David is a full time rider, coach and breeder owning and operating Revelwood Warmblood Stud and the international stallion agency, Waterview Park. \u00a0His most successful horse to date was the imported KWPN Stallion, OO Seven who won a number of prestigious competitions at Grand Prix. \u00a0A son of OO Seven, Agent de Jeu is headlining David\u2019s competition horses with success at small tour with a goal of Grand Prix by the end of 2015.<\/p>\n
David and his wife Amanda have a five year old daughter, Annabel and reside on the Central Coast of NSW.<\/p>\n
Nowadays, as he told Rebecca Ashton, David is away from home a lot giving clinics\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m traveling around the country a fair bit, a lot of people who come to my clinics have our horses, which is great. We pride ourselves on how we start the horses too. A lot of people will start them with cowboys or a stock rider. That\u2019s great in some respects, but we want them to be dressage horses. It\u2019s like having a child and training them for 100 metres running but then telling them now you\u2019re a diver and just throwing them in the pool. We want to introduce the horses to contact and they get lunged and long reined and they\u2019re round so fundamentally when the first ride takes place, they walk, trot and canter on the bit because they\u2019re soft in the back.\u201d<\/p>\n
How do you choose your stallions?<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re always looking, but basically we always want stock that we would love to ride ourselves, whether they\u2019re ridden or not. The first stallion we bought of this generation was Smash Hit. We went to Europe to look for fillies and we came back with a colt. It was just a case that we saw him and he was quite expensive but we decided that we really needed to have him. At the time, we contacted some friends of ours and they went halves with us. We left him in Europe until he was two. The other owners wanted to put him through the licensing over there and then sell him but we wanted to bring him home so we bought their share and imported him.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThen we went back and bought Riverside. I had said to Ingo and Susan Pape for a couple of years that when they had finished with Riverside, we\u2019d really like to have him. Reggazoni, Donnerhall, Pik Bube; really good, strong breeding and I liked that he would work well with Thoroughbred mares because there\u2019s a really big band here, even though it is diminishing a bit now.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThen Quando Quando came about from Kristy (Oatley) who\u2019s a good friend.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFerrero Rocher, we stood at stud for Jenny Rapson for a few years and then again, when she decided to sell him, Amanda went and had a ride and we bought him.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMagritte we still have. He\u2019s about 29 now.”<\/p>\n \u201c00 Seven came about through Emmy de Jeu. The first time I saw him was when I picked him up from quarantine. I tell everyone never to buy sight unseen and I did! He was absolutely awesome. But I\u2019m not going to get ahead of myself and do it again. Actually, come to think of it, I did do it again! I did it with Agent De Jeu! He\u2019s by 00 Seven out of a Florestan mare. The same lady who bred 00 Seven, Isabel Van Sponselee-Gisbergen bred him and she\u2019s a good friend of Emmy.\u201d<\/p>\n Why have you decided to import the stallions rather than just do AI?<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWe do that too via Waterview Park, which is a frozen semen importing business that we own. But there\u2019s always a misconception that if it\u2019s in Germany or Holland, it\u2019s better, but we are fortunate to have stallions like Quando Quando. He\u2019s an Olympic stallion, he\u2019s produced price highlights at auctions, he\u2019s produced licensed sons and he\u2019s the grandfather of Quaterback. Stedinger, our latest stallion, was a licensing champion in Oldenburg. He has fathered two licensed sons and numerous state premium mares.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cQuite a few breeders haven\u2019t been successful with frozen semen so we can send them chilled semen. Sure, people pay more for the service fee with the fresh semen but you have a live foal guarantee and the conception rate is a lot higher. We\u2019ve also put a fair bit of effort into having top broodmares. 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