22.02.2022 Views

British Breeder February 2022

British Breeder magazine is a must have for mare and stallion owners in the UK and for riders who love producing young horses. The much anticipated February edition profiles each stallion that was showcased at the Stallion Event, as well as featuring the British Breeding Futurity Awards and Equine Bridge all previewed ahead of the big event. Veterinary insights cover Ovum Pickup and Equine Viral Arteritis, whilst the Producer profile features Elite Dressage.

British Breeder magazine is a must have for mare and stallion owners in the UK and for riders who love producing young horses. The much anticipated February edition profiles each stallion that was showcased at the Stallion Event, as well as featuring the British Breeding Futurity Awards and Equine Bridge all previewed ahead of the big event. Veterinary insights cover Ovum Pickup and Equine Viral Arteritis, whilst the Producer profile features Elite Dressage.

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

BRITISH<br />

BREEDER<br />

<strong>February</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />

STALLION<br />

EVENT <strong>2022</strong><br />

Stallion Event:<br />

Stallion Profiles<br />

Futurity Awards<br />

Equine Bridge<br />

Vet Insight:<br />

Ovum Pickup<br />

Equine Viral Arteritis<br />

Producer Profile:<br />

Elite Dressage<br />

BRITISH BREEDER| 1


TRIED &<br />

TRUSTED<br />

FOR GENERATIONS<br />

PAYING ATTENTION TO THE DETAILS THAT COUNT<br />

Formulated to support correct growth and help achieve genetic potential<br />

Backed by unique hands-on practical knowledge and nutritional support<br />

MADE<br />

IN THE<br />

UK<br />

MADE IN<br />

OUR OWN<br />

UK MILL<br />

BAILEYS HORSE FEEDS - Racing Specialist - Simon Venner 07977 441 571 Tel: 01371 850 247<br />

www.baileyshorsefeeds.co.uk<br />

2 | BRITISH BREEDER<br />

EXPERTS IN STUD NUTRITION. For problem solving advice<br />

Tel: +44 (0)1371 850247 (option 2) nutrition@baileyshorsefeeds.co.uk www.baileyshorsefeeds.co.uk


<strong>February</strong> - Stallion Event Issue<br />

Welcome from the editor<br />

Cover<br />

Golden Hawk, ridden by Shane Breen,<br />

will feature at the Stallion Event.<br />

Production<br />

Designed and Produced by<br />

Horse IT Ltd & Solutions Website Design<br />

Subscriptions & Contacts<br />

If you would like to ensure you never miss a copy<br />

please contact: info@british-breeding to subscribe.<br />

Editorial:<br />

Rachael Holdsworth<br />

Email: rachael@holdsworthpr.co.uk<br />

Telephone: 01903 891637<br />

Advertising Sales:<br />

Contact: Sasha Melia: 07799 701521<br />

Email: britishbreeding@gmail.com<br />

Production:<br />

Jane Marson: jane@horseit.com<br />

Telephone: 01394 450850<br />

Legal Notice<br />

We have ensured to the best of our ability that at the<br />

time of going to print the information in this<br />

publication is up to date. All advertising and editorial<br />

content is supplied by third parties and all design and<br />

layout remains the property of <strong>British</strong> Breeding and<br />

cannot be reproduced in print, digital or any other<br />

format without advanced permission.<br />

Copyright All rights reserved. No part of this<br />

publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval<br />

system, transmitted, in any form or by any means,<br />

without the prior written permission of the copyright<br />

holder, <strong>British</strong> Breeding of Great Britain, nor be<br />

otherwise circulated in any form or binding or cover<br />

other than that in which it is published.<br />

Welcome to the stallion edition of <strong>British</strong><br />

<strong>Breeder</strong> magazine. As the breeding<br />

season gets underway, thoughts are<br />

turning to the decisions that need to<br />

be made and careful plans are being<br />

made for the next generation of sport<br />

horses.<br />

This issue is eagerly anticipated with<br />

such a wonderful selection of stallions<br />

showcased from across the disciplines<br />

and we look forward to meeting these<br />

super sires up close and personal at the<br />

Stallion Event.<br />

We are also looking forward to seeing<br />

the delightful selection of young horses<br />

forward for the Equine Bridge. This<br />

two-day performance evaluation gives<br />

young horses a chance to show their<br />

potential under saddle, with the top<br />

scorers in each discipline taking away a<br />

valuable £1000 bursary as well as<br />

discipline membership for a year.<br />

Contents<br />

4-8<br />

11<br />

12-16<br />

17<br />

18-27<br />

31-37<br />

38-39<br />

40-41<br />

42<br />

43<br />

44-45<br />

48-57<br />

58-59<br />

61-62<br />

66-67<br />

68<br />

69<br />

We are delighted to welcome Isobel<br />

Wessels to evaluate the dressage<br />

section, Darrell Scaife for the eventers<br />

and Philippa McKeever for the<br />

showjumpers, along with a first class<br />

veterinary and support team.<br />

We will celebrate the achievements of<br />

breeders during the 2021 Baileys<br />

Futurity Awards as they collect their<br />

coveted awards, and I am looking<br />

forward to the new addition to the<br />

programme, the Isobel Wessels<br />

dressage Masterclass, sponsored by<br />

the AES.<br />

Circumstances conspired, leading us<br />

to combine the Equine Bridge, Stallion<br />

Event and Baileys Futurity Awards into<br />

one event for the first time – an<br />

extravaganza for <strong>British</strong> breeders!<br />

Enjoy!<br />

Rachael.<br />

News<br />

Stallion Event Programme<br />

Dressage Stallions<br />

NPS Stallions<br />

Eventing Stallions<br />

Showjumping Stallions<br />

Futurity League Tables<br />

Baileys Horse Feeds Futurity Awards<br />

Certificates of Merit<br />

Equine Bridge Programme<br />

Producer Profile: Elite Dressage<br />

Studbook News<br />

Feature: Why Worry About Worming Youngstock?<br />

Feature: Equine Viral Arteritis<br />

Vet Insight: OPU<br />

Product Feature: Worming Foals<br />

Product Focus<br />

BRITISH BREEDER| 3


News<br />

The <strong>British</strong> Horse<br />

Foundation<br />

Seeks to advance<br />

equine breeding and<br />

welfare through<br />

research, education<br />

and collaboration.<br />

We are a conduit for collaboration<br />

between like-minded charities and<br />

organisations. We aim to facilitate<br />

research and education to help<br />

breeders make informed decisions<br />

which will result in the breeding of<br />

quality, fit for purpose youngstock,<br />

no matter the discipline or the<br />

level.<br />

We are currently collaborating with the<br />

following organisations: <strong>British</strong> Horse<br />

Society, 826 Equine studbook<br />

Association, <strong>British</strong> Breeding, Sport<br />

Horse Breeding Great Britain, <strong>British</strong><br />

Equine Veterinary Association, The<br />

Showing Council, World Horse Welfare,<br />

Saddle Research Trust and Thoroughbred<br />

<strong>Breeder</strong>s Association, among others.<br />

We are always on the look out for new<br />

collaborators to help us advance our<br />

mission so please get in contact if you<br />

are interested in working with us.<br />

BHF education projects:<br />

• West Nile Virus BEVA podcast,<br />

presented by Richard Newton<br />

• BHS Breeding challenge Awards<br />

• Pony Club breeding certificate (with<br />

the Pilkington Trust)<br />

BHF research projects:<br />

• Antimicrobial resistance in equine<br />

reproduction – Promoting best<br />

practice protocols for post-service<br />

uterine lavage (with Twemlows<br />

Stud)<br />

• Rider morphology and the impact of<br />

back conformation (breed/type)<br />

and saddle type on forces<br />

generated under the saddle (with<br />

the Saddle Research Trust)<br />

• Equine Wellbeing Index<br />

project (an international<br />

collaborative project under<br />

development)<br />

The <strong>British</strong> Horse Foundation -<br />

Advancing equine breeding and welfare<br />

through research and education.<br />

The <strong>British</strong> Horse Foundation is registered<br />

in the UK, charity number: 1003290.<br />

Address: Streethill Farm, Queniborough<br />

Road, Lowesby, Leicester, LE7 9DL.<br />

info@britishhorsefoundation.org.uk<br />

www.britishhorsefoundation.org.uk<br />

Equine Export<br />

Update<br />

From the 15th January <strong>2022</strong>, to<br />

export horses abroad you will<br />

require a CPH number. This CPH<br />

number will be required to be<br />

inputted on to the Defra Health<br />

Certificates issued by your official<br />

vet (OV).<br />

The form that will need to be completed<br />

and returned can be found courtesy of<br />

<strong>British</strong> Showjumping by following the link<br />

below, and should be returned to Equine.<br />

Registration@apha.gov.uk. CPH numbers<br />

should be received from Defra within 2-3<br />

days after submitting the form.<br />

Please note that this is a requirement from<br />

DEFRA and all forms, and any queries,<br />

should be sent to their email address.<br />

4 | BRITISH BREEDER


News<br />

Badminton Box<br />

Office Opens<br />

The countdown to Badminton<br />

begins now. The Box Office has<br />

opened for Badminton Horse Trials,<br />

bringing with it some New Year<br />

cheer and the promise of a thrilling<br />

return to top-class competition in<br />

Britain.<br />

There will not only be the opportunity to<br />

watch the Olympic and European<br />

champions in action on home ground, but<br />

also the very best international<br />

combinations vying to impress ahead<br />

of the World Championships in Italy in<br />

September.<br />

“Badminton means the world to riders, it’s<br />

our ‘Wimbledon’, the one everyone wants<br />

to win and we’re all so looking forward to<br />

having it back,” said Tom McEwen MBE.<br />

A major change for <strong>2022</strong> is that parking<br />

and admission tickets can only be bought<br />

in advance — there will be no tickets<br />

available at the gate. This includes<br />

Saturday’s Cross Country, when there will<br />

be improved new traffic access.<br />

Badminton’s new live-streaming service,<br />

will mean that everyone can keep up<br />

with the action whether attending as a<br />

spectator or watching from home. Now<br />

available for purchase via the Badminton<br />

TV page of the website for a discounted<br />

annual fee of £14.99; if purchased from<br />

1st April onwards the cost will be £19.99<br />

and, even if you are unable to watch it<br />

live, you won’t miss a beat of the action,<br />

as it will be possible to view on demand<br />

post-event.<br />

“We are hugely excited at the prospect<br />

of providing a wonderful five days of<br />

competition and seeing everyone back<br />

at Badminton again,” said Horse Trials<br />

Director Jane Tuckwell. “We know how<br />

much the event means to riders, owners,<br />

sponsors, trade stand holders and<br />

spectators, and we are doing our best to<br />

ensure everyone has a thoroughly<br />

enjoyable visit after a two-year-break.<br />

It should be a great celebration.”<br />

Tim Holderness Roddam<br />

Memorial Bursary<br />

Supporting <strong>British</strong> Bred Young Event<br />

Horses. <strong>British</strong> breeding were extremely<br />

proud to be named as a recipient of<br />

donations in memory of the late Tim<br />

Holderness Roddam. Tim was a<br />

passionate and knowledgeable<br />

advocate of eventing for many years,<br />

and a great supporter of <strong>British</strong><br />

Breeding.<br />

It was fitting that the fund should be<br />

used to support breeders of young sport<br />

horses and ponies. A JustGiving page<br />

was set up in Tim’s memory, and 100%<br />

of the funds will be used to support the<br />

further development of the top<br />

scoring event horse in the <strong>British</strong><br />

Breeding Equine Bridge young horse<br />

performance assessments. The top<br />

scoring event horse at the Equine<br />

Bridge on 11/12 <strong>February</strong> will receive<br />

a bursary of £1000 to be used to<br />

further develop their training.<br />

Scan the QR code below to donate.<br />

For tickets, visit<br />

www.badminton-horse.co.uk<br />

BRITISH BREEDER| 5


News<br />

Charley Hamilton wins SEIB Winter<br />

Novice Qualifier at Northcote Stud<br />

Charley Hamilton wins SEIB<br />

Winter Novice Qualifier at<br />

Northcote Stud in January.<br />

With a turn of speed, Charley Hamilton<br />

from Milltimber, Aberdeenshire claimed<br />

first place in the seventh SEIB Winter<br />

Novice Qualifier of the season held at<br />

Northcote Stud on Sunday, riding<br />

Caroline Ironside’s 6 year old chestnut<br />

mare, Loretta Blue MFS.<br />

Out of thirty-six starters, eighteen<br />

navigated a first round clear with just<br />

four going on to produce a double clear.<br />

Charley Hamilton rode a lightning fast<br />

round to stop the clock on her winning<br />

double clear in 28.80 seconds.<br />

MFS Loretta Blue (Zirocco Blue VDL<br />

x Goodtimes) is owned and bred by<br />

Caroline Ironside at MFS Stud Farm, a<br />

highly regarded sport horse breeding<br />

establishment breeding mainly KWPN,<br />

Oldenburg and Hanoverian dressage,<br />

showjumping and event horses. As a<br />

foal, Caroline described Loretta blue<br />

as “a phenomenal daughter of the<br />

International Grand Prix stallion<br />

ZIROCCO BLUE VDL. Her dam has<br />

produced numerous horses competing<br />

in both dressage and showjumping<br />

and comes from the amazing mare line<br />

of CORLAND VDL, one of the<br />

best Holstein mare lines. Her dam<br />

RETINA-S comes from a top<br />

showjumping breeder in Holland and<br />

the whole line is renowned for producing<br />

horses to the very highest levels in sport.<br />

Even at a young age this filly possesses<br />

all the attributes to make a top class<br />

showjumping horse and will make an<br />

exceptional addition to our breeding<br />

lines for the future”.<br />

The mare has already got a number of<br />

wins under her belt, including the 5 year<br />

old young horse qualifier at the Daimler<br />

Foundation at Morris Equestrian in July,<br />

as well as being placed in Newcomers<br />

classes with big double clears.<br />

“Delighted to watch this combination<br />

grow together”, commented Caroline on<br />

facebook.<br />

The stud is located in a beautiful part of<br />

the North East of Scotland, overlooking<br />

the Moray Firth/North Sea, and has<br />

bred Champion foals and youngstock<br />

that have topped the BEF Futurity, Annual<br />

Breed Shows, Young Horse<br />

Championships and County Shows in the<br />

UK and USA.<br />

Hot on their heels and taking the runner<br />

up spot was Jessica Quine and Lalu<br />

TW securing a double clear in 29.47<br />

second.<br />

National<br />

Equine Forum<br />

announces<br />

30th Birthday<br />

programme<br />

The National Equine Forum (NEF) has<br />

announced an exciting and practical<br />

programme to celebrate its 30th birthday<br />

in March <strong>2022</strong>. Currently the intention<br />

is to hold a hybrid event at the Institution<br />

of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), with<br />

a reduced number of attendees and<br />

the opportunity for others to join via the<br />

livestreaming, on Thursday 3rd March<br />

<strong>2022</strong>.<br />

The day will include a special celebratory<br />

review of the past 30 years of NEF<br />

as well as consideration of what the<br />

next 30 years may have in store. Other<br />

highlights include a debate on workforce<br />

sustainability within the equine sector,<br />

Defra’s view of the industry, a look at<br />

equine herd health status and the latest<br />

on anthelmintic resistance.<br />

6 | BRITISH BREEDER<br />

Tim Brigstocke, Chairman of the NEF<br />

said: “In this, our 30th year, and a time<br />

at which the industry continues to face<br />

challenges imposed by the pandemic,<br />

we have tried to cover important<br />

practical issues within the sector as well<br />

as sharing the latest knowledge and<br />

news. We hope the day will be<br />

engaging, informative and fun and that<br />

our hybrid format will once again<br />

broaden our reach around the globe.”<br />

The Equine Industry in a Changing<br />

World will include contributions from<br />

The Rt Hon Lord Benyon, Parliamentary<br />

Under Secretary of State, Defra, Robert<br />

Huey, Chief Veterinary Officer Northern<br />

Ireland Executive and Dr Martin Blake,<br />

Chief Veterinary Officer, Department<br />

of Agriculture, Food and the Marine,<br />

Ireland.<br />

Equine Health will see David Mountford,<br />

Chair of the <strong>British</strong> Horse Council and Dr<br />

Richard Newton discussing topical<br />

aspects of disease prevention and<br />

control.<br />

Workforce sustainability in the equine<br />

sector will deliver a real-world insight<br />

into the roles of humans and horses with<br />

contributions from the <strong>British</strong> Grooms<br />

Association, the Equestrian Employers<br />

Association, the racing industry and<br />

riding schools, along with equestrian<br />

colleges and universities. The session<br />

will close with a panel discussion and<br />

questions from the audience.<br />

Equine anthelmintic resistance will take<br />

a detailed look at the growing threat of<br />

resistance to the equine wormers that we<br />

have available with presentations from<br />

Dr Claire Stratford and Dr Alison Pyatt at<br />

the Veterinary Medicines<br />

Directorate. The responsibilities of<br />

owners, vets, and RAMAs/SQPs in<br />

helping to slow resistance will then be<br />

discussed, with the inclusion of case<br />

studies and opportunities for delegate<br />

participation via Slido.<br />

Breeding changes in the last 30 years<br />

will be explored by Tullis Matson in the<br />

Memorial lecture. The day will close<br />

with the announcement of the Sir Colin<br />

Spedding Award <strong>2022</strong> winner.<br />

Q&A opportunities have been built in<br />

at the end of all the main sessions to<br />

give the audience a chance to engage<br />

with the discussions. Questions can be<br />

submitted quickly and easily via Slido<br />

from Monday 28 <strong>February</strong> <strong>2022</strong>. You<br />

can find out more on the NEF website<br />

https://www.nationalequineforum.<br />

com/forum-<strong>2022</strong>/<br />

Tickets to the livestream are<br />

available now via the NEF website.


Maximise<br />

FOR ALL STALLIONS<br />

Proven to help achieve marginal gains<br />

for both natural coverings and AI collections<br />

Address Motility | Target Sperm Production | Support Libido<br />

7yr old PREMIUM GRADED SPORT HORSE STALLION<br />

“This transformed the quality of his semen from hopeless<br />

to freezing quality and all mares in foal on first covering.”<br />

20yr old ADVANCED EVENT HORSE<br />

“The semen had 30% increased motility.<br />

Five Star Fertility worked well and enabled<br />

us to get more concentrated semen.”<br />

5yr old YOUNG HORSE CHAMPION SHOWJUMPER<br />

“Without Five Star Fertility he did not product good<br />

enough sperm to freeze at all, motility was very poor.<br />

On Fertility we are able to freeze semen<br />

and it has good motility.”<br />

10yr old LICENSED TRADITIONAL GYPSY COB<br />

“He showed increased vigour and stamina during the time<br />

he was fed the supplement, both in terms of his work and<br />

breeding. In addition there was a marked difference in the<br />

production of progressively motile sperm cells compared<br />

to the previous year.”<br />

“AFTER WITNESSING THE RESULTS FIRST HAND,<br />

WE RECOMMEND FOR ALL STALLIONS<br />

AS A MATTER OF COURSE”<br />

TULLIS MATSON<br />

AVAILABLE DIRECTLY FROM STALLION AI SERVICES.<br />

For further information please contact NAF using our<br />

FREE Nutritional Advice Line<br />

Call 0800 373 106 or email info@naf-uk.com<br />

naf-equine.eu/uk<br />

BRITISH BREEDER| 7


News<br />

Equestrian sport named in<br />

Olympic programme for<br />

Los Angeles 2028<br />

digital platforms. This significant and<br />

rapid growth in the change of the digital<br />

landscape, meant more fans were able<br />

to experience the Games, with greater<br />

accessibility to more content than ever<br />

before.<br />

The FEI President has welcomed<br />

the announcement by the<br />

International Olympic Committee<br />

(IOC) that equestrian sport will<br />

be proposed for inclusion in the<br />

Olympic programme for the Los<br />

Angeles 2028 Games.<br />

During the IOC Executive Board meeting<br />

in December, the initial list of<br />

twenty-eight sports to be recommended<br />

the LA28 Initial Sports Programme, which<br />

includes equestrian, was agreed and is<br />

now subject to final approval at the IOC<br />

Session in <strong>February</strong> <strong>2022</strong>. Discussions<br />

also focussed on defining the process for<br />

finalising the disciplines in each sport<br />

offering early certainty to athletes,<br />

National Olympic Committees (NOCs),<br />

International Federations (IFs) and the<br />

Organising Committee for the Olympic<br />

Games (OCOG).<br />

Universality, integrity and fairness,<br />

gender equality and popularity were<br />

highlighted as key requirements of the<br />

evaluation criteria which will be used to<br />

determine the disciplines and events for<br />

the programme. Athlete safety,<br />

environmental sustainability and keeping<br />

the sport relevant to youth were also<br />

reiterated as significant factors.<br />

“I am confident equestrian sport, a<br />

celebration of the unique bond between<br />

human and equine athletes, has its place<br />

in the Los Angeles 2028<br />

Olympic Games programme”, FEI<br />

President Ingmar De Vos said.<br />

The IOC also published figures in<br />

December which revealed the Tokyo<br />

2020 Games reached a global<br />

broadcast audience of more than three<br />

billion people across linear TV and<br />

“We need to guarantee global visibility<br />

of our sport in the media and digital<br />

platforms, and continue to showcase<br />

relevant content and entice new fans.<br />

We have this opportunity every four<br />

years and consolidating equestrian sport<br />

in the Olympic Movement is crucial for<br />

the FEI and for our community” FEI<br />

President Ingmar De Vos continued.<br />

“Another key focus for the FEI is Youth<br />

development. Keeping the youth<br />

engaged in equestrian sport and<br />

inspiring new generations to make the<br />

Olympic Games their goal. We have<br />

robust development programmes around<br />

the world targeting the next generation<br />

of athletes, but also fans and industry<br />

professionals, because equestrian sport<br />

is a way of life that is multifaceted and<br />

extremely diverse.”<br />

The approval of the Initial Sports<br />

Programme will take place in <strong>February</strong><br />

<strong>2022</strong> and the finalisation of the events<br />

and athlete quota will be confirmed in<br />

December 2024, following the Olympic<br />

Games Paris 2024.<br />

Using the wrong<br />

wormer can<br />

increase the risk<br />

of potentially<br />

fatal disease<br />

Zoetis Inc. is advising horse<br />

owners to ensure they use a<br />

wormer that is indicated to treat<br />

encysted small redworm this<br />

winter.<br />

“You may think any wormer will do for<br />

the treatment of the dangerous encysted<br />

small redworm but using one that does<br />

not specifically treat the encysted stages<br />

during late autumn or winter can actually<br />

increase the risk of a horse with a high<br />

encysted small redworm burden<br />

developing larval cyathostominosis,<br />

which can be fatal,” explains Zoetis vet<br />

Wendy Talbot.<br />

All horses of more than six months of age<br />

should be blood tested by a vet to<br />

determine the presence of an encysted<br />

small redworm burden or treated with a<br />

wormer that is licensed to treat<br />

encysted small redworm in autumn/<br />

winter, regardless of their faecal worm<br />

egg count.<br />

“It’s imperative that the wormer used is<br />

indicated for encysted small redworm,”<br />

advises Wendy. “This is because wormers<br />

such as those containing ivermectin,<br />

pyrantel or single dose fenbendazole<br />

will remove the adult stages of small<br />

redworm from the gut which then leaves<br />

room for the encysted stages in the gut<br />

wall to emerge and take their place. It<br />

is this en masse emergence which can<br />

cause severe damage to the gut resulting<br />

in clinical signs such as diarrhoea, colic<br />

and even death”<br />

Moxidectin is the only active ingredient<br />

licensed to treat encysted small redworm<br />

in a single dose. Because moxidectin<br />

acts against the encysted stages before<br />

they have a chance to emerge, it is less<br />

likely that larvae in the gut wall will be<br />

able to cause this effect.<br />

A five-day course of fenbendazole is<br />

also licensed to treat encysted small<br />

redworm but there is widespread<br />

evidence of small redworm resistance<br />

to fenbendazole, including the five-day<br />

dose so a resistance test is<br />

recommended before using it.<br />

“A practical and cost-effective solution<br />

to targeting parasites of concern over<br />

winter, may be to combine a bot treatment<br />

with encysted small redworm and<br />

tapeworm treatments using a single dose<br />

of moxidectin and praziquantel,” says<br />

Wendy.<br />

Always seek advice from your vet or<br />

medicines prescriber.<br />

For further information contact your<br />

Zoetis Account Manager or Zoetis on<br />

customer supportUK@zoetis.com or<br />

0845 300 8034.<br />

8 | BRITISH BREEDER


OUR SCIENCE, YOUR SUCCESS<br />

OPTIMISE BREEDING POTENTIAL WITH THE POWER OF UBIQUINOL (COQ10)<br />

Provides a natural source of<br />

Ubiquinol (CoQ10), Vitamin E and<br />

organic Selenium Yeast to help<br />

support maintained semen quality<br />

throughout the breeding season.<br />

FEATURES & BENEFITS<br />

• A natural source of Ubiquinol (CoQ10)<br />

A potent antioxidant and vital coenzyme<br />

included to combat damaging oxidative<br />

stress known to have detrimental effects on<br />

sperm cells.<br />

• Vitamin E and organic Selenium Yeast<br />

A combination of antioxidants especially<br />

important for sperm motility and<br />

semen quality.<br />

• L-Lysine<br />

An essential amino acid to support sperm<br />

health, maximise muscle function and<br />

recovery for stallions with a high workload.<br />

Delivers a natural source of Ubiquinol<br />

(CoQ10) and a protected source<br />

of Omega 3, added Vitamin E and<br />

organic Selenium Yeast to provide<br />

ideal support for mares in preparation<br />

for covering and during early gestation.<br />

FEATURES & BENEFITS<br />

• A natural source of Ubiquinol (CoQ10)<br />

A potent antioxidant and coenzyme required<br />

for the production of cellular energy, especially<br />

important for oocyte metabolism.<br />

• Vitamin E and organic Selenium Yeast<br />

A combination of antioxidants, critical for<br />

colostrum and milk quality. Proven to combat<br />

damaging oxidative stress known to have a<br />

detrimental effect on fertility.<br />

• Micro-encapsulated Omega 3<br />

Protected to support increased bio-availability.<br />

Beneficial fatty acids act as natural<br />

anti-inflammatory to support the reproductive<br />

and immune systems.<br />

CONTACT OUR<br />

SPECIALIST TEAM:<br />

UK: Adam Johnson T: +44 7860 771063<br />

Ire: Lorraine Fradl T: +353 87 2575398<br />

Email: info@foranequine.com<br />

www.foranequine.com<br />

#OURSCIENCEYOURSUCCESS<br />

BRITISH BREEDER| 9


Avant Techno (UK) Ltd<br />

sales@avant.co.uk<br />

The perfect little helper for any task<br />

avant.co.uk<br />

10 | BRITISH BREEDER


Stallion Event <strong>2022</strong><br />

STALLION<br />

EVENT <strong>2022</strong><br />

Programme - Main Arena<br />

Thanks to our Sponsors<br />

Welcome to this magnificent selection of stallions from across<br />

the disciplines.<br />

• 9.30am<br />

• 10.30am<br />

• To follow<br />

• To follow<br />

• To Follow<br />

• To follow<br />

• To Follow<br />

• 4pm approx<br />

• Followed by<br />

Tradestands<br />

- Final assessment of Equine Bridge Eventers<br />

- Eventing Stallions<br />

- Final assessment of Equine Bridge Showjumpers<br />

- Showjumping Stallions<br />

- Final assessment of Equine Bridge Dressage<br />

- Dressage Stallions<br />

- Equine Bridge presentations<br />

- Baileys Horse Feeds Futurity Awards<br />

- Presentation of Competition Stallions Awards<br />

• AES<br />

• Baileys Horse Feeds<br />

• Clements Equine/Rossdales sharing<br />

• Elite Stallions<br />

• Equine Register<br />

• Twemlows<br />

• Equitrace - new breeding app being launched<br />

• Protexin<br />

• SPSS<br />

• SHBGB<br />

• Bolesworth<br />

Become a VIP<br />

Fancy an upgrade? Our VIP ticket offers you fabulous<br />

viewing of the event from the comfort of our VIP area,<br />

plus hot lunch and unlimited tea and coffee.<br />

Visit the front desk to upgrade your ticket.<br />

The VIP area is kindly sponsored by e-Vet.<br />

BRITISH BREEDER| 11


DRESSAGE STALLIONS<br />

In Association with<br />

Bathleyhills Monet<br />

1<br />

2009 Palomino<br />

Sports Pony - Dressage<br />

Bathleyhills Monet is a superb<br />

stamp of a modern sports pony with<br />

fabulous uphill moment, excellent<br />

conformation, a superb temperament<br />

and an air of elegance about him.<br />

He has fantastic German bloodlines<br />

as well as possessing the "cream"<br />

gene so his progeny could also be<br />

palomino or buckskin. As a yearling,<br />

Monet was awarded an Elite premium<br />

at the BEF Futurity receiving highest<br />

placed yearling, alongside taking<br />

Reserve Champion of The National<br />

<strong>British</strong> Palomino Show then as two<br />

year old, he was Reserve Champion<br />

at the SPSS Stallion Grading. As a 5<br />

year old, he competed successfully in<br />

BD Open Novice classes, with a win,<br />

a number of 2nds and 3rds as well as<br />

a score of over 74%.<br />

This year he has been accepted into<br />

South Notts Pony Club with praise<br />

from the District Commission on his<br />

exceptional manners. He has since<br />

competed in Area competitions for<br />

the South Notts. Travelling on a full<br />

lorry to all competitions<br />

Height: 14.2hh (168cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.52<br />

Stud Book: Wesser-EMS<br />

Grading: SPSS<br />

Availability: Fresh/Chiilled<br />

Stud Fee: £400 no vat<br />

Stands At: Bathley Hill Farm Stud<br />

Contact: Penny Walster<br />

Tel: 07753445614<br />

Email: billybushfire@aol.com<br />

Website: www. bathleyhillfarmlivery.com<br />

Casino Royale K<br />

Mona<br />

FS Champion de Luxe<br />

Raffaela K<br />

Matcho<br />

Reviera<br />

FS Cocky Dundee<br />

FS Golden Fleur<br />

Top Nonstop<br />

Rosepark Prelude<br />

Merlan<br />

Lucie<br />

Silvertop's Ricco<br />

Nevada<br />

Blue Hors Zackorado<br />

2<br />

2016 Black<br />

Dressage<br />

Zackorado is a very attractive stallion<br />

with a super temperament. He was<br />

crowned Champion Stallion at<br />

the stallion licensing in 2018, and<br />

in 2019 he completed his 14-day<br />

performance test with a total score of<br />

8.34 points. Zackorado was placed<br />

second at the mid-selection for 4y/o<br />

dressage horses in 2020 with the<br />

marks: 8.8 for canter, 9.0 for walk,<br />

9.0 for rideability, and 9.3 for trot.<br />

This exciting stallion offers a pedigree<br />

that combines the best of Dutch and<br />

German dressage horse breeding<br />

through iconic sires such as Ferro<br />

and Jazz on his paternal side, and<br />

Florestan, Weltmeyer and Donnerhall<br />

on the maternal side.<br />

His own sire needs no introduction;<br />

Blue Hors Zack's career launched<br />

when he was just three years old<br />

as a champion stallion at the Dutch<br />

stallion licensing and since has been<br />

used extensively as breeding stallion.<br />

Alongside his incredible breeding<br />

duties, Zack has represented<br />

Denmark in various international<br />

competitions including the 2020<br />

Olympics in Tokyo.<br />

Height: 16.3hh (170cm)<br />

Stud Book: Oldenberg<br />

Grading: SWB, HANN, OLDBG, WESTF, ZfdP<br />

Availability: Chilled<br />

Stud Fee: £1000 + vat<br />

Stands At: Elite Stallions<br />

Contact: Lorna Wilson<br />

Tel: 01837880100 / 07969202174<br />

Email: info@ elitestallions.co.uk<br />

Website: www.elitestallions.co.uk<br />

Blue Horse Zack<br />

Roxanna<br />

Rousseau<br />

Orona<br />

Florencio I<br />

Rosanna<br />

Ferro<br />

Zsuzsa<br />

Jazz<br />

Karona<br />

Florestan I<br />

Walessa<br />

Donnerhall<br />

Rosalie<br />

Debutantes Dream<br />

Debutantes Dream ‘Dex’ is a young<br />

dressage stallion who is rising seven.<br />

He has recently licensed with the<br />

Anglo European Stud Book. He was<br />

the first licensed son of Shamwari<br />

Debonair.<br />

He has a beautiful kind temperament<br />

and a wonderful family line.<br />

His father is Shamwari Debonair who<br />

3<br />

in 2014 achieved 1st place at the<br />

Badminton Young Dressage Horse<br />

Championships and 3rd place in the<br />

Shearwater National Championships<br />

at Stonleigh. Debonair’s sire is De<br />

Niro. Debonair’s mother Show Hit<br />

is an Elite and State Premium Mare<br />

with 5 generations of State Premium<br />

Mares in her line.<br />

Dex’s mother is Woodlander Dixie<br />

Chick who has 52 state premium<br />

mares in her motherline. Dixie’s<br />

father Woodlander Del Amitri has<br />

produced a number of offspring who<br />

have performed well with their<br />

dressage careers. 5 grand prix<br />

stallions are in his family line namely<br />

Dimaggio, De Niro, Donnerhall,<br />

Olympic Cocktail and Sandro Hit.<br />

2015 Chestnut<br />

Larkshill Debonair<br />

Woodlander Dixie<br />

Chick<br />

DE Niro<br />

Showgirl<br />

Woodlander Del Amitri<br />

Wanda<br />

Dressage<br />

Height: 16.1hh (165cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.96<br />

Stud Book: WBS-UK<br />

Grading: AES<br />

Availability: Fresh / Chilled<br />

Stud Fee: £600 no vat<br />

Stands At: Bramble Stud, Newfield Farm, Bucks. MK16 9JD<br />

Contact: Liz Ball<br />

Tel: 07979345709<br />

Email:bramblestud@bramblestud.com<br />

Website: www.bramblestud.com<br />

Donnerhall<br />

Alicante<br />

Showstar<br />

Pagera 3<br />

Dimaggio<br />

Happy Girl<br />

Wittinger<br />

Carmen<br />

12 | BRITISH BREEDER


DRESSAGE STALLIONS<br />

Sponsored by<br />

Diamond Cut II<br />

Diamond Cut is a ten-year-old<br />

Oldenburg licensed Dressage<br />

stallion. Diamond Cut has an<br />

exceptional temperament and three<br />

top paces including a huge walk<br />

and a sensational canter. He has<br />

an impressive pedigree sired by<br />

Diamond Hit who has bred many<br />

top horses up to International Grand<br />

4<br />

Prix level including the fantastic<br />

stallion Delicato. Diamond Hit himself<br />

was World Reserve Champion in<br />

2012 and competed at Grand Prix.<br />

Diamond Cut has been with his<br />

current rider Natalie Allen based in<br />

Warwickshire for two years and they<br />

have been very successful achieving<br />

3rd at the Regional Championships<br />

with over 70 per cent. He has<br />

qualified for this year’s Regional<br />

Finals at Medium level and has an<br />

excellent competition record of 70<br />

per cent plus scores. He recently<br />

started competing at Advanced<br />

Medium level and has started training<br />

piaffe,passage and tempi changes<br />

showing he has all the potential to go<br />

to Grand Prix level.<br />

2011 Bay<br />

Diamond Hit<br />

Wolke<br />

Don Schufro<br />

Loretta<br />

Wolkenstein II<br />

Ellen<br />

Dressage<br />

Height: 16.1hh (165cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.102<br />

Stud Book: Old<br />

Grading: BWBS/AES<br />

Stud Fee: £800 inc vat<br />

Availability: Frozen<br />

Stands At: Edge Hill Stud, Warwickshire.<br />

Contact: Natalie Allen<br />

Tel: 07748 125217<br />

Email: natalie@natalieallen.com<br />

Website: www.natalieallen.com<br />

Donnerhall<br />

Fiesta<br />

Ramino<br />

Lassie<br />

Welstmeyer<br />

Wolke<br />

Eldorado<br />

Orbtrud<br />

First Words<br />

First Words aka Picachoo is a young<br />

dressage stallion who is rising five.<br />

He is licensed with the WBS-UK. He<br />

obtained an Elite award at <strong>British</strong><br />

Breeding Futurity.<br />

His sire For Romance I is the VTV<br />

Oldenburg Dressage Stallion of the<br />

Year 2019 for his outstanding<br />

achievements in breeding and sport .<br />

First Words has inherited his sire’s<br />

lovely face, his outstanding typical<br />

5<br />

beauty, his elegance, and his<br />

rideability. He is very easy to handle.<br />

He will be competing under saddle<br />

in <strong>2022</strong><br />

First words has a beautiful<br />

temperament and very good work<br />

ethic. His paces are extremely<br />

powerful, uphill and rhythmical. He is<br />

very intelligent and wants to please.<br />

At his licensing he was described<br />

as an elegant modern riding horse<br />

which we think admirably describes<br />

him.<br />

First Words’ mother West End Diva<br />

qualified for the Equine Bridge and<br />

she is graded Elite with the<br />

WBS-UK of which only 2% of mares<br />

achieve such grading.<br />

2017 Black<br />

For Ramance I<br />

West End Diva<br />

Fuerst Romancier<br />

Gesina<br />

Wavavoom<br />

Woodlander Dixie Chick<br />

Dressage<br />

Height: 16.2hh (168cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.120<br />

Stud Book: WBS-UK<br />

Grading: WBS-UK<br />

Stud Fee: £600 + vat<br />

Availability: Fresh/Chilled<br />

Stands At: Bramble Stud, Newfield Farm, Bucks, MK16 9JD<br />

Contact: Liz Ball<br />

Tel: 07979345709<br />

Email: bramblestud@bramblestud.com<br />

Website: www.bramblestud.com<br />

Fuerst Heinrich<br />

Ronja<br />

Sir Donnerhall I<br />

Gesine<br />

Weltregent H<br />

Lousiana<br />

Woodlander Del Amitri<br />

Wanda<br />

Lestingdale VS<br />

6<br />

2016 Black<br />

Dressage<br />

Lestingdale VS (Loki) is an elegant,<br />

striking homozygous black stallion<br />

who turns heads wherever he goes.<br />

He has the most wonderful, kind<br />

temperament along with excellent<br />

conformation and eye-catching<br />

movement. He is exceptionally well<br />

bred, sired by non-other than the<br />

famous FEI 7-year old World<br />

Champion, Glamourdale.<br />

Often described as the ‘<strong>British</strong><br />

Glamourdale’ Loki boasts an<br />

incredible uphill, powerful canter, an<br />

expressive trot with good scope and<br />

an active, clear walk.<br />

He is proving to be very trainable<br />

and willing under saddle. In just a few<br />

outings he was crowned Nexgen 4yo<br />

YH Champion at Hickstead with a<br />

score of 7.96.<br />

He also came 2nd in the Shearwater<br />

4yo YH qualifier with a fabulous<br />

score of 8.4.<br />

Loki is based with his rider Elly<br />

Darling and is currently training<br />

elementary at home.<br />

Height: 16.3hh (170cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.184<br />

Stud Book: BWBS<br />

Grading: AES<br />

Test: WFFS negative, Homozygous Black Availability: Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £800 + vat<br />

Stands At: Clements Equine, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP31 1AB<br />

Contact: Zoe Kirkpatrick<br />

Tel: 07817627946 / 07792580708<br />

Email: enquiries@heartbreakerstud.com & info@clementsequine.com<br />

Facebook: www.facebook.com/lestingdale<br />

Glamourdale<br />

C'est Fury<br />

Lord Leatherdale<br />

Thuja<br />

Sorento<br />

Naomi<br />

Lord Loxley<br />

Fairless P<br />

Negro<br />

Jasmijn<br />

Sandro Hit<br />

Dien Liebling<br />

Ulft<br />

Evelineke<br />

BRITISH BREEDER| 13


DRESSAGE STALLIONS<br />

In Association with<br />

Lollipop Dance<br />

7<br />

2016 Dark Brown<br />

Dressage<br />

Lollipop aka Whinney is a young<br />

dressage stallion who is rising six. He<br />

is licensed with the BWB.<br />

He has the Olympic bloodlines of<br />

Uthopia, Ferro and Cocktail in his<br />

pedigree along with Jazz who is<br />

ranked the world number 1 dressage<br />

sire for 2019.<br />

Lollipop has a beautiful temperament<br />

with a very good work ethic. He is a<br />

very kind horse.<br />

His paces are extremely powerful<br />

and rhythmical. He is very intelligent<br />

and wants to please. Lollipop has<br />

inherited his sire Uthopia’s natural<br />

activity in the hind leg with a great<br />

canter and rideability.<br />

He is a sensible ride which makes him<br />

an absolute pleasure to work with. He<br />

will be competing under<br />

saddle in <strong>2022</strong>.<br />

All of his offspring he has sired to<br />

date are refined with a good hind leg<br />

action, good length of stride and<br />

have fantastic temperaments. Thise<br />

who have attended the BB Futurity<br />

have all achieved a Gold award.<br />

We believe he is an outstanding<br />

offspring of Uthopia who Carl Hester<br />

competed in the London Olympics.<br />

Height: 16.2hh (168cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.186<br />

Stud Book: WBS-UK<br />

Grading: WBS-UK<br />

Availability: Fresh/Chiilled<br />

Stud Fee: £650 no vat<br />

Stands At: Bramble Stud, Chicheley, Bucks, MK16 9JD<br />

Contact: Liz Ball<br />

Tel: 07919 345709<br />

Email: bramblestud@bramblestud.com<br />

Website: www.bramblestud.com<br />

Uthopia<br />

Gallia<br />

Metall<br />

Odelia<br />

Amoureux<br />

S.Renida<br />

Ferro<br />

Edelweis<br />

Inspekteur<br />

Fresula<br />

Saros Van T’Gestelhof<br />

Ruby<br />

Jazz<br />

Gerida II<br />

Mick<br />

8<br />

2017 Chestnut<br />

Dressage<br />

Mick's pedigree brings an<br />

outstanding cocktail of some of<br />

Holland's most successful breeding<br />

lines. His sire Apache is an extremely<br />

interesting stallion. His exceptional<br />

breeding record led to him being<br />

awarded the status of "preferential"<br />

sire by the KWPN, the highest<br />

accolade the studbook offers for<br />

its stallions. He brings the blood<br />

of UB40 and Krack C. His KWPN<br />

breeding value for dressage is 154<br />

with a reliability of 95%.<br />

Famously, of course, he is the sire of<br />

Charlotte Dujardin's former Olympic<br />

ride Gio whose ascent to Grand Prix<br />

level at a young age is testimony to<br />

the exceptional ability this stallion<br />

produces. He is also the sire of the<br />

double World Breeding Champion<br />

Jovian whose performance at Verden<br />

in 2021 was breathtaking. Mick's<br />

mother Rozimone has an exceptional<br />

and prolific breeding record. She is<br />

the dam of two PSG/Inter I horses<br />

already in Gibson and Farewell and<br />

another licensed stallion in D'Joep.<br />

Her sire, the legendary Ferro, needs<br />

no introduction. It is very exciting to<br />

be able to offer this young stallion.<br />

Height: 16.1hh (165cm)<br />

Stud Book: KWPN<br />

Grading: Licensed AES & <strong>Breeder</strong>s Elite<br />

Availability: Chilled/Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £450<br />

Stands At: Aike Grange Stud, Driffield. YO25 9BG<br />

Contact: Jenny Lyon<br />

Tel: 01377 271271/07801922331<br />

Email: aikegrangestud@outlook.com<br />

Website: www.aikegrangestud.co.uk<br />

Apache<br />

Rozimone<br />

UB40<br />

Tolanda<br />

Ferro<br />

Zimone<br />

Olivi<br />

Kilucienne<br />

Krack C<br />

Olanda<br />

Ulft<br />

Brenda<br />

Roemer<br />

Simone<br />

Multicouture<br />

9<br />

2015 Perlino Tobiano<br />

Dressage<br />

Multicouture (aka Gucci) is an<br />

incredible AES and SPSS Approved<br />

Perlino Tobiano Warmblood stallion.<br />

He has fabulous confirmation, an<br />

amazing nature with an outstanding<br />

colour which guarantess a dilute foal<br />

every time with a 50/50 chance of<br />

the foal being tobiano.<br />

Gucci impressed the judges at<br />

his Grading with his expressive,<br />

balanced and powerful canter along<br />

with an oustanding trot for which he<br />

received a score of 9 with both AES &<br />

SPSS judges.<br />

Height: 15.3hh (160cm)<br />

Stud Book: AES<br />

Grading: AES/SPSS/<strong>British</strong> Palomino Society<br />

Test: WFFS negative<br />

Availability: Fresh / Chilled / Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £500 no vat Frozen<br />

Stands At: Penmawddwy Stud, Machynlleth, Wales & Stallion AI Services<br />

Contact: Bianca Hill<br />

Tel: 07951822063<br />

Email: penmawddwystud@gmail.com<br />

Multicolor II<br />

Viranda<br />

Desnudo<br />

Salerosa XI<br />

Karlstadt<br />

Reanda B<br />

Ulema 1978<br />

Tecnica<br />

Furioso XVII<br />

Mejicana XV<br />

Ramiro Z<br />

Chianti<br />

Modern<br />

Eranda<br />

14 | BRITISH BREEDER


Worried About Brexit - then use <strong>British</strong> Based<br />

Proven performance breeding for over 60 years of horses to suit all capabilities of rider and disciplines<br />

Timolin<br />

16.3hh Bay WBS-UK, AES & SHB-GB Graded. WFFS Free<br />

Stud FEE £1,000<br />

Winner Intermedaire 1 Dressage – Intermediate Eventer<br />

– 30%+ TB blood Sire of Champion & Elite youngstock<br />

Winning Novice Dressage as 4 year olds<br />

Tiger Attack<br />

16.1hh Bay SHB-GB Graded<br />

Stud FEE £800<br />

Show Horse Champion & Sire of Champions<br />

Eventing, Dressage, SJ & WH winner<br />

– Sire of winners under saddle<br />

Catherston Oakley<br />

16.2hh Bay SHB-GB Premium Graded. WFFS Free<br />

Stud FEE £600 (100% Fertility in 2020)<br />

"Intermediate Eventer – over 44% TB blood<br />

Littledale Bright Star<br />

12.2hh Bay SPSS Elite<br />

Stud FEE £360<br />

Sire of CDIP, CSI & CCI stock<br />

All beautiful movers & jumpers<br />

Opposition Bombshell<br />

16hh Black AES Licensed. WFFS Free<br />

Stud FEE £360<br />

Sire of winning Dressage, Event & Show horses,<br />

great power & wonderful temperaments<br />

All of these Dual Purpose Stallions should produce stock for competing in all disciplines.<br />

Frozen semen available from Dutch Gold, Catherston Dazzler, Catherston Goldstorm, Catherston Springsteen<br />

Please contact Anne Dicker or Jennie Loriston-Clarke, Catherston Stud, Croft Farm,<br />

Over Wallop, Stockbridge, Hampshire SO20 8HX Tel. 01264 782716 or<br />

e-mail enquiries@catherstonstud.com or at www.catherstonstud.com<br />

BRITISH BREEDER| 15


DRESSAGE STALLIONS<br />

In Association with<br />

Myspires Fider Hit<br />

Myspires Fider Hit is a stallion who<br />

truly melts every heart that comes into<br />

contact with him. Like a magnet<br />

he draws you into his charming,<br />

gentleman ways, with the most<br />

wonderful temperament making him a<br />

true pleasure to be around and enjoy!<br />

A young stallion who brings with<br />

him huge amounts of elegance and<br />

poise in the arena, with Rideability<br />

and willingness to match his super<br />

10<br />

temperament. He’s short coupled, has<br />

a big over stepping walk which<br />

scored him 9, alongside a 9 for his<br />

trot at the Futurity's. He is light footed<br />

and supple with an active, very<br />

athletic, uphill trot and canter showing<br />

lots of suspension, energy and ground<br />

cover. Has competed with numerous<br />

WINS and scores of over 74%<br />

Novice with Amy Woodhead, was<br />

about to go Elementary until covid so<br />

concentrated on his stud duties for the<br />

rest of 2020.<br />

He moved residence to the Aike<br />

Grange Stud in late 2021 from where<br />

he will be re-commencing his<br />

competing season this year.<br />

All ready a sire of multiple Elite and<br />

Gold foals at Futurity.<br />

2014 Black<br />

Fidertanz<br />

Veronica<br />

Fidermark I<br />

Reine Freude<br />

Sandro Hit<br />

Version<br />

Dressage<br />

Height: 16.2hh (167cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.194<br />

Stud Book: WBS-UK<br />

Grading: WBS-UK<br />

Test: WFFS negative, Homozygous black Availability: Fresh/Chilled/Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £500<br />

Stands At: Aike Grange Stud, Driffield, YO25 9BG<br />

Contact: Jenny Lyon<br />

Tel: 01377 271271/07801922331<br />

Email: aikegrangestud@outlook.com<br />

Website: www.aikegrangestud.co.uk<br />

Florestan I<br />

Watonga<br />

Ravallo<br />

Fruehlingssonne<br />

Sandro Song<br />

Loretta<br />

Sion<br />

Verona<br />

Timolin<br />

11<br />

2011 Bay<br />

Dressage<br />

Timolin is an elegant, light-footed<br />

stallion of exceptional quality<br />

showing outstanding paces with a<br />

lot of athleticism as is shown in his<br />

jumping ability. Heads turn where<br />

ever he walks with him eluding<br />

exceptional presence and natural<br />

self-carriage. This he passes on to his<br />

stock who all inherit his lovely<br />

paces and superb conformation.<br />

He is a lovely, well balanced ride<br />

with a bold attitude and excellent<br />

temperament.<br />

Timolin, as an event horse is only 1<br />

point off Advanced, mostly achieved<br />

with Gubby Leech, although Izzy<br />

Taylor kindly stood in to ride him at<br />

the Novice National Championships<br />

at Gatcombe where he was 6th.<br />

He is both bold and careful, has a<br />

light and easy gallop which he makes<br />

look effortless.<br />

As a dressage horse with Lizzie<br />

Murray, even with very busy stud<br />

seasons in 2020 and 2021 he came<br />

out winning at Intermedaire II, he is<br />

now making Grand Prix movements<br />

look effortless. He is a prolfic sire of<br />

Elite and Gold scoring offspring in<br />

both Dressage and Eventing.<br />

Height: 16.3hh (170cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.234<br />

Stud Book: BWBS<br />

Grading: BWBS, SHB(GB) Champion, AES<br />

Test: WFFS negative Availability: Fresh/Chilled/Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £1,000 + £30 grooms fee<br />

Stands At: Catherston Stud, Hampshire, SO20 8HX<br />

Contact: Jennie Loriston-Clarke or Anne Dicker<br />

Tel: 01264 782716<br />

Email: enquiries@catherstonstud.com<br />

Website: www.cathestonstud.com<br />

Totilas<br />

Samira<br />

Gribaldi<br />

Lominka<br />

Sion<br />

Lara<br />

Kostolany<br />

Gondola II<br />

Glendale<br />

Elsa<br />

Sultan<br />

Tarantella<br />

Landadel<br />

Tarka<br />

Woodlander Grand Designs<br />

Let’s start with the sire! Grand Galaxy<br />

Win is an ultra-modern, lustrous black<br />

young stallion by Apache.<br />

Galaxy has eight sons selected for the<br />

DWB’s stallion licensing in Herning.<br />

Grand Designs qualified for the<br />

Final of the Nexgen 4 year old at<br />

Hickstead and also completed his 14<br />

12<br />

day test in Germany. He owes much<br />

to his dam. Elite Foxy Lady, who is by<br />

the double World Champion,<br />

Florencio. She too comes from a<br />

persuasive mare family and has<br />

already produced a licensed son in<br />

Oldenburg, and the BBN Champion<br />

Dressage Filly in 2018. Her own<br />

family can convince too, with two<br />

half brothers performing in dressage<br />

and eventing.<br />

Woodlander Rockstar took<br />

multiple National Dressage titles<br />

and performed to Grand Prix and<br />

Woodlander Wesuvio continues in<br />

his eventing career after having been<br />

selected for Le Lion d’Angers as a six<br />

year old.<br />

2016 Dark Brown<br />

Grand Galaxy Win<br />

Elite Foxy Lady<br />

Apache<br />

Winner T<br />

Florencio<br />

St Pr Savannah<br />

Dressage<br />

Height: 16.2hh (169cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.258<br />

Stud Book: Hann<br />

Grading: Hann, WBS-UK, Oldenburg pending 50 day test<br />

Test: WFFS negative Availability: Fresh/Chilled<br />

Stud Fee: £750<br />

Stands At: Woodlander Stud, Frenchlands Lane, Worcester, WR2 6QU<br />

Contact: Lynne Crowden<br />

Tel: 07768 323351<br />

Email: woodlanderstud@mac.com<br />

Website: www.woodlanderstud.com<br />

UB40<br />

Tolanda<br />

Jazz<br />

Magnaat<br />

Florestan<br />

Walessa<br />

Sao Paolo<br />

Lolipop<br />

16 | BRITISH BREEDER


NPS STALLIONS<br />

Sponsored by<br />

Alonby Chadonnier<br />

13<br />

2014 Black<br />

NPS Pony Stallion Display<br />

Alonby Chardonnier is already<br />

proving to be a versatile young<br />

Stallion. Turning 8 this year, he has<br />

already had his first born progeny,<br />

Roseberry Great Expectations, qualify<br />

for the Price Family Supreme at HOYS<br />

2021. This is something Chardonnier<br />

achieved himself as a 3 year old. In<br />

2021, Chardonnier was awarded<br />

Premium Stallion status by the NPS<br />

which we are very proud of at such<br />

an early stage in his career.<br />

Chardonnier’s sire is the irreplaceable<br />

Llanarth Aristocat, who was by Cusop<br />

Disciplin and had such influence on<br />

the <strong>British</strong> Riding ponies we have<br />

today. His dam carries valuable<br />

Thoroughbred blood. He has bred<br />

Show Ponies, Show Hunter Ponies<br />

and Hacks.<br />

Chardonnier possesses a beautiful<br />

turn of front, movement, and quality<br />

that he is also passing onto his<br />

stock, whilst also having a great<br />

thoroughbred influence coming from<br />

his dam’s side, giving him and his<br />

stock substance, body, and excellent<br />

limbs.<br />

Height: 14.2hh (148cm)<br />

Stud Book: National Pony Society<br />

Grading: NPS Licence<br />

Availability: Natural<br />

Stud Fee: £600<br />

Stands At: Alonby Stud, Blackrod, Bolton, BL7 5LR<br />

Contact: Ian Boylan<br />

Tel: 07737 726175<br />

Email: riderb2010@hotmail.co.uk<br />

Website: www.facebook.com/alonbystud<br />

Llanarth Aristocat<br />

Miss Demeaner<br />

Cusop Disciplin<br />

Carolinas Pussycat<br />

Cusop Disciplin<br />

Gifted Child xx<br />

Cusop Flamingo<br />

Cusop Destiny<br />

Bwlch Zephyr<br />

Chirk Catmint<br />

Cusop Flamingo<br />

Cusop Destiny<br />

So Blessed xx<br />

Tisane xx<br />

Rotherwood Jubilee Diamond<br />

17<br />

2012 Bay<br />

NPS Pony Stallion Display<br />

<strong>British</strong> Riding Pony who is also<br />

registered part bred Arab 23.24%<br />

and part bred Welsh 35%.<br />

Very athletic stallion, fabulous<br />

temperament, winner of many<br />

supreme championship.<br />

Inheriting the very best of <strong>British</strong> riding<br />

pony blood lines.<br />

Successfully used on larger mares to<br />

bring more pony blood into them.<br />

Grandson of the great Strinesdale<br />

Matador which has given him good<br />

jumping ability making him an<br />

excellent choice to breed eventing<br />

ponies as well as for the show ring.<br />

Height: 13.1hh (136.5cm)<br />

Stud Book: National Pony Society<br />

Grading: NPS Licence<br />

Availability: Natural/AI Fresh & Chiilled by arrangement /Frozen from Autumn<br />

Stud Fee: £500<br />

Stands At: Wytchwood Stud, Newark, NG23 5AJ<br />

Contact: Jane Laffey<br />

Tel: 07831 385319<br />

Email: laffey@newsurf.net<br />

Rotherwood Just A<br />

Peep<br />

Rotherwood Quick<br />

Step<br />

Strinesdale Matador<br />

Rotherwood Bo-Peep<br />

Cusop Dimension<br />

Rotherwood Gavotte<br />

Twylands Troubador<br />

Gredington Natalia<br />

Solway North Wind<br />

Rotherwood Beep-Show<br />

Cusop Finger Print<br />

Cusop Delilah<br />

Strinesdale Matador<br />

Trellech Gise;;e<br />

Rotherwood Peeping Tom<br />

15<br />

2005 Bay<br />

NPS Pony Stallion Display<br />

Outstanding sire of ponies and<br />

horses. From a prolific winning proven<br />

family.<br />

All stock inherits Freddie’s excellent<br />

limb, temperament and movement.<br />

He has sired numerous show winners<br />

including Show Hunter ponies<br />

winning at HOYS, champion show<br />

pony at HOYS and supreme pony<br />

HOYS.<br />

He is also sire of Twice qualified<br />

HOYS inhand championship<br />

Sandboro Sir Henry.<br />

He suits a variety of mares from<br />

ponies to horses for quality,<br />

temperament /trainability and<br />

movement.<br />

Height: 14.1hh (143cm)<br />

Stud Book: National Pony Society<br />

Grading: NPS Licence<br />

Availability: Natural / Fresh / Chilled<br />

Stud Fee: £600 NFFR<br />

Stands At: Sandboro Stud, Rugeley, Staffordshire, WS15 3SA<br />

Contact: Kelly Phillips<br />

Tel: 07958 916885<br />

Email: Kellyphillipssand@icloud.com<br />

Website: www.facebook.com/Sandborostud<br />

Strinesdale Matador<br />

Rotherwood Peek-A-<br />

Boo<br />

Twylands Troubador<br />

Gredington Natalia<br />

Westacre Concerto<br />

Rotherwood Bo-Peep<br />

Solway North Wind<br />

Bwich Minuet<br />

Count Romeo<br />

Stardust<br />

Kreston Royal Occasion<br />

Twylands Crescendo<br />

Solway North Wind<br />

Rotherwood Peep-Show<br />

BRITISH BREEDER| 17


EVENTING STALLIONS<br />

In Association with<br />

Abbeywoods Under Pressure<br />

SPSS Graded PBA 138cm quality<br />

coloured sports pony prospect, who<br />

received Gold Premium at the<br />

2019. <strong>British</strong> Breeding Futurity<br />

evaluations as an eventing pony<br />

gaining a 9 for his bold, brave<br />

jump, with well known famous lines<br />

including Weltmeyer and Weltruhm.<br />

The perfect choice for anyone<br />

wanting to breed good quality ponies<br />

for all kinds of disciplines and<br />

definitely not one to miss.<br />

Great scope for jumping, and<br />

trainability when backed in July<br />

2020, this chap is simply the best to<br />

have around.<br />

He is graded with the Sports Pony<br />

Society and licensed with the Arab<br />

Society with 43.23% part bred<br />

Arab.<br />

He has a wonderful temperament<br />

to pass on to his offspring which<br />

runs down through his lines, and is<br />

safe and easy to handle with good<br />

manners<br />

16<br />

2016 Skewbald<br />

Murraybrook Moriarty<br />

Abbeywoods<br />

Aphrodite<br />

Royal Command of Wentward<br />

Dirana<br />

Commanche Ace<br />

Windy City E<br />

Sports Pony - Eventing<br />

Height: 13.2hh (138cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.38<br />

Stud Book: SPSS/AHS<br />

Grading: SPSS<br />

Availability: Natural/AI Fresh/Chilled<br />

Stud Fee: £300 no vat<br />

Stands At: Gatwicke Farm, Cowfold, West Sussex, H13 8EA<br />

Contact: Sarah Ablewhite<br />

Tel: 07527435847<br />

Email: enquiries@abbeywoodsunderpressure.co.uk<br />

Website: www.abbeywoodsunderpressure.co.uk<br />

Royal Linsign<br />

Anarkali<br />

Djelfor<br />

Diraia<br />

Unknown<br />

Unknown<br />

Wind dancer<br />

Peppermint Petty<br />

Abbeywoods Veyron<br />

17<br />

2017 Piebald<br />

Sports Pony - Eventing<br />

Abbeywoods Veyron aka Ralph,<br />

140cm piebald 4 year old is a quality<br />

sports pony prospect, graded<br />

Bronze with CHAPS and SPSS<br />

grading as a quality breeding stallion.<br />

For anyone wanting to breed good<br />

quality multi-discipline ponies, he<br />

is definitely not one to miss with a<br />

wonderful temperament and free<br />

floating paces. Since a foal, he has<br />

competed and won various classes,<br />

qualifiers and championships .<br />

He has exceptional manners, is safe<br />

and easy to handle by children and<br />

adults. He has fantastic breeding<br />

with lines such as Weltmeyer who's<br />

damsire is the famous showjumping<br />

sire Argentan I whose offspring<br />

includes Aramis (who competed at<br />

Olympic/World Championships<br />

level) and his most famous son, the<br />

prolific jumping sire Argentinus,<br />

whose offspring include Arko III<br />

(ridden by Nick Skelton at the<br />

Olympics and European<br />

Championships). Ralph is now<br />

competing successfully under saddle,<br />

winning the sports pony class at<br />

a national show. He has already<br />

gained BD points in few outings.<br />

Height: 13.3hh (140cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.40<br />

Stud Book: SPSS / CHAPS/ AHS<br />

Grading: Chaps<br />

Availability: Natural/AI Fresh/Chilled<br />

Stud Fee: £350 no vat<br />

Stands At: Gatwicke Farm, Cowfold, West Sussex. H13 8EA<br />

Contact: Sarah Ablewhite<br />

Tel: 07527435847<br />

Email: enquiries@abbeywoodsunderpressure.co.uk<br />

Website: www.abbeywoodsunderpressure.co.uk<br />

Royal Command of<br />

Wentward<br />

Abbeywoods Aphrodite<br />

Royal Linsign<br />

Anarkali<br />

Commanche Ace<br />

Windy City E<br />

Royal Ensign<br />

Forg Lindy Hop<br />

Colano<br />

Haupt Roswita<br />

Unknown<br />

Unknown<br />

Wind dancer<br />

Peppermint Petty<br />

Ansiei<br />

18<br />

2007 Bay<br />

Eventing<br />

He is a successful athlete in his own<br />

right, being a stakes winner with total<br />

winnings of £181,286 from just<br />

a few starts and in the 2010 Italian<br />

Derby he came from the back of the<br />

field to take second, just missing<br />

out on first place.<br />

He returned to training after time off<br />

for covering and finished third in a<br />

maiden hurdle at Limerick in 2013.<br />

This was his first run back and<br />

demonstrates that not only does he<br />

have speed he also<br />

has a super jump.<br />

He has a superb pedigree containing<br />

Northern Dancer and not one, but<br />

two crosses of the famous Grey<br />

Sovereign.<br />

The Grey Sovereign line has been<br />

extremely influential in infusing<br />

blood in European warmbloods and<br />

appears in the pedigree of many top<br />

show jumpers including Olympians<br />

Clinton and Corrado.<br />

Height: 16.1hh (165cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.46<br />

Stud Book: BWBS<br />

Grading: SHB(GB). HSI, Selle Francais<br />

Test: WFFS negative Availability: Fresh/Chilled/Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £600 + vat NFNF or LFG<br />

Stands At: Stallion AI Services, Whitchurch, Shropshire, SY13 4BP<br />

Contact: John Chambers<br />

Tel: 07717432814<br />

Email: john.chambers191@gmail.com<br />

Website: www.springfieldstud.com<br />

Highest Honor xx<br />

Albiatra xx<br />

Kenmare xx<br />

High River xx<br />

Dixieland Band xx<br />

Jons Singer xx<br />

Kalamoun xx<br />

Belle of Ireland xx<br />

Riverman xx<br />

Hairbush xx<br />

Northern Dancer xx<br />

Mississippi Mud xx<br />

Caro xx<br />

Hellas xx<br />

18 | BRITISH BREEDER


WEST KINGTON<br />

STUD<br />

• Mares taken for Foaling<br />

& Artificial Insemination<br />

• Experienced & Dedicated Stud<br />

Team & Vets<br />

• 24hr Supervision & CCTV<br />

• Fresh, Chilled & Frozen AI Vets Packages<br />

• Embryo Transfer & Flushing<br />

• Recipient Mares available<br />

• DEFRA-approved Laboratory on-site<br />

• Semen Collection, Evaluation & Processing<br />

• Frozen Semen Storage & Worldwide Distribution<br />

• Stallion Dummy Training<br />

• Post Castration Epididymal Semen Extraction<br />

For details, please contact Harry Thirlby, Stud Manager<br />

t: +44 (0)1249 782050 • e: manager@westkingtonstud.co.uk • www.westkingtonstud.co.uk<br />

BRITISH BREEDER| 19


EVENT STALLIONS<br />

In Association with<br />

Ashwey Laurenzo<br />

19<br />

2012 Dark Bay<br />

Eventing<br />

Oaks Farm Stud present a stunning<br />

16hh <strong>British</strong> bred AES registered SHB<br />

graded stallion by the prolific<br />

sire Lauriston and out of an Ircolando<br />

mare.<br />

Graded overall champion in the SHB<br />

2018 Stallion gradings scoring a 9 for<br />

his jumping ability and<br />

technique.<br />

He started his affiliated eventing<br />

career in 2018 with five outings and<br />

five top ten finishes and is now<br />

competing successfully at Novice<br />

level . In 2021, he continued to be<br />

consistent coming second in the<br />

CCI-S 1* at Chilham followed by<br />

a 3rd at Wellington International<br />

and rounding the season off with a<br />

second in his most recent CCI-S 2* at<br />

South of England.<br />

Good temperament, compact athletic<br />

type with excellent paces.<br />

Height: 16hh (163cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.48<br />

Stud Book: SHB(GB), AES<br />

Grading: SHB(GB)<br />

Availability: AI Fresh/Chilled/Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £500 + vat<br />

Stands At: Stallion AI Services<br />

Contact: Rebecca Gordon<br />

Tel: 07572 659813 / 07973 518675<br />

Email: oaksfarmstud@mail.com<br />

Website: www.facebook.com/oaksfarmstud<br />

Lauriston<br />

Remi Twin Siigie<br />

Latus I<br />

Gerlinde<br />

Ircolando<br />

Kasiijke<br />

Landgraf I<br />

Folia<br />

Granit<br />

Andorra II<br />

Casimir<br />

Zolanda<br />

Armstrong<br />

Dosige<br />

Britannia's Bijou<br />

20<br />

2017 Bay<br />

Eventing<br />

Eventing bloodlines in the purple,<br />

Britannia’s Bijou is an exciting<br />

young International competition and<br />

breeding prospect with Internationally<br />

renowned parents – daughter of<br />

legendary 5* eventing champion<br />

Headley Britannia & top Riding pony<br />

Littledale Bright Star. Britannia’s<br />

Bijou has huge scope - effortlessly<br />

jumping 130cm - classic technique,<br />

three beautiful paces and a superbly<br />

relaxed and trainable temperament.<br />

In 2021 he successfully competed<br />

up to 100cm SJ and 90cm Eventing,<br />

including clear at the Nexgen Young<br />

Horse Series 4 yr old qualifier.<br />

Britannia’s Bijou’s sire is by the top<br />

Riding pony stallion Littledale Bright<br />

Star – a high quality pony stallion<br />

that has competed at everything<br />

from Vaulting to Show Jumping. He is<br />

the only pony stallion that has sired<br />

many International progeny in all<br />

the Olympic disciplines. Britannia’s<br />

Bijou’s fertility is already proven.<br />

He was awarded Gold in the <strong>British</strong><br />

Breeding Futurity evaluations and<br />

Gold Premium by the SPSS.<br />

There is no other pony stallion with<br />

such quality breeding.<br />

Height: 15.1hh (154cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.62<br />

Stud Book: SHB(GB), SPSS<br />

Grading: SHB(GB) Gold & SPSS Gold Premium<br />

Availability: Fresh/Chilled/Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £350 + vat<br />

Stands At: Tomlinson Equine, Elmleaze, Westonbirt, Tetbury, GL8 8QE<br />

Contact: Lucinda Fredericks<br />

Tel: 01380 816636<br />

Email: marketing@lucindafredericks.com<br />

Website: www.lucindafredericks.com<br />

Littledale Bright Star<br />

Bella Britannia<br />

Catherston Nightsafe<br />

Gwersylit Town Mouse<br />

Mr Big Cat xx<br />

Headley Britannia<br />

Triumph<br />

Propserity of Catherston<br />

Burstye Trajan<br />

Gweryslit Nans<br />

Tamango xx<br />

Florianopolitana xx<br />

Jumbo<br />

Alan's Bambi<br />

Britannia's Mail<br />

Proven Advanced eventer Britannia’s<br />

Mail is a “Brit Legacy” elite<br />

syndicated stallion by Olympic Show<br />

Jumper Jaguar Mail out of triple 5*<br />

winner Olympic Medallist Headley<br />

Britannia. Britannia’s Mail is stunning<br />

looking, has three super paces,<br />

exceptional jumping technique , is<br />

incredibly bold, careful, sure-footed<br />

21<br />

and quick across country. After nine<br />

seasons competing he continues to<br />

prove himself to be an outstandingly<br />

tough, sound and confident<br />

stallion who consistently produces<br />

extraordinarily rideable offspring with<br />

kind and trainable temperaments.<br />

He has successfully performed for a<br />

range of riders from young teenager<br />

to top professional. Britannia’s<br />

Mail has taken 17 year old Ellie<br />

Fredericks from Novice to Advanced<br />

within one year. They have had<br />

fantastic results in 2020/2021 with<br />

13 out of 13 clears XC and all top 12<br />

placings, including 10th place in<br />

their first Advanced at Little<br />

Downham, 2nd at Cornbury House<br />

International CCI-S Y3*, 12th at<br />

Keysoe International CCI-S 3*<br />

2008 Bay<br />

Jaguar Mail<br />

Headley Britannia<br />

Hand in Glove xx<br />

Elvira Mail<br />

Jumbo<br />

Alan's Bambi<br />

Eventing<br />

Height: 16.1hh (164cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.64<br />

Stud Book: AES<br />

Grading: SHB(GB) , Approved AES<br />

Availability: AI Fresh / Chilled / Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £800 + vat<br />

Stands At: Tomlinson Equine, Elmleaze, Westonbirt, Tetbury, GL8 8QE<br />

Contact: Lucinda Fredericks<br />

Tel: 01380 816636<br />

Email: marketing@lucindafredericks.com<br />

Website: www.lucindafredericks.com<br />

Best Turn xx<br />

Miss Betty xx<br />

Laudanum xx<br />

Adoret z<br />

Skippy<br />

Betty<br />

Alanrod xx<br />

Hazy Blue<br />

20 | BRITISH BREEDER


EVENT STALLIONS<br />

Sponsored by<br />

Catherston Oakley<br />

A beautiful, bold and exquisite young<br />

stallion. Oakley has a wonderful<br />

temperament, along with superb<br />

conformation, with very expressive<br />

paces. This super young horse is<br />

showing so much talent, both over a<br />

fence and on the flat. He is a<br />

breath takingly stunning stallion very<br />

like his Grand Sire Dutch Courage.<br />

Oakley so far has a very good<br />

competition record, picking up elite<br />

22<br />

status in Futurity gradings as a young<br />

horse and numerous wins in<br />

both dressage, young event horse<br />

classes and SHB-GB Sport Horse<br />

ridden classes along with being<br />

Premium Graded SHB-GB.<br />

Futurity Graduate and Equine Bridge<br />

Finalist, in 2021 Catherston Oakley<br />

moved to Gubby Leech who has<br />

been competing him at Novice BE as<br />

a 7yr old and has won two Novice<br />

classes and been placed 9<br />

times in the top 10 out of his 16 runs<br />

proving that he is reliable, consistent<br />

and able to combine his<br />

competition commitments with his stud<br />

work. He finished the season with<br />

33BE points and a lovely clear at<br />

Bicton CCI-S 2*<br />

2014 Bay<br />

Opposition Bombshell<br />

Catherston Deodara<br />

Fleetwater Opposition<br />

Dutch Bombshell<br />

Dutch Gold<br />

Wellingtonia<br />

Eventing<br />

Height: 16.2hh (168cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.80<br />

Stud Book: SHB(GB)<br />

Grading: WBS-UK<br />

Test: WFFS negative Availability: Natural/Fresh/Chilled/Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £600 + £30 grooms fee<br />

Stands At: Catherston Stud, Over Wallop, Stockbridge, Hampshire, SO20 8HX<br />

Contact: Jennie Loriston-Clarke or Anne Dicker<br />

Tel: 01264782716<br />

Email: enquiries@catherstonstud.com<br />

Website: www.catherstonstud.com<br />

Muschamp Danube<br />

Opushka<br />

Dutch Courage<br />

Military Song<br />

Dutch Courage<br />

Gold K xx<br />

Thriller xx<br />

Twiggy<br />

Amiro Z<br />

23<br />

2004 Chestnut<br />

Eventing<br />

Amiro Z jumped internationally at<br />

1.45m level, including qualifying for<br />

the Lanaken World Championships<br />

for 6-year-olds. He is a stallion<br />

with an enormous jumping potential<br />

and a well geared canter; a blood<br />

horse with a remarkably good<br />

temperament. The contribution of<br />

thoroughbred blood is crucial for<br />

eventing sport at the top level and<br />

Amiro Z combines enough blood with<br />

a very high quality type.<br />

Amiro's father Amigo Toss xx goes<br />

back directly to the mother of the<br />

famous stallion Le Sancy xx, the<br />

progenitor of Ramzes and Zeus.<br />

Amiro's dam Renomee Z jumped at<br />

the Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996,<br />

and the 1998 World Cup, with<br />

Argentinian Ricardo Kierkegaard.<br />

Amiro Z's damsire, the legendary<br />

Ramiro Z, earned the titles 'Stallion<br />

of the Century' and 'King of Sires'.<br />

Amiro Z has already sired the<br />

Westfalen Eventing Champion &<br />

BYEH Champion Caunton First Class.<br />

He also has a number of eventing<br />

progeny competing internationally as<br />

well as showjumpers upto 1.30m<br />

Height: 16.3hh (170cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.42<br />

Stud Book: Zang<br />

Grading: SF, Zang, Hann, West, SHB(GB), AES<br />

Test: WFFS negative Availability: Fresh/Chilled/Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £1000 + vat<br />

Stands At: Elite Stallions<br />

Contact: Lorna Wilson<br />

Tel: 01837 880100 / 07969202174<br />

Email: info@elitestallions.com<br />

Website: www.elitestallions.com<br />

Amigo Toss xx<br />

Renomee Z<br />

Nippon Toss xx<br />

La Toscana xx<br />

Ramiro Z<br />

Argentina Z<br />

Egg Toss xx<br />

Nipona xx<br />

Lefty xx<br />

La Spezia xx<br />

Raimond<br />

Valine<br />

Alme Z<br />

Heureka Z<br />

Future Gravitas<br />

* International CCI2* Eventer and<br />

WINNER at ALL these affiliated levels<br />

- 5yr Old Qualifier, BE100, BE<br />

Novice and BE Open Novice levels<br />

* Multiple BD WINNER and Double<br />

National Championship Finalist at<br />

Medium and Elementary levels<br />

with 132 BD points<br />

* No.1 Ranked Sire of Futurity<br />

Eventing youngstock<br />

* Used by MARY KING on her 5*<br />

24<br />

winner, Kings Temptress and the<br />

offspring 'King Cyrus' is now at CC2*<br />

at 6yrs.<br />

Gravitas’s dam is Elite mare Juswith<br />

Genoa - an EXCEPTIONAL producer<br />

– making Future Gravitas a maternal<br />

brother to the legendary Olympic<br />

Silver medallist, WEG Gold medallist<br />

& multiple CCI5* winner Winsome<br />

Adante, and brother to CCI3*<br />

Eventer & YEH World Championships<br />

Qualifier Future Genie, CCI3*<br />

eventer Future Gravitie and more..<br />

Already a sire of 2* Eventers, BD<br />

National Champion, County Show<br />

Champion, Futurity Champion....<br />

A Stallion with the pedigree, the<br />

ability and genes being passed on to<br />

high perfoming pogeny.<br />

2010 Bay<br />

Grafenstolz<br />

Juswith Genoa<br />

Polarion<br />

Gipsy Lady<br />

Bohemond xx<br />

Just Gingerbread<br />

Eventing<br />

Height: 16.2hh (168cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.124<br />

Stud Book: ZfDP<br />

Grading: Life Graded SHB(GB), Life Approved AES<br />

Test: WFFS negative Availability: AI Fresh/Chilled/Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £585+VAT Fresh/Chilled LFG, £300+VAT + £285+Vat in foal Frozen<br />

Stands At: Future Sport Horses, Baswick, East Riding of Yorskhire. YO25 8LZ<br />

Contact: Julia Hodkin<br />

Tel: 07951 519288 / 07775 633004<br />

Email: info@FutureSportHorses.co.uk<br />

Website: www.FutureSportHorses.co.uk<br />

Van Deyk<br />

Polareid<br />

Camelot<br />

Grazie II<br />

Auction Ring xx<br />

Kaftan xx<br />

Carbrooke Surprise ox<br />

Trincomalee<br />

BRITISH BREEDER| 21


EVENT STALLIONS<br />

In Association with<br />

Future Guilty Pleasure<br />

25<br />

2016 Grey<br />

Eventing<br />

Future Guilty Pleasure has already<br />

made an impression at the tender age<br />

of 5 years old having already taken<br />

FOUR NATIONAL TITLES. He is:<br />

• UK AES National Stallion<br />

Licensing Champion (2018) from over<br />

90 stallions inspected<br />

• National Champion Sire of Futurity<br />

Eventers (2019) with his very first crop<br />

of foals<br />

• National Champion Sire of Futurity<br />

Eventers (2020) with his second crop<br />

of foals<br />

• National Champion Sire of Futurity<br />

Eventers (2021 Virtual Series) with his<br />

third crop of foals<br />

Future Guilty Pleasure received<br />

exceptional licensing scores including<br />

9.5 for trot, 9.25 for canter and<br />

9 for walk and comments from the<br />

AES Stallion Licensing Panel included<br />

this ringing endorsement of his<br />

quality:…”Every now and then we<br />

encounter a young horse who has<br />

future greatness stamped all over<br />

him. And this simply breathtaking<br />

son of Levisonn is such an example.<br />

Already a sire of Elite Futurity<br />

Eventing Foal Champion and others.<br />

Height: 16.3hh (170cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.126<br />

Stud Book: ZfDP<br />

Grading: Licensed AES<br />

Test: WFFS negative Availability: Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £400+VAT + £365+Vat in foal upto 3 doses Frozen<br />

Stands At: Future Sport Horses, Baswick, East Riding of Yorskhire, YO25 8LZ<br />

Contact: Julia Hodkin<br />

Tel: 07951 519288 / 07775 633004<br />

Email: info@FutureSportHorses.co.uk<br />

Website: www.FutureSportHorses.co.uk<br />

Levisonn<br />

Future Guilty Secret<br />

Levisto Z<br />

Melodie VIII<br />

Cantoblanco<br />

Future Gold Digger<br />

Leandro<br />

Hirtin<br />

Lennon<br />

Narwan<br />

Canto<br />

G-Casablanca<br />

Primitive Proposal xx<br />

Juswith Genoa<br />

Future Hepsilon<br />

26<br />

2017 Grey<br />

Eventing<br />

Future Hepsilon is a powerful, athletic<br />

stallion with a talent for jumping and<br />

a trainable temperament.<br />

Performance in the very close family<br />

of Hepsilon is convincing and should<br />

give breeders confidence that by<br />

choosing him they are choosing<br />

proven genetics that pass from<br />

generation to generation.<br />

With genetics that breeders dream of<br />

Future Hepsilon directly combines the<br />

superstar eventer Upsilon with<br />

the world’s best ever sire of eventers<br />

- the thoroughbred, Heraldik.<br />

Hepsilon’s dam has already<br />

produced two International eventers<br />

and descends from the same dam<br />

line that produced the €1m winning<br />

Grand Prix showjumper, Embassy II.<br />

Upsilon sired the 1-2-3 at the 2019 4<br />

YO French National Eventing<br />

Championships AND the 1-2-3 at<br />

the 2021 7 YO French National<br />

Championships, and is renowned<br />

for his record-breaking score in<br />

the Nations Cup. Heraldik xx has<br />

sired horses at the top in all three<br />

Olympic disciplines… being WBFSH<br />

No.1 Ranked Sire of Eventers for an<br />

incredible 5 consecutive years.<br />

Height: 16.3hh (170cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.128<br />

Stud Book: <strong>Breeder</strong>s Elite<br />

Grading: Licensed AES<br />

Test: WFFS negative Availability: AI Fresh/Chilled/Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £300+VAT + £285+Vat in foal upto 3 doses Frozen<br />

Stands At: Future Sport Horses, Baswick, East Riding of Yorskhire, YO25 8LZ<br />

Contact: Julia Hodkin<br />

Tel: 07951 519288 / 07775 633004<br />

Email: info@FutureSportHorses.co.uk<br />

Website: www.FutureSportHorses.co.uk<br />

Upsilon<br />

Heralidk Girl-W<br />

Canturo<br />

O'Vive x<br />

Heraldik xx<br />

Perdona<br />

Cantus<br />

Fara<br />

Fusain du Defey x<br />

Garce d'Aulix x<br />

Caramel xx<br />

Heraldika xx<br />

Palermo<br />

Lisandra<br />

Hearnesbrook New Moon<br />

27<br />

2008 Grey<br />

Eventing<br />

Hearnesbrook New Moon has very<br />

correct conformation, is a lovely<br />

mover, has great jumping technique<br />

and a fantastic temperament. This<br />

versatile pony has won numerous<br />

prizes in a variety of disciplines<br />

including showing, showjumping,<br />

eventing and international<br />

performance classes. He has<br />

competed up to BE100 eventing,<br />

showjumped at Pony Foxhunter<br />

(1.10m), qualifying for the Blue<br />

Chip Championship. His main<br />

focus has been on Working Hunter<br />

Pony Classes, where he has also<br />

enjoyed great success. He won<br />

at BSPS Heritage Championships,<br />

qualifying for the Royal International<br />

in 2018, 2019 and 2020. He has<br />

been placed 2nd at the Royal<br />

International, 5th at Horse of the<br />

Year Show and Won his class at the<br />

Royal Windsor in 2019, before being<br />

named overall Reserve Champion.<br />

New Moon has twice been<br />

selected for the <strong>British</strong> team in the<br />

International Peformance classes at<br />

both Dublin & Clifden, bringing<br />

home prizes on both occasions.<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.146<br />

Height: 14.1hh (145cm)<br />

Stud Book: Connemara,<br />

Grading: Connermara - Class 1, SPSS<br />

Availability: Natural/ AI Fresh / Chilled / Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £400 + vat<br />

Stands At: West Kington Stud, Church Farm, West Kington, Wilts, SN14 7JE<br />

Contact: Harry Thirlby/Jane Holderness-Roddam<br />

Tel: 01249 782050<br />

Email: manager@westkingtonstud.co.uk<br />

Website: www.westkingtonstud.co.uk<br />

Hearnesbrook Halley<br />

Pilgrims Mistral<br />

Hearnesbrook Fastnet<br />

Richella<br />

Thunderbolt<br />

Ballymore Lulu<br />

Whalton Sandune<br />

Rosenaharley Rinnamara<br />

Sprig of Heather<br />

Nuala<br />

Thunder<br />

Irene Grey<br />

Macnamara<br />

Abbeyleix Lucy<br />

22 | BRITISH BREEDER


Industry leaders<br />

in Equine<br />

Reproduction<br />

with over<br />

30 years of<br />

experience<br />

Stud & Reproduction Services<br />

• Complete TB & AI breeding packages • Pre-breeding tests<br />

• AI - fresh, chilled & frozen<br />

• Embryo transfer/Embryo freezing<br />

• BEVA Accredited AI Centre<br />

• OPU<br />

• Semen collection & analysis<br />

• Team of experienced stud vets<br />

• Infertility investigations<br />

• B&W Willesley Stud & facilities<br />

• Semen importation/Stallion Catalogue • Back up of the B&W Equine Hospital<br />

t: 01666 880501 e: stud@bwequinevets.co.uk www.bwequinevets.co.uk<br />

B&W Stud & Reproduction Services, Byam’s Farm, Willesley, Tetbury, Gloucestershire GL8 8QU<br />

Why insure<br />

with KBIS?<br />

We Offer:<br />

- Mortality Cover from 24 hours old<br />

- Full Vets Fee Cover from 90 days old<br />

- Affordable standalone Vets Fee options<br />

- 15 months to claim for mortality, vets fees<br />

and permanent loss of use<br />

- Personal service from insurance experts<br />

and horse owners<br />

0345 230 2323<br />

kbis.insure/yourhorse<br />

KBIS Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority<br />

(300861). Terms and Conditions Apply. KBIS is a Specialist Risk Group Company<br />

KBIS653_190x134.indd 1 BRITISH BREEDER| 23<br />

20/01/<strong>2022</strong> 09:33


EVENTING STALLIONS<br />

In Association with<br />

Heritage Arrakis<br />

28<br />

2013 Bay<br />

Eventing<br />

This exciting tallion has already made<br />

a rare achievement by becoming<br />

the highest scoring Futurity Eventing<br />

youngster in two consequtive years<br />

as a two year old and three year<br />

old. He won the <strong>Breeder</strong>s Award<br />

in 2015 as the highest scoring BEF<br />

Futurity Overall Event Young stock<br />

and also the highest scoring Two<br />

year old scoring a high Elite of 9.08.<br />

In 2016, he went on to increase<br />

his scoring to achieve a high Elite<br />

score of 9.18 and take the Award for<br />

the highest scoring 3yr old Futurity<br />

Eventer. In 2020/2021 he has been<br />

based at Brendon Stud starting his<br />

showjumping training and ended<br />

jumping Newcomers. He has also<br />

competed in some Derby classes<br />

proving to be bold and very careful.<br />

Heritage Arrakis is the perfect Young<br />

Event Stallion; combining good<br />

movement, athleticism, endurance<br />

and speed. He shows three excellent<br />

paces and a superb jump. He is<br />

today being ridden by 16yr old Ada<br />

Marson. He is the ideal sire on a less<br />

blood mare having 82.5% TB and<br />

12.5% Arab with the rest being SF.<br />

His progeny are already successful.<br />

Height: 16.1hh (165cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.260<br />

Stud Book: AHS<br />

Grading: Licensed AES & AHS<br />

Availability: AI Fresh/Chilled/Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £1,000 inc vat<br />

Stands At: Heritage Coast Stud, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 2BH<br />

Contact: Jane Marson<br />

Tel: 01394 450850 / 07771608376<br />

Email: jane@hcstud.com<br />

Website: www.hcstud.com<br />

Heritage Orion ox<br />

Carnival's Dancing<br />

Queen<br />

Heritage Neptune ox<br />

Darkest Hour xx<br />

Carnaval Drum<br />

Lou Lou II xx<br />

Lone Tornado<br />

Sea Thyme xx<br />

Absalom xx<br />

Queen of Twilight xx<br />

Marinier<br />

Polyantha<br />

High Season xx<br />

Sweet Vanity xx<br />

Jacondrik<br />

29<br />

2001 Brown<br />

Eventing<br />

Jacondrik's pedigree boasts an<br />

illustrous line of the Worlds leading<br />

event and jumping sires, being a<br />

direct desendent himself of the 2019<br />

World No3 and 2018 World No2<br />

leading event sire, Jaguar Mail.<br />

Jaguar Mail was active in the sport at<br />

the highest level himself and was one<br />

of the finalists at the<br />

Olympic Games in China in 2008.<br />

He won the Sires of the World in<br />

Lanaken in 2007 and was sired<br />

himself by the magnificent TB Hand In<br />

Glove xx. Jacondrik's dam 'Cosima'<br />

is by the long standing World No1<br />

ranked eventing sire Contendro I, who<br />

needs no introduction. He is the 2015,<br />

2016, 2017, 2018 & 2019 World #1<br />

Eventing Sire and World #25<br />

Jumping Sire! Jacondrik is bold and<br />

athletic and takes on every task that<br />

is thrown his way with the courage<br />

needed tomake a great competition<br />

horse thanks to his pedigree of<br />

eventing’s finest. Jacondrik is nearly<br />

70%blood. Jacondrik like his father<br />

passes on his good looks, movement<br />

and agility as well as having<br />

anoustanding temperament.<br />

Height: 16.2hh (168cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.158<br />

Stud Book: Hannovarian<br />

Grading: AES<br />

Test: WFFS negative Availability: Fresh / Chilled<br />

Stud Fee: £650 + vat<br />

Stands At: Caunton Manor Stud<br />

Contact: Victoria Wright<br />

Tel: 07966507205<br />

Email: victoria@cauntonmanorstud.com<br />

Website: www.cauntonmanorstud.com<br />

Jaguar Mail<br />

Cosimo<br />

Hand in Glove xx<br />

Elvira<br />

Contendro<br />

Hollywood<br />

Best Turn xx<br />

Miss Betty xx<br />

Laudanum xx<br />

Adoret Z<br />

Contender<br />

Bravo<br />

Heraldik xx<br />

Fayence<br />

Jamhoori<br />

Jamhoori ran 52 times, winning 7<br />

races (2 in UAE) and was placed 12<br />

times. He was also placed over<br />

hurdles. He ran over distances<br />

ranging from 6f to 2.1 miles. This<br />

tough, versatile stallion has a lovely,<br />

kind temperament and excellent<br />

conformation. He has taken very well<br />

to his new role as a stallion.<br />

Jamhoori is a lovely ride and is very<br />

30<br />

quick to learn, both on the flat and<br />

over fences. He shows good<br />

technique over a fence and is bold,<br />

yet careful and athletic. He schools<br />

nicely over XC fences and<br />

particularly enjoys jumping bales in<br />

the hay-making season!<br />

We were thrilled to welcome<br />

Jamhoori’s first foals in 2020, who<br />

have inherited his kind temperament,<br />

good looks and have great<br />

conformation and movement. He<br />

enjoyed a great season in 2020, with<br />

every mare conceiving on first<br />

service. Jamhoori is already proving<br />

to be a great refiner on heavier<br />

warmblood and draught type mares<br />

to produce Eventing and Showing<br />

prospects with fine features and good<br />

conformation.<br />

2008 Bay<br />

Tiger Hill xx<br />

Tanazie xx<br />

Danehill xx<br />

The Filly xx<br />

Cadeaux Genereux xx<br />

Tansy xx<br />

Eventing<br />

Height: 16.2hh (168cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.160<br />

Stud Book: SHB(GB)<br />

Grading: SHB(GB)<br />

Test: WFFS negative Availability: Natural / AI Fresh/Chilled/Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £600 + vat<br />

Stands At: West Kington Stud, Church Farm, West Kington, Wilts, SN14 7JE<br />

Contact: Harry Thirlby/Jane Holderness-Roddam<br />

Tel: 01249 782050<br />

Email: manager@westkingtonstud.co.uk<br />

Website: www.westkingtonstud.co.uk<br />

Danzig xx<br />

Razyana xx<br />

Appiani xx<br />

Tigress Silver xx<br />

Young Generation xx<br />

Smarten Up xx<br />

Shareef Dancer xx<br />

Topsy xx<br />

24 | BRITISH BREEDER


BRITISH BREEDER| 25


EVENTING STALLIONS<br />

In Association with<br />

Leprince des Bois<br />

31<br />

1999 Bay<br />

Eventing<br />

Leprince des Bois is sired by Yarlands<br />

Summer Song who was ranked<br />

for 10 years in the WBFSH top 10<br />

Eventing sires and Leprince is his<br />

most successful offspring. Summer<br />

Song’s sire Fleetwater Opposition is<br />

a legend in eventing pedigrees as<br />

well and has produced numerous<br />

international eventers (Opposition<br />

Buzz, Trevalgar II, Ngong Hills,<br />

and Absolute Opposition). With the<br />

Olympian Galoubet A as damsire,<br />

Leprince’s pedigree easily explains his<br />

outstanding talent and achievements.<br />

Leprince finished 11th at Badminton,<br />

8th at Burghley and 4th at Pau. His<br />

full brother Popof des Bois was also<br />

successful in CIC 5* as well.<br />

Leprince retired, in great form in<br />

2014 after winning the German<br />

junior eventing championships with<br />

a 16-year-old girl, his offspring<br />

are still young (his breeding’s were<br />

limited before The Stallion Company<br />

acquired him) but those now out<br />

competing are showing good<br />

performance and have inherited<br />

their sires super temperament . He<br />

produces intelligent and easy horses<br />

and manages.<br />

Height: 16.3hh (170cm)<br />

Stud Book: Selle Francais<br />

Grading: AF, AA, AES, Hann, Old<br />

Availability: Fresh/Chilled/Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £800 + vat LFG<br />

Stands At: Tomlinson Equine Vet Practice, Tetbury, Glos. GL8 8QE<br />

Contact: Emma Tomlinson<br />

Tel: 01666 880236<br />

Email: info@tomlinsonequine.co.uk<br />

Website: www.tomlinsonequine.co.uk<br />

Yarlands Summersong<br />

Escale de Bois<br />

Fleetwater Opposition<br />

Welton Gazelle<br />

Quandy du Mayne<br />

Perle de Bois<br />

Muschamp Danube<br />

Opushka<br />

Welton Gameful xx<br />

Lisa<br />

Galoubet A<br />

Scynik xx<br />

Funy Hobby xx<br />

Lolita V<br />

PennineView Bee Spritely<br />

n, this exciting young stallion has<br />

already competed up to <strong>British</strong><br />

Eventing 2* level, with lots of top ten<br />

placings in eventing and wins in show<br />

jumping. Not surprising as he comes<br />

from serious eventing parentage, both<br />

parents being international eventers.<br />

The father, Pennine View Silver<br />

Concorde, an Advance and<br />

International 3* eventer, carries the<br />

famous dutch bloodlines Concorde<br />

32<br />

and Ramiro Z plus 70% TB. His<br />

dam is herself an International 3*<br />

mare, and is from the same dynasty<br />

as Opposition Buzz, the Olympic<br />

eventing medallist in 2012, ridden<br />

by Nicola Wilson. Her Father was<br />

Fulton, a top Belgium warmblood,<br />

sire of Advance eventers and PSG<br />

Inter II dressage stars! A very well<br />

put together, short coupled and wellbalanced<br />

stallion with uphill paces<br />

and a scopey jump that is showing<br />

great potential in all spheres. In line<br />

with his father and grandfather he<br />

has a kind trainable temperament. He<br />

was graded with SHB in 2020 ridden<br />

by Issie Thompson when only 16 and<br />

at his first events. He has his first 4yos<br />

out this year.<br />

2015 Bright Bay<br />

PennineView Silver<br />

Concorde<br />

The Bees Knees V<br />

Z Concorde<br />

Silver Squirrel xx<br />

Fulton<br />

Jungle Bee<br />

Eventing<br />

Height: 16.0hh (162cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.200<br />

Stud Book: SHB(GB)<br />

Grading: SHB(GB) Premium<br />

Availability: Fresh/Chilled<br />

Stud Fee: £650<br />

Stands At: Clarendon Stud, Hindon Road, Teffont. Wilts. SP3 5QU<br />

Contact: Issie Thompson<br />

Tel: 07496823055<br />

Email: info@pennineviewstud.co.uk<br />

Website: wwwpennineviewstud.co.uk<br />

Concorde<br />

Lentefee<br />

Silver Wizard xx<br />

Farah xx<br />

Fruehling<br />

Grandessa<br />

Java Tiger xx<br />

Queen Bee<br />

Pennineview Silver Concorde<br />

33<br />

2009 Dark Bay<br />

Eventing<br />

Stunning Elegant Modern Sport<br />

Horse Stallion with a temperament<br />

second to none! - Graded SHB (GB)<br />

16.2hh, 2009 Bay Stallion by Z<br />

Concorde out of Silver Squirrel (TB),<br />

Silver Wizard (TB). 70% TB and<br />

competed to 3*Long 2021 Eventing<br />

coming 25th and having many other<br />

international top ten placings.<br />

This elegant and modern sport horse<br />

stallion with stunning proportions,<br />

expressive paces and bold scopey<br />

jump that one would expect from<br />

his top breeding lines of Concorde,<br />

Ramiro Z, Voltaire and Furioso<br />

from his father and pure TB from his<br />

mother, also has a calm sensible<br />

temperament that any owner could<br />

cope with. In 2018 he became a<br />

successful 3* International eventer<br />

and in 2019 took a 15yo through her<br />

novice MER's with an end of season<br />

win at ONu18. He is scopey in all<br />

areas from dressage, with his stunning<br />

paces qualifying him for Regionals<br />

and Nationals, now competing at<br />

Medium. To Show Jumping boldly<br />

at Newcomers and Foxhunters, and<br />

exceptional clear XC!<br />

Height: 15.3hh (160cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.202<br />

Stud Book: SHB(GB)<br />

Grading: SHB(GB)<br />

Availability: Fresh / Chilled / Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £850<br />

Stands At: Clarendon Stud, Hindon Road, Teffont, Wilts, SP3 5QU<br />

Contact: Issie Thompson<br />

Tel: 07496823055<br />

Email: info@pennineviewstud.co.uk<br />

Website: www.pennineviewstud.co.uk<br />

Z Concorde<br />

Silver Squirrel xx<br />

Concorde<br />

Lentefee<br />

Espartaco Xlll<br />

Estanquera Xl<br />

Voltaire<br />

Flyer<br />

Ramiro Z<br />

Fee<br />

Silver Hawk<br />

Cherie's Hope<br />

Lead on Time<br />

Muznah<br />

26 | BRITISH BREEDER


EVENTING STALLIONS<br />

Sponsored by<br />

Sir Mayfly<br />

34<br />

2017 Dark Bay<br />

Eventing<br />

A smart, elegant stallion, with<br />

tremendous presence, a proven<br />

pedigree for eventing, show jumping<br />

and showing given his thoroughbred<br />

qualities combined with exceptional<br />

jumping ability and movement.<br />

He was awarded gold premium in the<br />

2020 <strong>British</strong> Breeding Futurity and<br />

chosen for the live webinar showing<br />

great temperament, presence and<br />

type as a future top class eventing<br />

stallion.He has the stamp, bascule<br />

and technique from his sire line of<br />

premium show jumpers (Meredith<br />

Michaels-Beerbaum’s brilliant show<br />

jumper Shutterfly & Sir Shutterfly.<br />

His dam(by Mark Todd’s NZ TB<br />

Mayhill) has competitive racing lines.<br />

Mayhill competed at Advanced &<br />

4 star Eventing, reserve for the World<br />

Championships in 1990 and placed<br />

at the <strong>British</strong> Open. He sired<br />

many event horses, the most famous<br />

being Primmores Pride(Pippa Funnell)<br />

winner of the Rolex Grand<br />

Slam 2003, winning Kentucky,<br />

Burghley and Badminton.<br />

His sire AUK produced many top<br />

National Hunt horses, eventers and<br />

SJ’s.<br />

Height: 15.2hh (158cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.226<br />

Stud Book: SHB(GB), AES<br />

Grading: AES<br />

Test: WFFS negative Availability: Natural/Fresh/Chiilled/Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £500 NFFR<br />

Stands At: Lucknam Park Hotel, Colerne, Chippenham, Wilts, SN14 8AZ<br />

Contact: Dawn Cameron<br />

Tel: 07770 624466<br />

Email: dawncameron23@gmail.com<br />

Website: www.mayflysporthorses.co.uk<br />

Sir Shutterfly<br />

Westoke Mayflower<br />

Silvo I<br />

Famm<br />

Mayhill (Fair Oak)<br />

Molly's Song<br />

Sandro<br />

Gelbkatze<br />

Forrest<br />

Galana<br />

Auk<br />

Blonde Oak<br />

Kharon<br />

Femke<br />

Tiger Attack<br />

35<br />

2012 Bay<br />

Eventing<br />

Tiger Attack, owned and bred by<br />

Joanne & William Moran, is an<br />

outstanding quality horse, a real<br />

head turner with superb conformation<br />

and exceptional movement. He has<br />

approximately 70% of thoroughbred<br />

blood, ideal for breeding quality<br />

event horses as well as top class<br />

show horses and ponies, hacks, riding<br />

horses and hunters. They inherit<br />

his strong colour, natural correct<br />

movement, superb conformation and<br />

presence. He has the most trainable<br />

temperament and is always willing to<br />

please and always gives 110%.<br />

A supreme champion in-hand<br />

show horse as a youngster with<br />

an amazing track record winning<br />

every major national championship<br />

including qualifying for the Cuddy<br />

Championship at the Horse of the<br />

Year Show 3 times. From 2017 he<br />

has competed under saddle based<br />

at Catherston Stud where he has<br />

excelled in all that he has done. He<br />

has won at Eventing, the Combined<br />

Training Championships, Working<br />

Hunters, BYEH Qualifiers, Dressage<br />

and Sports Horse Classes. His<br />

progeny continue to win everywhere.<br />

Height: 16.1hh (165cm)<br />

Stud Book: SHB(GB)<br />

Grading: AES<br />

Test: WFFS Carrier Availability: AI Fresh/Chilled/Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £800 payable to Mr Moran<br />

Stands At: Catherston Stud, Over Wallop, Stockbridge, Hampshire, SO20 8HX<br />

Contact: Jennie Loriston-Clarke or Anne Dicker<br />

Tel: 01264782716<br />

Email: enquiries@catherstonstud.com<br />

Website: www.catherstonstud.com<br />

Dolphin Supreme<br />

Tiger Lily IV<br />

Ottergale<br />

Dolphin Song<br />

The Outlaw<br />

Java<br />

Lord Gale xx<br />

Otterhill xx<br />

Blue Riband III xx<br />

Dolphin Play ox<br />

Criminal Law xx<br />

Demon Spring<br />

Louella Gandolpho<br />

Miss Melinda xx<br />

C Star WW<br />

By the legendary Olympic Gold<br />

Medalist Big Star out of an<br />

exceptional dam line, C Star WW<br />

is born to jump. Bred in the UK by<br />

embryo transfer just before his dam C<br />

Serendipity was sold to Canadian<br />

Olympic rider Kara Chad. She comes<br />

from a very famous Dutch mare line<br />

which has produced numerous top<br />

36<br />

stallions and sport horses, in 2013 C<br />

Serendipity and Anna Beck won the<br />

first qualifier and was second in the<br />

following qualifier against 280 of the<br />

best 6 year old horses from around<br />

the world at the Zangersheide World<br />

Breeding Championships. Standing<br />

at 17 hands C Star has a huge stride,<br />

plenty of blood and masses of scope.<br />

He has a wonderful easy<br />

temperament, ultra careful , very<br />

brave and has a great brain. 2021<br />

was his first proper year competing;<br />

He easily qualified for Newcomers<br />

and Foxhunter , jumped triple clear in<br />

both his Big Star six year old<br />

classes, jumped three rounds in<br />

his Newcomer second round and<br />

popped round double clear in<br />

his first 1.35m.<br />

2015 Chestnut<br />

Big Star<br />

C Serendipity<br />

Quick Star<br />

Jolanda<br />

Tangelo van Zuuthoeve<br />

Wusuela<br />

Showjumping<br />

Height: 17hh (171cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.66<br />

Stud Book: AES<br />

Grading: Licensed AES<br />

Test: WFFS negative Availability: Fresh / Chilled / Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £750 + vat NFFR<br />

Stands At: Kings Oak Stud, Ampfield, Hants, SQ51 9BD<br />

Contact: Gerda Weston - Weston Warmbloods<br />

Tel: 01794367570 / 07824308511<br />

Email: info@westonwarmbloods.co.uk<br />

Website: www.westonwarmbloods.co.uk<br />

Galoubet A<br />

Elektia V<br />

Nimmerdor<br />

Elysette<br />

Narcos II<br />

lympica van de Krekebeke<br />

Lupicor H<br />

Lupicor H<br />

BRITISH BREEDER| 27


28 | BRITISH BREEDER


BRITISH BREEDER| 29


Reseeding, patching and repairing your horse and pony paddocks...<br />

Suregrow Fertiliser<br />

<br />

<br />

<br />

<br />

Specialist fertiliser for horse and pony<br />

paddocks<br />

Improves sward density<br />

No need to relocate your horse<br />

Slow release nutrients<br />

Fast Grass<br />

Paddock<br />

Grass<br />

Meadow<br />

& Laminitics<br />

grass mix<br />

For fast repair of worn areas such as<br />

gateways, troughs and feeding areas<br />

For reseeding, patching<br />

& repairing paddocks<br />

Specialist Grass Seed<br />

For use where laminitis may be a<br />

problem, contains no ryegrass<br />

and produces lower<br />

sugar/carbohydrate grass<br />

Available at stockists nationwide or visit www.suregrowuk.com<br />

Call 01423 223045<br />

DO YOU HAVE 15 HORSES OR MORE ON STRAW?<br />

Take a look at our new website<br />

www.tunneltech.co.uk<br />

Are you looking for a solution for your stable bedding without spending time? Please<br />

contact us and experience our excellent service. We will pick it up twice a month.<br />

You can contact us at:<br />

Tunnel Tech South, Hampshire - Tel: 01264 810032<br />

or: Tunnel Tech North, S Yorkshire - Tel: 01302 719532 or 07788 368385.<br />

30 | BRITISH BREEDER


SHOWJUMPING STALLIONS<br />

Sponsored by<br />

Cadensky<br />

37<br />

2003 Grey<br />

Showjumping<br />

Cadensky is a blood and compact<br />

modern sports type with fantastic<br />

pedigree. His father is the world<br />

famous Cornet Obolensky and his<br />

mother Cara is by 1.60m jumper<br />

Carthago. Cadensky has competed<br />

up to 1.55m with results all over the<br />

world. He is a flash exuberant jumper<br />

with the heart of a lion and he passes<br />

this onto his offspring, with 60% of<br />

his progeny already jumping<br />

internationally and 45% jumping<br />

1.45m and above. Cadensky has<br />

striking good looks and a kind nature<br />

making him the perfect stallion.<br />

Cadensky himself as results at 1.50m<br />

and 1.55m 3* Grand Prix as well<br />

as being on the U25 Nations Cup in<br />

Wellington, Florida.<br />

He has notable progeny include Cool<br />

Cash jumping 1.60m, Cava &<br />

Cartier P both jumping 1.45m & Cit<br />

De Luga competing at 1.25.<br />

His first season at stud was 2021,<br />

where he covered over 100mares of<br />

which there is much anticipation to<br />

see his first crop of foals.<br />

Height: 16.2hh (168m)<br />

Stud Book: AES/Old<br />

Grading: AES/Old<br />

Test: WFFS negative Availability: Fresh/Chilled/Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £600 + vat NFR<br />

Stands At: Stallion AI Services<br />

Contact: Jake Saywell<br />

Tel: 01264 782716<br />

Email: jake@jakesaywell.com<br />

Website: www.jakesaywell.com<br />

Cornet Obolensky<br />

Cara<br />

Clinton<br />

Rabanna Van Costersveld<br />

Carthago<br />

Runge<br />

Corrado I<br />

Urte<br />

Heartbreaker<br />

Holivea van Costersveld<br />

Capitol I<br />

Perra<br />

Nocturn<br />

Cinderella<br />

Calian Z<br />

38<br />

2012 Grey<br />

Showjumping<br />

Calian Z is a modern, light, compact<br />

stallion, who has impressed with his<br />

ability and attitude since he began his<br />

professional career. By Calido I, who<br />

is one of the most important jumper<br />

sires in the world. Having been the<br />

sire of mulitple Bundeschampions and<br />

Grand Prix jumpers, he is a beautiful<br />

grey Holstein stallion with exceptional<br />

breeding success. Calido's offspring<br />

include top international competition<br />

horses such as the 2014 National<br />

German 5 yr old Champion, Caroly,<br />

Coupe de Coeur, won the young<br />

horse championships both as a 5<br />

yr-old and 6 yr-old in 2006 and<br />

2007 with Rene Tebbel, and went on<br />

to be the overall leader in the 2009<br />

Riders Tour with Ludger Beerbaum.<br />

Noblesse M won the Grand Prix of<br />

Helsinki in 2007 and Eurocommerce<br />

Acapulco was Dutch Vice Champion<br />

with Gerco Schröder. Out of Colshi<br />

Z,a Colman mare, that was a realible<br />

1.30m winning mare Internationally.<br />

Calian Z has athleticism, balance and<br />

an impressive technique combined<br />

wtih a superb temperament and<br />

trainable attitude all making him an<br />

excellent stallion to use.<br />

Height: 16.1hh (164cm)<br />

Stud Book: Zang<br />

Grading: <strong>Breeder</strong>s Elite<br />

Availability: AI Fresh/Chilled/Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: TBC<br />

Stands At: Tudor Farm, Binfield, Berks, RG24 5QH<br />

Contact: Clare Reynolds<br />

Tel: 07720558030<br />

Email: cr.showjumping@gmail.com<br />

Calido I<br />

Colshi Z<br />

Cantus<br />

Baroness<br />

Colman<br />

Ushuaia<br />

Caletto I<br />

Monline<br />

Coriander<br />

Kollet<br />

Carthago<br />

Rosenquarz<br />

Espri<br />

Hapica<br />

Caretino Glory<br />

39<br />

1998 Bay<br />

Showjumping<br />

This wonderful stallion has done it all;<br />

Multiple winnings and placings upto<br />

1.60m himself and now proven<br />

himself as a Sire of the full range<br />

of competition horses.Proving his<br />

heritability as a sire.<br />

His progeny are of outstanding<br />

quality with star appeal. They have<br />

movement and correctness, and are<br />

proving to be real athletes in multiple<br />

disciplines. He has numerous<br />

progeny competing and winning<br />

BS, several are now International<br />

horses competing up to 1.55m. Other<br />

progeny include Champion Yearling<br />

at Pavo Championships and<br />

Champion foal at North of the Border<br />

Foal Show. In BD he has multiple<br />

progeny successfully competing and<br />

winning. And the same can be said<br />

for BE. Equally he can also<br />

produce a leisure horse and has bred<br />

some super hunters. Offspring include<br />

5* eventer ‘Liberty and Glory’<br />

ridden by Tom Crisp who completed<br />

Badminton ,CCI-L 5* 2019 (XC<br />

Clear) , placed 6th Pau CCI****<br />

2018, completed Luhmuhlen<br />

CCI**** 2018 ,among other<br />

numerous AI, CIC*** & CCI****<br />

Height: 16.3hh (170cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.70<br />

Stud Book: BWP<br />

Grading: Approved SHB(GB) & AES<br />

Availability: Fresh/Chilled/Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £100 booking fee + Stud fee £500+ vat<br />

Stands At: Brendon Stud, Haresdean Lane, Pyecombe,Sussex, BN45 7EG<br />

Contact: Shirley Light<br />

Tel: 07968847025<br />

Email: shirleyno2@hotmail.com<br />

Website: www.brendonstud.com<br />

Cheenook<br />

Glorieuze<br />

Caretino<br />

Trika<br />

Glorieux<br />

Carina<br />

Caletto II<br />

Isidor<br />

Romantika<br />

Heurige<br />

Goldstern<br />

Ehrwenna<br />

Calypso I<br />

Kaperei<br />

BRITISH BREEDER| 31


SHOWJUMPING STALLIONS<br />

In Association with<br />

Chrysler Key SR<br />

Chrysler is the ultimate sports model ,<br />

combining good looks, class, quality,<br />

super elastic paces and an athletic,<br />

careful jump with an abundance of<br />

scope & speed.<br />

He has Olympic medal winners in<br />

his pedigree on both sides. His sire<br />

Comme il Faut won over 1.6million<br />

euros under Marchus Ehning and<br />

he shares the same grandmother<br />

(Renaissance) as Verdi , winner of<br />

2.9 million euros under Mikael Van<br />

de Vleuten .<br />

He had a fantastic crop of foals in<br />

2021 and won The Competition<br />

Stallion award for being the top<br />

showjumping sire of 2021 in the<br />

<strong>British</strong> Breeding Virtual Evaluations.<br />

40<br />

He will be combining stud duties with<br />

competing for the <strong>2022</strong> season.<br />

2017 Dark Bay<br />

Height: 16.2hh (168cm)<br />

Stud Book: AES<br />

Grading: AES<br />

Test: WFFS negative Availability: Chiilled/Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £850 + vat NFFR<br />

Stands At: Rumer Stud Farm, Welford on Avon, Warks, CV37 8AF<br />

Contact: Carron Nicol<br />

Tel: 07768510963<br />

Email: esportshorses@gmail.com<br />

Website: www europeansportshorses.co.uk<br />

Comme Il Faut<br />

Renaissance VII<br />

Cornet Obolensky<br />

Ratina Z<br />

Calido I<br />

Renaissance<br />

Showjumping<br />

Clinton<br />

Rabanna van Costersveld<br />

Ramiro Z<br />

Argentina Z<br />

Cantus<br />

Baroness VII<br />

Calypso I<br />

Italien<br />

Colmar<br />

41<br />

2010 Grey<br />

Showjumping<br />

Colmar is a very beautiful and<br />

elegant horse with the most fantastic<br />

temperament. He has lovely paces<br />

and a superb jump. From a young<br />

age he showed his talent competing<br />

and being very successful in 5, 6 and<br />

7 year old classes. His pedigree is<br />

world famous and littered with top<br />

1.60m show jumpers. In the stable<br />

and at home, he is kind and well<br />

mannered. He hacks out alongside<br />

mares and ponies all over his home<br />

at the Hickstead showground. He has<br />

travelled all over the world and has<br />

competed at 1.60m level.<br />

His progeny are very exciting with<br />

the eldest being 6 years old and<br />

are competing in international age<br />

classes. His fertility is excellent and is<br />

available fresh, chilled and frozen.<br />

Career Highlights:<br />

1st CSI Grand Prix of Abu Dhabi<br />

2020,- 2nd CSI 1.45m/1.50m<br />

Shanghai 2019, 2nd CSI 1.45m<br />

Cannes 2019.<br />

His progeny are already jumping<br />

internationally and winning your<br />

horse classes. He has been selected<br />

by top Event breeders and used on<br />

TB mares to produce eventers.<br />

Height: 16.1hh (165cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.88<br />

Stud Book: SHB(GB)<br />

Grading: AES<br />

Availability: AI Fresh/Chilled/Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £600 + vat<br />

Stands At: Breen Equestrian, Hickstead, Sussex.<br />

Contact: Greg le Gear<br />

Tel: 07887783244<br />

Email: greglegear@gmail.com<br />

Website: www.breenequestrian.com<br />

Colestus<br />

Piretta<br />

Cornet Obolensky<br />

Spice Girl R<br />

Quidam's Rubin<br />

Pysella Z<br />

Clinton<br />

Rabanna van Costerveld<br />

Stakkato<br />

Pepito<br />

Quidam de Revel<br />

Helvecia<br />

Pythagorus Z<br />

Salamena<br />

Comfort<br />

Comfort became the 2015 acclaimed<br />

second reserve champion of the OS<br />

licensing in Vechta. He not only<br />

convinced the inspection commitee,<br />

but also the spectators. He always got<br />

along very well withthe distances of<br />

the free jumping series and performed<br />

outstandingly on all three days of the<br />

licensing. His sire, Christian, debuted<br />

at seven years old at advanced level,<br />

42<br />

achieving International success and<br />

now continues his unblemished career<br />

under Jamie Gornell in the UK. In<br />

2012 he achieved the highest scores<br />

in the Bundeschampion at finals for<br />

six year old jumpers. Comfort was the<br />

second son of Christian to be<br />

licensed, and also full brother to the<br />

six year old stallion Charlie Weasley.<br />

Comfort has strikingly good looks<br />

and a temperament to die for. He is<br />

athletic and bold, suiting a variety of<br />

mares. His progeny not only carry<br />

his good looks as he stamps them<br />

well, they also carry his athleticism<br />

and trainability. Comfort is proving<br />

exceptional in competition himself;<br />

He has won at1.25, producing super<br />

double clearsand now at 1.30m.<br />

2013 Brown<br />

Christian<br />

vienna<br />

Cartani<br />

Miss Liberty<br />

Last Liberty<br />

Avion<br />

Showjumping<br />

Height: 16.2hh (168cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.90<br />

Stud Book: Oldenburg<br />

Grading: AES, SHB(GB), OLD<br />

Test: WFFS negative Availability: Fresh/Chilled/Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £850<br />

Stands At: Caunton Manor Stud<br />

Contact: Victoria Wright<br />

Tel: 07966507205<br />

Email: victoria@cauntonmanorstud.com<br />

Website: www.cauntonmanorstud.com<br />

Carthago<br />

Taggi<br />

Lord Liberty<br />

Miss Playback<br />

lord Liberty<br />

Anmut<br />

Mythos<br />

Aleska Z<br />

32 | BRITISH BREEDER


SHOWJUMPING STALLIONS<br />

Sponsored by<br />

Donnarumma Blue Z<br />

43<br />

2018 Brown<br />

Showjumping<br />

Donnarumma Blue is a young,<br />

upcoming stallion with some very<br />

exciting names in his pedigree!<br />

Both his parents have successfully<br />

show jumped internationally. His sire,<br />

Dominator Z is an exciting young<br />

stallion himself, who is more than<br />

living up to his name in both sport<br />

and breeding. He is the perfect<br />

combination of size, blood, power<br />

and reflexes; a tall, large-framed<br />

stallion with boundless scope and<br />

ability. He combines the best of<br />

French and Holstein breeding, and<br />

the Thoroughbred Feenspross in the<br />

fourth generation adds the essential<br />

dash of blood into the pedigree.<br />

His Grandsire Diamant de Semilly<br />

topped the WBFSH Sire Rankings for<br />

the second time in 2016, having been<br />

inside the top ten since 2012. During<br />

his career, he was French national<br />

champion and WEG team gold<br />

medallist in 2002 & European team<br />

silver medallist in 2003.Donnarumma<br />

Blue's great grandsire Le Tot De<br />

Semilly won 22 international, and 63<br />

national grand prix classes. He was<br />

the first French horse to be sponsored<br />

by the French Equestrian Federation.<br />

Height: 16.2hh (168m)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide Online<br />

Stud Book: Zang<br />

Grading: Zang<br />

Test: WFFS negative Availability: Fresh/Chilled/Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £800 + vat<br />

Stands At: Elite Stallions<br />

Contact: Lorna Wilson<br />

Tel: 01837 880100 / 07969202174<br />

Email: info@elitestallions.com<br />

Website: www.elitestallions.com<br />

Dominator<br />

Cara<br />

Diamant De Semilly<br />

Cephalee 2000<br />

Chacco-Blue<br />

Picabo Street<br />

Le Tot de Semilly<br />

Venise Des Cresles<br />

Cassini I<br />

Nephale<br />

Chambertin<br />

Contara<br />

Poker<br />

Linkia<br />

Ecclestone Z<br />

44<br />

moment as one of the highlights of the<br />

Zangersheide Stallion Approval<br />

He is the carbon copy of his father<br />

only 1 m 70 in height. His character,<br />

his ability, his reflexes.<br />

His dam, Cinderella, is also a uterine<br />

sister of Escape Z. Cinderella has<br />

already two sons approved<br />

studbooks.<br />

2007 Chestnut<br />

Showjumping<br />

Height: 16.3hh (170cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.106<br />

Stud Book: Zang<br />

Grading: Zang/AES<br />

Availability: Chilled/Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £850 no vat Pregnancy Guarantee<br />

Stands At: Sports Horses Direct and available from Select Stallions<br />

Contact: Danielle Ryder<br />

Tel: 07792912539<br />

Email: cr.showjumping@gmail.com<br />

Website: www.sporthorsesdirect.co.uk<br />

Ecclestone Z is the new approved<br />

star available in the UK he is already<br />

approved by the Zangersheide<br />

Studbook in Belgium and is showing<br />

his exceptional talent under saddle.<br />

Ecclestone Z is one of the most talked<br />

about young stallions in Europe at the<br />

Ecclestone himself has already been<br />

used by some of the biggest breeders<br />

in Europe and has now become<br />

available to the breeders in the UK<br />

for chilled Semen<br />

An exciting opportunity for the <strong>British</strong><br />

Showjump breeder.<br />

Escape Z<br />

Cinderella Z<br />

Emerald vant Rutershof<br />

Promesse<br />

Cassini II<br />

Promesse<br />

Diamant de Semilly<br />

Carthina Z<br />

Heartbreaker<br />

Chablis<br />

Capitol I<br />

Wisma<br />

Heartbreaker<br />

Chablis<br />

Echo Van Het Neerenbosch<br />

45<br />

2004 Chestnut<br />

Showjumping<br />

Echo is a beautiful looking stallion<br />

with an outstanding temperament.<br />

He has a strong athletic build with<br />

very correct conformation and three<br />

elastic paces.<br />

He passes on his phenomenal scope<br />

and his perfectly careful technique.<br />

He was one of the most exciting<br />

young stallions to be approved with<br />

BWP winning numerous young horse<br />

and stallion finals nationally and<br />

internationally.<br />

Echo has excellent competition results<br />

upto 1.45m with Joana Schildknecht,<br />

Rachel Steffen & Giulia Martinengo.<br />

He currently has over 15 progeny<br />

competing at 1.45m or above;<br />

best known being Ikke Van Stal<br />

Cipa who competes at 1.60m with<br />

Kevin Staut. He has also sired the<br />

exciting approved stallion Joepie VD<br />

Wateringhoeve.<br />

His progeny inherit his power and<br />

scope with striking quality.<br />

Height: 16.2hh (168cm)<br />

Stud Book: BWP<br />

Grading: Approved AWP<br />

Availability: Fresh/Chilled<br />

Stud Fee: £600<br />

Stands At: Stallion AI Services<br />

Contact: Jake Saywell<br />

Tel: 01264 782716<br />

Email: jake@jakesaywell.com<br />

Website: www.jakesaywell.com<br />

Chin Chin<br />

Wika<br />

Constant<br />

Larese<br />

Kashmire van Schuttershof<br />

Thake That<br />

Cor de la Bryere<br />

Ella<br />

Farnese<br />

Cesta<br />

Nabab de Reve<br />

Fines van Kameren<br />

Heartbreaker<br />

Vika D79<br />

BRITISH BREEDER| 33


SHOWJUMPING STALLIONS<br />

In Association with<br />

Envoy Merelsnest Z<br />

‘Dime Bar’ as he is known at home,<br />

is bred from a special mare, the same<br />

mother as Don VHP Z and<br />

Carlos VHP!!!! Probably the only<br />

mare to have two offspring in the top<br />

ten in the world.<br />

The sire, Elvis Ter Putte is an approved<br />

son of Diamant de Semilly out of a<br />

Darco x Quidam de Revel motherline.<br />

He shows tremendous scope and<br />

carefulness when free jumped; he has<br />

super natural cadence and a<br />

great trainability under saddle.<br />

He has successfully competed BS in<br />

young horse classes including<br />

championship shows at Hickstead,<br />

Addington, Pyecombe, Bolesworth<br />

and Arena UK showing great<br />

trainability and attitude at shows.<br />

He is now competing in 1.40m<br />

classes. BE Actual winnings £1367<br />

Points 503<br />

46<br />

His first foals are all stunning - leggy<br />

and tall with correct conformation.<br />

2013 Brown<br />

Height: 16.3hh (170cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide Online<br />

Stud Book: Zang<br />

Grading: Licensed <strong>Breeder</strong>s Elite<br />

Availability: Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £100 booking fee + Stud fee £500+ vat<br />

Stands At: Brendon Stud, Haresdean Lane, Pyecombe,Sussex, BN45 7EG<br />

Contact: Shirley Light<br />

Tel: 07968847025<br />

Email: shirleyno2@hotmail.com<br />

Website: www.brendonstud.com<br />

Elvis Ter Putte<br />

Sara ch Parelshof<br />

Diamant de Semilly<br />

Ukase Ter Putte<br />

Voltaire<br />

Etsina<br />

Showjumping<br />

Le Tot de Semilly<br />

Venise des Cresles<br />

Darco<br />

Quinette Ter Putte<br />

Furioso II<br />

Gogo Move<br />

Ramiro Z<br />

Tsarina<br />

Espeshelli<br />

47<br />

2018 Bay<br />

Showjumping<br />

<strong>British</strong> Bred by Castel Stud in Wales<br />

and bought as a foal.<br />

This new talent has just been sold into<br />

partnership with former world number<br />

1 Harrie Smolders.<br />

Already started his first official<br />

competition with a fabulous clear<br />

This young <strong>British</strong> Bred super star<br />

combines outstanding bloodlines with<br />

superb temperament ,reflexes and<br />

athletic body ; all the attributes to go<br />

to the highest level in the sport. He<br />

also possesses a great will to want to<br />

perform at such a young age . An old<br />

head on young shoulders .<br />

Harrie Smolders ( former world<br />

number 1 ) says of Espeshelli.<br />

"I am excited to become a joint owner<br />

of this young stallion. He looks very<br />

exciting for future. Horses with these<br />

qualities are hard to find at his age "<br />

Danielle Ryder joint owner " He has<br />

power , reflexes and find jumping so<br />

easy. He travels forwards to<br />

the widest oxers and he loves to<br />

perform . He reminds me a lot of<br />

Escape Z as a young horse "<br />

We are delighted that we can offer<br />

this exciting <strong>British</strong> Bred stallion to UK<br />

breeders early in his career<br />

Height: 16.1hh (164cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.114<br />

Stud Book: AES<br />

Grading: Licensed AES<br />

Availability: Chilled/Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £800 no vat Pregnancy Guarantee<br />

Stands At: Sports Horses Direct<br />

Contact: Danielle Ryder<br />

Tel: 07792912539<br />

Email: cr.showjumping@gmail.com<br />

Website: www.sporthorsesdirect.co.uk<br />

Zambesi TN<br />

Boselli<br />

Heartbreaker<br />

Calanda Z<br />

Karandasj<br />

Toselli<br />

Nimmerdor<br />

Bacarole<br />

Calvaro Z<br />

Alanda<br />

Fedor<br />

Corrie<br />

Madison<br />

Oselli<br />

Golden Hawk<br />

Comfort became the 2015 acclaimed<br />

second reserve champion of the OS<br />

licensing in Vechta. He not only<br />

convinced the inspection commitee,<br />

but also the spectators. He always got<br />

along very well withthe distances of<br />

the free jumping series and performed<br />

outstandingly on all three days of the<br />

licensing. His sire, Christian, debuted<br />

48<br />

at seven years old at advanced level,<br />

achieving International success and<br />

now continues his unblemished career<br />

under Jamie Gornell in the UK. In<br />

2012 he achieved the highest scores<br />

in the Bundeschampion at finals for<br />

six year old jumpers. Comfort was the<br />

second son of Christian to be<br />

licensed, and also full brother to the<br />

six year old stallion Charlie Weasley.<br />

Comfort has strikingly good looks<br />

and a temperament to die for. He is<br />

athletic and bold, suiting a variety of<br />

mares. His progeny not only carry<br />

his good looks as he stamps them<br />

well, they also carry his athleticism<br />

and trainability. Comfort is proving<br />

exceptional in competition himself;<br />

He has won at1.25, producing super<br />

double clearsand now at 1.30m.<br />

2005 Chestnut<br />

Vigo D'Arsouilles<br />

Ta Belle Van Sombeke<br />

Nabab De Reve<br />

Illico D'Arsouilles<br />

Chin Chin<br />

La Belle Van Sombeke<br />

Showjumping<br />

Height: 16.2hh (167cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.142<br />

Stud Book: <strong>Breeder</strong>s Elite/AES<br />

Grading: Elite Approved AES, <strong>Breeder</strong>s Elite & Selle Francais<br />

Availability: Chilled/Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £850<br />

Stands At: Breen Equestrian, Hickstead, Sussex.<br />

Contact: Greg le Gear<br />

Tel: 07887783244<br />

Email: greglegear@gmail.com<br />

Website: www.breenequestrian.com<br />

Quidam de Revel<br />

Merlodie En Fa<br />

Fleurie De Manoir<br />

Venzin D'Arsouilles<br />

Constant<br />

Larese<br />

Goliath Z<br />

Verina<br />

34 | BRITISH BREEDER


SHOWJUMPING STALLIONS<br />

Sponsored by<br />

Hocus Pocus<br />

49<br />

2018 Brown<br />

Showjumping<br />

Hocus Pocus competed at<br />

international level at 1.35m.<br />

Hocus Pocus is a <strong>British</strong> bred Dutch<br />

Warmblood (KWPN) born in 2012.<br />

He is an Anglo European Studbook<br />

(AES) Approved stallion and has<br />

outstanding and proven bloodlines<br />

on both sides of his pedigree. His sire<br />

is the Dutch Warmblood Zambesi,<br />

son of the legendary Heartbreaker<br />

and a Calvaro Z mare. His Damsire<br />

is the Selle Francais Vancouver and<br />

his Granddam brings Silvio 1 and<br />

Concorde into the mix too. Hocus<br />

Pocus has superb conformation and<br />

paces, an athletic and powerful jump,<br />

together with a laid back nature in<br />

the stable and fantastic attitude to<br />

his work.<br />

As a 3 year old Hocus Pocus<br />

achieved an Elite score at the <strong>British</strong><br />

Futurity Evaluations making him the<br />

highest scoring youngster shown that<br />

year. Bred & competed by, Joseph<br />

Hughes-Jones he has moved up<br />

through the age classes & is now<br />

competing & being placed at<br />

national & international level at<br />

1.35m<br />

Height: 16.2hh (168m)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.152<br />

Stud Book: KWPN<br />

Grading: AES Approved<br />

Test: WFFS negative Availability: Fresh/Chilled/Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £600 no vat Chilled, £470 no vat + postage (3 straws) Frozen<br />

Stands At: Walk in to Stallions AI Services<br />

Contact: Joseph Huges-Jones<br />

Tel: 07784854786<br />

Email: info@teamh-j.com<br />

Website: www.teamh-j.com<br />

Zambesi TN<br />

Della Testa Rossa<br />

Heartbreaker<br />

Calanda Z<br />

Vancouver<br />

Nolinda<br />

Nimmerdor<br />

Bacarole<br />

Calvaro Z<br />

Alanda<br />

Le Tot de Semilly<br />

Perpetua Du Crocq<br />

Silvio I<br />

Jolinda<br />

Kantairo WW<br />

Kantairo's sire Kannan was the No.1<br />

best jumping stallion in the world for<br />

2014 and is still in the top 7.<br />

Kantairo’s dam line produced a<br />

number of successful show jumpers,<br />

combining the “Euro-Classics”<br />

Ramiro and Alme. In the fourth<br />

generation stand the great Holstein<br />

sires Amor and Porter, who both gave<br />

50<br />

Holland’s show-jumping breeding a<br />

great boost. He represents the dutch<br />

mother line 153 which also<br />

produced the successful stallions<br />

Flyinge Electro, Harvester and<br />

Ijsselmeer.<br />

Huge careful jump with exceptional<br />

technique, his first foals are elegant,<br />

long legged and athletic.<br />

Airo already has a fan club due to<br />

his stunning looks and personality, he<br />

has all his double clears for<br />

Newcomers, Foxhunter and jumping<br />

double clears 1.30, Airo has jumped<br />

34 double clears in 2021.<br />

2014 Grey<br />

Kannan<br />

J-Force W<br />

Voltaire<br />

Cemeta<br />

Cicero Z<br />

Pivoli<br />

Showjumping<br />

Height: 16.1hh (165cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.166<br />

Stud Book: AES<br />

Grading: Licensed AES<br />

Test: WFFS negative Availability: Fresh / Chilled / Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £760 + vat NFFR<br />

Stands At: Kings Oak Stud, Ampfield, Hants, SQ51 9BD<br />

Contact: Gerda Weston - Weston Warmbloods<br />

Tel: 01794367570/07824308511<br />

Email: info@westonwarmbloods.co.uk<br />

Website: www.westonwarmbloods.co.uk<br />

Furioso II<br />

Gogo Moeve<br />

Nimmerdor<br />

Wozierta<br />

Carthago Z<br />

Rendez-vous van Paemel<br />

Concorde<br />

Tivoli<br />

Klent Spot On<br />

51<br />

2016 Chestnut<br />

Showjumping<br />

Kung Foo, as he is known at home, is<br />

homebred by Warrior. Warrior is a<br />

son of Tangelo v/d Zuuthoeve x<br />

Heartbreaker, who competed at the<br />

London Olympics and Global Tour<br />

shows, before being sold he won<br />

numerous classes here in the UK with<br />

Louise Pavitt, including Hickstead,<br />

Royal Windsor, HOYS and RIHS.<br />

Kung Foo's dam, Sussex Caretino, is a<br />

1.50m International Grade A, ridden<br />

by Philip Miller and Louise Pavitt.<br />

She is a prolific winner in the UK and<br />

has bred several foals by embryo<br />

transfer,. She is by Caretino Glory,<br />

who himslef is a 1.60m jumper. Great<br />

grand sire, Hamilton III, was also a<br />

Grade A jumping stallion and has<br />

proven to be a super dam sire for us.<br />

Kung Foo has successfully competed<br />

BS in young horses classes including<br />

championship shows at Hickstead,<br />

Pyecombe and Bolesworth showing<br />

great trainability and attitude at<br />

shows. He is a double clear machine<br />

with phenomenal scope and power.<br />

His temperament is fantastic too. He<br />

will continue with young horse classes<br />

in <strong>2022</strong>. He is full brother to Klent<br />

Kick On, half to Klaris Giddy-Up<br />

Height: 17hh (171cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p,176<br />

Stud Book: <strong>Breeder</strong>s Elite<br />

Grading: Licensed <strong>Breeder</strong>s Elite<br />

Availability: Fresh/Chilled/Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £100 booking fee + Stud fee £500+ vat scanned in foal<br />

Stands At: Brendon Stud, Haresdean Lane, Pyecombe,Sussex, BN45 7EG<br />

Contact: Shirley Light<br />

Tel: 07968847025<br />

Email: shirleyno2@hotmail.com<br />

Website: www.brendonstud.com<br />

Warrior<br />

Sussex Caretino<br />

Tangelo vd Zuuthoeve<br />

Olympia vd Krekebeke<br />

Caretino Glory<br />

Special to Me<br />

Fairplay III<br />

Gemini<br />

Laudanum<br />

Racyona Z<br />

Cheenook<br />

Glorieuse<br />

Hamilton III<br />

Tropicana<br />

BRITISH BREEDER| 35


SHOWJUMPING STALLIONS<br />

In Association with<br />

Lauderdale NS<br />

Lauderdale offers the whole package.<br />

Power, scope and carefulness,<br />

correct conformation, expressive<br />

paces and a superb trainable nature.<br />

His unique pedigree also sports<br />

some of the best bloodlines in the<br />

world, with a damline boasting<br />

proven performance in truly top<br />

level sport. His sire Levisto Z needs<br />

no introduction. Twice ‘Sires of the<br />

World’ Champion, World Cup finalist<br />

52<br />

and European Championship team<br />

member who enjoyed many years<br />

success at the highest level. He has<br />

over 20 offspring at 1.60m level and<br />

over 30 approved sons. Levisto’s dam<br />

Hirtin was herself successful at 1.60m<br />

level and is maternal sister to<br />

the renowned stallions Clinton I and<br />

II, and further top level showjumpers<br />

Clintus and Clinton III. Lauderdale’s<br />

dam Wish brings the blood of<br />

Heartbreaker and Grannus through<br />

her sire Padinus, who was ranked<br />

No1 in the KWPN jumping index<br />

for 4-6 year old stallions prior to his<br />

untimely death. Her all-important<br />

damline is truly exceptional. Wish is<br />

maternal sister to 1.60m Grand Prix<br />

horse Cacharel.<br />

2016 Grey<br />

Height: 16.3hh (170cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.182<br />

Stud Book: Zang<br />

Grading: Licensed AES<br />

Availability: AI Fresh/Chilled/Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £600+ vat LFG<br />

Stands At: Clements Equine, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP31 1AB<br />

Contact: Charlotte Clements<br />

Tel: 07792 580708 / 01359 251233<br />

Email: charlotte@clementsequine.com<br />

Website: www.clementsequine.com<br />

Levisto Z<br />

Wish<br />

Leandro<br />

Hirtin<br />

Padinus<br />

Shalimar<br />

Showjumping<br />

Landgraf I<br />

Idura<br />

Carolus I<br />

Waage I<br />

Heartbreaker<br />

Ladina<br />

Clinton<br />

Bella<br />

Moonraker<br />

53<br />

2011 Black<br />

Showjumping<br />

Moonraker’s father Fantaland has<br />

produced so many Showjumpers the<br />

most notable being Moonraker and<br />

Vistogrand who are both competing<br />

at 1.50m level and Goldeneye at<br />

1.45m .<br />

Moonraker has a lovely<br />

temperament, is easy to handle and<br />

always gives his best . As a young<br />

horse he won the 4yrs Final at The<br />

National Championships which<br />

was judged by Ernest Dillon and<br />

the late Tim Stockdale and he then<br />

went on to win the best <strong>British</strong> bred<br />

showjumper award at Hartpury at the<br />

<strong>British</strong> Young Horse finals . Now he<br />

is consistently competing at 1.50m<br />

internationally.<br />

He will be combining stud duties with<br />

competing for the <strong>2022</strong> season<br />

Height: 17hh (172cm)<br />

Stud Book: AES<br />

Grading: AES<br />

Test: WFFS negative Availability: Chiilled/Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £650 + vat NFFR<br />

Stands At: Rumer Stud Farm, Welford on Avon, Warks, CV37 8AF<br />

Contact: Carron Nicol<br />

Tel: 07768510963<br />

Email: esportshorses@gmail.com<br />

Website: www europeansportshorses.co.uk<br />

Fantaland<br />

Lemonda<br />

Landjonker<br />

Fantasia<br />

Remondo<br />

Lisandra<br />

Landjunge<br />

Weisse Dame<br />

Noncorde<br />

Kanimata<br />

Renaldo<br />

First Lady<br />

Gepard<br />

Lisa<br />

Pandito Van't Merelsnest Z<br />

Wifi as he is known at home is a<br />

stallion with a phenomenal pedigree,<br />

talent to match and a great attitude.<br />

He is a good looking horse with<br />

a pretty head; he has scope,<br />

carefulness, movement, type and<br />

presence. He is by the super sire,<br />

Plot Blue who was a prolific winner<br />

at 1.60m for Marcus Ehning, his wins<br />

54<br />

included the Geneva World Cup<br />

final, Gold medal at the Kentucky<br />

WEG, Team Bronze at Windsor<br />

European Championships, numerous<br />

Nation Cup clears and GCT GP wins<br />

in Vienna and Cannes. Grand sire;<br />

Mr Blue is also the sire of Simon and<br />

Zirocco Blue among many more. The<br />

grand dam, Ilotte is also the dam to<br />

the KEUR GP stallion, Oklund.Wifi’s<br />

dam, Ianthe is by Larino, himself a<br />

1.60m stallion that competed at great<br />

shows such as The Hague, Rotterdam,<br />

Mechelen and Valkenswaard.<br />

Wifi has successfully competed BS<br />

in young horse classes including<br />

championship shows at Hickstead,<br />

Pyecombe, Bolesworth and Arena<br />

UK showing great trainability and<br />

attitude at shows.<br />

2015 Brown<br />

Plot Blue<br />

Ianthe van't Merelsnest<br />

Mr Blue<br />

Ilotte<br />

Larino<br />

Relindi van't Merelsnest<br />

Showjumping<br />

Height: 16.3hh (170cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.198<br />

Stud Book: Zang<br />

Grading: Licensed <strong>Breeder</strong>s Elite<br />

Availability: Fresh/Chilled/Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £100 booking fee + Stud fee £600+ vat<br />

Stands At: Brendon Stud, Haresdean Lane, Pyecombe,Sussex, BN45 7EG<br />

Contact: Shirley Light<br />

Tel: 07968847025<br />

Email: shirleyno2@hotmail.com<br />

Website: www.brendonstud.com<br />

Couperus<br />

Acarla<br />

Pilot<br />

Santa Fee<br />

Concorde<br />

Erina<br />

Darco<br />

Chiquita<br />

36 | BRITISH BREEDER


SHOWJUMPING STALLIONS<br />

Sponsored by<br />

Regal Caretino<br />

55<br />

2017 Bay<br />

Showjumping<br />

his exciting young stallion has a<br />

superb temperament, is highly athletic<br />

and stands at 17.2hh. He was a<br />

finalist in the Bolesworth 4yos<br />

jumping clear every day. He then<br />

went on to be joint winner in the<br />

Hickstead 4yo Final.He has the same<br />

superb damline as Regal Don, who is<br />

currently with Shane Breen jumping<br />

1.50m.His dam, Sebastian’s First ,<br />

competed up to 1.40m before joining<br />

the Brendon Stud breeding herd. She<br />

is a sound scopey mare by Sebastian<br />

III [Mermus] who Scott Brash<br />

campaigned to 5* International level.<br />

The Grand dam, Queen of Queens<br />

is also dam to Jess Mendoza’s<br />

International 4* horse, Zelah.<br />

Great grand sire, Hamilton III was<br />

also a Grade A jumping stallion and<br />

has proven to be a super dam sire for<br />

Brendon Stud. Regal Caretino is by<br />

Caretino Glory, who can be found on<br />

page 70; he needs little introduction<br />

as a consistent prize winner himself<br />

and now a proven sire of both<br />

Showjumpers and Eventers.<br />

He is also half brother to the<br />

prolific 5* winning mare, Gloria vd<br />

Zuuthoeve.<br />

Height: 17.2hh (178cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide P.210<br />

Stud Book: <strong>Breeder</strong>s Elite<br />

Grading: Licensed <strong>Breeder</strong>s Elite<br />

Availability: Chilled<br />

Stud Fee: £100 booking fee + Stud fee £400+ vat<br />

Stands At: Brendon Stud, Haresdean Lane, Pyecombe,Sussex, BN45 7EG<br />

Contact: Shirley Light<br />

Tel: 07968847025<br />

Email: shirleyno2@hotmail.com<br />

Website: www.brendonstud.com<br />

Caretino Glory<br />

Sebastian's First<br />

Cheenook<br />

Glorieuze<br />

Sebastian III<br />

Queen of Queens<br />

Caretino<br />

Trika<br />

Glorieux<br />

Carina<br />

Mermus R<br />

Nellie<br />

Hamilton III<br />

Zarlaqueen<br />

Ynslyns Orlando<br />

Orlando is not your traditional<br />

Section D - he is able to offer bone<br />

and substance to a lighter TB or WB<br />

mare whilst also being able to refine<br />

a more traditional D or heavier mare.<br />

This combined with his exceptional<br />

temperament and versatility under<br />

saddle means that he really is<br />

always a good choice. And you<br />

get the added bonus of being able<br />

to predict the colour of your foal! A<br />

56<br />

chestnut mare will always guarantee<br />

a palomino, whereas a bay or<br />

black mare can produce a buckskin,<br />

palomino or smokey black foal.<br />

Orlando is WPCS licensed and is<br />

graded with the SPSS, taking Central<br />

Grading Champion for 2020<br />

and Reserve Champion for Britain<br />

2020. He is also the first Section D in<br />

AES history to be graded with the<br />

society - a true sports D! At both<br />

gradings he gained fabulous marks<br />

but the stand out would have to be<br />

9's and 10's for his jumping ability<br />

and an 8.75 for his canter work.<br />

He is the type of stallion who will sire<br />

a foal who can go out and do a nice<br />

medium dressage test on Saturday &<br />

a 1.10m showjumping on Sunday.<br />

2011 Cremello<br />

Hendrewen Meredith<br />

Dwyfor Golden Charm<br />

Sports Pony -Showjumping<br />

Height: 15hh (152cm)<br />

Competition Stallions Guide p.266<br />

Stud Book: WPCS<br />

Grading: AES, SPSS, WPCS<br />

Availability: Chilled/Frozen<br />

Stud Fee: £550 no vat Chilled, £400 no vat Frozen<br />

Stands At: Sports Horses Direct and available from Select Stallions<br />

Contact: Amy Derber<br />

Tel: 07791309011<br />

Email: indygogirl@gmail.com<br />

Website: www.risadastud.co.uk<br />

Lodor Llewellyn AP Meredith<br />

Hendrewen Dawn the 2nd<br />

Dwyfor Sunrise<br />

Dwyfor Gwanwyn<br />

Paith Magical Meredith<br />

Lodor Conni<br />

Hendrewen Dundee<br />

Derwen Dyma Hi<br />

Plasybryn Twm Flyer Replica<br />

Dwyfor Sabrina<br />

Foryd Welsh Flyer<br />

Dwyfor Guinevere<br />

BRITISH BREEDER| 37


38 | BRITISH BREEDER


BRITISH BREEDER| 39


BRITISH BREEDING<br />

Baileys Virtual<br />

40 | BRITISH BREEDER


BRITISH BREEDING<br />

Baileys<br />

BRITISH BREEDER| 41


42 | BRITISH BREEDER


BRITISH BREEDER| 43


Producer Profile - Elite Dressage<br />

Elite<br />

Dressage<br />

Beth Bainbridge in Le Mans<br />

The Elite dressage team is one of the UK’s<br />

leading competition sales and breeding<br />

stabled in the U.K. headed up by<br />

international dressage rider and former<br />

<strong>British</strong> championship team member Anna<br />

Ross. Working in close collaboration with<br />

Elite Stallions, Newton Stud and Equus<br />

vets they have an extensive breeding<br />

program using top sports mares for<br />

embryo transfer.<br />

Head rider Beth Bainbridge and<br />

international Grand Prix competitor Alex<br />

Baker are key members of the<br />

management team . Together the team<br />

produce horses and riders to international<br />

Championship team levels for sales and<br />

competition from their base in Devon.<br />

In 2021 the team had a a vintage year<br />

with Beth winning the five-year-old<br />

championship with Newton Tiger and the<br />

Intermediate Freestyle at Le Mans CDI in<br />

France with Habouche. Anna had a top<br />

four placing in the Grand Prix Freestyle<br />

at the BD National championships and<br />

second place in Le Mans, France with<br />

Newton Domino and finished the year<br />

with victories at the High Profile show<br />

at Keysoe International with Habouche.<br />

Alex had a top 4 four placing in the small<br />

place small final of the World<br />

Championships for young horses and was<br />

reserve champion at the BD nationals with<br />

Newton Tiger. She was selected for the<br />

Irish European championship team with<br />

her own horse Dutchman.<br />

These celebrated sports mares are all part<br />

of the embryo transfer program and have<br />

bred over 15 foals between them whilst<br />

seamlessly continuing their sports careers.<br />

Anna , Beth and Alex are assisted by a<br />

team of talented up-and-coming riders<br />

at Elite Dressage who train and compete<br />

the sales horses at National level and<br />

are well on the way becoming serious<br />

competitors in their own right.<br />

Beth Bainbridge will be the ride assessor<br />

for the Equine bridge running forward her<br />

knowledge of training a myriad of horses<br />

to Championship level.<br />

She will present the German Licensing<br />

champion Blue Hors Zackorado in the<br />

stallion show as he stands in the UK at<br />

Elite stallions breeders and ride in the<br />

masterclass with 5* judge Isobel Wessels.<br />

44 | BRITISH BREEDER


Report - Elite Dressage<br />

Impressions from Le Mans<br />

Title here<br />

Anna and her Team at Elite Dressage<br />

BRITISH BREEDER| 45


Building excellence<br />

for you and your horse<br />

Equine Reproduction Centre<br />

Artificial Insemination<br />

Embryo Transfer<br />

Transported Embryo Service<br />

Complete Projects | Indoor Arenas<br />

Outdoor Arenas | Stables & Shelters<br />

Gallops & Fencing | Horse Walkers<br />

Concrete Bases & Groundworks<br />

Design & Layout | 30 years’ Experience<br />

Planning Application Management<br />

Free Consultation<br />

A TOTAL design and build solution<br />

for all your equestrian projects<br />

01380 818216 • info@teconstruction<br />

www.teconstruction.co.uk<br />

OPU/ICSI<br />

Infertility Investigations<br />

Foaling Unit<br />

Resident Specialist Stud<br />

Contact<br />

shonaferguson@twemlows.co.uk <br />

Whitchurch,<br />

Shropshire,<br />

SY13 2EZ<br />

Tel: 01948 664966<br />

www.twemlows.co.uk<br />

www.facebook.com/twemlows <br />

46 | BRITISH BREEDER


Stunning Advanced & Pony Stallions at Stud <strong>2022</strong><br />

Britannia's Mail<br />

Britannia's Bijou<br />

Proven Advanced eventer by Olympic Show Jumper<br />

Jaguar Mail out of triple 5* winner Olympic medallist<br />

Headley Britannia<br />

16.1hh Bay 7/8 TB born 2008. SHB(GB) Approved AES<br />

Excellent proven fertility. Stud Fee: £800+vat<br />

Eventing bloodlines in the purple. Out of Bella Britannia,<br />

daughter of legendary eventer Headley Britannia, by<br />

top Riding pony stallion Littledale Bright Star<br />

15.1hh Bay 7/8 TB x Riding pony born 2017. SHB(GB) Gold,<br />

SPSS Gold Premium. Proven fertility. Stud Fee: £350+vat<br />

Fresh, chilled and frozen semen available. Standing at Tomlinson Equine, Gloucestershire.<br />

Contact marketing@lucindafredericks.com / 01380 816636 www.lucindafredericks.com/stallion-services<br />

LEADERS IN EQUINE<br />

REPRODUCTIVE SERVICES<br />

✔ Artificial Insemination (fresh, chilled and frozen semen)<br />

✔ Embryo Transfer<br />

✔ OPU and shipping for ICSI<br />

✔ Semen collection, evaluation, distribution and freezing<br />

✔ Infertility investigations<br />

✔ World class hospital facilities and specialist expertise<br />

✔ Neonatal and older foal intensive care<br />

✔ BEVA approved state-of-the-art laboratory<br />

Contact our BEVA approved team of<br />

dedicated stud vets to discuss your requirements<br />

on 01638 663150, or practice@rossdales.com<br />

ROSSDALES VETERINARY SURGEONS,<br />

Beaufort Cottage Stables, High Street, Newmarket, CB8 8JS<br />

www.rossdales.com<br />

BRITISH BREEDER| 47


Studbook News - AES<br />

Tantoni Salamanca<br />

OCD DNA Test Available to all<br />

AES <strong>Breeder</strong>s and Stallion<br />

Owners<br />

of all ages, from foals and youngstock to<br />

broodmares and stallions.<br />

How does it work?<br />

For the <strong>2022</strong> season we are delighted<br />

to announce a very exciting step in our<br />

studbook development aimed at offering<br />

our breeders and stallion owners the<br />

very best service and state-of-the art<br />

support in breeding talented, healthy<br />

and happy equine athletes. We will be<br />

delighted to be working with our friends<br />

at the KWPN who have been carrying<br />

out groundbreaking work in developing<br />

reliable breeding values to promote<br />

equine health. We are proud to become<br />

the first UK studbook to offer a DNA test<br />

to determine a horse’s breeding value for<br />

osteochondrosis.<br />

Says Studbook Representative and Vice<br />

President of the World Breeding<br />

Federation for Sport Horses,<br />

Dr Eva-Maria Broomer:<br />

“We are delighted to have established<br />

an excellent relationship with the KWPN,<br />

with whom we are jointly leading the<br />

Marketing Department at the WBFSH<br />

and with whom we share many key<br />

values, such as our desire to promote the<br />

breeding of healthy and sound horses<br />

capable of enjoying a long and happy<br />

career in the sport. We are grateful to the<br />

KWPN for making this exciting opportunity<br />

available to our breeders. Analyses<br />

of our studbook database and pedigrees<br />

have shown that our breeding lines are<br />

close enough to permit reliable testing<br />

and calculation of breeding values.”<br />

The test will be available to AES horses<br />

The DNA-test requires a hair-sample<br />

(with roots) that can be taken by your<br />

vet, for example when they microchip<br />

your foal and complete the sketch form,<br />

or by one of our studbook inspectors or<br />

representatives. You will be notified as<br />

soon as your results are available, and<br />

we will send you a report via email or in<br />

the post.<br />

You will receive a Genomic Breeding<br />

Value, which indicates the likelihood of<br />

your horse having a genetic<br />

predisposition to develop or potentially<br />

pass on OCD. If your horse’s Genomic<br />

Breeding Value OC is higher than 95 he<br />

or she will become eligible for a Select<br />

Studbook Health Premium.<br />

48 | BRITISH BREEDER


Studbook - News<br />

We will make the test available to all<br />

newly licensed stallions as a reliable<br />

alternative to x-rays.<br />

Studbook Evaluator Lucy Simpson<br />

explains:<br />

“When we see signs of OCD on an<br />

x-ray, we still cannot know for sure if<br />

these have developed as a result of a<br />

heritable propensity to develop the<br />

disease, or whether this is down to<br />

environmental or developmental issues.<br />

This uncertainty can be very frustrating,<br />

particularly when a horse otherwise<br />

shows no soundness issues. The test is<br />

focused on heredity and determines a<br />

horse’s ability to pass on OC to any<br />

offspring. We are delighted that the<br />

DNA test can therefore offer a sensible<br />

and reliable alternative to assess the<br />

suitability of breeding animals, stallions<br />

and broodmares alike.”<br />

The advantages of DNA testing are<br />

clear. The test can already be done on a<br />

foal, which gives owners and breeders<br />

valuable information about the future<br />

direction for their horse. The result of the<br />

DNA test, which is expressed in an easily<br />

interpreted Genomic Breeding Value<br />

(GFW OC), has been found by the<br />

KWPN to be three times more reliable<br />

for breeding purposes than<br />

“conventional” assessments.<br />

What are Breeding Values?<br />

In order to understand and interpret the<br />

OCD test results, it is important to<br />

explore how breeding values are<br />

calculated, and what they represent.<br />

Breeding values are calculated by first<br />

observing a large reference population<br />

with known phenotypes and<br />

genotypes, in the case of OCD,<br />

horses with and without OCD findings.<br />

By relating detailed DNA profiles of<br />

horses to their physical properties, we<br />

can identify correlations, which form the<br />

basis for understanding the likelihood of<br />

other horses who carry the same genetic<br />

markers to develop those same traits,<br />

i.e. in this instance OCD.<br />

In order to calculate a breeding value,<br />

studbooks can use data about a stallion<br />

or mare’s progeny, including national<br />

and international performance records<br />

and linear profiles.<br />

These can be collated to identify the<br />

phenotype and performance<br />

characteristics that the horse appears to<br />

be most likely to pass on. method used to<br />

create indices for various characteristics<br />

for breeding animals within a<br />

population. A common index is based<br />

on a deviation from 100, which is the<br />

population norm so an index of 120 is<br />

above the norm, whereas an index of 80<br />

indicates an animal below the norm.<br />

As the development of OCD in horses is<br />

also subject to a wide range<br />

environmental influences, from nutrition<br />

of the broodmare all the way to<br />

ongoing management, these values are<br />

an estimation.<br />

Since there is large variability among<br />

individuals - even closely related<br />

individuals - large data sets are required<br />

to develop the benchmark index.<br />

Historically, studbooks have been<br />

working with their own separate data<br />

sets. As many of the most successful and<br />

popular stallions are graded with<br />

multiple studbooks, and produce<br />

offspring all over the world, it makes<br />

perfect sense to work together across<br />

different studbooks to share data and<br />

experiences.<br />

Says Dr Eva-Maria Broomer:<br />

“The fragmentation and relatively small<br />

breeding populations of sports horses in<br />

the UK have been a challenge when it<br />

comes to calculating reliable breeding<br />

values and promote genomic selection<br />

as a way of developing sports horse<br />

breeding in this country.<br />

This is why we have invested a lot of<br />

energy in supporting cross-studbook<br />

initiatives, such as the <strong>British</strong> Breeding<br />

Futurity. Our OCD DNA testing project<br />

with the KWPN is another great example<br />

how we can take leaps ahead by<br />

working together.”<br />

Anglo European Studbook<br />

info@angloeuropeanstudbook.co.uk<br />

BRITISH BREEDER| 49


Studbook News - WBS<br />

FURISTO – WH-1<br />

First BWBS Licenced Stallion<br />

we know today. Renamed in 2005 when<br />

Debbie and her husband retired and<br />

moved to South Africa, the past nearly<br />

half-century has seen a total of well over<br />

420 stallions graded with the Society<br />

(including 48 <strong>British</strong> Sports Horses and<br />

12 ponies) with an increasing number<br />

of them being <strong>British</strong>-bred (including a<br />

number with BHHS passports), although<br />

imported stallions or <strong>British</strong> bred<br />

stallions with foreign passports still tend<br />

to predominate, now the foreign<br />

studbooks are unable to register in the<br />

UK, <strong>British</strong> studbooks will take the credit<br />

for these home bred animals. The mare<br />

studbook Is equally distinguished and<br />

for a mare to be given Select status in<br />

the WBSUK mare’s book is an honour<br />

indeed. The most recent WBSUK grading<br />

took place on 6th November 2021 at<br />

Home Farm, Theddingworth. Judged by<br />

Katy Holder-Vale and Hans Heinrich<br />

Bruning. Eleven stallions came forward<br />

for assessment.<br />

Feinster Prinz<br />

With the Warmblood <strong>Breeder</strong>s Studbook<br />

UK (formerly the <strong>British</strong> Warm-Blood<br />

Society) now fast approaching its 45th<br />

birthday it is probably a good time to<br />

remind people of its origins and early<br />

years as many of its ground-breaking<br />

innovations are now regarded as almost<br />

commonplace by breeders of sports<br />

horses and ponies in the UK.<br />

Founded in 1977 by American-born Mrs<br />

Debbie Wallin and her Swedish husband<br />

Anders when they moved to the UK from<br />

Denmark and found no studbook in the<br />

country would accept their performance<br />

tested Danish, Hannoverian and<br />

Swedish warmblood mares into their<br />

breeding registers or consider their<br />

outstanding young Danish Warmblood<br />

colt Atlantus as a breeding stallion, the<br />

then <strong>British</strong> Warm-Blood Society soon<br />

found favour with a top class group of<br />

competition-minded breeders including<br />

Jane Kidd (Maple Stud with Maple Duel<br />

and Maple courier), Jennie<br />

Loriston-Clarke (Catherston Stud with<br />

Dutch Courage and Dutch Gold), Fred<br />

Welch (owner of the international<br />

showjumper Interpol) and Marie Smith<br />

(owner of the first stallion in the BWBS<br />

book, the Hannoverian Furisto). These<br />

pioneers were soon followed by Mrs E<br />

M Kirby and her well-known 100-day<br />

tested Hannoverian stallion Akkord and<br />

the Holme Grove Stud with their first<br />

stallion Istanbul.<br />

With such an illustrious beginnings it is<br />

perhaps not surprising that the past 45<br />

years have been starred with many firsts.<br />

These include being the first UK studbook:<br />

• To open its graded studbooks for<br />

stallions and mares to all recognised<br />

warmblood and sports horse and<br />

sports pony breeds<br />

• To hold public gradings for stallions<br />

and mares with publicly viewable<br />

marks and full grading critiques<br />

• To promote showing on the triangle<br />

and the wearing of whites when<br />

presenting stock for judging<br />

• To use internationally recognised<br />

grading judges from other European<br />

studbooks<br />

• To recognise competition<br />

performance as part of a<br />

progressive grading structure.<br />

From these beginnings has grown the<br />

Warmblood <strong>Breeder</strong>s Studbook UK that<br />

The champion was the 2-year-old <strong>British</strong><br />

bred Oldenburg passported bay colt<br />

FEINSTER PRINZ by For Emotion out of<br />

El St. Dornroschen by Dimaggio, bred<br />

and owned by Lynne Crowden -<br />

Woodlander Stud. Reserve champion<br />

was the 2-year-old <strong>British</strong> bred<br />

Oldenburg passported brown colt DA<br />

FIORE by D’Egalite out of St Pr<br />

St.Floriade by Florencio I, bred by Robin<br />

Farquahar and owned by Fay Thomas.<br />

Da Fiore<br />

A further six stallions were also graded<br />

and approved for breeding. DIAMOND<br />

EZZARD, SESCIONALE, IKANDI<br />

DANONE’S DJJIN, WILD FIRE,<br />

DESTEENO and CLASSIC CHIKO.<br />

Full details of these can be found on<br />

the WBSUK web site www.bwbs.co.uk<br />

which also contains information on future<br />

events and rules for registration and<br />

grading etc.<br />

50 | BRITISH BREEDER


BRITISH BREEDER| 51


Studbook News - NPS<br />

Kilvington Scoundrel<br />

<strong>British</strong> Riding<br />

Pony Studbook<br />

News January<br />

<strong>2022</strong><br />

The first major event for the NPS will be<br />

the <strong>2022</strong> AGM that will take place on<br />

19th <strong>February</strong> in Warwick. At the AGM<br />

the winners of the 2021 Stallion Awards<br />

will be recognised and owners invited to<br />

come forward and receive their prizes.<br />

The awards are calculated based on<br />

results achieved by progeny in both<br />

ridden and in hand classes at recognised<br />

Premium shows in the 2021 season.<br />

The overall champion is Mrs MacInnes’s<br />

late Kilvington Scoundel, still a much<br />

sort after sire through frozen semen and<br />

he was also the leading sire of 148cm<br />

ponies. Previous champion Cusop<br />

Dimension, also now retired from<br />

breeding, was reserve overall champion<br />

and the leading sire of 138cm ponies.<br />

Cusop Dimension is owned by Mr<br />

Pitman and has been the senior sire at<br />

Wycroft Stud for many years.<br />

The leading sire of 128cm ponies was<br />

Hightopps Jet owned by Miss Roberts.<br />

The Stanley Grange Trophy is awarded<br />

to the leading young stallion 8 years and<br />

under and has proved to be an<br />

excellent indicator to future leading sires.<br />

The award this year has been made to<br />

Ian Boylan’s home bred Alonby<br />

Chardonnier, a successful competitor<br />

himself and now producing some very<br />

exciting youngstock.<br />

Results at Premium shows also feed into<br />

the Stallion Premium programme which<br />

was a new incentive in 2021. Premiums<br />

are awarded annually to stallions who<br />

have offspring successful in breeding<br />

classes.<br />

All Premium shows and full details of<br />

both schemes are listed on the NPS<br />

website. www.nationalponysociety.com<br />

52 | BRITISH BREEDER


Studbook News - Trakehners UK<br />

The Trakehners <strong>Breeder</strong>s<br />

Fraternity are pleased to<br />

announce their annual<br />

mare and stallion<br />

grading will be held<br />

this year on Tuesday<br />

24th August at Solihull<br />

Riding Centre in the West<br />

Midlands.<br />

We are working in partnership with The<br />

National Stallion Association (NASTA)<br />

who will be running their Performance<br />

Tests over the same days.<br />

Entries will open shortly but in the<br />

meantime we ask all owners who are<br />

interested in sending their mare or<br />

stallion forward for grading to contact<br />

the Show Organiser Sacha Shaw on<br />

show-organiser@trakehners.uk.com or<br />

message the Trakehners UK FaceBook<br />

page so we can start to plan for the<br />

expected numbers.<br />

As usual we will be inviting a judge<br />

from the Trakehner Verband to join our<br />

<strong>British</strong> judges in assessing the mares and<br />

stallions that come forward.<br />

Prominent riders in the UK continue<br />

to discover the quality the Trakehner<br />

horse can offer them as their partners<br />

in sport. International Grand Prix rider<br />

Sonnar Murray-Brown already has a<br />

tremendous partnership with his Latimer<br />

gelding Erlentanz TSF and has now<br />

added three new Trakehners to his string.<br />

The 4 year old Samba by Millennium<br />

, St.Pr.u.Pr.St. Herbstrot by All Inklusive<br />

and the licensed stallion Sinatra by<br />

Honoré du Soir have all arrived in<br />

Gloucestershire and we are very excited<br />

to follow their progress.<br />

Although the competition season has<br />

only just got underway within the last<br />

week, Godington Stud have already got<br />

some dressage wins under their belts<br />

with licensed stallion Godington Utah<br />

winning at Elementary and Godington<br />

Ultimo at Novice.<br />

www.trakehners.uk.com<br />

Sonnar Murray-Brown und Erlentanz<br />

www.jess-photography.co.uk<br />

BRITISH BREEDER| 53


NATURE’S LIGHT<br />

Delivered using smart Stable Lights<br />

and award-winning Light Masks<br />

Delivering Optimum Fertility for Stallions<br />

Equilume Performance Lighting regulates the daily<br />

(circadian) and seasonal (circannual) rhythms for<br />

stallions, benefiting behaviour, fertility, coat condition<br />

and performance.<br />

Compared to stallions stabled under standard lighting,<br />

benefits of using the Equilume Stables Lights include:<br />

Stallion Fertility<br />

• Consistently higher testosterone levels<br />

throughout the breeding season*<br />

• Advancing and extending season of optimum<br />

fertility*<br />

• Higher sperm production earlier in the season*<br />

Coat Condition<br />

• Maintaining coat condition<br />

• Reducing or eliminating clipping<br />

• Accelerating winter shedding<br />

Health<br />

• Strengthening the immune system<br />

• Enhancing alertness and mood<br />

• Accelerating wound healing<br />

*published research & scientifically validated<br />

We started using the Equilume Stable Lights to<br />

increase early season fertility and have seen them work to<br />

great effect. Our stallions are seeing a higher percentage of<br />

mares get in foal earlier in the year than before we installed<br />

the Equilume system, which is great for the stallions and<br />

also for our breeders.<br />

As well as increasing early season fertility, the stallions look<br />

fantastic under these Lights, they’re dappled out and their<br />

coats are in great condition.”<br />

Larry Walton, Stallion Manager, Hill ‘n’ Dale, USA<br />

conor@equilume.com +353 87 097 8083 www.equilume.com<br />

54 | BRITISH BREEDER<br />

Health<br />

Fertility<br />

Well-being


Studbook News - SHB(GB)<br />

Sport Horse<br />

Breeding (GB)<br />

The SHB(GB) graded Thoroughbred stallion Recharge<br />

(Cape Cross-Robellino) now stands at new Hill Farm, Worsely.<br />

Who would have thought a year ago<br />

that we would once again looking<br />

forward to spring when we can all start<br />

getting out and about again – and<br />

hopefully some promise of blue sky<br />

which has been in short supply the last<br />

month or so. Despite the problems last<br />

year threw at us all SHB(GB) managed<br />

to continue with a programme of mare,<br />

stallion and our new foal gradings. All<br />

things considered our grading days<br />

were successful with a pleasing overall<br />

number of horses and foals forward.<br />

Hopefully we will see and grade even<br />

more mares and foals this year.<br />

Stallion Grading<br />

Due to lockdown and a continuing<br />

uncertainty throughout the year we<br />

continued to grade stallions on demand.<br />

We added 13 new stallions to the<br />

studbook of which six are Thoroughbreds<br />

– the highest number of Thoroughbreds<br />

forward for several years. The latest<br />

addition is the good-looking Cape Cross<br />

son Recharge, one of 10 for his dam, the<br />

Group One winner Rebelline<br />

(Robellino-Rainbow Quest). The<br />

16-year-old, Recharge who<br />

formerly stood at Shade Oak Stud, is<br />

now standing at New Hill Farm Worsely<br />

near Manchester.<br />

Paul Hallam’s four-year-old Zest for Life<br />

(WHS Zorro ex Didansa by San Remo)<br />

is the latest to pass the full grading.<br />

Other recent grading successes are;<br />

MC’s Ringo King 2018 (Cornetto King<br />

ex Sannanvalley by Igguldon Skye<br />

Laird) and Sea Tzar 2003 (Alice’s<br />

Diamond Slipper RID ex Seashell II by<br />

Sea Crest).<br />

Mare Grading<br />

We graded 39 mares over the summer<br />

with 17 (44%) grading into the Head<br />

Studbook, a good illustration of the high<br />

quality forward. The accolade of the<br />

highest marked mare went to<br />

four-year-old, half-bred Woodclose<br />

Anisa. The mare, bred by Irish Draught<br />

enthusiast Sue Benson from Cleckheaton<br />

in Yorkshire, comes from an exceptional<br />

line of high scoring SHB(GB) graded<br />

mares; her grand-dam Woodclose Silver<br />

Storm was the top graded SHB(GB)<br />

mare in 2012 and her Irish Draught dam<br />

Woodclose Rhianna (Grove<br />

Warrior-Gort Boy) the runner up in 2017.<br />

Anisa, by the Thoroughbred Andes, was<br />

champion foal and reserve supreme<br />

in-hand hunter on her only outing at the<br />

2017Great Yorkshire Show.<br />

The second highest scoring mare was the<br />

Thoroughbred Double Spirit<br />

(Double Trigger ex Miss Soprano by<br />

Opera Ghost) owned by Mrs Elizabeth<br />

Jones of Millbry Hill Stud.<br />

Fifteen-year-old Spirit is in foal to the<br />

SHB(GB) graded Irish Draught Stallion<br />

Castlegar Cool Mist – her second foal<br />

by the stallion that stands at the stud.<br />

Foal Grading – sponsored by VT<br />

Vets<br />

We graded a total of 34 foals with 20<br />

of them awarded a premium (a score<br />

of 8 or more). Ian Darcy’s homebred<br />

colt foal Westerdale St George came<br />

out top scoring full marks. He is by the<br />

eventing stallion Up with the Lark out<br />

Westerdale Queen of Hearts by the<br />

Thoroughbred Chase the Ace. The high<br />

scoring runner-up, Millbry Wuthering<br />

Heights was also by Up with the Lark out<br />

of the KWPN mare Bronte by Riverman.<br />

With thanks to our foal grading sponsor<br />

VT Vets the owner of the leading foal will<br />

receive a stud voucher to the value of<br />

£500 and the owner of the runner-up a<br />

stud voucher for £300.<br />

Caption Westerdale St George – the leading<br />

SHB(GB) graded foal in 2021<br />

Two other foals gained more than 9;<br />

Merrigan’s En Vogue by Tiger Attack out<br />

of the Charlotte Martin’s former HOYS<br />

winner Solaris Dwenqua by<br />

Quaterback, and Sally Bullens<br />

homebred grey colt Borough<br />

Tennerpenny, another out of the<br />

former leading international event mare<br />

Borough Pennyz. Tennerpenny is by<br />

Catherston Stud’s SHB(GB) graded<br />

stallion Timolin who sired four of the<br />

top 12 graded foals this year. Stallions<br />

Catherston Oakley and Gemini’s Classic<br />

Opera both sired two progeny in the top<br />

12.<br />

Dates for the diary<br />

10th April – Badminton Stable Yard,<br />

Judges Seminar and Conference.<br />

Although it is hoped that as many judges,<br />

probationary and potential judges as<br />

possible will attend, this event is also<br />

open to all members and non-members.<br />

All members will receive an official<br />

invitation however could all<br />

non-members please advise the office.<br />

In the event of a large take up members<br />

will take precedence. More details will<br />

follow, keep an eye on the website and<br />

FB.<br />

Registration Delays<br />

We can only apologise to those<br />

waiting to receive new registrations<br />

and passports that need to be returned.<br />

This is because the DNA verification at<br />

Weatherbys is taking much longer – as<br />

least twice as long – than we are used<br />

to. Please note that this delay applies to<br />

all breed societies not just SHB(GB). We<br />

will of course send out passports as soon<br />

as is possible.<br />

Telephone: 01732 866277<br />

General: info@sporthorsegb.co.uk<br />

Studbook: marian@sporthorsegb.co.uk<br />

www.sporthorsegb.co.uk<br />

BRITISH BREEDER| 55


Studbook News - SPSS<br />

Celebrating<br />

Success - 2021<br />

Grading &<br />

Evaluation<br />

Results<br />

Following from the success of our virtual<br />

events in 2020, the SPSS took a blended<br />

approach to Gradings and Evaluations<br />

in 2021. There were full “in-person”<br />

stallion & mare gradings at a<br />

number of venues plus the opportunity to<br />

eGrade mares or present a stallion for a<br />

prE-grading virtual “eAssessment” (both<br />

by supplying video footage). Overall,<br />

we were very pleased with the success<br />

of this approach and a hybrid approach<br />

was also used for SPSS passported or<br />

overstamped youngstock who could be<br />

evaluated in person at an SPSS event or<br />

they could be evaluated through the<br />

<strong>British</strong> Breeding Futurity (both in-person<br />

& virtual) where they were also eligible<br />

for an SPSS Premium, based on their<br />

Futurity Evaluation score. The scores of<br />

all eligible youngstock went forward to<br />

the SPSS End of Year Youngstock Awards<br />

and the SPSS is delighted to also<br />

announce those results as well as the<br />

Mare & Stallion Grading Champions.<br />

Stallions<br />

The SPSS team were pleased that all bar<br />

one of the 2020 eAssessed stallions who<br />

were presented in-person passed and<br />

have been accepted as SPSS Graded<br />

Stallions as were a further two stallions<br />

which went straight to the in-person<br />

grading stage. Another stallion was<br />

accepted at the in-person grading<br />

but has deferred completion of the<br />

post-grading process until <strong>2022</strong>. In<br />

addition, two 2 year old stallions were<br />

presented for eAssessment and both<br />

were accepted, allowing them to cover<br />

as SPSS stallions in 2021/<strong>2022</strong>, before<br />

being presented at a full SPSS stallion<br />

grading in <strong>2022</strong>. So our congratulations<br />

to the breeders & owners of...<br />

2021 Stallion Grading Champion,<br />

Godrics Dionysus (SPSS Elite Danger<br />

36 x Donnerwetter). This 5 year old<br />

Deutsche Reitpony, <strong>British</strong>-bred by Bev<br />

Brown, is owned by Andrew Constable<br />

(pictured left with his granddaughter<br />

Daisy Bullman on Dionysus), Pat Pomp<br />

& Elly Darling. Daisy has had a very<br />

successful season competing at <strong>British</strong><br />

Dressage on Dionysus and was praised<br />

by SPSS judge Anna Lowndes for being<br />

a lovely rider - they were the Preliminary<br />

Champions at the Keysoe Area<br />

Festival then scored 72.43% to be<br />

2021 Stallion Grading Champion – Godrics Dionysus<br />

Photo - Tanja Davis / <strong>British</strong> Breeding<br />

Reserve Champions in the Preliminary<br />

Under 21 class at the Winter Area<br />

Festival Championship in July. Ten<br />

days later, they were back at Hartpury<br />

competing in the 5 Year Old Young Pony<br />

Final where they were again Reserve<br />

Champions - a remarkable achievement<br />

when 12 year old Daisy was the<br />

youngest rider across all of the 3 Young<br />

Pony Finals. Since then, Daisy &<br />

Dionysus have competed at the Summer<br />

Regional Championships at Preliminary,<br />

a Summer Area Festival at Novice and<br />

have won at Elementary level. At the<br />

grading, Dionysus scored 82.33% and<br />

was praised for his “excellent workable<br />

attitude” and for being a “lovely sports<br />

pony stallion”.<br />

2021 Stallion Grading Reserve<br />

Champion, Hearnesbrook New Moon<br />

(Hearnesbrook Halley x Thunderbolt).<br />

A 13 year old Connemara, <strong>British</strong>-bred<br />

by Mrs RC & Miss V Buxton and owned<br />

by Jane Holderness-Roddam, New<br />

Moon is a proven competition pony with<br />

many successes in Working Hunter Pony<br />

classes including winning his class and<br />

then being Reserve Champion at Royal<br />

Windsor in 2019. He has also<br />

competed at <strong>British</strong> Showjumping<br />

(1.10m) and <strong>British</strong> Eventing (BE90 &<br />

BE 100). In 2021, ridden by Gabriella<br />

Wilton-Baker he was second in his class<br />

at the Barbury Cotswold Cup, finishing<br />

on his dressage score.<br />

At the grading, the judges praised his<br />

“excellent attitude and nice rideability”<br />

and said he was a “lovely type with lots<br />

of ability”, awarding him 81.67%.<br />

You can find out more about all the<br />

stallions accepted in 2021 as well as the<br />

other stallions standing with the SPSS in<br />

<strong>2022</strong> on our website.<br />

Mares<br />

We are delighted to announce that<br />

across the 24 mares graded by the SPSS<br />

in 2021, the Mare Grading Supreme<br />

Champion was Diane Kilshaw’s<br />

Weser-Ems passported Sophie<br />

(Dressman I x Black Boy), who graded<br />

into the Head Studbook with the judge<br />

describing her as “the ideal brood mare”<br />

when giving her the perfect 10 for<br />

General Impression. 22 year old<br />

Sophie, who was the oldest mare<br />

presented by 7 years, was bred in<br />

Germany by Reinhard Kramer and has<br />

had a stellar career as a broodmare.<br />

For her breeder, Sophie had 15 foals<br />

including a Bundeschampion, a<br />

Vice-Bundeschampion & 3 licensed<br />

stallions as well as many successful<br />

competition ponies and her legacy in<br />

Germany continues through her sons<br />

and daughters, who have also produced<br />

licenced stallions and good competition<br />

ponies, including Golden Touch who has<br />

represented Germany at international<br />

Pony Dressage.<br />

56 | BRITISH BREEDER


Studbook News - SPSS<br />

Diane Kilshaw (centre) with her home-bred SPSS 2021 Supreme Youngstock Champion foal, Henza She’s On Fire, and her SPSS 2021 Supreme Mare Grading<br />

Champion and Elite Head Studbook dam, Sophie.<br />

Since Diane brought Sophie to the UK,<br />

her first foal was the 2019 Elite Foal Tour<br />

Pony Champion and her most recent,<br />

the SPSS 2021 Youngstock Supreme<br />

Champion. In recognition of Sophie’s<br />

outstanding contribution to sports pony<br />

breeding, the SPSS Governing<br />

Committee unanimously decided to<br />

recognise this by awarding Sophie the<br />

ultimate SPSS breeding accolade - Elite<br />

Graded status.<br />

Then, from the oldest mare to the<br />

youngest (by just 5 days), the next<br />

highest scoring mare and 2021 Reserve<br />

Supreme Champion mare was 3 year<br />

old SPSS passported Delaroche Royal<br />

Gold (Hilkens Gold Card x Prins Alfred)<br />

who scored 82.92% and also went into<br />

the SPSS Head Studbook. <strong>British</strong>-bred<br />

by Lucy Sheldrake and owned by John &<br />

Dawn Rose, the judges said that she was<br />

a “lovely type” and “agile and athletic”.<br />

Royal Gold was only shown once, as<br />

a yearling, but she won her class then<br />

was Reserve Champion, beating the 2 &<br />

3 year olds. Now backed, her owners<br />

hope that she will be just as successful<br />

under saddle.<br />

The SPSS is very pleased that another of<br />

the mares presented for grading in 2021<br />

received the sought after SPSS Elite<br />

status, and that was Sarah Rook’s<br />

Bannview Black Bess. All that is known<br />

about Bess’s breeding is that she came<br />

from Ireland, but missing or incomplete<br />

pedigree has never stopped the SPSS<br />

grading mares and acknowledging<br />

their achievements – and Bess’s are<br />

impressive! Born in 2010, Bess was also<br />

awarded SPSS Elite Graded status in<br />

recognition of her having represented<br />

GB at FEI Eventing - in particular, ridden<br />

by Mollie Harris, they completed the<br />

Great Witchingham International CCI-S<br />

2* and the CCI-L J2*at the Frickley Park<br />

National Under 18 Championships in<br />

2019. Once Bess’s 2021 foal (by<br />

another SPSS Elite Graded Eventing<br />

Pony, Prometheus) is weaned, Sarah is<br />

hoping that Bess will go back under<br />

saddle and resume her Eventing career.<br />

Youngstock<br />

We are delighted to announce that the<br />

2021 SPSS Supreme Youngstock<br />

Champion title goes to the pony foal<br />

Henza She’s On Fire. Bred by her<br />

owner, Diane Kilshaw, She’s On Fire is<br />

by FS Numero Uno and out of Diane’s<br />

2021 SPSS Mare Grading Supreme<br />

Champion and Elite Head Studbook<br />

mare Sophie. She’s On Fire was<br />

evaluated at the Catherston Futurity<br />

event where she received perfect 10s for<br />

both her walk and canter, gaining 9.2<br />

overall and a Futurity Elite Premium.<br />

2021 Stallion Grading Reserve Champion<br />

Hearnesbrook New Moon - Qorum Photos<br />

Unusually, the 2021 Reserve Supreme<br />

Youngstock Champion title was shared,<br />

between two equal scoring foals - Sally<br />

Hibbert’s Gorsebrook Hot Totty and<br />

Carrie Passmore’s Goldenstorm.<br />

2021 Mare Grading Reserve Supreme Champion<br />

Delaroche Royal Gold - Qorum Photos<br />

Both gained 9.025 at their in-person<br />

Futurity Evaluations and so were<br />

awarded Futurity Elite Premiums.<br />

Carrie’s colt has 2 SPSS graded parents,<br />

being by Hilkens Gold Card and out of<br />

Carrie’s homebred Susie Shuttle, who<br />

is also dam of 2020 Reserve Supreme<br />

Youngstock Champion as well half-sister<br />

to the Gold medal winning<br />

Para-dressage mare, Midnight (also<br />

bred by Carrie). Sally’s filly, by Pennal<br />

The Great, was the first sports pony to<br />

receive a Futurity Elite Premium in 2021<br />

and is Sally’s first foal out of her SPSS<br />

Head Studbook mare, Rafthouse Gee<br />

Tee I, who is by a Morgan stallion out of<br />

an Arab cross <strong>British</strong> Riding Pony mare.<br />

Overall, 20 SPSS GOLD Premiums were<br />

awarded and 19 Premiums and the SPSS<br />

was thrilled with the quality of<br />

youngstock presented either directly or<br />

through the Futurity and we look forward<br />

to seeing these youngsters shine as<br />

sports ponies in the future.<br />

Tel: 07703 566066<br />

Email: sportsponies@gmail.com<br />

www.sportpony.org.uk<br />

BRITISH BREEDER| 57


Feature Article - Worming | Towcester Vets<br />

Why worry<br />

about worming<br />

young stock?<br />

It is common practice for equine<br />

premises to have worming protocols in<br />

place but this often focussed on the adult<br />

population. Do we need to worry about<br />

the young stock too? Should the same<br />

protocols exist for them? The fact that<br />

foals are born with no natural immunity<br />

against worms and that we are seeing<br />

ever increasing resistance to commonly<br />

used wormers mean foals and young<br />

stock are most at risk of serious and<br />

potentially fatal disease from worms.<br />

This article runs through some clinical<br />

cases highlighting the importance of<br />

farm/ yard management and the<br />

appropriate use and timing of wormers<br />

in these most at risk individuals.<br />

Topics covered:<br />

Ascarid Impactions<br />

Tapeworm and intussusceptions<br />

A resistance problem<br />

A potentially fatal<br />

ascarid impaction<br />

A four month old foal presented with ill<br />

thrift, a poor coat, nasal discharge and<br />

an elevated breathing rate. The foal had<br />

not been wormed. Ultrasound of the<br />

chest revealed changes consistent with<br />

pneumonia and infectious changes were<br />

present on bloods, with a high white<br />

blood cell count. Ascarids can cause<br />

respiratory signs as well as<br />

gastrointestinal signs due to the<br />

extraordinary route around the body the<br />

larval stages take (migrating from the<br />

intestine to the liver, into the circulation,<br />

into the lungs before being swallowed<br />

and ending back in the gut to mature<br />

further). Minimal response to antibiotics<br />

was seen in this foal, as is common with<br />

respiratory signs associated with<br />

ascarids (Clayton and Duncan 1978).<br />

The foal received a wormer and the<br />

following morning was found showing<br />

severe colic signs that did not improve<br />

with pain relief. Abdominal ultrasound<br />

revealed multiple loops of distended,<br />

amotile small intestine. The foal was<br />

referred for emergency colic surgery.<br />

A huge ascarid impaction blocking the<br />

small intestine was diagnosed.<br />

Fortunately, this foal made a full<br />

recovery.<br />

Abdominal ultrasound revealing multiple loops of amotile small intestine<br />

The risk of acarid infection is greater on<br />

premises that are breeding foals<br />

regularly, as youngsters continually<br />

burden the land. However, the size of the<br />

burden is hard to quantify as there is no<br />

correlation between worm numbers and<br />

egg counts (Nielsen et al. 2010)<br />

Ascarid infections can be fatal if they<br />

become impacted in the small<br />

intestinal. This is most common in foals<br />

aged 4-8 months (Tatz et al 2012). To<br />

avoid this aim to treat from 2 months of<br />

age (treating prior to this is less<br />

effective and encourages development<br />

of resistance). Resistance to ivermectin<br />

and moxidectin is seen widely in ascarid<br />

populations. Treating with five days of<br />

Fenbendazole (Panacur ®) can help<br />

target the younger/ larval stages and<br />

has a slower onset of activity so can be<br />

useful if heavy burdens are suspected.<br />

Treating with pyrantel is also beneficial.<br />

Once horses reach maturity and their<br />

innate immunity develops targeted<br />

treatment for ascarids becomes less<br />

necessary.<br />

Tapeworm and<br />

intussusceptions<br />

An eight-month-old weanling presented<br />

with ill thrift and intermittent low-grade<br />

colic signs of a few days’ duration,<br />

which had worsened over time. The<br />

weanling was from a long-established<br />

stud farm that foals a large number of<br />

mares each season. The weanling was<br />

yet to be wormed for tapeworm.<br />

Ultrasound revealed significantly<br />

oedematous large intestinal wall and a<br />

suspected intussusception. This weanling<br />

underwent surgery, a diagnosis of an<br />

intussusception was made and<br />

tapeworm were identified at the<br />

junction between the ileum and the<br />

caecum. Thankfully, despite the gut<br />

initially appearing severely<br />

compromised, once the intussusception<br />

was resolved and the blood supply<br />

returned, no gut had to be removed<br />

and the yearling made a good and full<br />

recovery.<br />

Abdominal ultrasound revealing oedematous<br />

(thickened large intestinal wall) and suspected<br />

intussusception.<br />

Several studies have found an<br />

association between the presence of<br />

tapeworms and colic (Nielsen 2016b),<br />

particularly in horses under three years<br />

of age (Sembrat 1975). Large numbers<br />

of the developing stages of these worms<br />

attach to part of the gut wall, particularly<br />

the ileum, caecum and the ileo-caecal<br />

junction. Colic can be associated with a<br />

physical obstruction of the lumen or due<br />

to damage of the gut lining (mucosa)<br />

and can be associated with<br />

intussusceptions<br />

58 | BRITISH BREEDER


Feature Article - Worming | Towcester Vets<br />

An intussusception is when one part of<br />

the gut slides into an adjacent part. Both<br />

impactions and intussusceptions require<br />

surgical treatment as above. Smaller<br />

tapeworm burdens can cause more mild<br />

signs and should be considered in cases<br />

of recurrent colic.<br />

Tapeworm incidence varies<br />

significantly with geography. The<br />

sensitivity of diagnosing tapeworm in<br />

faeces using the standard method is<br />

low, at 10% (Nielsen 2016b). However,<br />

saliva or blood tests taken from multiple<br />

adults in the population (>20%) can<br />

help identify the level of exposure on the<br />

premises. If this result is high foals should<br />

be treated from 6 months and then<br />

treated twice yearly, but if low this can<br />

be delayed and reduced to once yearly.<br />

In cases of recurrent colic or following<br />

surgery where tapeworm are identified<br />

treatment should be administered when<br />

the horse has recovered.<br />

A resistance problem.<br />

A yearling presented from a farm that<br />

had bred a few foals each year for 5-10<br />

years. The yearling presented with<br />

consistent ill thrift and loose droppings,<br />

it had been wormed previously but<br />

predominantly with ivermectin. Bloods<br />

revealed elevations of a chronic<br />

infectious/ inflammatory marker<br />

(fibrinogen) but were otherwise normal.<br />

A faecal egg count (FEC) was 300 eggs<br />

per gram (EPG). Ascarids had been<br />

noted in the droppings.<br />

A faecal egg count reduction test *<br />

(FECRT) was performed post treatment<br />

with ivermectin revealing a minimal<br />

reduction in the count (250 EPG) post<br />

worming thus confirming ivermectin<br />

resistance. The yearling was treated with<br />

a double dose of pyrantel (to also cover<br />

tapeworm) and wormers have been<br />

rotated since, to good effect.<br />

Resistance to wormers has reached an<br />

alarming point, with ivermectin resistance<br />

to ascarids being reported worldwide, to<br />

the point that it so should be<br />

expected until proven otherwise<br />

(Peregrine et al. 2014). Given ascarids<br />

are the most dangerous parasite for foals<br />

this is even more worrying.<br />

Worming with fenbendazole or pyrantel<br />

is favourable where ivermectin resistance<br />

is known or suspected.<br />

Resistance to cyathastomes has also<br />

been demonstrated (Reinemeyer et al.,<br />

2015; Bellaw et al., 2018). Given the<br />

widespread occurrence of resistance to<br />

fenbendazole in cyathostomes across<br />

the world, moxidectin is generally the<br />

treatment of choice, although patterns of<br />

resistance to moxidectin are now<br />

being seen. Performing FECRTs yearly, or<br />

when resistance is suspected, to evaluate<br />

the efficacy of wormers against<br />

strongyles and ascarids, is advised.<br />

Points of consideration:<br />

FECs are not as useful in foals/ youngsters as they are with<br />

adults. The focus now is to leave a small untargeted<br />

population of worms (the refugia) on the pasture rather than<br />

try and eradicate all, this helps young stock develop immunity<br />

safely and reduces development of resistance.<br />

FECRTs should be used annually or when resistance is<br />

suspected.Rotation of wormers helps reduce development of<br />

resistance. Do not under-dose horses and foals; use weight<br />

tapes or scales to determine body weights.<br />

Recently weaned foals should be turned out onto the “cleanest”<br />

pastures with the lowest burdens.<br />

In general target ascarids from 2-5 months of age and then<br />

strongyle and tapeworm from weaning and thereon.<br />

Yearlings and two-year olds should continue to be treated as<br />

“high” shedders and receive about three-four yearly treatments.<br />

Moxidectin (Equest ®) is safe in foals greater than four months,<br />

moxidectin and praziquantel (Equest Pramox ®) is only safe<br />

in foals greater than six months old. All wormers are safe in<br />

pregnant and lactating mares.<br />

*A faecal egg count reduction test (FECRT) is a commonly used method for<br />

monitoring drug resistance and involves performing a faecal egg count prior to<br />

treatment and two weeks post treatment then calculating the relative change in<br />

counts.<br />

BRITISH BREEDER| 59


DO YOU BREED<br />

REDUCE<br />

THE RISK OF<br />

ABORTION<br />

YOUR HORSES?<br />

ALL HORSES ON BREEDING YARDS OR IN<br />

CONTACT WITH PREGNANT MARES ARE<br />

AT RISK OF EQUINE HERPES VIRUS 1&4 1<br />

ASK YOUR VET ABOUT VACCINATION<br />

Information brought to you by Zoetis<br />

the manufacturers of Equip® EHV1,4 horsedialog.co.uk/equineherpes<br />

@horsedialog /HorseDialog<br />

References 1. American Association of Equine Practitioners. Risk-Based Vaccination Guidelines. Available at: www.aaep.org/-i-166.html. Accessed June 18, 2014.<br />

Further information can be obtained from Zoetis UK Limited, First Floor, Birchwood Building, Springfield Drive, Leatherhead, Surrey, KT22 7LP.<br />

www.zoetis.co.uk. Customer support: 0835 300 8034 CustomerSupportUK@zoetis.com.<br />

Use medicines responsibly (www.noah.co.uk/responsible). Date of preparation: April 2020. MM-09168<br />

60 | BRITISH BREEDER


Article - Equine Viral Arteritis EVA | Zoetis<br />

EVA: Equine Viral Arteritis<br />

What is Equine Viral Arteritis?<br />

Equine viral arteritis (EVA) is a virus that<br />

is found in horse populations in many<br />

countries. While EVA is not usually<br />

life-threatening to otherwise healthy<br />

adult horses, it can cause abortion in<br />

pregnant mares and establish a<br />

long-term carrier state in breeding<br />

stallions. Rarely, it can cause death in<br />

young foals1.<br />

EVA is notifiable in the UK meaning if it<br />

is suspected in any stallion, or in a mare<br />

within 14 days of mating, you must stop<br />

all breeding activities immediately, notify<br />

DEFRA and continue to seek veterinary<br />

advice. EVA was last reported in the UK<br />

in 2019 involving non-Thoroughbred<br />

horses imported from other EU countries<br />

where the virus is endemic. One<br />

outbreak involved the subsequent<br />

respiratory spread of infection<br />

associated with attendance at equine<br />

competition events in the UK2.<br />

What are the symptoms<br />

of EVA?<br />

The symptoms and severity of EVA can<br />

vary widely. Infection may be obvious or<br />

there may be signs at all2.<br />

Clinical signs include flu-like respiratory<br />

disease, fever, anorexia, depression,<br />

swelling of the lower legs, conjunctivitis,<br />

swelling around the eye socket, nasal<br />

discharge, skin rash and swelling of the<br />

scrotum and mammary glands2.<br />

In breeding mares, abortion may occur<br />

or those infected late in gestation may<br />

give birth to foals with potentially fatal<br />

breathing problems2.<br />

How is EVA transmitted?<br />

The equine arteritis virus causing EVA<br />

is most frequently spread through close<br />

contact with infected horses who transmit<br />

the virus through respiratory secretions,<br />

or via the semen of infected stallions,<br />

directly during mating or indirectly via<br />

artificial insemination (AI). Aborted<br />

foetuses also have the potential to<br />

spread the virus.3.<br />

Once initial infection has occurred most<br />

animals excrete the virus in bodily<br />

secretions, including semen, nasal and<br />

ocular discharges, urine and faeces for<br />

up to three weeks. The virus is then<br />

cleared by the immune system but the<br />

accessory sex glands in stallions remain<br />

infected, which means the male of the<br />

species is an important source of the<br />

virus. Once infected, some stallions can<br />

become carriers, shedding the virus<br />

for anything from several weeks to a<br />

lifetime3.<br />

Infection in mares, whether caused by<br />

the respiratory route or via semen, is<br />

usually short lived. Mares do not<br />

become carriers of EVA and the disease<br />

usually doesn’t result in long term health<br />

implications. However, if the mare is<br />

pregnant when contracting EVA, it can<br />

result in abortion or a weak foal.<br />

How can I prevent EVA?<br />

It is important to ensure that any<br />

stallions being used for breeding<br />

purposes, either directly or via AI,<br />

comply with the Horserace Betting Levy<br />

Board Code of Practice on EVA. If you<br />

are a mare owner, you should ask to see<br />

papers certifying that the stallion is clear<br />

and has been vaccinated, before it is<br />

allowed to breed with your mare2.<br />

BRITISH BREEDER| 61


Article - Equine Viral Arteritis EVA | Zoetis<br />

Vaccination<br />

The HBLB codes of practice recommend<br />

the routine vaccination of stallions<br />

(including teasers) and colts to stop<br />

the spread of EVA in breeding horse<br />

populations and so prevent outbreaks<br />

of virus-related abortions and/or loss of<br />

young foals. The aim is to minimise the<br />

risk of the establishment of the carrier<br />

state in stallions, reducing the reservoir of<br />

potential infection2.<br />

The routine vaccination of mares,<br />

however, is not necessary unless a<br />

widespread outbreak occurs. Your vet<br />

will be able to provide you with further<br />

advice relating to vaccination against<br />

EVA2.<br />

Sero-surveillance, of stallions<br />

vaccinated, to provide estimates of<br />

antibody levels against EVA, showed<br />

that to achieve and maintain levels of<br />

immunity required to protect against<br />

developing semen shedding, stallions<br />

require several boosters in addition to<br />

the primary course3.<br />

What do vaccinations do?<br />

Prevention is key to the control of any<br />

equine disease. The intention is to reduce<br />

the level of challenge whilst<br />

maximising the horse’s immunity.<br />

Vaccination is one of the most important<br />

ways to help achieve this. Vaccinations<br />

against contagious diseases such as EVA<br />

have two main functions: the first is to<br />

provide protective immunity and the<br />

second is to reduce the spread of<br />

disease4.<br />

Simplistically a vaccine imitates a<br />

specific disease in order to stimulate the<br />

acquired immune response more quickly<br />

and with greater magnitude than in an<br />

unvaccinated horse. The immune system<br />

then communicates with the other body<br />

systems to regulate and destroy this<br />

foreign material or ‘pathogen’.<br />

Vaccination helps to provide<br />

protective immunity, priming the horse’s<br />

own immune system to allow it to mount<br />

an improved immune response more<br />

quickly and with a greater magnitude<br />

when challenged in the future4.<br />

To work successfully an effective vaccine<br />

must be used and the horse must have a<br />

healthy immune system.<br />

References<br />

1. AAEP- Equine Viral Arteritis (EVA)<br />

Guidelines.pdf<br />

2. https://codes.hblb.org.uk/index.<br />

php/page/30<br />

3. Newton JR Controlling EVA in<br />

the 21st century: ‘zero tolerance’<br />

or ‘live and let live’? Equine vet.<br />

Educ. (2007) 19 (11) 612-616 doi:<br />

10.2746/095777307X256011<br />

4. https://thehorse.com/197363/understanding-equine-vaccines/<br />

Accessed<br />

18th June <strong>2022</strong><br />

www.zoetis.co.uk<br />

62 | BRITISH BREEDER


No Wi-Fi — No Electric — No Problem<br />

Livestock Eye can provide a camera that works ANYTIME, ANYWHERE<br />

4g Sim & Wi-Fi cameras<br />

Can be powered by mains electricity or a 12v battery<br />

View live footage on a phone, tablet & computer<br />

Record, save & playback all the footage<br />

Infrared night vision<br />

Pan, tilt & zoom options available<br />

Suitable for indoor or outdoor use<br />

Prices from £95<br />

info@livestockeye.co.uk www.livestockeye.co.uk<br />

Not all stallions are created equal<br />

and<br />

neither is their sperm<br />

STUD COURSES <strong>2022</strong><br />

Artificial Insemination<br />

Technicians Training<br />

8th & 10th March <strong>2022</strong><br />

EquiPure<br />

Density Gradient product designed to separates good from bad sperm<br />

and increases the quality and viability of equine sperm.<br />

BotuSemen Extenders<br />

Flexible extenders for fresh, cold transportation and pre freeze<br />

centrifugation. Choose the right extender based on the needs of your<br />

stallion.<br />

BotuCrio<br />

A freezing medium for equine sperm, with a novel and innovative<br />

formulation.<br />

Flöjelbergsgatan 16 B, SE-431 37 Mölndal,<br />

Sweden<br />

Tel: +46-31-703 06 30, Fax: +46-31-40 54 15<br />

E-mail: contact@nidacon.com, www.nidacon.com<br />

22nd & 24th March <strong>2022</strong><br />

<br />

Foaling The Mare<br />

19th March <strong>2022</strong> <br />

Foal & Yearling Management<br />

20th March <strong>2022</strong><br />

Contact<br />

shonaferguson@twemlows.co.uk <br />

Whitchurch,<br />

Shropshire,<br />

SY13 2EZ<br />

Tel: 01948 664966<br />

www.twemlows.co.uk<br />

www.facebook.com/<br />

twemlows <br />

BRITISH BREEDER| 63


The great new horse<br />

products that are an<br />

absolute alternative to<br />

Fly Repellents!<br />

6 in 1 Maintenance Grooming<br />

Products for all Seasons!<br />

Great new grooming products and absolute<br />

alternative to fly repellents! Organic grooming<br />

products – nurture and protect whilst preserving and<br />

maintaining your horse’s skin and coat condition.<br />

All year<br />

round!<br />

• It’s a show shine that smells divine and conditioner for the horse coat<br />

• It can be used on sensitive skin horses<br />

• It moisturises and soothes the skin<br />

• It helps with hair growth<br />

• Midges, feather mites and horse flies don’t like it<br />

• Daily use makes clipping effortless.<br />

A fantastic dog<br />

range designed to<br />

nurture and protect,<br />

whilt preserving and<br />

maintaining your<br />

dogs skin and coat<br />

condition<br />

• Organic Coat Shine<br />

• Organic Dog Shampoo<br />

& Dog Wash Wear<br />

Find us on Facebook and<br />

join our group: Good<br />

Dogs Organics Itchy -<br />

Sensitive Skin Group<br />

Order your GoodBye Flys today! Call us on 01837 871329 / 07756 000632,<br />

email us at info@goodbyeflys.com or follow us on Facebook @goodbyeflys<br />

64 | BRITISH BREEDER www.goodbyeflys.com


BRITISH BREEDER| 65


Feature - OPU | Tomlinson Vets<br />

OPU - Giving Options To <strong>Breeder</strong>s<br />

by Emma Tomlinson MA VetMB MRCVS<br />

It can be very overwhelming when<br />

deciding the right Artificial Breeding<br />

method to suit your mare, however one<br />

technique breaking ground in the UK<br />

provides more options than most. Ovum<br />

Pick Up (or OPU as its often referred<br />

to as) is providing solutions for many<br />

breeders with mares and circumstances<br />

that are not suited to more common<br />

artificial breeding techniques. Ovum Pick<br />

up is a procedure whereby Oocytes are<br />

extracted directly from mare’s ovaries by<br />

aspirating the follicles with a specialist<br />

needle and pump. The Oocytes are then<br />

sent to specialist labs in Europe where<br />

they are inseminated directly with a<br />

single sperm taken from a fraction of a<br />

straw of Frozen Semen, this is called ICSI<br />

Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection. The<br />

embryo can be frozen and transferred at<br />

a later date or transferred directly into a<br />

recipient.<br />

The donor mare is scanned prior to an<br />

OPU session to ensure she has at least<br />

15 follicles across both ovaries. These<br />

follicles need to also be within 10-20mm<br />

in size to ensure the best results from<br />

the session. The procedure involves a<br />

trans-vaginal scanning method to access<br />

the ovaries and aspirate each viable<br />

follicle to recover an oocyte. The oocyte<br />

recovery rate per follicle is around<br />

50-60% and usually requires 6-8<br />

oocytes to successfully produce an<br />

embryo using ICSI. This means that you<br />

will not necessarily get an embryo from<br />

each OPU session, it is important to<br />

factor in around 2 OPU sessions<br />

(repeatable at 3-week intervals)<br />

for each embryo you want to achieve.<br />

In order to send the extracted oocytes<br />

over to Italy the donor mare currently<br />

needs 3 different tests taken, all sent to<br />

Animal Plant and Health Agency Labs.<br />

These tests are: EIA, EVA, and two CEM<br />

tests taken a least 7 days apart. Around<br />

3 weeks should be allowed in order to<br />

get all test results back from the lab, so<br />

planning ahead is key if OPU is being<br />

considered.<br />

When explained like this, Ovum Pick Up<br />

can seem overwhelming and technical.<br />

However, it is a great solution for<br />

breeders who are struggling with<br />

roadblocks in their breeding plans. For<br />

example, OPU is ideal for breeders with<br />

mares with fertility issues who produce<br />

embryos that are not viable for Embryo<br />

Transfer, or those who cannot carry a<br />

pregnancy at all. One of the<br />

biggest positives of OPU is that it is being<br />

frequently used with breeders who want<br />

to use Stallions with either limited frozen<br />

available, or sub-fertile semen. As only<br />

a fraction of frozen semen needs to be<br />

used, the fertility of a Stallion is much less<br />

relied upon to achieve a pregnancy.<br />

A straw of frozen semen can be used for<br />

6-10 ICSI sessions so Stallion owners<br />

with Stallions who have passed away<br />

can use less of their semen in storage<br />

when trying to achieve a pregnancy.<br />

OPU can also be used in end-of life<br />

situations through post-mortem oocytes<br />

retrieval. This is where the oocytes are<br />

extracted after the mare has<br />

unfortunately passed away. Four years<br />

ago, one of our clients’ top polo mares<br />

tragically died on the operating table. It<br />

had always been her plan to do several<br />

cycles of Embryo Transfer with her to<br />

carry on her fantastic bloodlines,<br />

however this was clearly no longer an<br />

option. The decision was made straight<br />

away to try and harvest her Oocytes<br />

and send them to Italy to carry out ICSI.<br />

Our head vet performed this<br />

procedure in the middle of the night and<br />

Oocytes were recovered. The Oocytes<br />

were each injected and an embryo was<br />

produced. We now get updates on the<br />

gorgeous Bay foal produced via OPU<br />

and ICSI, he is now broken and ready to<br />

start a successful career, just like his dam.<br />

Without such procedures as OPU and<br />

ICSI, this would not have been<br />

possible, and these bloodlines would<br />

have tragically ended with our client’s<br />

mare.<br />

Should the worst happen to top<br />

competing mares, OPU and ICSI can<br />

provide a brilliant solution to breeding<br />

their offspring.<br />

66 | BRITISH BREEDER


Feature - OPU | Tomlinson Vets<br />

Another of our clients was given a tough<br />

ultimatum a few weeks ago, her mare<br />

had been having specialist orthopaedic<br />

farriery involving fibre glass casts to help<br />

her with ongoing issues resulting from an<br />

acute pedal bone fracture. Tragically the<br />

procedure was not providing the results<br />

needed and she would have to be put to<br />

sleep with a few weeks. With very little<br />

time left, it was decided to try OPU/ICSI<br />

as a last attempt to breed from her mare.<br />

She had already bred a gorgeous colt<br />

with us through Embryo Transfer from her<br />

mare and chosen Stallion who has not<br />

long been backed and coming along<br />

brilliantly. With OPU as the only option<br />

at this time of the year, it was a<br />

no-brainer. Because of this, our client<br />

now has three frozen embryos ready<br />

to be returned to us and implanted in<br />

our recipient mares, giving her another<br />

option to carry on the legacy of her<br />

beloved mare.<br />

As Ovum Pick Up can be done outside<br />

of the breeding season, it allows clients<br />

to have the option to breed in end-of-life<br />

situations. It also provides clients with<br />

top level competing mare’s a solution to<br />

breeding as it does not have to interrupt<br />

their busy competition schedules that<br />

typically coincide with the breeding<br />

season. This client was also using a<br />

Stallion with poor fertility and the little<br />

semen in storage would have been<br />

unlikely to produce pregnancies through<br />

Embryo Transfer.<br />

Ovum Pick Up can offer many options<br />

for breeders who would otherwise be<br />

very limited for choice. If your mare has<br />

fertility issues, or should a worst-case<br />

circumstance arise, OPU can be used<br />

as a breeding option to carry on their<br />

all-important bloodlines.<br />

BRITISH BREEDER| 67


Feature - Worming Foals<br />

Meet Maverick:<br />

A four week old<br />

foal with a<br />

surprising worm<br />

egg count result!<br />

weeks<br />

Maverick Eating Grass<br />

Foals are born free of parasites but will<br />

be exposed to them within the first few<br />

days of life. Their immature immune<br />

systems make them very vulnerable to<br />

infection, which can have lasting and<br />

very damaging effects. To help protect<br />

them we recommend worming foals<br />

proactively from four weeks old, every<br />

six to eight weeks until they are 6 months<br />

old. With wormer resistance increasing<br />

it’s also advisable to put some worm egg<br />

counts into your programme at around<br />

three and five months old to ensure this<br />

treatment is being effective.<br />

Usually it’s threadworm and then ascarid<br />

that new foals are most at risk from but<br />

for this handsome chap, a Quarter Horse<br />

foal called Maverick, it was redworm<br />

that made a very early appearance.<br />

He had a first worm egg count at exactly<br />

four weeks old and we were surprised<br />

to find a low count for redworm (50<br />

e.p.g. Strongyle eggs). This means that<br />

he had already ingested redworm larvae<br />

from his environment and these had then<br />

developed within his gut to become<br />

egg-laying adults!<br />

The small redworm species are some of<br />

the fastest developing parasites that<br />

affect horses. It’s one of the reasons<br />

they’re so numerous and dangerous and<br />

why we have to test or treat so regularly.<br />

They have been estimated to have a<br />

lifecycle of between five to six weeks so<br />

it was a real shock to see the eggs<br />

making an appearance after just four<br />

weeks. Perhaps the lifecycle of some<br />

species of small redworm is even faster<br />

than first thought.<br />

Maverick’s result is testimony to just how<br />

easily horses can become infected and<br />

how rapidly this parasite can begin to<br />

colonise in their gut. This tenacity is what<br />

makes small redworm such a threat to<br />

horse health and why a redworm<br />

problem in particular, can so quickly get<br />

out of hand.<br />

WHERE DID THE REDWORM<br />

COME FROM?<br />

Although very young foals don’t graze<br />

or eat hard feed they are curious about<br />

exploring their environment and mimic<br />

68 | BRITISH BREEDER<br />

grazing behaviour, mouthing at grass<br />

and licking and investigating with their<br />

muzzles.<br />

At just a few days old Maverick was also<br />

observed enthusiastically attempting to<br />

eat his mum's fresh poo. This is a<br />

common behaviour called<br />

coprophagia, which is from the Latin for<br />

"faeces eating." It can take up to a year<br />

or more for foals to develop a healthy<br />

gut and so they are sometimes drawn<br />

to eating other horse’s poo to help them<br />

pick up micro-organisms to aid digestion.<br />

Maverick Eating Poo<br />

It’s also thought that as parasite eggs<br />

and larvae are likely to be ingested as<br />

part of this process, in the right<br />

environment this could stimulate the<br />

foals' immune system and help to build a<br />

natural defence. This means it’s not about<br />

eliminating exposure to parasites which<br />

is impossible, but rather managing a<br />

burden and stepping in before the level<br />

where it could cause disease.Maverick’s<br />

parasite infection could have come from<br />

both of the behaviours described above.<br />

WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT?<br />

Effective worming is a vital part of giving<br />

young horses a healthy start. We’d<br />

planned to worm Maverick at four<br />

anyway and he was given a single dose<br />

of fenbendazole, a very safe wormer for<br />

youngsters. We continued to worm him<br />

every four - six weeks alternating<br />

between pyrantel and fenbendazole<br />

until he was six months old. He’s now<br />

gone on to a schedule of testing every<br />

eight weeks and being wormed<br />

accordingly. Regular testing has<br />

indicated that the wormers have been<br />

effective but that he has more<br />

susceptibility to parasite infection than<br />

other youngsters in the same field. Like<br />

his mother, Maverick is potentially one<br />

of the 20% of horses that carries 80% of<br />

the worm burden in the herd. As a result<br />

he will need more regular testing and<br />

treatment to monitor this.<br />

Worm egg counts in the lab<br />

TAKEAWAY MESSAGES<br />

Foals are especially vulnerable to<br />

parasite infection and benefit from<br />

proactive treatment up to six months of<br />

age. The lifecycle of some small redworm<br />

species can be as short as four weeks<br />

Worm egg counting of foals is beneficial<br />

due to increasing wormer resistance<br />

Some horses are naturally more prone to<br />

parasite infection due to their natural<br />

immune response, behaviour and<br />

genetics.<br />

For more information<br />

www.westgatelabs.co.uk


Product Focus<br />

FOR-REPRO Stallion<br />

FOR-REPRO Stallion delivers the most bioavailable form of powerful the antioxidant<br />

CoQ10; ubiquinol, for sperm quality and motility. Vitamin E and organic selenium<br />

yeast are also included to further combat damaging oxidative stress, whilst added<br />

L-lysine, an essential amino acid, maximises muscle function and recovery.<br />

IDEAL FOR<br />

• Those requiring additional support during the covering season<br />

• Older stallions<br />

• Stallions with a busy covering schedule<br />

• Young unproven stallions<br />

• Those with known fertility issues<br />

• Stallions used for Artificial Insemination<br />

• That are competing and collecting<br />

• Shown to improve quality of chilled and frozen semen<br />

Suregrow Paddock Fertiliser<br />

Specialist fertiliser for horse and pony paddocks<br />

• Aids recovery of over grazed, poached or stressed grass<br />

• No need to relocate your horse<br />

• Stimulates root development and strength resulting in a denser sward<br />

• Helps to suppress weeds by promoting a thicker grass sward Slower<br />

release nutrients to give more sustained grass growth<br />

www.suregrowuk.com<br />

01423 223045<br />

Louise Jones - +44 7843 349054 www.foranequine.com<br />

Westgate Laboratories<br />

POSTAL WORM COUNTS & TESTS<br />

• SAME DAY testing and<br />

results<br />

• FREE, tailored veterinary<br />

approved advice from our<br />

friendly SQPs<br />

• EASY reliable service for<br />

parasite control, discounts<br />

for multiple horses,<br />

commercial rate for yards<br />

of 10+<br />

Sustainable parasite control<br />

just got even more<br />

environmentally friendly!<br />

Horses should have a worm<br />

egg count every 8-12 weeks<br />

to target parasite control.<br />

Test any that need treatment 14<br />

days after worming to monitor<br />

drug resistance.<br />

Kits from leading postal worm<br />

count specialists, Westgate Labs,<br />

contain everything to take and<br />

send the sample.<br />

Subscription Service<br />

A complete, bespoke<br />

test based worm control<br />

programme for your<br />

horse from £6.50 pcm<br />

*£2 P&P per order<br />

contact<br />

us<br />

Sand Testing<br />

Minimise the risk<br />

of sand colic with a<br />

faecal test to measure<br />

sediment levels<br />

Parasite control<br />

Worm egg counts,<br />

EquiSal tapeworm, plus<br />

tests to target pinworm,<br />

liverfluke and lungworm<br />

worm egg count every 8-12 weeks; EquiSal test every 6 months<br />

01670 791994<br />

info@westgatelabs.co.uk | www.westgatelabs.co.uk<br />

This includes award winning,<br />

vet approved, follow-up advice<br />

from their friendly experts.<br />

And as an extra plus all their<br />

packaging is now compostable.<br />

www.westgatelabs.co.uk<br />

BRITISH BREEDER| 69


U L T I P R E M I U M G R A D E D<br />

M<br />

N G L O A R A B S T A L L I O N<br />

A<br />

t u d F e e : £ 5 0 0<br />

S<br />

C o u r i e r c o s t s + V A T<br />

+<br />

T R E E N H I L L<br />

A R I S T O T L E<br />

A v a i l a b l e a t s t u d i n 2 0 2 2<br />

C E M , E I A , E V A , C A , S C I D c l e a r<br />

A v a i l a b l e b y f r o z e n s e m e n<br />

a t W e s t K i n g t o n S t u d<br />

E n q u i r i e s t o :<br />

T r e e n h i l l - a r a b i a n s @ h o t m a i l . c o . u k<br />

w w w . t r e e n h i l l a r a b i a n s . c o . u k<br />

70 | BRITISH BREEDER


BRITISH BREEDER| 71


SUSSEX EQUINE<br />

H O S P I T A L<br />

- E S T 1 9 5 1 -<br />

LEADING UK SPORT HORSE<br />

REPRODUCTION PRACTICE<br />

• Oocyte collection (OPU) for ICSI<br />

TEAM OF SPECIALIST<br />

STUD VETS<br />

Providing a routine and emergency<br />

service 24/7 throughout the season.<br />

• Embryo transfer<br />

• Transfer of frozen embryo’s into recipients<br />

• BEVA accredited practice for AI - fresh, chilled & frozen<br />

• Competitive vet packages<br />

• Mares boarded at the hospital<br />

• Subfertility investigations of mares and stallions<br />

• Semen collection, analysing and processing<br />

CONTACT US<br />

NOW ABOUT<br />

OOCYTE<br />

COLLECTION<br />

(OPU)<br />

• Full hospital back-up<br />

• HBLB accredited on-site laboratory<br />

• Foetal sexing<br />

• Twin management<br />

• Oviductal infertility treatment<br />

• Specialist reproductive surgical procedures<br />

• Foal intensive care unit run by a European<br />

Specialist in Internal Medicine<br />

For further information, please contact us at:<br />

e<br />

t<br />

a<br />

info@sussexequinehospital.co.uk<br />

01903 883050<br />

Facebook: Sussex Equine Hospital<br />

Billingshurst Road, Ashington, West Sussex RH20 3BB<br />

72 | BRITISH BREEDER<br />

www.sussexequinehospital.co.uk

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!