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Lynne Crowden is recognised for her contribution to British breeding, and
Patrik Kittel takes on the triple world young horse champion for training
Crowden honoured
with lifetime award
WOODLANDER STUD’S Lynne
Crowden was a popular winner of
the Stallion AI Services Meritoire
Lifetime Achievement award
at the British Breeders’ awards
dinner in London on 13 January.
The outcome was kept a secret
until the end of the night, when
Lynne was full of surprise and
emotion at receiving the award.
“I’m very honoured. The
biggest surprise was that
Carsten [Sandrock, Woodlander
Stud’s head rider] managed to
keep it a secret!” said Lynne,
breeder of double world young
horse champion Farouche, as
well as record-breaking stallion
Wild Child.
“I was also a little worried as
‘Such an exciting
journey’: Lynne
Crowden accepts
her lifetime
achievement award
from Stallion AI’s
Tullis Matson
usually a lifetime achievement
award means that you’re at the
end, and I really don’t feel like
that. It’s been such an exciting
journey — when I began I had no
sense of how far away the finish
line was because I didn’t even
know I was in the race. I just
started off doing the best I could.”
With her husband Dave, Lynne
has bred more than 400 foals,
with a particular focus on the
very best damlines. Woodlander’s
progeny have dominated the
Futurity scheme in recent years,
with the three-year-old Gloria
the highest scoring Futurity
entrant of 2017, and Wild Love
being judged the year’s top
two-year-old.
“Farouche winning the world
young horse championships was
game-changing from a breeding
point of view — we were quite
well known in the UK then, but
it gave us an international
presence,” Lynne told H&H.
“Without Farouche we wouldn’t
be on our current journey with
Wild Child.”
Kittel takes on
Sezuan training
Sezuan (Zack x Don Schufro)
is now in training with Swedish
Olympian Patrik Kittel
SWEDISH Olympic dressage
rider Patrik Kittel has taken over
the training of triple world young
horse champion Sezuan.
The nine-year-old Zack x
Don Schufro son was ridden by
German Olympian Dorothee
Schneider until her collaboration
with the stallion’s owners Gestüt
Peterhof ended last November.
“Currently we are evaluating
every option for [Sezuan’s] further
schooling. The stallion is top fit
and there is a worldwide demand
[for] the stallion. Patrik Kittel
is supporting us in the training,”
said the Peterhof stud’s Arlette
Jasper-Kohl and Edwin Kohl
in a statement.
The international rider, who
helped Sweden claim team bronze
at the Gothenburg Europeans in
August, will present Sezuan at
Peterhof’s upcoming stallion
show on 10 February, as well as
in Vechta on 18 February and
on the gala evening of the Danish
stallion licensing in Herning
on 10 March.
Patrik has posted several
videos on his social media
channels of the nine-year-old
displaying impressive grand prix
work, though it is unconfirmed
whether he will continue the
stallion’s competition career.
Under Dorothee, Sezuan
claimed the world young horse
championship in 2014, 2015 and
2016, and has since scored more
than 80% at international small
tour level. H&H
IN BRIEF
OLYMPIC STALLIONS
ON DISPLAY
BIG STAR, Chilli Morning,
Arko III and Jaguar Mail will be
among the stallions lining up
for the inaugural Competition
Stallions Event at Addington
Manor on 18 February.
Sixty top competition
stallions will be presented, and
can be viewed in the warm-up
and in the stables. Other sires
on display will include Ramiro B,
Caretino Glory and T Movistar.
The event will also feature
the Competition Stallions
Awards, which recognise sires
of progeny assessed during
the 2017 British Equestrian
Federation Futurity evaluations.
For information and tickets
visit competition-stallions.com
TOP TITLE FOR SIRES
DUTCH stallions Vivaldi,
Johnson, Painted Black and
Rousseau will be awarded
preferent sire status — the
highest title a stallion can earn
— at the KWPN licensing in ‘s
Hertogenbosch on 2 February.
Johnson, by Jazz, won gold
with the Dutch team at the
2015 Europeans and team
bronze at the World Equestrian
Games (WEG) in 2014. He is the
sire of the exciting upcoming
stallion Bretton Woods.
Painted Black, by Gribaldi,
first competed with Anky van
Grunsven, then at London 2012
and the 2014 WEG with Spain’s
Morgan Barbançon Mestre.
Among the Krack C son
Vivaldi’s offspring are Charlotte
Dujardin’s four-time national
champion Mount St John VIP
and Madeleine Witte-Vrees’ 2017
Europeans ride Cennin, plus
licensed stallions Desperado,
Dream Boy, Chinook, Expression
and Eye Catcher.
Rousseau, by Ferro, is the
sire of successful stallions Blue
Hors Zack and Ampere, as well
as Patrick van der Meer’s grand
prix ride Zippo.
FAREWELL TO...
THE elite mare Annabel (De
Niro x Romancier) has died
aged 21. The liver chestnut
was bred in Germany by Rolf
Klockgether and acquired
as a foal by the Jansens. She
produced 13 foals, including
the KWPN-licensed Jazz son
President’s Chagall D&R, now
competing at international
small tour with Patrick van der
Meer; the Johnson son Bretton
Woods and the AES-approved
Totilas son Gaudi.
Pictures by Craig Payne Photography and courtesy of Gestüt Peterhof
8 February 2018 Horse & Hound 55