Breed All About It!
Solar Eclipse Invades Germany T e Oldenburg Elite Mare Show in Rastede, Germany is a prestigious, by invitation only, breed show that selects only the top Oldenburg mares to be pre- sented. Tradition- ally, the show tends to feature German or European-bred mares only, but this year, one Maryland mare has been in- vited to compete. Nancy Holowesko at Crosiadore Farm in Trappe bred So- lar Eclipse, by Sir Donnerhall and out of Eclipse. She was born in June 2008 and Nancy knew at once she was a special horse. “T e Sir Donnerhall fi lly was special from the moment she hit the ground. Elegant and well put together. T e fi rst time we turned her out, you could see glimpses of the athlete to come,” Nancy remarked. At just three weeks old, this fi lly earned a
premium award at the 2008 German Olden- burg Verband inspection. “She had jaw drop- ping movement… she was elastic, with an ex- cellent hind leg and always moved uphill in all her gaits,” Nancy added. By the end of that year, Solar Eclipse was named the top foal by the GOV during their tour of the U.S. and Canada. She also earned the Alain Seheut Award by the Oldenburg Horse Breeders’ Society for being the most outstanding foal during the 2008 North American Inspection season. Nancy traveled with Solar Eclipse to Ger- many last November. She placed the mare in training with Johannes Westerdarp. “Johannes is one of the best young horse trainers in Ger- many and I would not have sent Solar Eclipse [to Germany] if Johannes had not agreed to train her.” T is year, hun-
dreds of three and four-year- old mares were inspected by the GOV but only a select group were invited to the Mare Per- formance Test. At this test, held in Germany this June, Solar
Maryland Continues to Make Its Mark on the National & International Breeding Scene
Eclipse was awarded high marks, including a 9.5 (out of a scale of 10) for her canter. Out of those mares, about 100 are awarded the States Premium Candidate title; Solar Eclipse was one of them. T en, only 55 of those were invited to this year’s show in Ras- tede. Solar Eclipse made the cut. “I never thought I would have this
opportunity to qualify a mare for Rastede, fi rstly because I do not keep mares in Germany. But I knew Solar Eclipse was special,” Nancy said. After the show, which is held on July 21, the mare will get the rest of the summer off before returning to full training with Johannes. Nancy plans to breed her in 2012. Stay tuned for more about
Solar Eclipse, bred in Trappe, get- ting ready for the 2011 Oldenburg Elite Mare Show held in Germany
Solar Eclipse in upcoming issues and see how she fared at the Oldenburg Elite Mare Show.
Cleveland Bays at Upperville Besides the classic hunter and jump-
er classes at the Upperville Colt and Horse Show, held June 6-12 in Upper- ville, Virginia, the show off ers a variety of breed classes. New to the Saturday schedule last year was the addition of the Cleveland Bay Hunter division. T is competition was the fi rst show in the Mid-Atlantic Cleveland Bay Hunter Show series, which also in- cludes the Howard County Fair Cleveland Bay Hunter Show and the Cleveland Bay Hunter Division at the Warrenton Horse Show. Cleveland Bays were actually one of the
the championship ribbon for trainer Susan Lynn Porter. IdleHour Navaisha is no stranger to the winner’s circle as the mare has won other championship honors in the past. T e reserve championship went to Ridley’s
Sake, who was bred, raised and owned by Mi- chelle Guillermin of Davidsonville. Lisa Swan rode the gelding in his fi rst Upperville expe- rience. Lisa commented that just getting to Upperville was an accomplishment as Ridley’s Sake spent the week leading up to the show on stall rest. “I found him out in the fi eld stand- ing on a bent shoe with the nail right in his foot,” Lisa said. After that, the owner packed and wrapped the foot three times a day leading up to the show. Once at the show grounds, it was discovered that the Coggins they had faxed was lost and then, right as Lisa was about to go into the ring, Ridley’s Sake pulled an- other shoe.
“At
IdleHour Navaisha (owned by Martha Klasing) with Sandy Lytle at Upperville
one point we were literally hav- ing a shoe tapped back on while they were calling us into the ring,” Lisa remarked.
“Considering all of that, he was great! We got it done and he’s a good boy,” Lisa added. Cleveland Bays will also be featured in an
fi rst breeds shown at Upperville as the show’s founder, Colonel Richard Henry Dulany, be- gan exhibiting his prize stallion Scrivington under the Upperville oaks in 1856. T is year, exhibitors were plentiful and Maryland horses, owners and trainers dominated the division. IdleHour Navaisha, ridden by Sandy Lytle for Bethesda owner Martha Klasing, earned
in-hand breed class at Dressage at Devon later this year. Also, the Mid-Atlantic Cleveland Bay Hunter Show series sponsors a Cleveland Bay Hunt in the Maryland region in mid-November.
More From Upperville
Several other Maryland-breds earned top call- ings at Upperville in other breed classes. Win- ning the Other T an T oroughbred Foals class was Siriana Way, a Hanoverian-T oroughbred cross fi lly owned by Anne Jones and Elizabeth Stephan. Lost Diamond Farm LLC won the blue in the Other T an T oroughbred Two- Year-Old Fillies class with Dr. Kathy Farley’s entry of Jess’czica. T e Pony Two-Year-Old Fil- lies class went to Devon Blue, owned by Stacey Schaefer. Wallstreet Dream, owned by Anne Jones
MHBA Yearling Champion: a colt by Corinthian, out of Moonshine Run by Go For Gin, owned by Robert Manfuso and Katharine Voss
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and Kristen Hortenstine, earned second place in the Other T an T oroughbred Broodmares class. Nancy Reed’s Land’s End Balanchine took home second in the Pony Yearlings Colts continued...
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