369. <p style="font-weight: 400;">In fourth, Dante Weltino reminds us that once the W line ruled the dressage world. The stallion is by the De Niro son, Danone I who is out of a Weltmeyer mare, while Dante Weltino is out of Rihanna by the most successful son of Weltmeyer, Welt Hit II. Once again while he is the sire of 27 approved sons, his seven Grand Prix competitors have not set the world ablaze.</p>
370. <p>&nbsp;</p>
371. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Fame (Bordeaux / Rhodium) in fifth, his first shot to… fame, in 2021, was when he won a British regional Grand Prix on his first outing with Fiona Bigwood. But it was not until the ride went to Carl Hester in 2023 that he became truly famous, with Grand Prix wins at Tolbert and Hickstead, before the pair finished fifth at the European Championships as part of the Gold Medal winning British team.</p>
372. <p style="font-weight: 400;">The fourteen-year-old does not seem to have been used as a breeding stallion.</p>
373. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-64411" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/blue-hors-st-schufro.jpg" alt="" width="960" height="720" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/blue-hors-st-schufro.jpg 960w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/blue-hors-st-schufro-300x225.jpg 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/blue-hors-st-schufro-768x576.jpg 768w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/blue-hors-st-schufro-400x300.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px" /></p>
374. <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Blue Hors St Schufro</em></p>
375. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Sixth placed Blue Hors St Schufro is another who has shot to the top, winning his first Grand Prix with Nanna Skodborg Merrald at Falsterbo in 2022, more recently the pair were first in the Grand Prix of Herning in 2023. The dressage world really sat up and took notice when his daughter Lynbergs St Paris shone at the World Young Horse Championships in Ermelo in 2021.</p>
376. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Jens Meyer who worked as a special advisor to Blue Hors is pleased that the breeders are now taking notice:</p>
377. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“We are very proud last year <em>(2023)</em> he covered the most mares in his life. Before that people talked that his family was not good enough but the stallion himself has to produce, and he does it. Look at the World Championship at Ermelo, see what he produced. He is also not a foal maker, but look at his breeding, it is from the past <em>(Jens is referring to St Schufro’s dam, Dorina, born in 2000 by Don Schufro born in 1992, out of Asta, 2000, by Atateurk born in 1977)  </em> but we do not change the horse, we have to produce good horses, that is very important to me.”</p>
378. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-66917" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Jovian2.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="528" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Jovian2.jpg 600w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Jovian2-300x264.jpg 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Jovian2-341x300.jpg 341w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></p>
379. <p style="text-align: center;"> <em>Jovian</em></p>
380. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Seventh to Jovian (Apache / Tango) born in 2014 and the youngest of the top ten stallions. Indeed there was considerable controversy as to whether it was right that an eight-year-old should be competing in international Grand Prix competition. Jovian’s pedigree is rich in the blood that made Dutch dressage breeding great, two crosses of Jazz, and one of Krack C. His sire Apache was a wonderful horse whose breeding career was shattered when he proved WFFS positive, initially he had been cleared, but when Jovian proved positive, Apache was tested again… Apache died in 2019 when he was put down after developing laminitis.</p>
381. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Jovian has so far sired eleven stallion sons, but I can find no competing progeny.</p>
382. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-66956" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Everdale.jpg" alt="" width="768" height="512" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Everdale.jpg 768w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Everdale-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Everdale-450x300.jpg 450w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" /></p>
383. <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Everdale</em></p>
384. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Eighth to Everdale, the first stallion to be declared a WFFS carrier. He is by Lord Leatherdale out of a Negro mare. The black stallion is a controversial horse, there are some, like me, who hate the way he is shown, while the judges disagree and keep giving him winning scores.  He is the sire of 13 approved sons, and 23 Grand Prix competitors, the most spectacularly successful being Charlotte Dujardin’s Imhotep (Vivaldi) currently ranked second in the world.</p>
385. <p style="font-weight: 400;">The grey stallion, Hexagon’s Ich Weiss is in ninth. He is by the Rubinstein son, Hexagon’s Rubiquil, out of a Negro mare from the Utopia line.</p>
386. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-67775" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Hexagons-Ich-WeissDressageNews.jpg" alt="" width="720" height="534" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Hexagons-Ich-WeissDressageNews.jpg 720w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Hexagons-Ich-WeissDressageNews-300x223.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px" /></p>
387. <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Hexagon’s Ich Weiss </em></p>
388. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Rounding out our top ten, we have Total Hope, by Totilas out of Isabell Werth’s great mare, Weihegold (Don Schufro / Sandro Hit).</p>
389. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-58876" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/IsabelFreese-Total-Hope.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="616" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/IsabelFreese-Total-Hope.jpg 700w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/IsabelFreese-Total-Hope-300x264.jpg 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/IsabelFreese-Total-Hope-341x300.jpg 341w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></p>
390. <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Total Hope</em></p>
391. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Weihegold has produced at least 14 foals, but of the five to compete, only Total Hope has impressed, winning the prestigious Nürnberger Burg Pokal, before commencing a successful Grand Prix career. As a sire, he has already produced one foal that went on to compete at the World Young Horse championships.</p>
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406. <category><![CDATA[BN jumping stallions]]></category>
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416. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><strong>Christopher Hector looks at the latest BN stallion rankings</strong></p>
417. <p style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><strong>These rankings are based on the performances of the stallions, not their progeny, and are compiled by <em>Breeding News…</em></strong></p>
418. <p style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><em> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-67754" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/UricasvdKattevennen.jpeg" alt="" width="770" height="513" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/UricasvdKattevennen.jpeg 770w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/UricasvdKattevennen-300x200.jpeg 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/UricasvdKattevennen-768x512.jpeg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px" /></em></p>
419. <p style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><em>Uricas vd Kattevennen</em></p>
420. <p style="font-weight: 400;">It would appear twelve is the ideal age for a jumper, with four out of the top ten born in 2012, including the top ranked Uricas vd Kattevennen, a five-star competitor, and a star with Harrie Smolders. Their most recent big win was in November 2023 when they took home €333,333 for 3<sup>rd</sup> (cute!) at the Longines Global champs in Prague.</p>
421. <p style="text-align: center;"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-67755" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/untouchable.tif" alt="" /></p>
422. <p style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><em>Untouchable</em></p>
423. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Uricas is by Uriko, another international campaigner, although one who was more comfortable in 1.40m classes than at the cutting edge. Uriko is by Untouchable, who <strong>was</strong> a top campaigner for a group of riders. He was certainly bred to jump, in three generations, out of 14 horses, seven competed at 1.60m level. Untouchable is by Hors La Loi II by Papillon Rouge, out of a mare by the Almé son, Joyau d’or A.</p>
424. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Uricas is out of T-Cassina by the great Cassini I, out of Chicka’s Way, a 1.60 jumper by Caretino.</p>
425. <p style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-67756" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Highway-TN.jpg" alt="" width="900" height="600" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Highway-TN.jpg 900w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Highway-TN-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Highway-TN-768x512.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px" /></p>
426. <p style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><em>Highway M TN</em></p>
427. <p style="font-weight: 400;">The second ranked horse Highway M TN is also brilliantly bred, he is by Eldorado vd Zoeshoek out of Zelana V by Chellano Z out of a mare by the great Darco. (It is incredible, in the recent World Cup Grand Prix at Amsterdam, there were two horses competing by Darco, including Highway, eighteen years after his death!)</p>
428. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Highway is a 1.60 jumper with Willem Greve, his best result has been a 2<sup>nd</sup> at Falsterbo in a 1.60m in July 2023. His sire, Eldorado vd Zoeshoek has been declared a BWP Ambassadeur for his performances, also with Willem Greve. He is the sire of 41 approved sons and 27 jumpers at 1.60 level.</p>
429. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Third ranked Valme de la Lande is what you might call a family horse, he jumped 1.65m with Michael Whitaker, then 1.60 with Michael’s son Jack. And he is still going, in January 2024 he was 23<sup>rd</sup> in a 1.40 at Sharjah, but the year before, was third in a World Cup qualifier in Oslo.</p>
430. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Valme de la Lande is by Mylord Carthago who is by Carthago, and is one of the 46 listed foals out of Joris de Brabander’s foundation mare, Fragance de Chalus (Jalisco B / Fury de la Cense).  Mylord was a star with Penelope Leprevost, winning many 5* Grands Prix and team silver for France at the World Championships in Kentucky and the European Championships in Madrid.</p>
431. <p style="font-weight: 400;">But it is when we get to Valmy’s dam, Athena de la lande, that we take a trip back in jumping history. She was born in 1988, by Starter, the last top son of Rantzau xx.</p>
432. <p style="font-weight: 400;">It must be said that this list of jumping stallions does not feature many real frontliners. The top stallion Uricas is ranked 18<sup>th</sup> on the WBFSH competitors standings, but while Stargold, fourth on the BN list is only 39<sup>th</sup> on the WBFSH rankings, he is a genuine international superstar.</p>
433. <figure id="attachment_67759" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-67759" style="width: 900px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-67759" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Stargold-1.jpg" alt="" width="900" height="600" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Stargold-1.jpg 900w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Stargold-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Stargold-1-768x512.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-67759" class="wp-caption-text">LGCT of DOHA 2023<br />&#8211; Doha, Al Shaqab 03/03/23<br />&#8211; ph.Stefano Grasso/LGCT-GCL<br />&#8211; LGCT Doha_03-155_Ehning Marcus GER Stargold_20230303_STEG5247.jpg</figcaption></figure>
434. <p style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><em>Stargold</em></p>
435. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Stargold is very much the product of the Sprehe stud farm, and while there was a degree of derision directed at the brothers who had made their fortune selling chicken nuggets, and now wanted to breed horses, they found wise counsel and 24 years later they are looking pretty good, while most of those old famous Oldenburger studs are just a fond memory.</p>
436. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Stargold was bred at Sprehe, and he is by their number one stallion, Stakkato Gold who is by Stakkato out of a mare by the great Werther. Stakkato Gold had a limited career with Jan Sprehe before being injured and sent to live in the breeding barn.</p>
437. <p style="font-weight: 400;">You can laugh all you like at we bloodline tragics who fossick through ancient history in search of nuggets of gold, but Stargold is living, breathing, proof that those historic breeders can still be a force today. Stargold’s breeding on the top line and the bottom line is ancient. His sire, Stakkato Gold goes back to one of the very old Hanoverian lines, Jens Meyer tells the story well, it starts with Alsterröschen born in 1961:</p>
438. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“The breeder of Alsterröschen was Franz Luth. He was not happy with the stallions at the local Dannenberg stallion station at the time, and that is why he bred to Agram – at that time they had big strong stallions at Dannenberg, heavy old-style horses, and he preferred Agram who was a lighter horse.” <em>(Agram’s dam sire, Amateur I was a grand-son of the influential Shagja Arab, Amurath).</em></p>
439. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-55015" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/agramtrot.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="841" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/agramtrot.jpg 600w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/agramtrot-214x300.jpg 214w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></p>
440. <p style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"> <em>Agram</em></p>
441. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“So Franz Luth said, I will breed Agram back to an Agram mare, and everybody said, you are stupid, and in the end, the world today must be happy that he has these bloodlines.” If you want this story in full go to: <a href="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/2021/09/who-were-the-greatest-showjumping-broodmares-of-all-time/">https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/2021/09/who-were-the-greatest-showjumping-broodmares-of-all-time/</a> )</p>
442. <p style="font-weight: 400;">But Stargold’s mare line also stems from one of the great old breeders, Hans Hatje ,this time in Holstein, for the full story go to <a href="https://equnews.com/region/focus-on-stargold-the-stallion-who-lived-up-his-name">https://equnews.com/region/focus-on-stargold-the-stallion-who-lived-up-his-name</a><br />
443. The article tells us: “Stargold&#8217;s pedigree takes us to Schleswig-Holstein, more specifically to the town of Haselau and Hetlingen. It was in Haselau that most of the stallions stood which formed the early generations of the motherline of Stargold. The line was formed by the breeder Hans Hatje from Hetlingen, and has produced top-quality horses for over 40 years.”</p>
444. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Stargold and Marcus Ehning took home another €14,200 with a win in the 1.50m at Jumping Amsterdam. Last year, they collected €620,000 at the Prague GCL, while earlier in the year they won the Grand Prix of Aachen with its prizemoney of €500,000.</p>
445. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Apparently while Sprehe has a tank full of Stargold semen, the stallion has not been used in breeding, he concentrates on the sport, while his dad, Stakkato Gold, does the covering…</p>
446. <p style="font-weight: 400;">The fifth ranked Amelusina R51 is very much a product of one of Holland’s early cutting-edge breeding operations, Stal Roelofs. Sadly, the year Amelusina was born 2013 also marked the end of the venture.  After forty years of successful breeding (much of it based on the two foundation stallions, Abgar xx and Joost), the founder Herman Roelofs closed his farm since neither of his children wanted to carry on with horses.</p>
447. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-67760" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Amelusina.jpg" alt="" width="768" height="566" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Amelusina.jpg 768w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Amelusina-300x221.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" /></p>
448. <p style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><em>Amelusina R51</em></p>
449. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Amelusina R51 is by Dexter R by the Concorde son, Namelus R (Contender) out of B.Amelusina R 22 (Chin Chin / Mermus R). Ridden by Simon Delestre, Amelusina R 51 started 2024 with a 1.50 win in Doha, they seem to like the Middle East, in December 2023, they won the World Cup in Riyadh.</p>
450. <p style="font-weight: 400;">In sixth spot we have, Crack Balou, a stallion that is very much the product of one of the world’s great breeders, Paul Schockemöhle. He is by one of the PSI stars, Balou du Reventon, who is by the great Cornet Obolensky, out of Georgia, who is also the dam of Balou du Rouet. Georgia is by Continue, a PSI stalwart, out of a mare by one of the original stallions that set the Schockemöhle brothers on the road to breeding success, Domino, who was by Domspatz out of a mare by the Abglanz son, Archimedes.</p>
451. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Crack Balou is described as a 1.60 jumper with Emmanuele Gaudiano, though of late he has been paying for his oats with 1.40/1.50 placings in Doha. At his last 1.60 start, he was 17<sup>th</sup> in Lyon in November 2023.</p>
452. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Seventh, and just to emphasise the Schockemöhle success story, is Naxcel V  who is by Balou du Rouet, out of a Landetto/Lys de Darmen mare. He is ridden by Austrian, Gerfried Puck. Another pair who had fun at Doha, taking home €50,000 for a 1.55 win.</p>
453. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-67762" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/mumbai.jpg" alt="" width="899" height="643" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/mumbai.jpg 899w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/mumbai-300x215.jpg 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/mumbai-768x549.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 899px) 100vw, 899px" /></p>
454. <p style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><em>Mumbai</em></p>
455. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Mumbai, in eighth, is by the great Diamant de Sémilly, out of a Nabab de Rêve / Chin Chin mare. One of Ludgar Beerbaum’s stallion roster, he has been a star with Christian Kukuk, placing fourth in the Euros of 2021 when they were held on home turf, Riesenbeck. The pair had a great show at St Tropez in June 2023, winning one 1.60 class and second in another.</p>
456. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Ninth, Lector vd Bisshop, essence of Belgian breeding, his sire Bamako de Muze combines the blood of Darco, the stallion that ‘made’ the BWP, with Fragance du Challus, the mare who created the breeding program of Joris de Brabander, arguably the most successful jumping breeder in the world.</p>
457. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Lector is out of Cordula de Lauby by For Pleasure out of a mare by Darco. The website hippomundo recently analysed the top jumping broodmares and amazingly the two top mares are both owned by Joris, and the number one mare was Cordula de Lauby. She has produced 13 offspring that have jumped 1.45m or higher, with her best performer, Global (by Nabab de Rêve), a 1.65 jumper with Christian Weier, but she has foaled three other 1.60 jumpers – Fantomas de Muze (Sandro Boy), Igor de Muze (Tinka’s Boy) and Lord de Muze (Nabab de Rêve) and now we can add Lector vd Bisshop, since he collected €41,750 jumping 1.60 at Barcelona Nations Cup in 2023, though he hasn’t competed 1.60 since then.</p>
458. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Rounding out our top ten, Chic Chic, is ridden by Ireland’s Darragh Kenny. He has been competing in the United States since September 2022, for four wins, all at 1.50 level. He is by Comme il Faut, and I love the story of how a pair of wily Ukranian businessmen negotiated with Ludger Beerbaum to buy his sire, Cornet Obolensky, but they had one more condition to seal the deal, in his first season he would be bred to the great Ratina Z, and Comme il Faut was the result. Chic Chic is by Contendro I (by Contender, why do we keep running into him?) out of a mare by Accord II.</p>
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487. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="font-weight: 400;"> Christopher Hector ponders the question…</p>
488. <p style="font-weight: 400;">I do find it amazing, and disturbing, that I have to head to HorseTelex to find the breeding of the most popular sire in Westfalia! The stallion is Diamantenglanz who is by Diamond First <em>(and yes, I had to consult HorseTelex again, Diamond First is well bred, by Diamond Hit out of a Fürst Heinrich mare, but his performance career is somewhat lacking, back in August 2021 he competed in two Preliminary Tests for a 7<sup>th</sup> and a 9<sup>th</sup>, since then???) </em>Diamantenglanz is out of a Bon Coeur / For Compliment mare. Bon Coeur competed in seven small tour classes, winning two, in Wellington USA back in January/February 2020, and re-appearing in February 2023 for a 7<sup>th</sup> in a Prix St Georges.</p>
489. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-67734" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Diamantenglanz-1.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="739" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Diamantenglanz-1.jpg 1024w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Diamantenglanz-1-300x217.jpg 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Diamantenglanz-1-768x554.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></p>
490. <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Diamantenglanz</em></p>
491. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Diamantenglanz was by far the most popular stallion, with 233 mares, although it ought be noted that his fee was an attractive €900 while the average fee was more like €1500, this in a time when horse breeding is in decline, with the number of Westfalien mares covered down 11.9% on the previous year.</p>
492. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-67736" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Escaneno.png" alt="" width="795" height="543" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Escaneno.png 795w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Escaneno-300x205.png 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Escaneno-768x525.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 795px) 100vw, 795px" /></p>
493. <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Escaneno</em></p>
494. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Second with 188 coverings was Escaneno (Escamillo / Veneno) and third, Glamdale (Glamourdale / Millennium) with 81.</p>
495. <p style="font-weight: 400;">It is a relief when we get to the fourth and fifth most popular stallions, because they are jumpers, and the jumping breeders look to performance, not fashion, when they choose the stallion for their mare. Fourth with 79 mares is the truly great Cornet Obolensky, fifth his exciting son, Comme il Faut. That’s breeding for the big sport, that’s real breeding.</p>
496. <p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-67737" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/zoom.jpg" alt="" width="632" height="539" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/zoom.jpg 632w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/zoom-300x256.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px" /></p>
497. <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Zoom</em></p>
498. <p style="font-weight: 400;">We should not be surprised, the trend to breed to unproven, but fashionable dressage stallions has been off-and-running for a while now. Back in 2019, the most popular Westfalien sire, was Zoom (Zack / Don Schufro), who may have Grand Prix top and bottom on his pedigree, but his performance has not reflected their success. Despite having the considerable advantage of Helen Langehanenberg in the saddle, Zoom’s only recorded appearance was at Verden in August 2021 where he was withdrawn in one Prix St Georges and placed 22<sup>nd</sup> in the other.</p>
499. <p>&nbsp;</p>
500. <p style="text-align: center;"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-67739" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Vivat-Rex.tif" alt="" /></p>
501. <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Vivat Rex</em></p>
502. <p style="font-weight: 400;">The most popular sire in 2020, was Vivat Rex by Vivaldi out of a Samarant / Rubinstein mare. HorseTelex suggests that he has competed at Novice level, but the station where he stands, Hengststation Rüscher-Kornermann makes not even this modest claim.</p>
503. <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-67727" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/1aaDynamic-Dream-canter-2.jpg" alt="" width="512" height="351" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/1aaDynamic-Dream-canter-2.jpg 512w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/1aaDynamic-Dream-canter-2-300x206.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px" /></p>
504. <p>&nbsp;</p>
505. <p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>Dynamic Dream</strong></em></p>
506. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Across the border, in Oldenburg, the situation is much the same. The most popular breeding stallion in 2022 was Dynamic Dream (Dream Boy / Sir Donnerhall) with 179 foals registered. Not only does Dynamic Dream have no performances to his credit, he has not even completed a performance test, because of injury. Dynamic Dream was also hugely popular in Scandinavia but it would seem his star is somewhat on the wane, I guess that’s one of the problems of being a fashionable stallion, fashionistas are fickle.</p>
507. <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-67730" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/1aaEscanto-trot-980x653-copy.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="441" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/1aaEscanto-trot-980x653-copy.jpg 600w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/1aaEscanto-trot-980x653-copy-300x221.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></p>
508. <p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>Escanto PS</strong></em></p>
509. <p style="font-weight: 400;">In 2023, Escanto PS ranked number one in Oldenburg with 195 foals registered. Escanto PS is bred and owned by Paul Schockemöhle, indeed five to the top ten Oldenburg stallions are part of the Schockemöhle/Helgstrand mega-station. The stallion is by Escamillo out of a Fürstenball / Totilas mare. The four-year-old has competed Novice, hopefully he will go on to bigger things.</p>
510. <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-64476" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Escamillo3_10.jpg" alt="" width="691" height="489" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Escamillo3_10.jpg 691w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Escamillo3_10-300x212.jpg 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Escamillo3_10-424x300.jpg 424w" sizes="(max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px" /></p>
511. <p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>Escamillo, successful as a Young Horse, but since then?</strong></em></p>
512. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Escamillo is by Escolar out of a Rohdiamant / De Niro mare, that’s Grand Prix times three, but so far he has not managed to reproduce their big tour success. He had his fifteen minutes of fame in September 2022 when he was third in the Seven Year Old Final in the Young Horse Championships at Ermelo. Since then?</p>
513. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Dynamic Dream comes second, with 193 foals, followed by Vitalis (133), Secret (101), the now gelded Fynch Hatton (78), Bonds (75), Va Bene (72), Escaneno (71), Vivaldos (69) and Morricone I (66) – there’s not a single Grand Prix horse in that lot. There <em>are </em>breeding stallions that compete successfully at Grand Prix, though it seems the Dutch breeders are more likely to use them than the Germans. The <em>Breeding News </em>top ten for 2024 runs, Glamourdale,  Hermès, Franziskus, Dante Weltino, Blue Hors Saint Schufro, Jovian, Everdale and Total Hope. That’s an attractive enough group for the serious breeder…</p>
514. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Jens Meyer has spent a lifetime observing breeding trends, he started his working life at the Hanoverian State Station, Celle, then ran his own very successful stallion station before working with Blue Hors as a special advisor. Now he is back home in Dorum, content to breed a few of his own. Jens has long been critical of the trend to fashion breeding:</p>
515. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“To breed sport horses, that is the key, not to breed a pretty one, and after two years, you need another one! What’s that? Nothing, nothing!”</p>
516. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“I will give an example, when you say to a breeder, which stallion do you want to use for breeding, they say boom, boom, boom, three years old! And you say to them, which six or seven year old and suggest a few, and they say oh this one makes too big, this one too small, this one this, and that one that, and you have to get the idea out of their head that they have to breed a pretty foal. I say to them, I am proud to breed my foal from a six or seven-year-old stallion, I am breeding to produce a competition horse. This attitude of fashion breeding is a huge problem.”</p>
517. <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-42652" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/8Glamourdale2018.jpg" alt="" width="650" height="469" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/8Glamourdale2018.jpg 650w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/8Glamourdale2018-300x216.jpg 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/8Glamourdale2018-416x300.jpg 416w" sizes="(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px" /></p>
518. <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Glamourdale, a stallion for the future?</em></strong></p>
519. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“I don’t breed so many foals any more, but when I do, we talk about European offspring, we don’t talk about Hanoverians or Oldenburger or whatever. I like very much the mix, we have the good back from the German horses, from the Dutch horses we get the good technique and the canter. I have used Glamourdale, this is a young Grand Prix stallion, the people talk about him, that he doesn’t produce type, blah blah, he’s not a refiner for sure, but he gives good conformation, healthy conformation and movement. I think he is a stallion for the future for the commercial mares.”</p>
520. <p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>But if he isn’t producing pretty foals, why do they breed to him?</em></p>
521. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“Aah, he is a coming dressage stallion and how many stallions do they have in the sport, not many. I have a really good one by him, a two-year-old filly out of a Millennium mare, out of a good family, I am really interested to see how far she goes. So he can produce foals like this that are quite fashionable, they are uphill and they have power in the body. I hate it that people just talk about the problems with a stallion, never what they can get from the stallion.”</p>
522. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Just when did the breeders become fashionistas – and why?</p>
523. <p style="font-weight: 400;">There are a number of factors at work as I see it. Perhaps the biggest one is the advent of chilled and frozen semen. The mare owner was no longer restricted in his choice to stallions that stood in his district. He could take his choice from stallions all over the world, and they came attractively packaged with sophisticated advertising campaigns. There was also a demographic shift, the breeders were no longer farmers with just two or three mares and a traditional respect for the authority of the breed society leaders. More and more, the trend was to newcomers who brought a very different mindset to the business of breeding.</p>
524. <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-67747" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/FoalPresentation2.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="466" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/FoalPresentation2.jpg 700w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/FoalPresentation2-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></p>
525. <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>The crowd prepares for Presentation time at the Bundeschampionate</em></strong></p>
526. <p>This was compounded by the increased emphasis on young horse classes, in particular the Bundeschampionate and the World Young Horse Championships. It meant that a stallion like Sandro Hit could cover thousands of mares without ever competing in an open age class.</p>
527. <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-67749" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Foal1.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="479" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Foal1.jpg 700w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Foal1-300x205.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></p>
528. <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>A major event, the Foal Auction</em></strong></p>
529. <p>The trend intensified when breeders discovered that instead of breaking in and training the young horse, they could whisk the foal off to what became major events, the foal auctions – suddenly the hunt was on for stallions that could produce pretty foals with lots of flashy front leg action…</p>
530. <p style="font-weight: 400;">I must confess, I miss the traditional set-up of the stallion station and hotel, that was the heart of the local farming community when I first started to explore the breeding scene in Europe, those were the days my friends…</p>
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559. <h2 style="font-weight: 400;">I was lucky enough to ride in a number of Nuno Oliveira’s clinics in the 1980’s. They were occasions of great drama, as several of the self-anointed Great Ladies of the dressage scene battled for Nuno’s attention, but if you cut out the clatter, and listened hard, there was so much to learn. Just how much, I don’t think I appreciated then, reading through two splendid publications from Xenophon press, <em>Equestrian Art: The Collected Early Writings (1951 – 1956) by Master Nuno Oliveira</em>, and its companion <em>The Collected Later Works, </em>I realise just how much of the subtly and depth of the great man’s thoughts I had missed. These books are jam-packed with insights and pearls of wisdom, it was hard not to keep marking points to discuss for this review.</h2>
560. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Nuno is best known for his high school work, let’s stand that on its head, and start with his advice for breaking in the young horse:</p>
561. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“From the very first lesson, one should desire the colt to work as calmly as possible, with confidence and not in fear. It is a great error to give the first lesson using the snaffle bridle. The defenses that appear in this case are almost always motivated by the fear that the colt feels with the steel in his mouth.”</p>
562. <p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>“There is nothing better than a simple stable halter with some reins attached to the sides.”</strong></p>
563. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Just a few pages on, we are in the rarified realms of In-hand work, once again, the advice is eminently sensible:</p>
564. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“What is necessary when working with the whip, is that you do not contract him (make him tense) with the touch of the whip, making him shrink back and putting him in a position that many people classify as <em>rassembler, </em>but this is not what it is; the horse looks more like a cat when it stretches, making his back convex.”</p>
565. <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-67703" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2Collected-Early-Works-remake-60.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="530" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2Collected-Early-Works-remake-60.jpg 400w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2Collected-Early-Works-remake-60-226x300.jpg 226w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px" /></p>
566. <p style="text-align: center;">The book is also enriched by a wonderful collection of photos of Nuno working his horse. This is of</p>
567. <p style="text-align: center;">Zarco, Portuguese stallion in half-pass at the walk to the left, after ten months training.</p>
568. <p style="text-align: center;">Photo by Pedro Villalva from Hauté Ecole</p>
569. <p style="font-weight: 400;">It was not for nothing that Nuno worked to a soundtrack of opera, his approach was one that emphasized emotion:</p>
570. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“Today I will not go into the subject of training, but rather I will tell you the story of two or three horses that I have fallen in love with and that I will never forget! Those who are close to me, my most advanced students, will laugh, because they are used to hearing me talk about almost all the horses that I have ridden (and they are not few!) and I have fallen in love with all of them, always finding them to be extraordinary.  This is not lack of sincerity, but passion for the formidable art of riding. But let’s get to the stories…”</p>
571. <p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>And for those gentle reader you will have to purchase the book.</em></p>
572. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Nuno was one of the great masters of the flying change, it’s wise to listen to him on the subject: “To understand and execute the flying changes well, it is necessary to have studied thoroughly and practiced the departures into canter from the walk and the halt. A flying change is a departure into canter made from the canter itself.”</p>
573. <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-67704" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/3Collected-Early-Works-remake-163.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="598" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/3Collected-Early-Works-remake-163.jpg 600w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/3Collected-Early-Works-remake-163-300x300.jpg 300w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/3Collected-Early-Works-remake-163-150x150.jpg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></p>
574. <p style="text-align: center;">Nuno Oliveira nearing the end of his career, helps a young Russian stallion find balance at the canter. <em>Courtesy of Olms Verlag </em></p>
575. <p style="font-weight: 400;">The gems keep flowing: “What is worthwhile? To take more time, following rational and gentle processes and methods, in order to solve a problem, which at first sight, seems to be settled with the use of the spur or the rein, with more or less force. It is worth it, yes, to ‘put on your slippers’ as advised by Baucher, and try to ride all horses, without exception, using either the reins or the legs as gently as possible and with the least effort.”</p>
576. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Another, “The role of the aids in the handling of a well-trained horse can be summarized in the following formula: The rider’s legs give the horse the impulsion, the hands regulate, via the reins, the way to expend that impulsion… The old master (Victor) Franconi, when visited one day by a royal prince who asked him to teach his son (a rider of great ease) to coordinate the action of the legs and the hand, replied that he had been riding for 50 years and that he did not always get good accordance of the aids.”</p>
577. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“How often do horses respond badly to the rider’s aids, because these aids are not in accordance, contradicting each other. The hand receives what the legs do, regulates, but never contradicts.”</p>
578. <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-67705" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/4Collected-Early-Works-remake-19.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="393" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/4Collected-Early-Works-remake-19.jpg 600w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/4Collected-Early-Works-remake-19-300x197.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></p>
579. <p style="text-align: center;">Garoto demonstrates maximum impulsion in passage under Nuno Oliveira in the Portuguese countryside<br />
580. 1950      Oliveira Archives</p>
581. <p style="font-weight: 400;">I must confess that I never imagined Nuno pushing metal in a gym or out for a jog but he was still aware that the rider had a responsibility to prepare his or her body adequately for the task of riding. Talking of riding in Hitler’s Germany:</p>
582. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“Shortly before there had been an Olympics in which the German riders had performed badly in every discipline. Hitler called the person in charge of selecting the German teams to him and told him that by the next Olympics (1936) he had to prepare the German riders so that they would be among the best. This gentleman began to observe very carefully the riders he judged likely to compete and came to the conclusion that all or almost all sinned by excessive rigidity on horseback… The result was that in 1936 the Germans were ranked first in the equestrian events.”</p>
583. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“This gymnastics is indispensable in the education of a rider who wants to be worthy of the name, riding well, instead of being carried in any way on the back of this admirable quadruped.”</p>
584. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Does the next paragraph remind you of some of the sights you might observe in today’s competition arena?</p>
585. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“In the piaffe, when the horse leans over his forehand, putting his forelegs rather far back, under his mass, it is because he is behind the bit and has no real impulsion.”</p>
586. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“In these out-of-balance piaffes (with the forelegs set back on the ground behind the point of the chest) there is always a lack of cadence, lack of rhythm and suspension, and ensuing lateral deviations.”</p>
587. <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-67707" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/5Collected-Early-Works-remake-160.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="583" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/5Collected-Early-Works-remake-160.jpg 600w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/5Collected-Early-Works-remake-160-300x292.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></p>
588. <p style="text-align: center;">Nuno Oliveira shows Euclides at the International Horse Show of Geneva.<br />
589. 1967                    Photo Courtesy of Olms Verlag</p>
590. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Here’s another gem:</p>
591. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“You often hear that so-and-so is an extraordinary rider because he has very good hands. Rarely do you hear that someone is a splendid rider because he knows how to act with his legs very well. Both are of equal importance if you want to be worthy of being called a good rider… The rider’s legs should be connected to the horse, but completely relaxed and lowered so that whenever they need to act or intervene, they act or intervene in a supple way for the horse to respond with suppleness, and not in a rigid and hard manner to which the horse invariably responds with rigidity, hardness or rejection.”</p>
592. <p style="font-weight: 400;">Poor Nuno, his reputation suffered because he attracted some appalling riders, who rode in a parody of the great man’s style and teachings, loudly proclaiming as they did so, that this was what they had learned from Nuno. Luckily we have these two new books to make us aware once again of how much knowledge and insight Nuno Oliveira had to offer. I will review the second volume that contains his later writings in another article, but for now, let’s finish, as volume one as Nuno does, with these words:</p>
593. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“The horse is man’s noblest conquest. Academic and artistic equitation is a school in virtue for the horseman. Patience, firmness, humility and common sense are indispensable virtues for whoever desires to attain a high level of dressage in his horse.”</p>
594. <p style="font-weight: 400;">“One of the beauties of art resides in the technically perfect execution and the relaxed ease of the artist. In order to obtain the greatest brilliance in the execution of any exercise it is necessary that the horse works with the lightest aids.”</p>
595. <p style="font-weight: 400;">We should be grateful to Richard Williams of Xenophon Press, who has kept alive so many of the great equestrian books. On this occasion he has published Nuno’s thoughts in two paperback volumes, but they are also available in collector’s hard cover editions. Visit the Xenophon website and marvel at what is to be found… <a href="https://xenophonpress.com/">https://xenophonpress.com</a></p>
596. <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-67706" src="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/6Collected-Early-Works-41.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="485" srcset="https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/6Collected-Early-Works-41.jpg 600w, https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/6Collected-Early-Works-41-300x243.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></p>
597. <p style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;">Diestro demonstrates serpentines in rein back at the Coliseu dos Recreios<br />
598. 1952 Oliveira Archives</p>
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   <a href="http://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=https%3A//www.horsemagazine.com/thm/feed/"><img src="valid-rss-rogers.png" alt="[Valid RSS]" title="Validate my RSS feed" /></a>

If you would like to create a text link instead, here is the URL you can use:

http://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=https%3A//www.horsemagazine.com/thm/feed/

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