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May 2018
Launch of the
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How to breed
an eventer
Great British
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Veterinary insight:
Assisted Reproductive
Techniques
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British Horses:
Becky Moody
NEWS: Stallion
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INSIDE this issue...
Welcome
As I write this introduction, the rather
wet Spring weather continues and many
of our readers will be wishing for the
reappearance of the sunshine so the
new born foals can get out and stretch
their legs. This time of year is probably
the most exciting for a breeder, as we
start to discover whether our
breeding plans from the previous year
have worked out.
Breeding can be an expensive game and
we have two excellent articles looking
at developments in the technical world
of equine reproduction by Noelle Baxter
from the Sussex Equine Hospital and a
fascinating world exclusive interview
with Tullis Matson, the brains behind
Stallions AI.
Our regular Great British Broodmare
feature is devoted this time to Sarah
Oppenheimer’s Rubinsteena, who had
three offspring competing at the recent
NAF Five Star Winter Dressage
Championships at Hartpury. We also
report on the best British sires at those
Championships and caught up with
leading rider Becky Moody who was
competing two British bred horses at
the show.
Staying at Hartpury, we report on the
2018 Blue Chip Championships and the
successful British bred horses jumping
there. Our breeder’s profile introduces
Charlotte Taylor from Clements Equine
who has her eyes set on breeding
international show jumpers.
The Stallion Spotlight shines on 26 year
old eventing sire Catherston Liberator,
sire of last year’s Badminton placed
Xavier Faer among a number of other
international eventers. We ask a range
of breeders their thoughts on breeding
for the eventing market and the
challenges they face.
This edition introduces you to the new
team behind British Breeding, who with
Legal Notice:
the support of the Olympic Disciplines
and the British Breeders Network will
be working tirelessly to support all
areas of the industry. We are very proud
to announce Baileys Horse Feeds have
returned as headline sponsors for the
Futurity Evaluation series and the
British Horse Foundation have also
generously donated funds to support
the programme. Read Eva-Maria
Broomer’s article on the plans for the
Futurity for 2018 including the full list
of dates and venues. We also look back
on some past stars of the series and see
what they have achieved since.
As usual we have lots of news from
the sport horse and pony studbooks
and images from some of the fantastic
stallion parades that have taken place
this Spring.
In the next edition our invited expert
will be Lynne Crowden, the brains
behind Woodlander Stud, who will
be discussing the merits and pitfalls
of stallion licensing. If you have any
questions on this topic that you would
like answering, please send them in
to admin@breedingbritish.co.uk. The
questions and answers will published in
the next edition.
British eventing breeding has been
showcased at the highest level this
Spring with victory for British
bred Classic Moet at Badminton and
for British sired Colley Master Class (by
Ramiro B) at Kentucky. Read reports on
both these victories in this edition.
In the next edition we will be
examining the impact of Warmblood
Fragile Foal Syndrome and the
implications for the sport horse
breeding industry. The AES have already
issued a statement on the syndrome
and are advising all stallion owners to
test their stallions to see if they carry
the gene and this information will be
added to their database.
Sacha Shaw - Editor
Front Cover Image:
Tony Noble’s AES Stallion Cobra 18
(Cornet Obolensky x Ramiro Z x Usurpator XX).
Contents
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Dates for your diary.
British Breeding - Meet the team.
Ramiro B son Kentucky Win.
British bred triumph at Badminton.
British Success at the winter Championships.
Blue Chip winter show jumping Championships.
Futurity Graduates.
British Breeding plans.
Studbook updates.
Breeder Profile - Charlotte Taylor.
Great British Broodmares - Rubinsteena.
How to breed an Eventer.
Advances in assisted reproductive techniques.
British Breeders on British Horses - Becky Moody.
Stallion shows roundup.
Stallion Spotlight - Catherston Liberator.
Ask the expert - Tullis Matson.
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NEWS - CALENDAR
DATES for your diary
May
11th May
11-13th May
18th May
18th May
18th May
24th May
25-28th May
26th May
30th May
31st May
- BYEH Qualifier – Floors Castle
– Shearwater Insurance & Hickstead Young Dressage Horse Qualifiers – Addington Manor
– BYEH Qualifier – Rockingham Castle
– Shearwater Insurance Young Dressage Horse Qualifier – Hunters
– Hickstead Young Dressage Horse & Young Pony Qualifiers – Kingswood
– BYEH Qualifier – Houghton International
– Shearwater Insurance & Hickstead Young Dressage Horse Qualifiers – Somerford
– BYEH Qualifier – Hambleton Show
– BYEH Qualifier – Yorkshire Sport Horse Show
– 2nd June – Young Horse SJ Champs – Northcote
June
1st June
6-10th June
8th June
8th June
9th June
14th June
14th June
16th June
17th June
19-23rd June
22nd June
23rd June
24th June
24th June
25th June
to 15th July
27th June
29th June
29th June
29th June
29th June
– Shearwater Insurance Young Dressage Horse Qualifier – Oldencraig
– Shearwater Insurance & Hickstead Young Dressage Horse & Young Pony Qualifiers – Wellington
– BYEH Qualifier & Stallion Parade– Bramham
– Shearwater Insurance Young Dressage Horse Qualifier – Kings Sedgemoor
– Shearwater Insurance Young Dressage Horse Qualifier – Crow Wood
– Bolesworth Elite Auction
– Shearwater Insurance Young Dressage Horse Qualifier – Onley
– Shearwater Insurance Young Dressage Horse & Young Pony Qualifier – Rockrose
– Shearwater Insurance Young Dressage Horse Qualifier – Cholderton
– Hickstead Young Horse Qualifier - Hickstead
– BYEH Qualifier – Keysoe
– Hickstead Young Dressage Horse Qualifier - Myerscough
– BHHS Mare Performance Test at Fosshey Stables
– Shearwater Insurance Young Dressage Horse Qualifier – Widmer
- AES Elite Foal Auction Selections & Mare and Youngstock Grading.
– Shearwater Insurance Young Dressage Horse Qualifier – Northallerton
– BYEH Qualifier – Chepstow
– BYEH Qualifier – Weston Lawns
– Shearwater Insurance Young Dressage Horse Qualifier – Sparsholt
– 1st July – Shearwater Insurance & Hickstead Young Dressage Horse & Young Pony Qualifiers – Sheepgate
July
2nd July
4-8th July
5th July
5th July
8th July
18th July
19th July
21st July
23rd July
24th July
25th July
26th July
26-29th July
27th July
27th July
28th July
31st July
– SHB(GB) Loose Jumping Competition – Addington EC, Bucks
– Shearwater Insurance Young Dressage Horse Semi Final & Young Pony Final– Hartpury
– BYEH Qualifier – Barbury
– BYEH Qualifier – Richmond EC
- Hickstead Young Dressage Horse Qualifier - Hartpury
– Shearwater Insurance Young Dressage Horse Semi Final – Port Royal
– BYEH Qualifier – Field House EC
– BYEH Qualifier – Tattersalls July Show
– BEF Futurity - Xanstorm Equestrian, Scotland
– BEF Futurity - Richmond Equestrian, Yorkshire
- BEF Futurity - Derby College, Morley, Derbyshire
- BEF Futurity - Kings Equestrian Centre, Herefordshire
– Hickstead Young Dressage Horse Finals – Hickstead CDIO
- BEF Futurity - Catherston Stud, Hampshire
– BYEH Qualifier – Burgham
- BEF Futurity - Tall Trees Arena, Cornwall
– BYEH Qualifier – Ryedale Show
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British Breeding
MEET THE TEAM
A group of five individuals from different spheres of the
equine world came together in 2017 to form the new British
Breeding Partnership. In collaboration with the Olympic
Disciplines and the British Breeders Network, they will be
responsible for delivering the key elements of the equine
development programme previously undertaken by the British
Equestrian Federation.
These five elements are:
· The Stallion Event
· The Futurity
· The British Breeder magazine
· The Burghley Horse Trials Stallion Parade
· The Equine Bridge
This magazine will provide coverage of all these areas,
keeping breeders at home and abroad up to date with what is
happening in the world of breeding. This is the team who will
ood experience of watching the all time greats competing
at Aachen. Eva runs an equine photography and PR business,
and some of you will have seen her and her camera at various
breeding and dressage events, or know her from her work
with the AES, Stallion AI Servcies and Woodlander Stud. In
her spare time, Eva writes a blog for Eurodressage.com. Eva
says “I look forward to working on new initiatives to support
breeders everywhere in the UK and to blowing the trumpet
for British breeding!”
Jane Skepper
NEWS
Jane founded Horse IT Ltd in 1999 – which runs the online
equestrian directory www.equibusiness.com and the
information site www.horseit.com. In 2012, she fulfilled
a long ambition of creating a one stop shop for British
Competition stallion owners; creating the first edition of
the Competition Stallion Guide in print and online at www.
competition-stallions.com. She is the 4th generation of a
family breeding flat Thoroughbred race horses, pure Arab race
horses, and Anglo and Part-bred Arabs for show jumping and
eventing. Jane also competed to CCI*** Eventing as a Young
Rider before spending a time producing young homebreds.
“I also manage the family stud, Heritage Coast Stud on the
beautiful east coast of Suffolk. It is a family affair as my
husband, Piers Marson, is a designer and brings everything to
print! Our daughters both actively compete most weekends.
Joris van den Oetelaar
Joris has been breeding horses all his life, and runs one
of the largest equestrian show venues in the South of the
Netherlands where he organizes great events from concerts
to big competitions. He has also loved Britain and British
horses – “without the English Thoroughbred, there would be
no modern sport horse breeding! This is why I am passionate
about helping breeders in Britain get the national and global
recognition they deserve through my work with the AES and
beyond.”
Rachael Holdsworth
Rachael has worked in the equestrian industry for many years
as a PR and marketing consultant. She has been involved in
the promotion of the BEF Futurity Evaluations and British
Breeding since 2009 and has also worked with British Young
Breeders, developing a passion for British bred horses during
this time. “I have owned and ridden horses all my life and
consider myself fortunate to combine my love of all things
equestrian with my career. I am excited to be a part of this
team.”
Sacha Shaw
Sacha has been involved with the breeding industry her whole
life, starting with Thoroughbreds and now breeding sport
horses under the Volatis prefix and standing a WBS-UK graded
stallion. From small crops, Volatis stock have been successful
at Royal International, Royal Windsor and many other major
county shows. In 2016 Sacha was the HOYS coloured horse
Breeder of the Year and has also bred horses competing
successfully BD, BS and BE as well as Premium graded mares.
Sacha writes the Breeding British blog and has written for a
number of leading equestrian publications. She worked for a
number of years for Paul Schockemohle in Germany and was
Equestrian Manager for Horse of the Year Show. Sacha also has
a background in accountancy having previously been the Head
of Management Accounts for a large acute NHS Trust.
The team can be contacted through the
www.britishbreeding.com website.
Joris
Eva-Maria, Sacha, Jane & Rachael at the 2018 Stallion Event
BRITISH BREEDER| 5

NEWS
RAMIRO B son - Cooley Master Class
Wins The Land Rover Kentucky
Three-Day Event
It was celebrations all round for the team at Harthill Stud
after the Ramiro B sired Cooley Master Class and Oliver
Townend took the 2018 Land Rover Kentucky CCI 4* title.
The British based stallion is currently number four on the
WBFSH sire rankings for eventing stallions, and is highly
placed in the BEF Futurity sire rankings including siring the
2017 BEF Futurity Eventing Foal Champion. Cooley Master
Class is the first 4-star victor for the popular sire who is
owned by Harthill Stud and stands at Stallion AI Services in
Shropshire. After a clear round cross country, Oliver stood in
third position overnight.
It was a tense finish as Oliver took the lead from Michael
Jung, with a foot perfect fault-free show jumping round with
Cooley Master Class, to finish on his dressage score of 28.7
penalties. Nina Barbour of Harthill Stud: “We are delighted
for Oliver and Cooley Master Class, he is a hugely talented
horse who has risen through the eventing ranks and has
proven that Ramiro B is capable of producing event horses
capable of winning at the very highest level of the sport.”
Oliver was delighted to win, as this victory is his second leg
of the Rolex Grand Slam of Eventing. To secure the title the
rider must win the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton, Land Rover
Burghley and Land Rover Kentucky Horse Trials consecutively
in any order. Oliver won Burghley last September with
Ballaghmor Class, so will be contesting the vital third leg at
Badminton along with Cooley SRS, another prolific Ramiro B
son.
Article by Sacha Shaw
Oliver Townend on Cooley Master Class
Baileys Moving Forwards
with the Futurity
Baileys Horse Feeds are delighted to confirm renewal of
their support for the British Breeding Futurity Young Horse
Evaluations for 2018. After a period of uncertainty, this year’s
dates have been finalised and the Baileys team are looking
forward to attending each of the days to offer
no-obligation nutritional advice.
and development of any youngster so we’re delighted
to have the opportunity to continue to help and advise
those who bring their horses to the Futurity,” says Baileys
Nutrition Director, Liz Bulbrook. Baileys have collected data,
throughout their involvement, and this has been analysed to
identify links between body condition and premiums awarded.
Marketing Manager, Jane Buchan says, “We’ve invested a lot
into the Evaluations, over the years, so it’s good to be
able to continue our involvement and move
forward with the Futurity over the
coming years.”
Having supported the Futurity since its inception, Baileys
started a more “hands-on” involvement in 2011 and, ever
since, their nutritionists have assessed youngsters’ body
condition and muscle development as each horse is examined
by the vet. “Correct nutrition is so important to the growth
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BRITISH HORSES IN COMPETITION
British Bred
TRIUMPH AT
BADMINTON
British breeding made the headlines for all the right reasons
at the 2018 Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials. The
British bred mare Classic Moet and Jonelle Price give a
masterclass in cross country riding to storm into the lead
after day two, and clinched victory with a clear over a tough
show jumping track on the final day.
It was a first 4-star victory for Jonelle and Classic Moet. They
have previously won the best British bred prize at Burghley
in 2015 and 2016 and were 4th at the World Equestrian
Games in 2014. On holding ground Jonelle made full use of
her gallant mare’s class and relentless gallop to post the
fastest round of the day over Eric Winter’s track, just 1
second over the optimum time. Classic Moet is a daughter
of the late Thoroughbred sire Classic (Alzao x Simbir) out of
the advanced event mare Gamston Bubbles who is again by
a Thoroughbred sire Bohemond. Bohemond is also the dam
sire of the Olympic eventer Winsome Adante and directly the
sire of the regular Belgian Championship team horse Withcote
Nellie.
Breeder Elaine Hepworth also bred a full brother to Classic
Moet, Classic Piper who is competing at CCI*** level. Although
Classic passed away a few years ago, Beechwood Stud still
have frozen semen available.
Runner up Oliver Townend was aiming for the third leg of
Rolex Grand Slam having won Burghley in 2017 and Kentucky
just a week ago. However 5.2 penalties stood between him
and victory. His 2017 European Championship mount Cooley
SRS showed real class throughout and although Irish bred,
is a son of super sire Ramiro B, who stands at Stallions AI in
Shropshire.
Irishman Padraig McCarthy finished in 8th place on Mr Chunky,
a 13-year-old British-bred SHB(GB) registered gelding. He is
by the incredibly successful sire Jumbo. Jumbo was fairly
unique among eventing sires in that he competed to advanced
level himself (including winning at Lion D’Angers), in a sport
that stallions tend not to dominate in.
Jonelle Price and Classic Moet - Photo Kit Houghton
By the Irish Draught sire Skippy out of the showjumper Betty,
who was by the thoroughbred Seven Bells, Jumbo sired
45 advanced horses, including Avebury ( 3 times Burghley
winner), Henry Tankerville (Bramham winner), Skylight
(European Young Rider Gold Medallist) and Allercombe Ellie
(short list Rio Olympics) and graded stallion Philanderer II
(European Young Rider Team 2017). Mr Chunky is out of the
thoroughbred mare Avin Fun Bar by Sergeant Drummer. He
was bought from his breeder Sue Trump by Padraig’s wife Lucy
Wiegersma and produced by Lucy to four-star level – the pair
completed Burghley in 2015 – and Padraig took the ride at the
beginning of 2016.
A top 20 finish for the ever consistent Coopers Law and Emilie
Chandler rounded off a great weekend for British bred horses.
Coopers Law is one of seven offspring for the mare Miss
Cooper who was by the Irish Draught stallion Kildalton Gold
(the damsire of Ballincoola). He was bred by owners Nicola
Dickson and Sally Wiliams and was bred to be a family horse.
Coopers Law is a son of the late Mill Law, a stallion who
produced a number of advanced eventers and was also a
leading sire of BEF Futurity entrants. Mill Law was purchased
as a yearling by his owner Sue Browne, was by the HIS
stallion Samiel out of a part Arab mare. He was known for his
wonderful temperament and evented himself to advanced
level with Sue’s daughter Nicola. Outside of the main event
there was more to celebrate. Both sections of the Dubarry
Burghley Young Event Horse qualifier were British bred. The
4 year Myspires Another Star is a daughter of breeder Lianne
Verity’s own stallion Myspires Revolution out of Another
Gamble. The 5yo victor was the 2017 SHB(GB) Stallion
Grading Champion A Moment in Time. Bred and owned by
Carolyn Bates, he combines two of the best stallions from her
Grafham Stud – Wish Upon a Star and Jumbo.
Finally the Mitsubishi Motors Cup 90
winner was Lauren Burton’s 8 year
old D Akieda, by the AES Elite graded
stallion Treliver Decanter.
Padraig McCarthy and Mr Chunky - Photo Kit Houghton
Article by Sacha Shaw
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NEWS - BRITISH BRED HORSES IN COMPETITION
British Success
At the Winter Champs
The 2018 NAF Five Star Winter Dressage Championships saw
British bred horses claim 19 titles stretching from under 18
Area Festivals to the gala evening highlight, the Intermediate
I Freestyle. With household names such as Charlotte Dujardin,
Alice Oppenheimer, Paul Friday and Becky Moody, all
campaigning horses bred in this country, the tide appears to
be slowly turning in favour of British breeders.
A number of those British bred champions were sired by
stallions that stand in Germany, Holland or Denmark, but UK
resident stallions can also boast of some excellent results at
the championships.
The standout sire both in terms of number of offspring
qualified and final results was the late, great Dimaggio.
With no fewer than 17 individual offspring qualified for 29
Championships, he then sired three champions: Keystone
Dynamite in both the Superflex Intermediate I Championship
on the Friday and in the Freestyle and Headmore Davina
heading up a Dimaggio 1,2 in the Advanced Medium Freestyle
Gold.
T-Movistar and Cardinar both had 5 progeny qualified.
The Hanoverian Cardinar only passed away in 2015 at the
age of 29. His owner Paul Friday bred a number of good
competition horses from him and two of those secured top
five placings – Callum Himself (out of a Florestan mare) and
Cavallina Herself ( out of a Welches Gluck mare). T-Movistar,
who stands with The Dressage Company in East Anglia, sired
the Area Festival Medium Silver Champion Movinight, who
had also qualified for the Elementary equivilant. Jo Stoyell
purchased him as a 2 year old from breeder Sarah
Tyler-Evans. Movinight’s dam Lanoeska is a daughter of
the great jumping sire Voltaire and hails from the same
motherline as top young stallion Grey Flannell.
Keystone Dynamite and Sadie Smith.
Image courtesy of Kevin Sparrow/BD
Keystone Dynamite is owned and ridden by Carl Hester’s
stable jockey Sadie Smith, and the pair have previously
taken titles at the National Championships at Stoneleigh.
Keystone Dynamite was bred by Suzanne Lavandera, who
competed Dimaggio to success in the 2000 World Breeding
Championships in Verden, Germany. What makes Dimaggio
even more of a success story for British breeding, is how
popular he has been with German breeders, standing at stud
there for a number of years with sons graded into all the main
studbooks.
To demonstrate how dominant Dimaggio was at these
championships, the most represented non- British stallion was
Belissimo M who had 8 offspring contesting 14 championships.
With just one representative less is the British stallion
Showmaker. His most successful get was Nemo VII, owned and
bred by Katie Roberts, who qualified for the championships
on a wild card. The pair had hit a really consistent vein of
form this Spring, culminating in 3rd place in the Novice Silver
Final.
Jo Stoyell and Movinight.
Image courtesy of Kevin Sparrow/BD
Four British stallions each had four offspring competing:
Amour G, Donnersohn, Flayne Don Don Daiquiri and Pro-Set.
Amour G is a graduate of the Futurity series (earning two
Elites in 2008) and his offspring secured 3 top five placings,
with the best place achieved by his daughter EV Amore Mia
who was Vice Champion Novice Freestyle Gold. EV Amore Mia
was bred by Lindsay Moffat out of a Samber mare and won
two Scottish Championship titles in 2017 before taking the
Novice Gold and Freestyle Winter Regional titles on the way
to Hartpury.
Grafham Stud resident Wish Upon A Star, may be better known
as an eventing sire, but he is a son of the World No 2 Dressage
Sire (2016) Gribaldi. Wish Upon A Star had two offspring
qualified for the Prelim Silver Area Festival and it was Amy
Daye riding Prince William MBS won took the title, heading a
top eight clean sweep for British bred horses in that class.
Another stallion sadly no longer available to breeders is the
ex-Catherston Stud resident Deanes San Ciro Hit (Sandro Hit
x Dutch Courage) who produced the Under 18 Medium Area
Festival Champion Delhurens Sunshine who was also 4th in the
Advanced Medium Bronze Area Festival.
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NEWS - BRITISH BRED HORSES IN COMPETITION
The pony stallions really kept British sires
to the fore with victories in the Under
18s Preliminary Area Festival for Haybells
Cinderella sired by Cefyn Playboy and
Edendawn William Wombat by Honeypot
Stromboli winning the Elementary Silver.
Welsh Section C Twyford Salamander (by
Persie Renown) won the Elementary Silver
Freestyle ridden by Nicola Byam-Cook.
The next crop of British superstar riders
were evident in the Under 18 Elementary
Area Festival. 13 year old Emilia Nelson
was victorious on Sarah Steggall’s WFS Top
Red (by the late Elite SPSS graded stallion
Top Yellow out of Bernwode Poppy Red).
WFS Top Red and Emilia added a 3rd place
in the following day’s Medium section.
Top Yellow was an international dressage
pony and Westphalian licensing champion
before moving to the UK and has a number
of exciting British bred offspring coming
through. Even though he was bred in
Germany, both his grandsires were British,
one a British Riding Pony (Rosedale Tiberius)
and one a Welsh Section B (Kirby Cane
Bugler). British riders have accepted they
can find the quality they are looking for at
home, now more British breeders need to
start considering British based stallions when
making their breeding plans.
Emilia Nelson and WFS Top Red.
Image courtesy Kevin Sparrow/BD
Article by Sacha Shaw
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NEWS - BRITISH BRED HORSES IN COMPETITION
BLUE CHIP
Winter Show Jumping
Championships
Every April, the Hartpury Arena is filled with competitors
targeting the many National titles on offer over 5 days at the
Blue Chip Winter Championships.
Varco II was beaten in the Discovery by another exciting
young British bred - Kimba Uttah.
He is a son of a previous Blue Chip champion in Uttah van
het Indihof, a Heartbreaker daughter who is turning into a
very smart broodmare for owner Kim Barzilay. She is also
the dam of 2016 Foxhunter finalist and 2016 Blue Chip
Karma Performance winner Kimba Flamenco (by Je T’Aime
Flamenco). Kimba Uttah’s sire is the homebred stallion Kimba
Kannarko, who as his name suggested combines Kannan and
Arko bloodlines. Kimba Uttah followed up his championship
win, with a 1m restricted winter classic victory.
The Blue Chip Grand Prix is always the highlight and British
breeding came close to securing victory over Paul Connor’s
track. Instead they filled second and third places thanks
to Harry Wainwright, who opened the 13 horse jump off
with Pinheiro Beech and Miles Pearson riding his homebred
Castiel. Pinheiro Beech is a son of Geoff Glazzard’s former
International horse and AES Elite graded stallion It’s the
Business out of the Cantero daughter Ragua. Ragua is quite
closely related to the 3-star eventer Calcourt Landline
(Pan-Am Games, Event Rider Masters). Third placed Castiel is
an eight year old son of Larino.
The breeding stallion Varco II, bred by Claire Miller and
ridden for Di Fairclough by Ryan Page, took the Horsequest
UK Novice title and was also runner up for the Joshua Jones
Winter Discovery title. A son of Winstein V (Voltaire) out of
a Darco mother, the six year old has his first foals on the
ground.
Although not a main championship class, Bryan Smith
recorded a victory in the 1.25m qualifier on the Ragazzo
son Osprey Hookster, bred by Pauline Williams. Ragazzo
was a Hanoverian grandson of the great Ramiro, and stood
at Hartpury for a number of years. Ragazzo was known as
a producer of Grand Prix dressage horses as well as show
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NEWS - FUTURITY GRADUATES
FUTURITY GRADUATES
As the Futurity enters it’s 11th year, we look back at some
of the graduates of the series who have gone to achieve
international and national success, flying the flag for British
breeding. With no central database of competition and
breeding results, and differing levels of information
available across the disciplines, keeping track of Futurity
graduates is no easy task. But when we can, we want to take
every opportunity to celebrate our breeders, stallion owners
and riders success.
SPORTS PONIES
LE Chiffre – (Caeser 171 x Donnerwetter) Higher First
(8.81) as a foal in 2007 British Team Member at the Pony
European Championships 2016, 8th in the Freestyle & 11th
individually. Graded SPSS stallion. Bred by Bev Brown of
Leamside Equestrian
Ella – (Caeser 171 x Santano ) Elite (9.04) as a foal in 2009
Member of the Irish Dressage Team at the 2016 Pony
Europeans who is now competing internationally for GB
ridden by Sophie Williams. SPSS Elite graded mare. Bred
by Julie Lockley of Bramley Stud
Ella - Myerscough Futurity 2009 - Photo www.michaelgarton.co.uk
Trevoulter Ladies Man – (Gorsfraith Brenin) First Premium
(8.35) as a foal in 2007 and (8.29) as a 3 yo. Jumping
internationally (CSIP), Winner of the JA Title at the 2016
Pony of the Year Show. SPSS graded stallion. Bred by
Kerensa Pluess-Cobbledick.
Catherston Bit of Gold – (Littledale Bright Star x
Catherston Gold Eagle) Elite (9.36) as a foal in 2009 After
slightly outgrowing the pony section, has graduated to
CIC** level eventing. Bred by Catherston Stud.
DRESSAGE
Ella & Sophie Williams representing GB in 2017 - Photo Julie Bramley
Woodlander Farouche - (Furst Heinrich x Dimaggio)
Higher First (8.72) as a 2yo in 2008. Double World Young
Horse Champion, International Small Tour Winner. Bred by
Woodlander Stud.
Don Dante - (Dancier x Salvano) Higher First (8.65) as a
yearling in 2008. National Medium Champion 2014. Placed in
all 4yo,5yo and 6yo young horse championships. Now Winning
Inter 1 at Premier Leagues. BHHS and WBS Graded Stallion.
Bred by Wendy McKay.
Woodlander Donna Summer - (Del Amitri x Consul) Elite
(9.38) as a 3yo in 2008. Made her International debut at small
tour in 2016. Bred by Woodlander Stud.
Woodcroft Kristabelle - (Le Rouge x King Arthur) Elite (9.11)
as a 3yo in 2009. Winning PSG with her amateur owner. Bred
by Woodcroft Stud.
Romanno Rafiel - (Rubin Star N x de Niro) First Premium
(8.46) as a 2yo in 2009. Novice National Champion 2014.
Regional PSG Champion 2018. Bred by Jennifer Gilchrist.
Woodlander Wild Child - (Wavavoom x Furst Heinrich).
Elite (9.79) as a foal in 2011. Licensed stallion and sire of 3
sons graded in Germany (Hanoverian and Oldenburg) and UK
(BHHS and WBS) in 2017. Winning Elementary 2018. Bred by
Woodlander Stud.
Flamingo - (Flemmingh x Harvard) Elite (9.54) as a 2yo in
2009 Regional Medium Freestyle Champion 2018. Bred by
Christine Trendell.
Woodlander Forever Amadeus - (Fidertanz x His Highness)
Elite (9.54) as a foal in 2009. Winning PSG. Bred by
Woodlander Stud.
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Woodlander Farouche - Futurity
2008 - Photos Kevin Sparrow
Woodlander Farouche winning
the National PSG Title

NEWS - FUTURITY GRADUATES
EVENTING
Coopers Law - (Mill Law x Kildalton Gold) – High First (8.75)
as a 3yo in 2007. International 4-star competitor, 14th at Pau
2017 year and completed Burghley 2015. Entered Badminton
2018 as one of the best hopes for a British bred result. Bred
by Nicola Dickson and Sally Williams.
Parkfield Quinessential - (Quicksilber x Carino Sun) Elite
(9.08) Dressage section and Elite (9.23) SJ section as a foal
in 2008. Ridden by Holly Woodhead, won the CNC** at Tyrella
2018 following from a 3rd place at Belton CIC**. 2017 3rd in
the CIC***8/9Yo at Blenheim. In 2014 had x 2 CIC* victories.
Bred by Parkfield Breeding.
Pencos Crown Jewel – (Jumbo x Rock King) Elite (9) as a foal
in 2009. Competing Advanced with Rosalind Canter. CIC**
placed, winner CCI*, competed at Le Lion D’Angers World
Championships 2016. Bred by Pennie Wallace.
Spring Ambition - (Handel II x Spinway Prosperity) - Higher
First (8.71) as a foal in 2009. Competing Advanced with Ros
Canter. CIC**Bred by Ian Scott.
Tregilder - (Royal Concorde x Hand in Glove xx) – Higher First
(8.75) as a foal in 2010. Placed CCI ** now with Oli Townend.
Bred by Preci Spark Event Horses.
Parkfield Quintessential and Holly Woodhead Blenhim CIC***
Image courtesy of Parkfield Breeding
SHOWJUMPING
Renkum Centre Star
Futurity 2009 - C. Payne
ENDURANCE
Renkum Centre Star
Photo AES
MFS Dandyman - (Marlon x Holland) Elite (9.21) as a
yearling in 2009. Exported to Germany and winning at
1.40m level. Bred by Morayfirth Stud.
Handels Classic – (Handel II x Splitau) Elite (9.32) as a
3yo in 2009. Has been jumping 1.50m at CSI****, now
winning with a young Norwegian rider. Bred by Viki
Norman.
Renkum Centre Star - (Renkum Off Centre x Quick
Star)- Elite (9.07) as a 3yo in 2009. Has been jumping
1.50m at CSI****FEI 4 star shows. Bred by Renkum Stud.
Arrietty - (Armitage x Esteban) Elite (9) as a foal
in 2010 Just started international career with Alex
Thompson. Breeder Geraldine Ward.
Grenacres Diadoro - (Diarado x Vigaro Z) Higher
First (8.61) as a foal in 2010 Best British bred 7 year
old of 2017, qualified for the Talent Seekers Final at
HOYS ridden by Mark Williams. Bred by Ella Taylor,
Greenacres Stud.
Kaalif – (Silver Zaanif x Pevensey Safari) Higher First (8.53) as a 2yo in 2012 The winner of the AHS Sports Horse class at the
British National Championship show as a 3 year old and was ridden champion at the Crabbet Arabian show as a 5 year old.
Advanced Endurance competitor with Susan Hawes. Bred by Anne Brown.
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NEWS - 2018 FUTURITY
British Breeding
OUR FUTURITY PLANS
Hocus Pocus - Photo Kevin Sparrow
With much work having gone on behind the scenes, we are
absolutely delighted to announce the dates and plans for
our 2018 British Breeding Baileys Futurity evaluations. As
always, the aim of the Futurity is to identify talented horses
that will go on to compete successfully in the future, but it
will also offer much more!
A Wider Choice of Locations and Dates
In order to make the Futurity accessible to as many breeders
as possible, the series will be held over two separate weeks
this year, one in late July and one in late August, to give you
a choice to present foals and young stock at the peak of their
development. As in previous years, the Futurity will be open
to foals, yearlings, 2 and 3 year olds in the disciplines of
Dressage, Endurance, Eventing and Show Jumping.
The 2018 series will take place across 11 locations:
23rd July - Xanstorm Equestrian, Lanarkshire, Scotland
24th July - Richmond Equestrian, North Yorkshire
25th July - Derby College Equestrian Centre, Derbyshire
26th July - Kings EC, Herefordshire
27th July - Catherston Stud, Hampshire
28th July - Tall Trees Arena, Devon
20th Aug - Writtle College, Essex
21st Aug - The College EC, Keysoe, Bedfordshire
22nd Aug - Swallowfield EC, The Midlands
23rd Aug - Tushingham Arena, Cheshire
24th Aug - Northcote Stud, Lancashire
This marks an increase in the number of Futurity venues from
last year in order to make the series attractive and accessible
to more breeders. Familiar venues have been joined by some
new locations, and all offer a safe, indoor environment that
breeders have come to expect at Futurity evaluations.
Enhanced Benefits
Woodlander Woodstock - Photo Kevin Sparrow
While maintaining the same entry price for the Futurity, we
are working on numerous added benefits to you, to ensure
that the Futurity provides not only excellent value for money,
but also a great return on the time and effort invested by all
participants.
Discussions with veterinary practices are on the way to offer
a wider range of veterinary services on the day, including
marking sheets and microchipping, which you can then send
to your relevant breed societies for registration of your foals.
Studbooks are also invited to use the Futurity events as an
opportunity to connect with their breeders. The Futurity
has always been a great vehicle for public recognition for
British breeders, as Futurity reports are picked up widely
by regional, national and international media. There will be
an opportunity to expand this by using the Futurity website
and the presence of excellent professional photographers
and videographers to provide additional sales and marketing
opportunities to our breeders in the form of online classifieds
and social media exposure.
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By enhancing the sales and marketing potential of the
Futurity, we want to attract larger audiences to become
interested in British breeding. The series offers anybody an
ideal opportunity to enjoy a great day of looking at beautiful
horses and meeting their breeders.
Anybody looking to buy a young horse can use the series as
an opportunity to see a wide range of horses. The added
benefit to buyers is the reassurance that each foal and horse
has been seen and assessed by a reputable veterinarian and
by a panel of highly qualified judges, making it a go-to place
to find future talent. The Futurity is also a great opportunity
for young breeders and riders to come and learn about young
horse development. We are planning to work with the British
Young Breeders and equine students and apprentices to widen
participation and accessibility of breeding.
We are also collaborating with the British Breeders Network
to organise an end-of-season Futurity Championship,
which will provide a great opportunity for celebration and
recognition of the outstanding achievements of British
breeders across the country.
World-Leading Evaluation System
The Futurity provides excellent continuity in a consistently
high level of integrity and quality of its assessment systems.
We are investing in state-of-the-art systems and inviting
world-leading experts to fulfil the Futurity’s potential
as a vehicle for national and global recognition for the
achievements of British breeders.
Above all, the Futurity offers what no other evaluation
system can, and this is what makes it unique across the
world: An objective and detailed feedback system based
on performance potential for everyone in Britain breeding
sport horses and ponies from licensed or approved stallions,
irrespective of studbook or breed. We will maintain the
holistic approach of the Futurity evaluation system, including
a specialist veterinary assessment and a linear description by
highly respected evaluators with international experience.
New for 2018 will be an enhancement of the linear score
sheets to make them easier to understand and more
meaningful as a useful feedback mechanism for you, with a
physical copy available for breeders to take home on the day.
The Futurity will be going back to the system of having all
evaluators together in the ring, so that each horse is assessed
by the full panel.The panel will also include highly regarded
international judges, which will give a wider perspective and
help to fulfil the remit of the Futurity as a way of identifying
future FEI prospects.
The veterinary assessment at the Futurity evaluations is
central to providing confidence in the quality of British
bred young stock and presents a highly useful feedback
opportunity. It covers key indicators of long term soundness
and suitability for the sport, as well as giving valuable
guidance on the correct management of young horses. The
correct management of broodmares, foals, and young horses
is crucial to ensuring the best long-term outcomes for British
bred horses. We are therefore delighted that the Futurity
continues to be supported by Baileys Horse Feeds who will be
our headline sponsor again for 2018, and who will continue
to provide their highly valued and popular nutritional advice
to all participants. We are also putting in place a veterinary
advisory panel of national and international experts in
the field to ensure the quality and consistency of the
assessments.
State-of-the-Art Data Collection & Management
New for 2018 and beyond will be that linear score data will be
collected and recorded in a way that enables future analysis
on the heritability of traits and the connection between
characteristics observed in foals and future performance
results.
Linear score data are not only a great feedback opportunity
for breeders on their existing foals and young horses. They
are a way of collecting objective data that will allow British
breeders to identify trends in breeding and hone their future
breeding decisions. As we go forward, the Futurity database
will turn into a great resource for everyone involved.
Crucially, it will be important for British Breeding to work
with the Olympic disciplines to share performance data. In
order to make all this possible, the Futurity will benefit from
a purpose-built data management system and related IT
software sponsored by the Anglo European Studbook.
Our new Futurity database is already set up to link to FEI
performance records. However, there has always been a gap
in terms of traceability of Futurity graduates in National
competitions. By setting out to map national performance
records onto our Futurity database, we will be able to see
how the traits we observe in foals and young horses may – or
may not – translate into performance attributes later on. We
will also begin to see which British stallions and mare families
are passing on particular performance attributes.
Getting More People Involved
To foster a wider understanding of the assessment of young
horses, and of the evaluation system and its implementation,
several training events are being organised across the UK
that will be open to breeders and interested parties to come
and judge a range of young stock alongside the Futurity
evaluators. This will give breeders an opportunity to learn
more about what the judges are looking for, and to become
closely acquainted with the information and detail the
evaluation system can provide. Transparency is important
to us, and we want people to become more involved in the
Futurity process and in breeding more generally. We are
grateful to the British Horse Foundation for their continued
support of the Futurity this year, which has allowed us
to introduce informative activities designed to widen
engagement and fulfil the Futurity’s potential as a place to
learn and encourage.
Beyond the Futurity: The Equine Bridge
We all recognise the importance and potential of the Equine
Bridge as a pathway for British bred horses into the sport.
With representation on our board from the three Olympic
disciplines, we will foster a greater connection between
breeder, riders, and owners, and offer a new and far reaching
approach to making the Equine Bridge an integral part of the
sport and a mechanism for the discovery and recruitment
of talent. This requires a fresh approach, and the British
Breeding Futurity Bridge will therefore be re-launched in
2019. Horses that have already qualified for 2018 will be able
to join the programme next year.
How to get in Touch: British Breeding are setting up
an online entry system for the series, links to which will be
provided in due course via the www.britishbreeding.com
website. Anybody interested in the Futurity can get in touch:
Eva: 07834 194821, horsepowercreative@gmail.com
Rachael: 07850 017587, rachael@holdsworthpr.co.uk
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News from the
ANGLO EUROPEAN STUDBOOK
It is a pleasure to introduce this British Breeder issue’s
cover boy, the AES Approved stallion Cobra 18 who jumped
internationally at 1.50m before retiring from the sport due to
a severe injury. As a result, Cobra is now able to concentrate
fully on his career as a breeding sire with bloodlines that
present a great addition to the AES stallion portfolio, offering
a great combination of the legendary Cornet Obolensky and
Ramiro Z with that all important thoroughbred injection
behind through Usurpator XX.
It is going to be another busy summer for the Anglo European
Studbook, as we are looking forward to selections for our
third AES Elite Foal Auction on 17th August at Addington
Manor EC and to our increasingly popular AES mare gradings
and foal evaluations tours. As we are seeing AES horses
compete at the very top of their game in all three Olympic
disciplines, it is exciting to meet this year’s crop of foals
among whom we are sure to find the next generation of
international stars.
To support the important work done by British Breeding
and the Futurity Evaluations to identify and nurture young
talent, we are delighted to support the new company by
providing it free of charge with our purpose-built state-ofthe-art
database management and IT system and software.
We envisage that this great initiative will go from strength
to strength, holding the key to ensuring a prosperous and
successful future for British breeders.
AES Horses in the Sport
Congratulations to Danielle Goldstein and her fabulous mare
Lizziemary (Cabri d’Elle x Acord II) who won the $384,000
CSI5* Rolex Grand Prix at Wellington in February. This is
another outstanding result for Danielle Goldstein and her
plucky mare who was bred in Britain by Mike Dawson. To
take the win, Danielle and Lizziemary had to beat five other
pairs in the jump-off from an original field of 40. They were
one of only two clear rounds in the jump off, and finished an
impressive 10 seconds ahead of their nearest competitor.
This year’s sunshine tour saw a plethora of wins for AES
horses, including a Grand Prix victory for Billy Twomey
with Kim Barzilay’s Kimba Flamenco (Je t’aime Flamenco x
Heartbreaker) at Vejer de la Frontera. Another pair going
from strength to strength are Michael Whitaker and JB’s Hot
Stuff (Locarno x Cavalier Royale), who is owned by her
FHS Diamond in the Rough
breeder Jayne Bean. The two counted among their successes
this year a victory in the Göteborg Grand Prix.
Closer to home, it has been all about girl power, with two
fabulous AES mares going from strength to strength in
British Dressage among tough competition. At the BD Winter
Nationals, River Rise Escarla (Lord Leatherdale x Ferro), now
half owned and ridden by Charlotte Dujardin, won both the
PSG and the Magic PSG Freestyle. Another up-and-coming
star is Charlotte’s River Rise Nisa (Negro x Amsterdam), also
bred by Sarah Tyler-Evans, who claimed the Charles Owen
advanced medium honours and the Albion medium gold title.
AES Elite Foal Auction
Now in its third year, the AES Elite Foal Auction is
experiencing a phenomenal growth and presents an
outstanding opportunity for breeders for whom the auction is
a shop window to exhibit their stock to worldwide audiences.
As in previous years, the selection of foals and their
promotion will be handled by us at no cost to you. We will
spend late June and the first two weeks in July to travel
across the country to see and assess the best foals bred in all
three Olympic disciplines.
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We are proud of our linear scoring system, which provides a
description of the entire horse and all its gaits. To make sure
that we are completely up-to-date in our assessments, we
attend the annual WBFSH International Workshops on Linear
Scoring in the Warmblood Horse, where colleagues from all
international studbooks come together and compare their
scoring systems and evaluate a range of horses.
This gives us a great opportunity to set a global standard for
studbook assessments, something that we think is crucial
This gives us a great opportunity to set a global standard for
studbook assessments, something that we think is crucial
when it comes to supporting our breeders in producing future
FEI horses.
Filly bred by Sally Forster
We will take photographs and video footage to help with
the online promotion, as well as with the production of a
high quality catalogue that will be sent out to thousands of
contacts. For the auction itself, we are again teaming up with
Brightwells who will handle the business side, enabling us
to use the popular Young Horse Championships at Addington
Manor EC as the perfect backdrop to the event.
We look forward to seeing your auction entries, if you want to
find out more, please contact Eva:
eva@angloeuropeanstudbook.co.uk who will book you in for
your auction assessment. Please make sure you get in touch
in good time for the selections to avoid disappointment.
AES Mare Gradings and Foal Evaluations
Mare gradings do not have to be daunting. Our evaluators
are very friendly, and it is important to us that you find the
experience useful and enjoyable. We organise several grading
tours alongside our various activities over the summer, as
well as stand-alone tours. You can come to one of our grading
venues, or we can come to you.
We are also very pleased to be supporting the Elite Foals
Registration Tour this summer, which will be a great
opportunity for British breeders. To find out more, why not
contact Eva or Lucy: eva@angloeuropeanstudbook.co.uk and
lucy@angloeuropeanstudbook.co.uk.
AES Stallion Gradings Spring Series
The AES team of national and international evaluators
enjoyed another successful and inspiring series of public
gradings this spring. Public stallion grading tours take place
twice a year, in the spring and in the autumn, using a series
of venues across the UK.
The AES mare grading system is an opportunity for you to
receive detailed and helpful feedback about your mares
and their offspring, and an opportunity for us to get a good
idea about the quality of all the AES broodmares and the
foals produced by the stallions licensed or recognised by the
studbook.
Cornet’s Pleasure
Stallions are given a detailed linear score feedback, which is
also accessible via our public database, thus giving breeders
useful information for their stallion choices. It is a pleasure
to introduce some of the new additions and welcome them to
our studbook:
At Northcote Stud, we licensed two different and very
promising young dressage stallions who will be available to
breeders on their initial license:
Mandy Sanderson of Longacres Stud presented a young
coloured stallion bred by Suzy Mainprice called First
Impression (UCS Flawless x Udo van Padhuis x Rubin Royal).
First Impression showed three good, correct gaits and a
powerful hind leg, as well as having very attractive markings
that will be of interest to many breeders of coloured horses.
First Impression
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First Impression provides a great mix of coloured breeding
DNA with outstanding proven dressage blood from Floriscount
in the sire and Rubin Royal in the dam. Recently, Mandy very
tragically lost her much loved stallion Samara Fly, and we
know that she will do a wonderful job with this promising
young stallion who has some very big boots to fill.
Caroline Leigh of Stretton Hall Stud presented her own bred
stallion King Leatherdale SHS (Lord Leatherdale x Negro x
Sadenio) who convinced the evaluators with three excellent
elastic and expressive gaits. King Leatherdale is the full
brother to the multiple licensed stallion Chapter Leatherdale
who is standing on the Continent, thus giving breeders in
this country direct access to some of the best continental
breeding lines. From the same pairing came also the Elite
mare Dreamer. King Leatherdale’s mother is a sport Elite
mare with a successful competition record in the UK and the
USA.
We then paid a special visit to Future Sport Horses in
Yorkshire where we caught up with Julia Hodkin and her
beautiful stallions and their offspring. Both Future Illusion
and Future Gravitas were awarded a highly deserved lifetime
approval. Future Illusion had to cut short his very promising
competition career due to a severe injury, but has since more
than proven himself as a breeding sire of outstanding and
versatile offspring. He has a way of really stamping his stock
with his beautiful type, which he combines with passing on
excellent performance ability and temperament, making
him a popular choice with those seeking to breed a serious
event horse, as well as for wider purposes, including showing.
Future Gravitas is enjoying a successful competition career,
and we were able to catch up with him at the winter dressage
nationals at Hartpury earlier in the month. His main domain
is eventing, and he brings an exciting cocktail of bloodlines
via his outstanding sire Grafenstolz and a good dose of more
blood through the dam sire Bohemond XX. He is another
stallion with great athleticism and wonderful type.
We finished the day at Foxisle Stud where we enjoyed
meeting a few fantastic broodmares, as well as a beautiful
son of the AES stallion Quinlan Z called Foxisle Olympus
(Quinlan Z x Handel Elite x Guidam) who was bred by Steve
Fagg and presented by Tina Grey. Quinlan Z is a young stallion
competing internationally with Emily King, by Quinar out of
a Contender mare from the famous Holsteiner Stamm 18A2.
Handel Elite and Guidam require no further introduction.
Foxilse Olypmus’s grandmother Run and Go van Thornesele
has competed internationally at 1.40m and is half-sister to
the 1.50m international showjumper Lexus van Thornesele Z
and Rebel van Thornesele, as well as the stallion Centolys Z.
The last day of our stallion grading tour took us to Catherston
Stud where we saw a range of very interesting young show
jumping stallions. Edward Bleekman presented a very
attractive son of Tangelo van de Zuuthoeve out of a Lux x
Calvados x Ramiro Z mare. He convinced the evaluators with
three outstanding balanced gaits and an excellent attitude in
the loose jumping assessment.
On behalf of Gerda Weston of Weston Warmbloods, Edward
also presented Cornets Pleasure WW (Cornet Obolensky x
For Pleasure x Nimmerdor) who convinced with three very
good gaits, beautiful type and an enormous amount of
scope. Cornet Obolensky needs no introduction, nor does
For Pleasure, however, what makes this such an exciting and
unique opportunity for breeders is that the mother, Jella
Ariane vd Bucxtale is the full sister to none other than Scott
Brash’s 1.60m horse Hello Forever and the international
1.50m stallion Vaillant.
Future Gravitas
We finished the day off on another high with Maddie Gardner’s
lovely stallion FHS Diamond in the Rough who carries the
influential blood of Solitair (Voltaire x Libero H) combined
with a full thoroughbred mother by Strong Gale XX who sired
successful international eventers such as Moonfleet XX. This
beautiful stallion has outstanding type and convinces with
great trainability and temperament, which he passes on to
his offspring. The team saw the stallion jumping, as well
as showing his dressage training. He is now working at PSG
at home and recently qualified for the BD Winter Nationals
at Advanced Medium. The stallion was awarded lifetime
approval based on his presentation on the day, as well as his
own competition record and the quality of his offspring.
Kambarbay
Earlier in the Spring we were also delighted to catch up with
Solaris Sport Horses’ stunning stallion Kambarbay at the
Northern Stallion Showcase. Kambarbay was awarded lifetime
approval in recognition of the outstanding quality of his
offspring. He passes on a wonderful type, and his foals have
impressed across the board, and from a wide range of mares,
achieving excellent futurity scores, winning at foal and breed
shows, and being selected for the AES Elite Auction. He is a
truly unique horse who is making his mark on breeding in this
country and across the world.
Congratulations to all the breeders and owners involved in
this successful spring gradings series. We would like to thank
all the venues who so generously supported our tour and we
look forward to working with you all again. To find out more
about our next round of stallion gradings, which will take
place in the late autumn this year, please do not hesitate to
contact Eva: eva@angloeuropeanstudbook.co.uk
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Elite Foal Auccon
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The Arab Horse Society celebrates its Centenary this
year and to mark this is hosting a range of events
during the year. The first was a Parade of Performance
horses held on Saturday 28th April at the Sir Peter
O’Sullevan Arena at Palace House, Newmarket. It
showed the full diversity of the Arabian influence on
the modern day competition horse with pure Arabs from
Racing, Showing and Endurance being paraded, but also
Part-Breds and Anglo Arabs representing Eventing, Show
Jumping, Dressage and Showing.
Some of the Stallions paraded included:
Tomatillo (Tarnik x Mellita) the 5yr old Part Bred Arab Stallion
Clone of the Olympic Eventing Gelding, Tamarillo. Tamarillo
was a hugely successful Event horse being long term member
of the British Eventing team and winner of Badminton and
Burghley CCI****.
Mukhtar Ibn Eternity (Eternity Ibn Navarrone D x Monsson)
NaStA Graded and AHS Premium performance Arab stallion
who is truly dual purpose having successfully competed BE,
SJ,D as well as being a multi-champion show horse in hand
and under saddle. He qualified for the BE Arena Eventing
Champs in 2016/17 and earlier this was awarded the WAHO
Trophy.
Incognito (Indoctro (KWPN) ex Turkish Candle (Anglo Arab)–
Part Bred Arab 8yr old Gelding who moved up to Intermediate
in 2017 completing last season with a double clear in the 7yr
old Championships. He has frozen semen stored.
Yawl Hillbilly (Dhruv x Burrowshot Lass) – NaStA Graded &
AHS Premium Elite Stallion competing in Advanced Endurance
rides. He completed 4 FEI 160km 3* rides. He also competed
at BE100.
Fifty Shades of J & Abi Shaw
Silvern Prince (Prince Sadik x Silvern Image) AHS Premium
Stallion. Won all four of the most coveted titles in
Ridden Showing; The British National Championships, UK
International Championship, Royal International Ridden
Arabian Championship and the Horse of the Year Show
Supreme Championship.
Fames Dakota (Dakota Ink Spots x MS Fames Jubilee) Tobiano
part bred arab AHS Premium Stallion and also graded with
the Sports Pony Studbook . Qualified for the 2016/2017 BD
summer regionals and for the 2018 BD winter regionals.
CF Winter Amadeus (Rumak x Winter Persephone) Won 2014
Endurance GB Novice Championships. Member of the EGB
Inter Regional Championships winning team, was the 2017 AHS
Performance Horse Awards Reserve Champion. He was 5th in
the EGB Senior Champs.
Arabian blood has long influenced many sports horse
bloodlines but has particularly had influence in Eventing. Top
International Event riders have long found Anglo-Arab blood
an essential ingredient in the world class eventing horse. The
Anglo Arab is the prefect base for breeding a horse that has
stamina, courage to tackle 4 star tracks, speed, paces for
dressage and the desire to jump clean.
Fifty Shades of J (Chilensky x Phyches Precious Gemm R) 5yr
old Grey Part-Bred mare (51% Arab). In her first season BS
has already amassed 123 BS Points qualifying for the British
Novice Regionals, Horsequest Winter Champs.
Treenhill Aristotle (AH Cheshmak x Treenhill Shillelagh)
Premium Graded Stallion with SHB(GB), received a higher first
at the 2014 Futurity. Aristotle is also a registered as a Sports
Horse Pony and AHS Premium Stallion. Anglo Arab British
National Champion in 2016, AHS Reserve Supreme in hand
champion 2016. Under saddle he was reserve British National
Champion Anglo Arab. British Arabian Championships Supreme
Overall Champion among other titles. He was also 2nd in the
BD Arab Dressage Champs.
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Top horses carrying such bloodlines include:
Tamarillo (Tarnok x Mellita) Three Day Event Multi Champion
Badminton & Burghley CCI**** winner as well as multiple
GB Team member and Olympic Event Horse, Surocco du
Gers (Dorsay x Anglo Arab mare Jalienny) 7yr old World
Young Horse Eventing Champion in 2013 who then went onto
compete for France in the 2014 European Championships.
Upsilon (Canturo out of Anglo Arab mare O’Vive) won two
CCI** in 2016 and then went onto win Blenheim CCI***
Michael Yung’s European Champion fischerTakinou (Jaguar
Mail out of Anglo Arab mare Gita)
Tenareze (Jaguar Mail out of Anglo Arab mare Utopie du
Maury) Double Young Horse World Champion winning both
the 6yr old and 7yr old Championships. He completed his
first season with Harry Meade in the UK winning four events
consecutively.
Silvern Prince - Caroline Sussex
The Arab Horse Society uses the NaStA Performance Test with
an additional conformation examination for Stallions, Mares
and now Geldings to become Premium Horses for Breeding.
The AHS Premium Scheme offers bursaries and awards.
Other Events coming up include:
From 22nd March to the 13th July there is an Arabian Horse
Exhibition ‘From Desert to the World’ running at the National
Horseracing Museum, Newmarket.
CF Winter Amadeus + Pat Guerin
Endurance champions PHA.
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Silvern Prince
HOYS Ridden champion Arab
2010
The Arab Horse Society National Show 26th – 28th July at the
Three Counties Showground, Malvern Racing throughout the
season with the International meetings at Windsor racecourse
on 28th May & Dubai International Meetings at Newbury on
14th June, 12th July and 29th July. Endurance Competitions
throughout the season but highlights in the Spring calendar
are FEI CEI1* & CEI** Ride Royal Windsor 11th May, Golden
Horseshoe 19/20 May, FEI CEI*, CEI**, CEIYR**, CEI***Euston
Park 23rd/24th June.
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Has had a fantastic start
to the New Year.
British Hanoverian horse owners collected an
array of awards at the British Breeders Award
Ceremony, held in January, at the Grange City
Hotel, London.
The British Dressage Young Horse Awards went to
four-year-old Waverley Dante (Dimaggio out of
Floria by Furst Heinrich) who is owned by Greg
Sims and bred by Sara Longworth. The five-yearold
award went to Hawtin’s San Floriana who is
owned by Carl Hester and Charlotte Dujardin,
bred by Judith Davis of Hawtins Stud.
The British Equestrian Federation Award which
was presented to the highest place British
Bred Horse at the 2017 Longines FEI Senior
European Championships went to Dior UKH, who
is by Dimaggio out of St Premium Mare Hetta,
(Hitchcock). The breeder is UK Hanoverians
Suzanne Lavandera and owned by Annabel
Whittet. The best dressage foal was awarded
jointly to Lisa Greenhill’s Who’s that Girl
(Wavavoom x Manhatten) and Lynne Crowden’s
Woodlander Regatta De Blanc (Revolution x
Zandra).
The joint winners, once again were British
Hanoverians. Following on from this huge
success, British Hanoverians were out in full
force at the NAF Five Star Winter Dressage
Championships at Hartpury in April. The Winter
championships were a great success for British
breeding as many of the titles and top placings
went to British bred horses.
Charlotte Dujardin and Hawtins San Floriana
(San Amour I x Florestan) claimed two
championship titles at the show, in the novice
and elementary classes. Sam Rahmatallah and
her own Hawtins Falerno (Furst Romancier out
of Hawtins State Premium Mare World’s Finest)
improved on their position in the advanced
medium to gain a top ten place in the very hot
medium gold class.
Breeder Judith Davis and Hawtins San Floriana
Bridget Tate and Hawtins Werona (Wolkentanz II x Sherlock Holmes) were
already qualified for three classes at the championship and then added a
fourth class by qualifying for the PSG freestyle in Friday’s gala evening.
It was a great experience for this young pair with a lot of promise for the
future.
Bryony Goodwin and Hawtins Soave (by Sir Donnerhall out of Hawtins
Belladonna by Belissimo M) were a close second in the novice gold. Judith
Davis of Hawtins Stud said; “This was the mare’s first championship. We
were so proud of how she coped with the atmosphere and are very excited
about her future. Bryony and Hawtins Duchessa (Decamerone out of Hawtins
Donna Lisa by Don Frederico) finished fourth in the medium gold with 9s for
some of the trot work and the walk, but a few green moments which were
costly. Although having done well in the young horse championships over
the past couple of years, Hawtins Duchessa is relatively inexperienced in
competitions.”
Alice Oppenheimer, another British Hanoverian rider, rode eleven tests
during the Championships. Eight year old, British Hanoverian Headmore
Davina (Dimaggio X Rubenstein x Donnerhall) gave Alice the Advanced
Medium Freestyle title. This mare was consistent through the five days and
was also third in the Albion medium, fifth in the Charles Owen advanced
medium and sixth in the medium Spillers freestyle. Jo Gummer and her
twenty year old Gironde (Garcon x Glucksfall) was thrilled to have qualified
for the Nationals at Inter I, having bought him as a foal and trained him all
the way herself. Jo Blood bought her mare Felicia (Flammengold x Elroon x
Donnerhall) as a two year old and she came second in the Novice Silver.
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Sam Rahmatallah and Hawtins Falerno. - Image courtesy of owner

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The BHHS has a very busy year planned to start was our
Annual General Meeting was held at Horwood House, Milton
Keynes, on Sunday 24 March 2018 at 1pm.
We have a large number of Hanoverian Day’s planned for the
year, with this year’s Annual Show taking place at Keysoe on
Thursday 27th – Friday 28th September 2018.
We have many more classes planned for this year and will be
holding our Gelding Performance Test again.
British Hanoverians and British Rhinelands are also pleased
to announce that, subject to members demand, it will be
supporting Elite Stallions during their series of Foal Shows
during the summer.
We would like to reassure our members that our regular
Hanoverian Tour will continue as normal and will follow the
same format as in previous years.
Our British Rhineland studbook accepts mares and stallions of
most major studbooks.
There are many cases where it will be possible to register
foals with the Rhineland studbook who are by stallions who
are not approved for the Hannoveraner breeding programme.
What is British Rhineland?
• It is a Breeding programme allowing a broader base of horses
• The same philosophy is employed – following a strong and
well-established Breeding Programme
• Rhineland is a quality brand representing the process –
maintaining the rules and integrity of the process
• The Rhineland brand is global – with the same standards in
UK as internationally
• Stallions come from approved populations and must
achieve a pass in both the testing standards – licensing and
performance.
Felicia – Image courtesy of Jo Blood
Hanoverian venues and dates. (NOTE: These are in addition to the Elite Tour)
Date
Sunday 24 June 2018
Saturday 4 August 2018
Sunday 5 August 2018
Monday 6 August 2018
Friday 10 August 2018
Saturday 18 August 2018
Sunday 19 August 2018
Sunday 19 August 2018
Saturday 25 August 2018
Sunday 26 August 2018
Thursday 27 September 2018
Friday 28 September 2018
Event
Mare Performance Test – Fosshey Hanoverian Stud, Cheshire
Regional Foal Show Windmill Dressage - Buckinghamshire
Regional Foal Show Witcham Farm Stud – Cambridgeshire
Regional Foal Show Glossoms Farm Stud – Leicestershire
Regional Foal Show Brownscombe Stud – Devon
Regional Foal Show Court Farm Stud – Herefordshire
Regional Foal Show Hawtins Stud – Gloucestershire
Regional Foal Show Woodlander Stud – Gloucestershire
Regional Foal Show Westoak Stud – Northumberland
Regional Foal Show – Fosshey Stud, Cheshire
Annual Show – Keysoe,
Annual Show – Keysoe
We have still to confirm dates in Ireland, Wales and Scotland
so please visit the website and Facebook pages for up to date
information.
British Hanoverians are also pleased to announce that there is
no price increase this year for grading and registration. British
Hanoverians are also pleased to announce that there is no price
increase this year for grading and registration. For further
information on: Membership, Stallion Registration & Licensing/
Assessment, Mare Grading, Mare Upgrading, Foal Registration etc
contact:
Kate Eaton, Studbook Manager, The British Hanoverian Horse Society:
Email: bhhsuk@gmail.com - Telephone: +44 (0) 7479 366 046
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Kimba Uttah
Breeders Elite
progeny have
had an excellent
start to the
season both at
home & abroad.
The five year old Tiptoe C.E produced some super results on
the Atlantic Tour in Vilamoura, Portugal this Spring, ridden
by Colin Keeling. He was placed in eleven classes, including
three equal firsts, jumping 12 clears out of a total of 13
rounds contested over the four week tour - the most clears
jumped in the five year old section. He also jumped a treble
clear over the two days of the prestigious European Cup to
finish in fifth place.
Tiptoe is by the Breeders Elite licencsed stallion, Renkum
Radetzky, and is owned by his breeders, Clements Equine,
where Radetzky also stands at stud.
Tiptoe CE
Both Radetzky and Tiptoe’s dam Otesse Rouge have several
other younger progeny registered with Breeders Elite,
including a full sister to Tiptoe C.E.
Meanwhile Breeders Elite horses have also been flying the flag
in the UK. Kimba Uttah, owned by his breeder Kim Barzilay,
and ridden by Emma-Jo Slater claimed the Joshua Jones
Discovery Championship at the Blue Chip Championships, held
at Hartpury.
Uttah is by Kimba Kannarko, Kim’s home-bred stallion with
Kannan and Arco lines. His dam Uttah van het Indihof had a
successful showjumping career herself, and is also the dam of
Kimba Flamenco, currently competing in top level sport with
Billy Twomey.
Breeders Elite will be supporting the Elite Foals Registration
Tour held at studs around the UK between 11th – 22nd August.
We look forward to catching up with many of our breeders
here and seeing this year’s crop of foals.
If you are interested in presenting a stallion
for grading, and for foal registration or other
queries please call the office:
tel. 01684833714
email. office@breederselite.co.uk
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Sport Horse Breeding
of Great Britiain
SHB(GB) YOUR BREEDING
PLANS START HERE
Sport Horse Breeding of Great Britain (SHB-GB) is one of the
oldest studbooks in the UK – our registrations go back to 1885
when we were then called called the Hunter Improvement
Society (HIS) and the majority of horses were bred for
hunting. Today SHB(GB) registers horses from all disciplines
into the studbook and offers owners a wide choice of stallions
suitable for all types of mares.
NEW STALLIONS FOR 2018
Others to grade
• PSH Twilight (PSH Overture-Rotspon); the seven-yearold
bred by owner Gary Power has successfully competed
in dressage up to advanced medium.
• Bathleyhills Justified (Garuda K-Andes XX); a sevenyear-old
bred by Penny Walster of Bathley Hill Farm near
Newark and now owned by Penny and rider Jake Fowles.
Justified has also competed in dressage and has started
eventing. He sired the reserve champion foal in the light
horse section at last year’s British National Foal of the
Year Show.
• The After Party (Primitive Proposal XX-Tolan R); bred
and owned by Nick Gauntlett FBHS, the five-year-old by
the SHB(GB) graded thoroughbred Primitive Proposal is a
half-brother to the 2015 grading champion Party Trick.
• The thoroughbred Mullionmileanhour (Mull of
Kintyre-Royal Applause). Formerly of Batsford Stud this
lovely stamp of a thoroughbred is now standing at Great
Brockhamhurst Stud near Betchworth in Surrey.
• Shadwell Stud’s Group 1 winning Arab Handassa
(Madjani-River Mist) is possibly a first for The Society. This
lovely, tough and sound Chestnut Arab stands 16hh and
would be suitable for those looking to refine mares and
ideal for anyone looking to breed an Anglo-Arab. He is
standing at West Kington Stud.
‘The newly graded Ashwey Laurenzo’ © Carole Mortimer
SHB(GB) has recently added seven new stallions to the
studbook. At the recent stallion grading at West Wilts EC
judges Jennie Loriston-Clarke, Henrietta Knight and Roland
Fernyhough awarded the highest mark of the day to Rebecca
Gordon’s six-year-old Ashwey Laurenzo. Bred by Lucy
Sheldrake of the Delaroche Stud, he is a son of Lauriston out
of a mare by Ircolando. Although jumping bred Laurenzo will
soon be out eventing.
• New Priory Stud’s young showjumping stallion NPS
Supernova (Casall-Carthago) is also now SHB(GB)
approved.
Badminton SHB-GB
Stallion Parade
The thoroughbred Mullionmileanhour has been graded into the
studbook - Image © Hoofbeats and Pawprints.
Chilli Morning takes centre stage in the main arena last year
(© Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials/Kit Houghton)
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The Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials offers a unique
opportunity to see some of our graded stallions in the
SHB(GB) Stallion Parade that takes place in the main arena
after the end of dressage on Friday. Stallions in the parade
this year:
1) Jaguar Mail 1997 (Hand in Glove xx-Laudanum xx) This
three-quarter-bred former Olympic showjumper is the
number two sire in the World Breeding Federation for
Sport Horses (WBFSH) eventing sire rankings. Contact Elite
Stallions.
2) Chilli Morning 2000 (Phantomic xx-Kolibri) The 2015
winner of Badminton with William Fox-Pitt also competed at
the Rio Olympic Games in 2016 and now has winning progeny.
Standing at West Kington Stud.
3) Party Trick 2012 (Chilli Morning-Tolan R) Bred by his
owner/rider Nick Gauntlett FBHS, he was champion of the
2016 SHB(GB) spring grading and was 3rd in the Burghley
Young Event Horse final. Available through Chescombe Farm
near Chipping Sodbury.
4) A Moment in Time 2013 (Wish upon a Star-Jumbo). Bred
by owner Carolyn Bates this five-year-old has the bloodlines
of two champion stallions and was himself champion of the
SHB(GB) 2017 spring grading.
Exciting new loose jumping
competition
On the evening of Monday July 2 at Addington EC we
will be holding a brand new loose-jumping competition.
The Sculpture to Wear Performance Horse class, open to
three-year-olds, not only offers a first prize of £500 to
the owner of the winning horse but also a £500 prize to
the breeder and member of SHB(GB) whose horse is the
highest placed British-bred in the top five.
The competition will be held the night before the start
of the two-day SHB(GB) Supreme Championship show.
Another new lucrative championship will be the ‘Breeders
Cup’ which offers a first prize of £1000 to be divided
between the owner and the breeder. The breeder will
also receive a framed oil painting by Rebecca O’Dwyer,
of their winning horse. The winner of every SHB(GB)
affiliated in-hand class held at shows prior to the
Championships will qualify.
Conformation Clinics
5) Tiger Attack 2012 (Dolphin Supreme AA -The Outlaw)
Bred by owners Joanne and William Moran this six-year-old
is a winner in dressage and eventing, has qualified for this
year’s Mitsubishi Motors Cup and bred young stock champions.
Stands at Catherston Stud.
6) Britannia’s Mail 2008 (Jaguar Mail-Jumbo). A son of Jaguar
Mail out of the former Badminton winner Headley Britannia
by Jumbo bred by Lucinda Fredericks. ‘Marley finished last
season at two-star level.
7) Sir Shutterfly 2002 (Silvio I-Forrest) A full brother to the
internationally successful showjumper Shutterfly ridden by
Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum. Standing at Fairlight Stud in
Somerset
8) NPS Supernova 2012 (Casall-Carthago) This six-yearold
has jumping in his blood being a son of the world class
champion Casall out of a mare by Carthago. He stands at New
Priory Stud near Chippenham.
9) KL Mac 2011 (Larduc-Graf Quidam) – standing at Kington
Langley Stud brings the jumping lines of the famous stallion
Quidam de Revel. Has been competing in dressage and is
a regional novice champion and qualified for summer and
winter championships. Bred and owned Kington Langley Stud
(near Chippenham) where he stands.
10) Timolin 2011 (Totilas-Sion) Catherston Stud’s British-bred
son of dressage star Totilas was Champion of his grading, is
a champion in the show ring, and is winning in dressage and
eventing and siring young stock winners.
11) Glencarrig Dolphin 2010 (Coosheen Stormboy-Coral Star)
– Connemara stallion has been placed in affiliated eventing.
His first offspring out of sport horse mares have been
winners in the showring. Walks in at the Hockerwood stud in
Nottinghamshire
12) Hallmark DS 2010 (West Coast Cavalier-Fourstars Allstar
xx) Irish Sport Horse stallion graded in 2015. Now competing
in eventing. Has already sired winners in the show ring.
Last year we introduced a series of practical clinics
designed to help recognise the importance of
conformation. They proved a popular innovation and we
will be continuing them this year.
The clinics, that are open to all, offer a unique
opportunity to discuss the conformation of several horses
during a one-to-one session with a listed judge. Or bring
a friend – pairs welcome if you would prefer company.
These clinics are especially useful for those hoping to
attend a judge’s assessment.
We aim to run the clinics throughout the summer at
venues around the country; keep an eye on the website
and our FaceBook page for future dates.
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Mare Grading
Equine Reproduction Centre
Annie Clover was last year’s leading graded mare
SHB(GB) believes that mare grading is as equally important
as stallion grading and we are delighted that B&W Equine
Vets will again be sponsoring the prizes at the end of our
mare grading series. B&W Equine Vets have a dedicated
stud and reproduction team based at the Willesley clinic,
nr. Tetbury, in Gloucestershire where they also stand the
SHB(GB) graded stallion Royaldik.
We are happy to grade mares of all types as long as they are
at least three-years-old and stand 14.2hh (148cm) or more,
with or without foal at foot and in-hand only. Depending
on the mark and pedigree, mares that pass will be graded
accordingly into one of our studbooks. While we will soon
be arranging venues around the country although we are
also happy to come to you on the proviso there are six
mares and a safe outdoor arena or small enclosed paddock.
• The leading mares of the year, sponsored by B&W
Equine Vets will receive a generous Service Voucher (valid
for 2 years) to be used against the cost of an SHB(GB)
graded stallion, registered for the current year.
• All mares that are graded into the Head Studbook will
receive a £100 voucher for the cost of the registration
(including DNA testing) of her foal.
• Progeny foaled in the UK out of an SHB(GB) graded mare
by an SHB(GB) graded stallion (or a stallion standing abroad
that fulfills the SHB(GB) criteria), will be eligible
for registration in the Main studbook.
If you would like to bring your mare forward for
grading, or arrange a mare grading, contact the
office. Marian will be pleased to answer any of your
breeding queries especially those relating to passports,
registration or grading rules and regulations.
All information pertaining to stallion and mare grading
can be down-loaded from the website. Stallion and
mare grading dates will be advertised on the front
page and on our FaceBook page:
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George Clooney BS
Silken Creme
The Sports Pony Studbook Society
SPSS Update
Spring is here and as well as being a busy
time for members with stallions and those
expecting and planning for foals, the Sports
Pony Studbook Society (SPSS) committee
are hard at work planning another UK-wide
grading and evaluation tour.
Success Breeds Success
The SPSS has always promoted grading and evaluation as
key to improving the quality of British-bred sports ponies
and we are delighted that each year more British-bred SPSS
passported or registered ponies with SPSS graded sires and/or
dams are coming through to top level competition.
So far in 2018, we have seen SPSS registered George Clooney
B.S. & Sophie Taylor in the top placings in international pony
dressage. George was bred by Julie Lockey of Bramley Stud
and is by Godrics Stud’s SPSS Elite graded senior stallion,
Caesar 171, out of SPSS registered Ballarena F.H. (Santano
x Democrat). George and Sophie were in the top 3 in all the
classes at the Keysoe CDIP in March, winning the Individual
Class. Then in April they went to Belgium for the Sint-Truiden
CDIP and excelled against strong opposition from top German
& Dutch riders to be 2nd in the Team Test and only beaten
by the experienced combination of Jana Lang & 12 year old
NK Cyrill (FS Champion de Luxe x Power Man) whose previous
international competition was the 2017 Pony European
Championships - where they won the team test – a huge
contrast to 7 year old George on his first trip overseas.
Others doing well and representing GB in international pony
dressage this year have been George’s full sister, SPSS Elite
graded Ella (SPSS Elite Caesar 171 x Santano) who, ridden
by Sophie Williams, competed for GB at the Keysoe CDIP
and in the Netherlands at the Nieuw en Sint Joosland CDIP
(where they were 3rd in the individual consolation class).
Photos - www.Qorum-photos.com
Then Maddy Whelan and SPSS passported Beaurepaire Frodo
(SPSS Elite Littledale Bright Star x Florencio I) were 4th at
the Keysoe CDIP – which meant that 3 of the top 4 ponies in
this class were British-bred, a major step forward from the
situation a few years back when to be competitive a
German-bred pony was perceived as essential.
The 8 year old Beaurepaire Frodo was bred by Penelope
Makins out of her small horse Beaurepaire Florence (Florencio
I x Sandro Hit), whose pedigree also includes the legendary
Hanoverian sire Weltmeyer. Frodo’s sire, SPSS Elite graded
Littledale Bright Star (aka “Titch”), who is just 127cms tall,
has frequently been used by Catherston Stud and others on
horse mares to reduce their size while maintaining the quality
with two of his other progeny also competing at international
level, one in Eventing and one in Showjumping.
Beaurepaire Frodo and Maddy Whelan - © qorum-photos.com
These successes led to Titch being awarded the prestigious
2017 SPSS Pony Performance & Breeding Award at the 2018
British Breeders Dinner. The award was collected by Philly
Adams (his co-breeder along with her grandmother, Mrs
Littledale) and Jennie Loriston-Clarke of Catherston Stud,
Littledale Bright Star’s home for many years.
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Some exciting 2018 sports pony foals whose sire and dam are both SPSS graded – Connemara Barrowby Virtue, by SPSS graded
Killour Star, and his dam Quelle du Netz (left); Ghabar Magic Flute, by Speyksbosch Diablo and out of Craiglea Flute (centre) and
MM Sweet Sass by Chartstürmer WE and out of Sweet Fancy (right).
British Passports for British
Sports Ponies
As a DEFRA recognised Passport Issuing Organisation, the
SPSS issues pedigree passports to enable
British-sports pony breeders to clearly identify their foals
as British-bred for sport. Hence, the SPSS will not only
issue passports the progeny of SPSS graded mares
and/or stallions (regardless of expected adult height) but
will also passport foals by EU-based licensed sports pony
(and horse) stallions and other licensed stallions where
the breeder’s intent is to breed a sports pony or small
horse. To encourage breeders not to leave passporting
their foals too late (by law it must be done by the end
of the year of birth), there is a £25 discount off the cost
of an SPSS foal passport if it is applied for by the 1st
November in the year of birth. If you have any questions
regarding passporting a foal with the SPSS, please contact
the Studbook Office and ask to speak to the Studbook
Secretary, Phil Cole.
Pony European Championships
The ultimate achievement for any sports pony is being picked
to represent GB at the annual Pony European Championships
and the next few months will be a tense time for all the top
ponies and riders as they compete for the team places under
the watchful eyes of their discipline’s selectors. This year, it’s
very exciting that the Championships are being held in the
north of England, from 7-12 August, at Bishop Burton College,
near Beverley, East Yorkshire. SPSS representatives once again
plan to be there to cheer on Team GB and report back on
what is the ultimate achievement for any dressage, jumping
or eventing pony. As well as the British-bred dressage ponies
mentioned above, we are looking forward to seeing Britishbred
jumping and eventing ponies, like the 2015 SPSS Reserve
Supreme Champion mare, Sarah Rook’s homebred Stambrook
Miss D’Mena (FS Don’t Worry x Tsing Lite) and Mollie Harris
who are contesting the Eventing Pony Trials – as well as the
Mitsubishi Motors Cup at Badminton.
Select to Succeed - Mare Grading
Alongside it being clear that success breeds success, it is also
evident that the grading of mares is a key aid to breeders, be
they a large stud or someone with just one beloved mare. So
as well as recommending that mare owners carefully select a
stallion to suit their mare, the SPSS encourages all breeders
to present their mares for grading and we are happy to see
mares from 2 years old upwards, including those in-foal and/
or with a foal at foot or any which may be bred from in the
future. All breeds of mare are welcome to attend, including
ones with missing or unknown pedigree as the primary focus
is on the conformation and movement required to produce
athletic and sound sports pony progeny. The SPSS grading
process is the perfect opportunity to have an assessment
by expert and unbiased eyes – and, as a bonus, any foals at
foot will be evaluated for free as will 2 or 3 year old mares
without a foal at foot so that they also have the chance
of gaining an SPSS Premium (for scoring 70% or more) or
Gold Premium (for those that score 80% or more) to further
enhance their credentials as quality sports ponies or small
horses.
NEW for 2018 Mare Performance Testing
For the very first time in 2018, the SPSS will be holding Mare
Performance Testing at every SPSS Tour venue, alongside
our Stallion & Mare Gradings and Youngstock Evaluations.
This will be open to all SPSS graded mares who are 4 years
of age or older and it will be possible for the mare to be
graded earlier on the same day. We will very much follow
the continental model for this, with the mares initially being
ridden by their own rider in small groups (3 or 4) of similarly
aged mares. They will be assessed in walk, trot & canter on
both reins for their way of going, their gaits & temperament
with ridden and loose jumping as an option (no mare will be
disadvantaged for not jumping). Then all mares which pass
this initial assessment will be ridden by our test rider who
will score their rideability. The overall performance test mark
out of 10 for each mare is then calculated by averaging all
the judges’ scores given to a mare, with 7 or above being
considered a pass. All successful mares will get a certificate
and a rosette and, at the end of the year, the highest scoring
mares will be announced as the 2018 Mare Performance Test
Champion and Reserve Champion.
We very much anticipate that this addition to our Grading
& Evaluation schemes will offer a very valuable extra
method for breeders to evaluate and promote their breeding
programme, whilst also allowing sports pony producers to an
opportunity to add a quantified achievement to their ponies
and small horses (up to an expected mature height maximum
of 158cm).
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SPSS 2018 TOUR
Stallion & Mare Grading, Mare Performance Testing & Youngstock
Evaluations at ALL venues (max height 158cms at maturity).
Entries close 13th August - Late entries may be accepted if
space (late entry fee applies).
Monday 3rd
September
Sidewood Dressage
Sidewood Farm,
Forth, Scotland, ML11 8ET
1pm – 4pm
Tuesday 4th
September
Leamside Equestrian Centre
Leamside, Houghton-le-Spring
Tyne & Wear, DH4 6QJ
9am - 4pm
Wednesday 5th
September
Wellow Equestrian
The Old rectory, Kirton,
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9am – 4pm
Thursday 6th
September
Kings Equestrian Centre
Sturts Farm, Winslow
Bromyard, Herefordshire, HR7 4SR
9am – 4pm
Friday 7th
September
Catherston Stud
Croft Farm, Over Wallop, Stockbridge,
Hampshire, SO20 8HX
9am – 4pm
Stallion Guide
The 2018 Stallion Guide, which features over 40 of the
wonderful SPSS graded stallions who are available to mare
owners in 2018, is now available and can be obtained by
sending an A5 stamped (£1.26 postage) addressed envelope to
SPSS Booklet, SPSS Studbook Office, The Last House, Keysoe
Row West, Keysoe, Bedfordshire MK44 2JJ. Information about
all the SPSS graded stallions for 2018 is available on the
Stallions page of our website – www.sportpony.org.uk.
For more information
For more information about the SPSS
please look at our website:
www.sportpony.org.uk or contact the Studbook Office on
Tel. 07703 566066
Email. sportsponies@gmail.com
WBS Stallion Grading
The annual WBS Stallion Grading is booked for the weekend of the 29th & 30th September at Moreton Morrell,
Warwickshire. The judges will be Hans Heinrich Bruening and Katy Holder Vale.
Entry forms are now available from the website www.bwbs.co.uk
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As a breeder, I know what I am striving to
achieve. I am looking to breed a talented,
strong athletic sport horse who can turn
his hand to any discipline.
An intelligent horse, quick to learn with a
desire to please. I also want a good-looking
horse with elegance. I want a kind horse,
good to handle and even tempered. This
accurately describes a typical Trakehner.
They are too intelligent to be messed
about and expect to be treated fairly. Once
you have one on your side he will give
everything and more that you ask.
At the recent BD winter championships
held at Hartpury College last week, the
culmination of many breeder’s producer’s
trainers and riders hard work. There was a
good showing of Trakehners both pure bred
and part bred amongst the qualifiers.
It was interesting to see a part bred offspring of the stallion
Sponek by Kassiber competing, a stallion rarely used in the
UK. There were two full bred horses by Elite Holme Park Krug,
three by Holme Grove Prokofiev and four by Grafenstolz.
Grafenstolz offspring are more likely to be seen Eventing, he
was voted eventing stallion of 2016, so it was good to see four
of his youngsters in the dressage arena.
Esquire
They are physically and temperamentally well equipped to
be successful in the field. This jumping aptitude comes to the
fore in eventing where Trakehners have such a strong track
record and we look forward to the results of the forthcoming
season. I stumbled upon the Trakehner horse by accident. I
discovered the breed has all the qualities I was striving to
achieve by crossing breeds, but someone else had done
Hermione & Vita
Photo - “Holme Park Hermione (by Holme Park Krug) by and
Holme Park Vita (by Grafenstolz), Champion and Reserve at
the 2017 Breed Show” - Image courtesy of Tanja Davies.
Hannah Knight’s Esquire is a previous BEF Equine Bridge
candidate by Le Rouge out of the Elitaer daughter Elysia
who has just moved up to BD Novice this Spring and will be
aiming for Regional qualification. Apart from the very famous
showjumper Abdullah, there have been very few successful
Trakehner show jumpers. I don’t know why.
all the hard work a couple of hundred years ago and it is now
up to present day breeders to make sure we maintain the
standards set when the horse had to plough a field, hunt, go
to war, pull the aristocrats carriages and still look beautiful.
For more information on Trakehners UK please visit the
website www.trakehners.uk.com or follow us on
FaceBook www.facebook.com/Trakehners.UK
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Charlotte Taylor
from Clements
Equine
The British breeding industry
encompasses a wide range of
experience, size and objectives. Some
people are breeding a one off foal for
themselves out of a favourite mare,
some are breeding small numbers to
ensure they have a good supply of
competition horses coming through,
and some are large scale commercial
operations who stand their own
stallions and have access to the very
best bloodlines.
Each issue of this magazine will feature
an interview with a breeder to find
out how they started, what their
philosophy is and to learn more about
the horses they own and have bred.
Charlotte Taylor runs the Suffolk based
family business Clements Equine with
her husband Rob and her parents
Paul and Valerie Clements. As well
as breeding show jumpers, Clements
Equine is also a thriving AI centre, with
both resident stallions, walk ins and
stallions coming in for dummy training
and semen freezing. They specialise
in taking on older problem mares for
AI and ET work and work very closely
with leading Newmarket vet practice
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The Clements Equine Team
Breeding is in the blood. Charlotte’s
grandfather bred Suffolk Punches and
her father bred champion Simmentals
that not only won at every major show
in the country but also allowed the
export of valuable embryos around the
world. The interest in breeding horses
and then show jumpers was a natural
progression from that. Charlotte herself
started out jumping ponies and went
on to be fairly successful up to 1.40m
level. In her late teens her father had a
few good old jumping mares that they
bred the occasional foal from. One of
these was a really good young rider’s
horse called Malaika’s Dream, who
had previously won the British Novice
Final at Horse of the Year Show. When
Charlotte retired Malaika’s Dream the
family started breeding from her.
As the interest in sporthorse breeding
grew, many of the older farm buildings
were converted to accommodate the
horses. The farm has always provided
homegrown hay and straw and it was
a natural progression to take in some
liveries and produce some of the
homebred stock ready for their ridden
careers. After foaling down mares for
friends, their reputation grew and now
they have around 25 mares a year to
foal down.
Things really started to progress
with the purchase of the first stallion
Renkum Radetzky II. He was acquired
after Paul and Charlotte took a mare
to Renkum Stud to be covered by John
Whitaker’s old partner Randi. The then
2 year old Radetzky caught his eye
and he came home to the farm. The
Renkum Valentino son was then joined
by the Irish bred Cavalier Royale son
Shannondale Delta. Both stallions stood
in Ireland for a time but have been
back home in Suffolk for a few years
now. Their addition saw Charlotte &
Paul actively start to purchase some
good mares to support them and there
are now 7 breeding mares on the farm.
As well as producing jumpers,
Shannondale Delta has attracted mare
owners from the eventing world due to
his bloodlines and also the show ring,
including HM The Queen!. Known as
Stuey at home, Charlotte brought the
17 year old stallion to the Competition
Stallions Event in February where he
gained many admirers for his fabulous
temperament and powerful canter and
scope. Stuey was presented there by
Polly Mountford who is a key member
of the team at Clements Equine, riding
many of the young horses and stallions
at home.

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stallion choices. She advises all aspiring
breeders not to just look at what works
on paper, but really get know your
mares. She always tries to use really
strong sport proven dam lines.
Delta at the Stallion Show
The third stallion is the 6 year old
Renkum Olinthos. Elvis as he is known
at home was purchased in utero with
his dam Renkum Cobriana who hails
from the Stamm 242 Holstein damline
(famous for producing Ahorn, Liostro
and Coster). She was purchased
for her bloodlines which in the
immediate family include international
competitors Ciano, Campino and
Excelle Z. Elvis is being managed
with the future in mind, and has only
competed lightly and not yet been
pushed against the clock. The focus
has been on age classes. He was placed
in the young horse championships
at Addington last year, jumping
clear in the final. There was further
success in the Weston Lawns 5 year
old championships. He jumped in 13
Newcomer and Foxhunter classes last
year, with 11 double clears.
Charlotte has an Animo daughter due
to him this year and some outside
mares. His half sister Rock n Ruby CE
(by Renkum Rock n Roll) will also be out
competing this year.
Charlotte and Paul have supported
British Sport horse auctions in the
past and 2 years ago purchased a very
smart colt by Levisto at the AES Elite
Auction. His dam is the grandam of
licensed stallion Jackpot TN. The colt
was purchased as a stallion prospect
partly because of his proven pedigree
on both sides and he has developed
into a striking and scopey individual
with a very athletic canter. Being a
rider first has helped Charlotte develop
her own principles with regard to
Renkum Olinthos and Emily Hilton
The current band of young horses are
the first main crop from the mares that
were purchased to support their own
stallions. Previous homebreds were
good amateur horses but the current
crop of 5 and 6 year olds are the most
focused breeding selection for the top
level of the sport.
The star of these so far might be Tiptoe
CE – by Renkum Radetzky out of a
French bred Oldenburg premium mare
who has come through the stables of
Paul Schockemohle and Anthena Onassis
on her way to Suffolk. She has a half
brother by Balou De Rouet jumping
on the World Cup circuit and is by the
International Anglo Arab show jumper
Hermes d’Authieux. Tiptoe was 5th in
European Cup in Vilamoura this Spring
and on the 4 week Atlantic Tour jumped
the most clear rounds out of all the 5
years old (12 out of 13)
Another exciting mare who Charlotte
will be taking embryo transfers from
this year is the 21 year old Atlanta Z,
a winner at 1.50m. She hails from the
immediate dam line of both Global
Champions Tour winner Victoria
(by Tangelo) and the leading Dutch
dressage stallion Chippendale. A family
favourite is the palomino Ard Spun Gold
who was purchased as a foal.
Renkum Olinthos
Known as Barbie for obvious reasons
she has jumped with great consistency
and is now Grade A, winning up to
1.45 and has a number of Puissance
victories. Barbie will also have embryo
transfer foals this year.
If Charlotte doesn’t use her own
stallions on the mares, she often looks
for up and coming young stallions for
her mares. These are often spotted
on the annual trip to the Young Horse
World Championships at Lanaken or on
Ard Spun Gold
the young horse international tours, on
many occasions having followed their
careers since seeing them at licensing
age. It can be a risky strategy but by
really knowing her mares it can allow
Charlotte to use young stallions while
they are affordable, and hopefully
pick a future star. She tends to not sell
foals but prefers to sell once broken
and under saddle. If possible the best
fillies are retained and put into sport
and with the option to then take
embryos, and this will be the preferred
option going forward. This gives the
opportunity to learn more about
their ability and temperament before
breeding from them. Clements Equine
only breed around 5 foals of their own
a year and by not selling till they are
between 4 and 6 years old there is less
pressure to make commercial stallion
choices. The stock can be sold on their
own merits and performances. The stud
has formed great partnerships over
the years with both Colin Keeling and
Emily Hilton who produce for them.
Finally I asked Charlotte what her
advice would be to new young
breeders;
“Buy the best mare you can afford, 1
good mare is better than 3 average
mares. Don’t be afraid to take a
chance on buying an older mare if it
gives you the opportunity to get into
motherlines that might otherwise
be unobtainable. Don’t be afraid to
use a young stallion and trust your
judgement. Really know your mares
and pick the stallion that suits her
personally, not just the one you like
the best. If you need the stallion to fix
too many aspects of your mare, then
perhaps re-evaluate the mare first
and see if she really fits in with your
programme. Know your market as if
you are not keeping the foal you need
to know what job that foal is going to
do. Never aim to breed average, breed
the most talented athletes you can
without compromising on temperament
and rideability.”
This sensible advice is certainly reaping
rewards with the success the young
Clements Equine horses are having and
it will be interesting to follow their
progress on the international stage.
Article by Sacha Shaw
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CLASSIC OPERA
Sport Horse GB Graded Stallion
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• Horse of the Year Show Cuddy In Hand Finalist.
• British Eventing Section winner himself as a 5 year old on his
dressage score.
• Exceptional Showing record, unbeaten at County Level being
Champion on every single outing as a 3 year old.
• Won or Champion at County Level as an In Hunter, Small
Hunter and Sports Horse.
• Shares paternal line with Bramham CCI*** Winner Chico
Bella P
• Dam was 2007 British Equestrian Federation’s Highest
ranked broodmare for dressage in Great Britain.
• His sire was the 2007 British Eventing Breeding PAVO
Champion.
• His sire was the 2007 BEF Futurity Reserve National
Champion for Show Jumping.
• Full brother to the successful eventer The Classic Composer.
• Full sister to Geminis Classic Valentine – Reserve Champion
at NPS Summer Champs
• Used on a Burghley CCI**** mare in his first season at stud.
• Ideal choice to breed Hunters, Riding Horses, Small Hunters &
Hacks
• Perfect sire for those looking to breed for BYEH classes
• Fabulous kind temperament.
• 15hh Dark Brown Stallion, 8 ¾ inches of bone – with
concessions to proven mares from both Eventing & the Show
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GREAT
BRITISH
BROODMARES
Many of us know that the most
important ingredient in a successful
breeding programme is great
broodmares. But those mares do not
always get the credit they deserve, and
to try and redress the balance slightly,
we are continuing our series profiling
outstanding British broodmares. Sarah
Oppenheimer’s Rubinsteena (Ruby) has
been the cornerstone of the celebrated
Headmore Stud’s success story. The 22
year old mare is the dam of no less than
six 2018 Winter Regional Champions,
which is surely an unprecedented result.
Those champions were:
Headmore Davina (by Dimaggio)
Advanced Medium Freestyle, Medium
Gold and Medium Freestyle Regional
Champion
Headmore Dirubinio (by Dimaggio)
Advanced Medium Gold and Advanced
Medium Freestyle Regional Champion
Headmore Bella Ruby (by Belissimo M)
Novice Freestyle Regional Champion
and qualified for the Novice Gold
Winter Championship.
At the recent British Dressage NAF
Five Star Winter Championships, that
winning run continued, culminating
in a 1,2 in the Advanced Medium Gold
Freestyle where Sarah’s daughter Alice
took the National title on Headmore
Davina and the runner up spot on her
full brother Headmore Dirubinio.
Speaking to Sarah it is clear Ruby
is adored by all the family. Sarah
confirmed Ruby always passes on her
correct conformation, including an
amazing front end to her offspring. She
has always been a fantastic mother
but kept her babies in their place and
knows she is the matriarch of the stud.
In addition to the current crop of
Regional and National champions,
Ruby is also the dam of Half Moon
Frizzante (by Furstenreich) the 2011
Winter Elementary Champion who
is now competing at Small Tour,
Headmore Wimoweh (by Woiwode)
now competing Inter II, Headmore
Wrubinstar (by Weserstar) Advanced
Medium, Headmore Dionysus (by
Dimaggio ) qualified Novice Regionals
and Headmore Valentina (by Vilancio)
BEF Futurity Overall Foal Champion
2016 with a score of 9.7.
Headmore Valentina at the Futurity
Photo Kevin Sparrow
As her name suggests Rubinsteena is a
daughter of the legendary Rubinstein
who hailed from the same granddam as
Reiner Klimke’s star Ahlerich.
Rubinstein became one of the most
important stallions in German breeding,
was a Grand Prix performer himself and
is famous for the ridability he passed
on to his descendants.
Among his most famous offspring are
the breeding stallions Rotspon (State
Stud Celle and in the WBFSH Top Ten
Dressage Sires), Regazzoni (Elite sire
now based in the USA and sire of over
14 approved sons), full brothers Royal
Diamond and Rohdiamant (3rd placed
on the 2010 World Rankings and sire of
Romanov and Rubin Royal) and Relevant
(Silver medallist at the 2002 World
Equestrian Games and Bronze medallist
at the 2004 Olympics)
Ruby’s damsire is possibly even more
famous as the foundation sire of the
D line – Donnerhall. Through his sons
and grandsons, Donnerhall is one of
the most dominant forces in dressage
breeding and his blood is often doubled
up on in pedigrees with no ill effects.
Ruby’s motherline is very interesting
too. Her dam Dujana is full sister to
the international Grand Prix horse
Donna Carrera and the dam line has
produced other Grand Prix performers
such as Harmony’s Fiorano and most
interestingly this is also the damline of
the stallion Donnerwetter, sire of none
other than Donnerhall himself! This
implies the crossing of Ruby’s granddam
with Donnerhall was not an accident
but a careful plan to consolidate these
important genetics.
Ruby might be 22, but it is clear her
influence on British dressage breeding
is really only just beginning.
The Oppenheimers will ensure her star
continues to shine at Championship
level for many years to come.
Article by Sacha Shaw
Rubinsteena
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FEATURE - ARTICLE
HOW TO
BREED AN
EVENTER
Future Illusion, Julia Hodkin’s homebred
AES Approved Stallion.
Eventing has undergone a number
of changes since the long format
was dropped, one of which has been
the increase in non-Thoroughbreds
competing at the highest levels.
Eventing breeders probably have the
hardest job in breeding for the highest
levels of the sport as the best eventers
have to be proficient in so many areas,
and that talent can be harder to spot
at a young age.
An eventer does need dressage talent
with good basic gaits, with essentially
a great canter otherwise they can be
at a distinct disadvantage after the
first day. Very flamboyant paces may
mean high dressage scores, but this is
at the disadvantage of the horse then
usually having the incorrect mechanics
to really gallop, so a balance must be
found.
Then horses must also be careful
enough in the show jumping phase and
have the courage, tenacity and gallop
to shine in cross-country. On top of this
they require soundness and good health
to enable them to get to the top of the
sport.
In addition to trying to combine this
cocktail of skills into one horse,
eventing breeders also face additional
challenges when marketing their stock.
Some riders believe it is not possible
to breed a purpose bred eventer,
or hold on to the view that a 4-star
champion can be picked up for peanuts
as a racecourse reject. To further
complicate matters, most eventers do
not want to take the risk on buying
a foal or a youngster but want an
eventing prospect that is already under
saddle and at least showing an aptitude
for both the show jumping and crosscountry
elements.
If all these obstacles have not put
you off, how does a breeder go about
selecting the right mares and stallions
to breed from. The World Breeding
Federations’ annual publication of
the top sires in eventing, does not
at first glance prove to be as useful
a tool as it might be for dressage or
show jumping breeders. Many of the
stallions at the top of the list are dead
and no longer available to breeders:
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some are Thoroughbred, some show
jumpers, some traditionally Irish, and
some Warmbloods with very little blood
in their own pedigrees. There are
even some out and out dressage sires
creeping into the lists.
British Eventing (BE) also publishes data
on the top competing stallions, young
horse sires and overall leading sires.
BE aim to promote and incentivise
knowledgeable breeding of event
horses for all levels. The highest placed
British based stallion in the BE 2017 sire
rankings (BE points only) was Ramiro
B, also currently the world number
4. In the number 2 spot in the World
Rankings belonged to the British based
Jaguar Mail, an Olympic show jumper
with a high proportion of Thoroughbred
blood. Both these stallions are now in
their 20s but are still actively breeding.
We then have to drop down to 32nd
place to find the next British based
active stallion – William Fox Pitt’s great
partner Chilli Morning.
We spoke to a number of breeders,
from small breeders looking to produce
a good competitive ride for themselves,
to commercial studs aiming to produce
4-star competitors - to discover more
about their breeding philosophies and
also the challenges they are facing.
Hannah Iddeson
Hannah Iddeson bred the 2017 BEF
Futurity Champion Eventer, Buddy B
Good (Ramiro B x Hamlet). With a keen
interest in breeding and the heritability
of genetics, Hannah set herself key
benchmarks that had to be met when
selecting a stallion. These included
functional conformation and longevity
plus offspring with a good performance
record in the sport. Choosing to breed
rather than purchase gave Hannah a
distinct advantage; she would know
everything there was to know about
her youngster, and so would not be
inheriting any bad habits caused by
incompetent handling. By starting
with a quality mare with good jumping
genetics, she felt that choosing a
sire who was proven to produce top
eventing stock, would give her the best
chance of breeding that elusive top
level eventer.
Buddy B Good - Photo Kevin Sparrow

Rosie De Courcy
Rosie De Courcy has been breeding
eventers under the Libris prefix for
11 years since she first decided to
breed from her retired 3-star mare
Royal Twist. She is a great believer in
the importance of retaining a good
percentage of Thoroughbred blood in
her stock.
Her mantra is ‘A good sport horse
always carries Thoroughbred blood in
his veins. Without it, it doesn’t work.
The Thoroughbred works best through
the mother, just look at Voltaire or
our younger stallions like Quidaro and
Carambola. They produce very modern
foals because they have Thoroughbred
in their pedigree. The use of a
Thoroughbred stallion does require a
long term vision.’
These are the words of leading Dutch
breeder and vet Jan Greve, who
started his career as team vet to the
Dutch Olympic eventing team before
his involvement in show jumping.
Finding that sought after Thoroughbred
blood is not as easy as it seems even in
this country, the cradle of the breed.
Rosie feels that most of the great
Thoroughbred event sires of the past
had two things in common; they got
at least 1 mile 2 furlongs on the Flat,
and they were good ground specialists.
Shaab, Primitive Rising, Kuwait Beach,
Java Tiger, are examples. From this you
can deduce that stamina is vital - sprint
bred horses are not as effective for
eventing purposes. A top of the ground
specialist is also handy for our summer
sport.
Having said all of that it, is surprisingly
easy to lose the jump - which after all
is necessary in two of the three phases.
So I asked Rosie how she was retaining
enough Thoroughbred blood without
losing the jump.
“My thinking now is to put show
jumping stallions on Thoroughbred
mares. I’m not so enthusiastic about
stallions bred specifically for eventing.
The event horse is by definition an
all-rounder and I would be afraid of
ending up with a run of the mill jack of
all trades - good although such a horse
might be for the middle grades.”
When I asked Rosie what are the key
attributes you will not compromise on
they were “Stamina, engine, soundness
and trainability. The things you cannot
do without, I think. I can’t count the
number of professional riders who’ve
told me they’ll take trainability over
talent all day long.”
Libris Vagabond, a talented homebred
out of a Thoroughbred dam
Julia Hodkin
Julia Hodkin, owner of Future Sport
Horses, sees more obstacles both as
a breeder and a stallion owner. Julia
says financially things are tougher than
ever for breeders. “Breeders get so
little recognition and sales prices have
not improved in the last ten years,
whereas input costs have risen.” She
would really like to see British Eventing
offering breeder’s prizes at the most
visible level (4-star) and then rolled out
to the young horse championships. Even
if not in the form of a financial reward,
breeders still need the recognition in
order to help to unite breeders and the
sport.
“The team that BE send to the World
Young Horse Championship at Lion
D’Angers should be British bred, as
this is the chance for each country to
showcase its breeding stock on the
world stage.”
Julia worries that a lot of stallion
owners have pulled out of that side of
the industry as the financial margins
get ever tighter. If all aspects of the
industry don’t pull together, Britain
will lose its place as one of the premier
producers of eventing stock.
Vin & Liz Jones
Vin and Liz Jones own Preci-Spark
Event Horses, one of the most
successful modern breeders of 4-star
event horses. Stars of their breeding
programme include: Trevidden (by
Fleetwater Opposition), highest placed
British bred horse at Burghley 2017;
Treason (by Hand in Glove xx) winner of
the ERM at Wiesbaden and long listed
for the European Championships; and
4-star mare Trebetherick (by Bolivar).
They have a relatively simple approach
to breeding eventers – take foundation
mares with natural proven ability (as
the importance of the mare cannot be
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under estimated), then select a stallion
that compliments their attributes.
This approach has allowed the Jones’
to breed champions all the way from
Futurity evaluations, Young Event
horse classes, through all the grades,
culminating in the toughest 4-star
competitions in the world. Their
stallion selections show a lot of respect
for Thoroughbred and Trakehner blood
as well as use of some more traditional
eventing sires such as Jumbo and
Catherston Liberator. Despite their
success, the Jones’ acknowledge that
this has been an expensive process.
Treason – Picture Courtesy Of Preci Spark
Event Horses
In conclusion, breeding an eventer
is trying to perfect the cocktail of
movement, scope, soundness and
retaining enough blood to ensure
stamina and the ability to gallop. It
is having the resilience to run those
youngstock on until they are under
saddle, and convincing riders to look at
purpose bred stock.
It is certainly not a market for the faint
hearted but, to see a horse you have
bred gallop in front of Badminton House
one day, to watch him or her tackle
the toughest tracks with confidence,
to dream of being presented with the
Richard Matson Trophy as the breeder
of the highest placed British bred horse
at Burghley – those are the dreams that
keep the eventing breeders aiming to
perfect that magic formula.
Article by Sacha Shaw
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FEATURE - ARTICLE
Advances In Assisted
Reproductive
Techniques
For many years, artificial insemination
using chilled and frozen semen has
been the most widely used assisted
reproductive technique(ART) in the
horse-breeding industry.
Assisted Reproductive Techniques:
- AI Fresh, Chilled and Frozen
- Embryo Transfer
- Ovum Pickup (OPU) - OT, IVF, ICSI
- & embryo sex determination
- Cloning
- Embryo and Oocyte Freezing
Embryo transfer(ET) in cattle has been
well established for well over twenty
years as a way to increase the number
of progeny per year from a genetically
superior animal. The use of embryo
transfer in horses has been much
slower to develop, partly due to a lack
of commercial/economic incentive,
combined with a much lower yield of
embryos. Cattle can be successfully
super-ovulated (given a program of
drugs similar to women having IVF) ,
producing up to 20-30 embryos per
flush, compared with horses where
only one embryo per flush is expected
unless the mare has ovulated from both
ovaries. The most relevant and useful
application of ET is in the production
of off spring from mares still competing
which increases the ability and
likelihood of improving the genetics
of equine athletes. This seems like an
ideal scenario when previously mares
were only bred once they were older,
retired and less fertile, reducing the
chance of producing many offspring.
This is not always as easy as it sounds,
and sometimes owner expectations
exceed what can be achieved in reality.
Exercise, heat and stress can disrupt
ovarian function while frequent joint
injections have been seen to lower the
overall fertility of mares and stallions.
Furthermore, some disruption to
exercise schedule should be expected,
although every effort is made to plan
breeding around the mare’s work
schedule.
The process of ET involves the donor
mare being bred with either fresh,
chilled or frozen semen; fertilization
takes place within the mare’s fallopian
tube and the developing embryo is
present in the mare’s uterus by the
sixth day following fertilization. Once
the embryo is in the uterus it can be
flushed out using special tubing through
a cup with a filter; this is usually done
on day 7-8 after ovulation depending
on mare age, time of year and type
of semen used. The gaps in the filter
are smaller than the smallest embryo,
therefore the cup will catch and
retain the embryo during the flushing
process. The contents of the cup is
examined under a microscope and
the embryo which is approximately
the size of a spec of dust is located,
washed and held in a special media
until the recipient mare is prepared
for transfer. It is ideal to select a
couple of recipients for each donor
mare flush to increase the chances of
perfect synchronicity, and provides us
which a choice so we can select the
best recipient on the day and therefore
increase the chances of the transfer
being successful. Studies show more
success with transfer when recipients
have ovulated two days after the donor
mare. ET is widely available throughout
the UK although a high level of skill is
needed to achieve high transfer and
pregnancy rates.
Embryos can be frozen using a method
called vitrification to be stored
indefinitely for the preservation
of genetics or until recipients are
available for transfer. It involves
transferring a small, day 6 - 6.5
‘morula’ stage embryo through varying
concentrations of antifreeze, before
submerging it in liquid nitrogen. Size
of the embryo is critical for success,
therefore it is important to have a back
up plan (i.e. a recfipient on stand-by)
if the embryo that is flushed is too
big, as this will probably not survive
the freezing and thawing processes.
A decreased pregnancy rate following
thawing and transfer is expected with
every frozen embryo, however this can
be limited by using an experienced
technician. The next step in breeding
technologies beyond ET needed to
provide many advantages over embryo
transfer to warrant the ensuing
research needed for development and
the extra costs involved in making it
commercially viable. Ovum pick-up
(OPU) ticks all the boxes!
Advantages Of Opu/Icsi Over ET
1. Donor mares can have one-off
visits to collection center when it
suits work schedule.
2. OPU can be done outside the
normal breeding season; in fact
autumn and early spring are often
the best times to get a high yield
of oocytes.
3. Infertility issues in the mare
where no embryos are retrieved
using conventional ET e.g.
inability to ovulate/ poor uterine
environment/ cervical tearing do
not affect the OPU process.
4. Embryos can be produced using
semen from stallions with low
fertility or very limited stocks of
semen using ICSI once oocytes are
collected using OPU.
5. Potentially more embryos can
be produced per year (this will
hopefully improve as the OPU/ICSI
processes improve with practice
and research).
6. Embryos are usually frozen after
OPU/ICSI and can therefore be
transferred into recipients when
desired; synchronizing with donor
unnecessary.
OPU is where the oocytes (ova or
eggs) are aspirated directly from the
ovary, either transvaginally or transabdominally
and identified under a
microscope, washed and transferred
into a special medium ready for further
processing. Trans-vaginal OPU is the
most commonly used technique now; a
long rigid ultrasound probe, held within
the vagina against the ovary, acts as
a visual guide for an attached needle.
Once each follicle is visualized the
needle is advanced and the follicle is
repeatedly flushed with a solution using
a pump. 15-20 follicles may be flushed
from the two ovaries during a single
OPU session, yielding anything from
0-20 oocytes. A large dominant
follicle which is close to ovulation
yields a mature oocyte. As previously
mentioned and similarly to ET, only
1-2 mature oocytes are available per
flush if only dominant follicles are
flushed. However, many immature
oocytes can be harvested from
multiple smaller follicles. Furthermore,
immature follicles are much more
stable and easier to transport for
further processing. A donor mare in the
transitional phase in early spring and
late autumn have the ideal ovaries for
harvesting as many oocytes as possible
each flush. OPU can be carried out
every 2-3 weeks. Oocyte transfer(OT)
has been used in the place of ET for
mares with reproductive issues which
results in no embryo production.
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It requires recovery of a mature oocyte
using OPU from the donor mare. The
recipient mare is synchronized with
the donor, her pre-ovulatory follicle is
flushed to remove her mature oocyte
and the donor mare oocyte is placed
in the fallopian tube of the recipient
through a flank incision. The recipient
is inseminated and the fertilzation of
the donor oocyte takes place within the
recipient’s fallopian tube. OT has not
taken off over the years as it holds only
a small advantage over ET and is more
invasive for the recipients involved.
Ten to fifteen years ago, much of the
research effort was concentrated on IVF,
the most widely used ART in humans.
To this day only a couple of foals have
been born using this technique. It
requires the sperm to ‘swim up’ to the
ovum in a petri dish for fertilization to
take place. The equine sperm is usually
unable to fertilize the ovum in these
conditions.
Intra-Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection
1. Immature oocytes matured in
incubator.
2. One sperm selected and
injected into cytoplasm of each
oocyte using micromanipulator.
3. Fertilisation in vitro (in petri
dish).
4. Incubation/ culture for 6-8 days
- result = embryo!
5. Embryo transferred or frozen
and keep our talented mares here.
A very recent development which was
reported in 2014 by Dr C Herrera at
Zurich University is sex determination
using material extracted from the
embryo. Embryos produced by ICSI are
biopsied and the genetic material
Cloning
1. Cells taken from donor animal to
be cloned - can be a gelding
2. Unfertilized oocyte from a
random mare with DNA material
removed therefore not transferring
genetic influence to embryo
produced
3. Cell nucleus from donor
implanted into oocyte and an
electric pulse results in fusion and
the start of cell division
4. Resulting embryo transferred
into recipient as normal
5. Cost around £100000
The practice has the
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Accredited Hospital.
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undergo genetic analysis using PCR.
More research in this area may
lead to improving our selection of
individuals for phenotype, which is
already commonplace in the cattle
world. Interestingly the collapse of
the embryo following biopsy also
renders it more suitable for freezing
at the blastocyst stage. Somatic cell
nuclear transfer(SCNT) or cloning
is the production of a population
ofgenetically identical individuals.
Dolly, the first animal clone was born in
1996, and the first horse clone born in
2003. Since then, Crestview genetics in
the states has produced over 200 horses
since 2009. Some highly respected
reproductive specialists are concerned
that if we rely too heavily on cloning
we may not be developing and
improving the genetics of our equine
athletes, a sideways step so to speak?
Since 2012, clones have been allowed
to compete FEI, so no matter our
personal view, cloning is here to stay.
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It has become very evident at recent
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research has shifted towards OPU-ICSI
as the way forward for production of
embryos. An overwhelming amount of
development has taken place in these
areas over the last 6-8 years, and more
equine reproductive clinics and labs
are working towards providing these
techniques commercially around
the world. Intra-cytoplasmic sperm
injection (ICSI) is a really exciting
development in equine breeding, but
requires expensive equipment in a
purpose built lab run by highly skilled
individuals that have dedicated most
of their working life to the processes
involved. However, it is possible for
OPU, which requires less skill than
ICSI and less equipment, to become
available in the UK soon. This will
allow mares resident in the UK to
have oocytes harvested and shipped
to an ICSI lab in Europe. The resultant
embryos can either be transferred into
recipients there and shipped back to
the UK, or the embryos can be frozen
and sent back to the UK, for transfer
into the clients own recipients when
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RIDER - INTERVIEW
In conversation
Becky
Moody
Becky competing at the 2017 National Championships on British bred Intergalatic Aimbry.
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British Breeders
on British Horses
Interview with
Becky Moody
International Grand Prix rider Becky
Moody is based at the family run
Gunthwaite Dressage in Yorkshire,
where she and sister Hannah run a
top flight training and competition
centre. I caught up with Becky at the
BD Winter Championships were she
had just finished a very creditable 6th
behind the all conquering Charlotte
Dujardin in the Advanced Medium Gold
Championship.
Odwig’s Echo
I asked Becky about her Championship
ride Odwig’s Echo, a British bred 9
year old by Stanhopes Odwig, owned
and bred by Lucy Beckingham, who
also used to compete his sire at small
tour. Becky explained she currently
has the ride as Lucy has recently had
a baby and she will revert back to her
role as trainer once Lucy is back in the
saddle. Although not the biggest mover
in the class, Echo’s trainability and
consistency throughout the test gave
them a very respectable 70% in what
was a very strong championship. The
pair finished the week with a 5th place
in the Medium Gold Final.
Odwigs Echo
Heavenly Kiss BS
Odwig’s Echo qualified for the Winter
Championships at Myerscough, where
Becky qualified another British bred
horse owned and bred by a long term
client – Julie Lockey’s Heavenly Kiss
BS. This huge (over 18hh) gelding is
really trainable and is a serious Grand
Prix prospect. He is a son of Furst Kiss
(Furst Picolo x Lanciano) who was
previously owned by Astrid Bolton and
is now standing in the USA. The dam
was a daughter of the great broodmare
sire Don Schufro (sire of World Number
1 Weihegold).
Heavenly Kiss had secured a top
five place in the Elementary Gold
Championship earlier in the week
and already has his Medium Regionals
qualification under his belt.
Becky really appreciates the
importance of having incredible owners
like Julie, who has sent her a number
of homebreds in the past.
Julie runs Bramley Stud and is also
the breeder of the up and coming
international pony George Clooney BS
(by British based senior stallion Caesar
171).
Heavenly Kiss - Image Julie Lockey
Young Prospects
Another really supportive owner is Jo
Cooper. Jo recently purchased two
young stallions for Becky to produce
including the KWPN licensed and
performance tested stallion James
Bond. He is a son of Desperado out of a
Fidertanz mare from the family of First
Final and Furst Grandios and could be a
very exciting addition to the UK stallion
ranks in the future. Becky says he has
three very correct and trainable paces
and is really one to watch.
Becky is quick to credit her support
team for her success, her parents
Patrick and Ann and sister Hannah plus
trainers David Hunt and Carl Hester.
She also prides herself on being a good
employer, with many of her staff having
been based with the family for years
and they play an invaluable part in the
success of the team.
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The Breeding
Industry in the UK
Although Becky has some super British
bred horses in her string, her current
number one is the second season KWPN
Grand Prix horse Carinsio (Painted
Black x Beaujolais). I asked Becky what
are the obstacles she finds prevent her
from buying more British bred horses.
Becky said there are better and better
quality stock being bred in this country,
but in Europe the breeding industry
is run as far more of a business. That
commercial outlook means as a rider
Becky can view and try upwards of 30
young horses in 1 or 2 days in Holland
or Germany, all well prepared. With
such a busy schedule of competing
and teaching, this is time well spent.
In the UK there is not the opportunity
to do this at present, but it is an area
the new British Breeding Partnership
are targeting with new initiatives. A
revamped Equine Bridge programme
will build on the new opportunities
offered by the closer co-operation
between the breeding and sport and
offer riders like Becky the chance to
take on the best young horses in the UK
and Becky was very supportive of such
an initiative.
Becky’s advice to breeders who are
aiming to produce Grand Prix prospects
is to pay particular attention to
temperament and soundness. She is
looking for horses that are a little
sharp and forward thinking but who are
trainable and want to learn. She used
Ogdwig’s echo as a perfect example
of a horse that doesn’t have huge
movement but has the perfect brain for
dressage.
She also wants to train horses that
have a correct foundation and will stay
sound through the years of training to
get to Grand Prix. It is heart breaking
to spend all the time and money to
move a horse up the levels, only to find
he can’t stay sound. If a horse does not
have both these credentials, then all
the flashy movement in the world will
not make up for those short comings.
Very valid points that breeders for all
disciplines should have at the top of
their priority list.
Article by Sacha Shaw
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FEATURE - STALLION SHOWS ROUNDUP
COMPETITION
STALLION EVENT
18th February
Photos by Kevin Sparrow
A large crowd attended the inaugural
Competition Stallions Event 2018,
held at Addington Equestrian Centre
on 18th February, and they were not
to be disappointed as Britain’s top
stallions and some of their progeny
demonstrated their talent.
Stallion owners were delighted with the
opportunity to show off a wide variety
of sires across the disciplines, including
some top sport ponies. As well as
watching each stallion put through
their paces in the arena, visitors also
had access to the stables where they
could meet the stallions first hand to
assess their temperament and discuss
their characteristics with connections.
The stallion owners provided a
hospitable welcome by their stables,
as well as displays of photographs and
stallion cards for visitors to take away.
The arena programme started with
the eventing section, and several
stallions were shown with progeny,
an ideal opportunity to see just how
they stamp their stock. The influential
Jaguar Mail demonstrated his ability
with enthusiasm and was followed
into the arena by his son, Lucinda
Fredericks’ Britannia’s Mail, out of the
great Headley Britannia, who showed
great temperament and athletic
ability with Lucinda’s daughter, Ellie,
aboard. Chilli Morning delighted the
crowd demonstrating the movement
and temperament that earned him
impressive competition success.
The showjumpers showed their scope
and ability over a series of fences, and
this star-studded section was a real
crowd pleaser, with John and Michael
Whitaker in the saddle to show the
ability of horses such as Argento, Arko
III, Big Star and Cassionato. As well as
the big guns, there were many exciting
young stallions also demonstrating their
superb ability and temperament.
The knowledgeable audience
appreciated Lynne Crowden’s insightful
commentary on the dressage section,
with stallions demonstrating superb
movement and trainability. Of interest
was Claire Hester’s exciting young
stallion, Integro, out of Weidyfleur
II who is the full sister to Valegro. In
2018, his first breeding season,
John Whitaker on Big Star
Crowd Pleaser - Jaguar Mail
Integro will be available to a limited
number of selected mares.
A highlight was the parade of
Olympians at lunchtime. Argento,
ridden by John Whitaker, Cassionato,
ridden by Michael Whitaker, Arko III, Big
Star, Chilli Morning and Jaguar Mail all
took to the arena again to the delight
of the appreciative audience.
Enthusiastic visitors and participants
have shared their comments.
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Tessa Clarke of West Kingston Stud
said, “Wow- what a wonderful
weekend. We were all thrilled with the
professionalism in place. Addington is
a great venue and the drinks party on
Saturday evening was a great start to
the event. There seemed to be plenty
of interested breeders on Sunday - We
certainly felt it was a very worthwhile
event.”
Jo Filmer of Longhalves Stud said,
“I congratulate [the Competition
Stallions] team on running such a
superb event. As the owner of the
smallest stallion there, the friendly
atmosphere and smooth running
made for a very enjoyable occasion.
The commentary provided by Lynne
Crowden on the dressage section was
both informative and easy to listen
to.”
Liz Warr, who visited the event,
said “It was a really great day!
Some wonderful stallions and good
commentary. The hospitality was
excellent, and the VIP experience was
fabulous. It was lovely to chat to the
breeders and stallion owners and I now
have two potential stallions chosen for
my mare”.
Timolin
“It’s been really good. We have the
stallions, now people need to put their
good mares to the right stallions. It
would be good to have more British
bred horses at top level – there’s
no reason why not”, said Michael
Whitaker.
Studbooks and organisations offering
support services for breeders were on
hand with advice in the popular trade
stand area, the VIP hospitality did brisk
business throughout the day.
For a full list of stallions exhibited
at the event plus a fully searchable
database of stallion information, visit
www.competition-stallions.com
Future Gravitas
Washington DC
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Yorkshire Sport Horse Parade
11th March 2018 - Richmond Equestrian Centre
All images - Sally P Coles
Glencarrig Dolphin
Buddy B Good - Photo Kevin Sparrow
Primitive
FaerieTale
Volatis Defiant
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Northern Stallion Showcase
7th April 2018 - Newton Rigg College, Penrith
All images - Images courtesy Horsepower Creative
Craig
Hocus Pocus
Hocus Pocus
Solaris Buenno
Z Concorde
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STALLIONS AI OPEN DAY
21st April 2018
All images - Horsepower Creative
Cassionato
Big Star
Finale Arko (centre) and sons Argento (L) and Aristio (R )
Tullis Matson presents Nina Barbour with an award
for Ramiro B’s 4th place in WBFSH Rankings
Woodlander Wild Child
Murkas Gem
Kambarbay
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STALLION SPOTLIGHT
CATHERSTON
LIBERATOR
With their large advertising
budgets, wonderful facilities,
and eye catching marketing
videos, it is no wonder many
British breeders are tempted to
only consider stallions standing
at stud in mainland Europe.
There are often many gems to
be discovered here in the UK
and in every edition we will
turn the spotlight onto a British
stallion who deserves to be
centre stage.
An older stallion who has excellent
credentials, but who many eventing
breeders may not have considered is
Catherston Liberator, who stands at
Langaller Stud in Devon.
Now 26, he still looks incredibly well
and shows no sign of any loss of topline
that is normally associated with older
stallions. Liberator was successful
himself as a competition horse in all
spheres, winning up to Intermediate
BE (with advanced points), and Prix St
George dressage. He also show jumped
to Foxhunter level. Liberator is really
producing some top eventing stock
including:
Xavier Faer ( x Catherston Dazzler) CSI****
and 3rd Badminton 2017
Tout de Suite ( x Welton Crackerjack)
Multiple CIC*** winner in the USA
Borough Free Flight ( x Dutch Gold)
Winner CCI* and placed CCI** & CSI***
Mr Fahrenheit ( x Java Tiger xx) CIC**
including Lion D’Angers 2017
The Earl of Belvedere ( x The Chocolate
Bean xx) Placed CIC**
Trelotte ( x Fine Blade xx) Competing CIC**
Xavier Faer - Courtesy Nico Morgan
Besides the eventers he has found
success as a sire in the showring with
offspring winning sporthorse and hunter
breeding classes at major county shows
across the country.
Liberator’s sire Liboi was a very tough
racehorse, running 71 times and
retiring sound. As well as siring county
level winning hunters and hacks he is
also the sire of Grand Prix dressage
stallion Catherston Humbug.
Liberator’s dam was the HOYS Grade
C and Foxhunter finalist Catherston
Jetstream. The direct motherline is
exemplary producing among others
Catherston Dazzler (sire of Olympic
and 4 star eventers), Welton Louis
(advanced eventer and sire of European
champion Welton Romance) and
Yarlands Summer Song (WEG Silver
Medalist). This means Liberator offers
a rare combination of Thoroughbred
blood crossed onto a stellar eventing
damline. The importance of the
damline cannot be underestimated as
this gives any breeder the reassurance
that the genetic potential is there
waiting to be unlocked. All the most
successful breeders of both sporthorses
and racehorses recognise how crucial
this is.
Article Sacha Shaw
Catherston Liberator
Tom Rolfe
Ribot
Pocahontas
Catherston
Liberator
Liboi xx
Catherston
Jetstream
Latin Walk
Jashin
Catherston Dutch Silka
Romantread
Stall Walker
Le Faquin xx
Era
Dutch Courage
Welton Gazelle
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FEATURE - ASK THE EXPERT
Ask the Expert
Tullis Matson
For this issue of British Breeder,
we invited our readers to
send in their questions for
Tullis Matson, founder and
owner of Stallion AI Services in
Shropshire, who does
pioneering work in the field of
AI and reproduction, applying
the latest research and
technologies not only sport
horse breeding, but also to help
the survival of some of Britain’s
most endangered heritage
breeds.
Should I be checking semen
that arrives in the post prior
to insemination?
Certainly, for chilled semen deliveries
it’s not a bad idea to check the quality
of the sperm when it arrives, at least
for some peace of mind that the
sperm are still motile and that nothing
deleterious has happened to it during
its transit.
The same applies to frozen thawed
semen, however, because of the
semen extender used to process
cryopreserved sperm, there are more
pitfalls associated with frozen sperm
analysis and it is also worth bearing in
mind that, once thawed, frozen sperm
needs to be inseminated immediately,
so don’t waste too much time with preinsemination
checks.
Semen analysis prior to insemination
should be performed according to a
very strict protocol by a practitioner
trained in this area, just to avoid any
falsely negative results.
The conventional method is to observe
sperm under a microscope fitted with a
heated stage. However, not only does
this require a suitable microscope with
good quality optics (phase contrast
is best), a heated surface, pipetting
equipment and consumables including
clean slides and coverslips. You also
need a power supply and a clean
working environment, which is often
easier said than done in the field.
There is now a simpler way. We’ve
recently been helping to develop and
validate a new piece of kit for equine
semen analysis. It’s a great tool to
be used out in the field or even for
veterinary clinics. It’s called ‘iSperm’
and is essentially a set of miniature
optics that attach to your iPad camera
paired with a downloadable app.
Using it couldn’t be simpler and only
takes a few seconds to obtain an
accurate result. You simply place a
drop of semen into a small disposable
plastic vial that snaps on to the
camera attachment. The app will then
automatically analyse sperm motility
Murka’s Gem, clone of Gem Twist
and concentration and even calculates
how many mares you could successfully
inseminate with each shipment of
semen.
In addition, the software can also
capture a video of the semen sample
enabling you to store a historic record
of all the samples inseminated,
organised by date and time.
If you would like some further
information about iSperm or about
further training in semen analysis,
please do give me a call on
telelphone 01948 666295
or email me at tullis@stallionai.com
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When will it be possible to
use sexed semen for equine
breeding?
Sperm sexing techniques were
perfected in the late nineties and
subsequently commercialised for cattle
breeding, with the first calves born
on the Duke of Westminster’s Eaton
estate in Cheshire in 2001. Since then,
sperm sexing has been used prolifically
within the dairy industry but with a
few adaptations we know the same
technology works equally well for other
mammals, including equids. Stallion
AI Services have been following the
development of sperm sexing with
great interest since its outset and feel
that we are now in a good position to
apply it to stallion semen.
How is it done?
The technology uses a method called
‘flow cytometry’ which basically
involves tagging every individual
sperm cell with a fluorescent DNA
marker and sorting them based on the
amount of DNA, one at a time, in a
very fast-moving stream of fluid. We
can use the fact that X-bearing sperm
(the ones that will give rise to a filly)
have about a 3% increase in mass of
DNA compared to the Y-bearing (colt)
sperm, so they fluoresce brighter and
can be differentiated and sorted using
hi-tech light sensing equipment. The
sorting part is especially clever because
female sperm can be given a positive
electrical charge compared to the male
sperm that are given a negative charge.
Then it’s simply a case of passing them
between a magnetic field. The fillies
jump to the left, and the colts jump to
the right!
Does it work?
Because the difference between X and
Y sperm is relatively tiny, this presents
a number of challenges, especially for
equine compared to bovine because
stallion sperm have very flat heads
(like a canoe paddle) so each one has
to be orientated into the correct plane
as they pass through the fluid stream
otherwise the light sensors won’t be
able to tell them apart. We also need
to sort the sperm quickly to maintain
sperm quality and protect the sperm
as they pass through the machine, so
they remain fertile at the end of the
process.
After much research we are however
pleased to report success in overcoming
these challenges and have arrived with
a process that we believe will work.
Are there any other
challenges?
The second main challenge for us
was one of numbers. Compared to
bovine AI, stallion sperm needs to
be inseminated in a much larger
dose, around 50 million in the mare
compared to only 2 million that are
required to achieve normal pregnancy
rates in a cow. There are ways of
getting away with much lower numbers
(it only takes one after all!), however
unless we use intracytoplasmic sperm
injection (that is injecting a sperm
directly into an egg inside a petri dish)
we still need to use a large enough
number to make the perilous journey
through the reproductive tract of the
mare.
Using a specially designed nozzle and
a with a few other tweaks we can
now orientate around 80% of sperm
correctly through the sexing machine
which means we can yield upwards
of 20000 sperm of the correct sex
every second! This means it should
take roughly 40 minutes to sort an
insemination dose with an accuracy of
around 90%.
Is frozen sexed semen
available?
At this stage we don’t anticipate
freezing the sperm, we plan to
inseminate it shortly after sorting
to maximise its fertilising potential.
However, cryopreservation would be
of huge benefit for preserving and
transporting the sperm and this will
be the next step. We have already
identified some exciting new methods
for long term storage, some of which
we are developing ourselves.
When will it be available?
Work is underway on this exciting new
venture for Stallion AI services and
we fully expect to begin preliminary
insemination trials in the current
breeding season.
Do you ever worry about
“messing with nature”?
Assisted reproductive technologies have
developed at a rapid pace, particularly
over the last decade. This is largely
due to the commercial pressure of
breeding domestic species for large
scale export and a sharp rise in the
treatment of infertile or aging couples.
These technologies include those I have
spoken about and those that we are
employing in equine breeding already,
but also includes massive advances in
IVF techniques, pre-genetic screening,
cloning, time-lapse imaging of
embryos, conversion of stem cells into
sperm and eggs and even freeze-drying
of sperm and embryos.
It may sound like ‘weird science’ but
we are certainly not taking a maverick,
irresponsible approach, this isn’t
Jurassic Park! All of the techniques we
are now using are carefully scrutinised,
checked for safety and ethically
approved. These advanced techniques
merely involve improving outcomes
and do not involve any form of genetic
modification. My personal view is that
many of the techniques are merely
assisting breeders to improve their
overall efficiency and I believe this is a
great thing.
It was only a few years ago that
embryo transfer was perceived as
cutting edge, almost science fiction,
certainly pushing the boundaries not
only in terms of technologies, but
also ethically. Now ET has become
very much part of the mainstream in
breeding, and we are beginning to see
increasingly successful results in the
next level of breeding technologies
from egg harvesting and ICSI methods.
Remember Dolly the sheep, and the
reservations and concerns many of
us had about the ethics of producing
a clone of a living being? Here I am
today with a perfectly healthy clone
in Murka’s Gem standing at my own
facility adding to the many thousands
of other equine clones around the
world.
By harnessing these technologies, we
can potentially preserve genetics and
bloodlines that would otherwise be lost
forever. That is why I am so passionate
about our work with the Rare Breeds
Survival Trust and have even extended
my work into helping conserve other
species by collaborating with charities
like Chester Zoo. This is an initiative
that although not profitable for us
is hugely rewarding and incredibly
interesting.
Article by Eva-Maria Broomer
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