photograph from about fifty-five years ago of this remarkable animal in old age, and ask you to consider in what ways he appears as the current “model” sport-horse type? To me, it is in ALL ways, and to an astonishing degree. If you check pedigrees carefully, in the majority of our
best Trakehners and in many other Warmblood breeds of today, you will find the name Totilas, mostly as a damsire. In a coincidental proof-by-example, though it is little known, you will find him in the pedigree of today’s Totilas! Six generations back in his sire Gribaldi’s dam line, one will find the stallion Flugsand, whose dam was by Totilas. Today’s world of Trakehners comprises horses competing
successfully at many levels. You will want to read the wonderful article about Apollo Star and his enthusiastic owner/rider Liz Messaglia of Indiana, who tells her story of reaching the pinnacle in amateur eventing, winning the American Eventing Championship at Novice level a few months ago. Through their membership and registration in the ATA, Liz and Apollo Star have also earned the distinction of being our Reserve Champion Horse of the Year (at Novice level eventing). There is an extensive awards program in all the disciplines offered to ATA members on their registered horses.
Unique among the North American Warmblood breeds, there is a special separate organization called the American
Trakehner Foundation, whose tax-deductible donations are used to fund riders who are reaching high with their Trakehner horses via educational and competition grants. This is all laid out in the article about the ATF in this issue. Could you be the next grant recipient? We hope so! Also alone in its greatness is the ATA’s Futurity program,
which now has been extended beyond dressage to include other fields of competition, creating some serious fun and potential cash winnings for its participants. After reading the article here about the Futurity, you may decide that you would like to be one of those “players” in the future and will learn how to do so. In summary, the American Trakehner Association remains
unique, by means of equine genetics, selective breeding, competition testing, and a breed registry that tries hard to fulfill its mission of preserving and promoting the Trakehner Horse from East Prussia. On behalf of all of us, I invite you to find the horse of your dreams within our breed and to join us in our passion.
— Timothy Holekamp New Spring Farm
President, American Trakehner Association
58 January/February 2012
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