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Rebecca McIntyre Benjamin Schildwaechter of the Westfalian Verband asks the question… Australia has done much to expand its equestrian sport horizon the past years. The breeding of an Australian sport horse has gone from nonexistent to internationally recognised. The standard of competitions is becoming higher and there are more of them. Young Australian riders…[More]
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The German Breeding Values are supposed to be a guide to the top Sporthorse stalliions – but are they? Looking at this year’s top ranking there are a few very undistinguished horses in the list…
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From The Horse Magazine Archives… I guess it’s hard for Australians to understand just how specialised the German Horse scene is. While in Australia lots of our top riders have bred their own horses, in Germany the breeders tend to be one group, the riders and trainers another, with not a lot of communication between…[More]
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From The Horse Magazine Archives… Jan Greve and his pride and joy, Tjungske. This young stallion is by the great Carthago Z, out of a mare by Dr Greve’s English thoroughbred stallion, Julio Mariner, who was in turn out of Kwiggy, who twice descends from Dr Greve’s foundation mare, Twiggy. Bred to Almé, Twiggy produced…[More]
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One of the problems in setting down your opinions in cold hard print is that they can embarrassingly come back to bite you. Scarce had the ink dried on a survey of the first ten years of the German Breeding Values in action, in which I gently condescended to Don Schufro and Sandro Hit for…[More]
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STORY: Chris Hector PHOTOS: Roz Neave and Archives The breeding scene in France was for so long the most regimented and formalised in Europe. A network of National Studs (Haras Nationaux) covered the land, headed by god-like Breeding Directors and supported by a vast bureaucracy to administer the bewildering profusion of…[More]
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WORDS: Chris Hector PHOTOS: Roz Neave Joop showed us around his farm, he’s one of those guys who moves fast, and talks faster, and it is quite a tale. The entire operation is just 21 years old: “We started in 1993, and in the first year, we bred with our KWPN-licensed Trakehner stallion, Balzflug….[More]
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Story: Chris Hector Photos: Roz Neave & Arnd Bronkhorst You really don’t have to be a genius to know when you have walked into ‘the real thing’, a training barn run by a horseman who knows what he is doing. Everything about the set up is professional, and that doesn’t mean flash, no chandeliers, no…[More]
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The Young Guns – Sir Donnerhall By Christopher Hector If we are looking at hot young dressage stallions, there is no going past the current star of the Schockemöhle stallion selection, Sir Donnerhall. No other stallion polarizes the breeding community like his sire, Sandro Hit. You either love him, or you hate him… indeed there…[More]
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The Breeding Values Ten Years on… Diamond Hit – looks like a real Grand Prix stallion Story – Christopher Hector Photos – Roz Neave and archives The German FN breeding values have been in operation in their current form for just on a decade – although they are now divided into three groups based on…[More]
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What follows is the text, slightly updated, of my address to the Dressage Horse seminar at Warendorf. While the invitation was a great honour, it was also very intimidating to be asked to address such a distinguished gathering, especially on a topic that so many people present knew so much about. What I tried to…[More]
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Changes in Oldenburg Story – Chris Hector Photos – Silke Rottermann and Roz Neave Christoph Hess’ Bundeschampionate Seminar is a brilliant idea. Rather than trying to get judges and aficionados to travel the world to an educational seminar, he has grafted his educational seminar onto the world’s most exciting young horse show. Brilliant, your target…[More]
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