{"id":47936,"date":"2019-11-30T13:04:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T02:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/?p=47936"},"modified":"2019-11-30T13:07:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T02:07:14","slug":"hello-sanctos-retires-meet-the-breeders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2019\/11\/hello-sanctos-retires-meet-the-breeders\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Sanctos retires, meet the breeders."},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello Sanctos has been retired. Meet the family who bred him.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Willy and Nasia van het Gravenhof, dam of Hello Sanctos.\u00a0 Photo supplied by his daughter, Lieve.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Willy Taets, daughter Lieve and grandson, Joachim<\/em><\/p>\n

Willy Taets was named WBFSH Breeder of the Year in 2014, as breeder of Hello Sanctos. He took his first ever aeroplane ride to receive his award, \u201cIt was an experience for my father, first time in a plane to Geneva, it was something special,\u201d says Lieve.<\/p>\n

How did this family of horse breeders start?<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cMy father is a farmer, they had some milking cows, a small farm. He was also a horse rider. A very long time ago he bought a mare, a Lipizzaner and she had a foal \u2013 that was the start of the breeding here. The foal became my brother\u2019s horse. That was the beginning, we then had a lot of foals. My father bought another horse to ride \u2013 Balin \u2013 and that was the grand-mother of Sanctos.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Half sisters to Sanctos by , and Berlin.<\/em><\/p>\n

Balin was by the Selle Fran\u00e7ais stallion, Fier de Lui, by Rantzau xx, and out of the Belgian mare, Nalinne, who was by another French stallion, L\u2019Ormel (by Harphortas xx) out of the Gelderlander mare Dorina.<\/p>\n

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Nabab de R\u00e9ve and Phillipe Le Jeune competing at the 2002 WEG<\/em><\/p>\n

Bred to Nabab de R\u00eave, Balin produced Nasia van het Gravenhof, the dam of Sanctos.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery year my father had more foals and he sold some \u2013 but the nicest mares, he kept. It started with one horse, then at one time there were twenty horses here, a little bit too much.\u201d<\/p>\n

What were the most important stallions your father used?<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cHis favorites were the French ones. He always tried to use the young stallions, he was not afraid to take a risk, he said \u2013 give me the young ones and maybe they will turn out good. He used a lot of Nabab de R\u00eave in his younger years.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Joris de Brabander with Nabab de R\u00e9ve<\/em><\/p>\n

Willy bred to Quasimodo on the advice of master breeder, Joris de Brabander. Lieve explains: \u201cQuite a long time ago, the father of Joris came with his stallions and made a display, and we made an agreement. Okay we have three mares, you can pick a stallion you think is suitable for the mare, then when we have the foals we can decide if we want to keep them or sell\u00a0them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe sold Sanctos when he was two years old.\u201d<\/p>\n

Was he special then?<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cNo-one could guess that he was so special. Even after we sold him, he was sold on and all the people who had him, and rode him, could not guess that the horse would be so great. It was only with Scott Brash that there was the magic combination. My father always says, \u2018breeding is gambling\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to especially mention my late mother because she was the brains behind our breeding, she was the commercial one, she would never sell a horse too cheap, she believed in what was born here. You can ask everyone who has tried to buy a horse here, my mother was a tough one, she wanted good money because she was convinced she was selling good quality horses.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Happy retirement to Hello Sanctos, meet the Taets family who bred him, the matriarch of their line was a Lipizzaner…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":47949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,6],"tags":[1362,2004,2005],"class_list":["post-47936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-show-jumping","tag-hello-sanctos","tag-scott-brash","tag-taets-family"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47950,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47936\/revisions\/47950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}