“I’ve decided to get out of the Quarter Horse breeding business and focus entirely on breeding Warmbloods. ”
winter at HITS Thermal (CA) and then come home in the spring.” Meanwhile Katriina will continue to hold on to her
his opinion. “He gave me good advice,” she remarks. “He said that Color Guard’s conformation was not ideal since he was more compact than what the Hanoverians look for. But he did encourage me to keep him a stallion, enter him in the next 70 Day Stallion Test, and then if he does well, present him for stallion approval. So that’s what we did.” Katriina placed Color Guard in training with Olympian Jill Henselwood since he needed to be in tip top shape to do the stallion test. The following year in the fall of 2010, they shipped him to Oklahoma for the test, and as it turned out, they had a winner. Out of fifteen stallions, Color Guard scored the highest in jumping, and was Reserve Champion for the whole test behind the test’s champion Contiano BF, a Holsteiner owned and bred by Branscomb Farm. Later they presented the flashy chestnut to the
AHS for approvals at Hilltop Farm in Maryland, and he easily passed earning an 8.5 for his jumping. Besides the Hanoverians, Color Guard is now approved by the Oldenburg (GOV), RPSI, sBs (Belgian Sporthorse), Canadian Warmblood and Canadian Sport Horse associations.
What’s Next? Katriina’s breeding program has naturally taken a
significant turn. “I’ve decided to get out of the Quarter Horse breeding business and focus entirely on breeding Warmbloods. In 2010 we received our first offspring from Color Guard. So far he’s stamping his foals, especially with his temperament. In 2012 I’m expecting six foals from Color Guard, so I’m very excited,” she beams. For her own mares, Katriina has used only frozen
semen. “Gratefully, Color Guard has a very high motility rate after thawing. I did not want to interrupt his training this past summer for collecting. Color Guard is in full training with Jill doing the jumpers. They will compete this
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aged Quarter Horse. “Sometimes I’ll throw the leadline on and jump on bareback and take a quiet hack. It’s so peaceful and relaxing,” she muses. But for excitement she looks forward to campaigning Color Guard and developing her redirected breeding business. Jumping into Warmbloods was never Katriina’s intention when they bought the farm just seven short years ago. Sometimes you just never know what your destiny is until it happens.
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