British Breeder Magazine November 2019

Studbook - NEWS
Mistrals Snow Fire
Our kind and efficient ANCCE-LGPRE
Grading delegate, Sñra Carmen
Saavedra, commented enthusiastically
on the high proportion of good quality
horses and the excellent training and
preparation of every horse examined.
Valle Aventura
Carmen has evaluated PREs all over
the world and said to the BAPSH
directors that she has never seen
such a universally good behaviour for
the measurements and movements
sections; high praise indeed.
Well-done everyone who prepared a
horse for this Basic Grading.
Mary McBryde
It has been a successful summer
for the purebred Spanish horse
with six delegates from the
Spanish studbook, ANCCE,
attending Hartpury College to
carry out the UK’s first ever
“calificado” grading.
An accolade awarded only to superior
examples of the breed - who must
have already obtained basic grading
status - 11 horses were assessed with
7 being approved (4 stallions and 3
mares) of which 3 were British bred.
The assessment for calificado status
involves a reproductive examination,
an evaluation of conformation,
movement and functionality
(a compulsory ridden test for stallions,
optional for mares) as well as an
X-ray exam to rule out OCD. There
are currently only 1,596 purebred
Spanish horses who hold calificado
status compared to a total population
of almost 250,000 purebred Spanish
horses, so it is a great achievement.
The youngest horse approved, 4yo
stallion Desperado PPD, owned and
bred by Karen Bourdon of Premier PRE
in Oxfordshire, is a son of Karen’s own
Inter I Spanish stallion Deseado CCV.
Deseado - a popular sire in the UK -
has competed in dressage successfully
nationally and internationally with
Alice Hurley and, more recently, with
Victor Alvarez of Spain. The 6yo mare
HF Cadazadora - owned and bred by
Stephanie Hurstfield - and 13yo mare
Primadonna - bred by Amanda Blake
and owned by Krissy Real, rounded
Desperado PPD
up the British bred successes at the
calificado grading. Greatest Hit, from
Germany where she had been graded
and awarded the coveted Staatspramie
(State Premium) accolade by the
Weser-Ems Studbook. Remarkably,
another of Greatest Hit’s progeny,
German born SPSS graded stallion
Chartstürmer WE (by Caramel FH)
was the 6 year old Reserve Champion.
Charti was ridden by Jennifer Ritchie
and is owned by her sister Ann-Marie
Manning who brought him to the UK
after his Weser-Ems
Following shortly after was the GBPRE
national championships which proved
to be another celebration of British
breeding. The studbook-affiliated
competition saw 5 of the 13 sections
won by British bred entrants with
Champion Colt, Reserve
Champion Filly, Reserve Champion
Mare, Reserve Champion Stallion and
Junior Movement Champion all being
obtained by British bred PRE horses.
The highest score of the competition
was obtained by 3yo PRE colt Bacchus
NSHL, bred and owned by Nadia Lister
and a son of the British-owned Grand
Prix Spanish stallion Guardadamas I,
owned by Naomi Vance-Webb. The
remaining national show and dressage
classes were widely supported with
British PRE, Fusion and Lusitano horses
obtaining top awards in the in-hand
PRE mares, novice ridden mares and
with many more accruing top scores in
both the MCI (Iberian dressage league)
as well as British Dressage classes.
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