“Trakehners contribute key genetics to so many
good international sport horses, and they do
not get the appreciation they deserve.”
and bloodlines? They should divide it into a northern and southern half like in the old days. Many things within the KWPN tend to irritate us, so we lean toward the Trakehner side of things.” The international WBFSH (World Breeding
Federation for Sport Horses) ranking lists E.H. Gribaldi offspring, for instance Painted Black and Totilas, as KWPN-bred horses. But Jan says, “I think that half the points a sport horse earns should go to the stud book of its dam and half to its sire’s. As it is now, all credit goes to the KWPN and the Trakehner gets nil. Internationally, even the Lusitano and the Andalusian stud books rank above that of the Trakehner. That simply isn’t right. Trakehners contribute key genetics to so many good international sport horses, and they do not get the appreciation they deserve.” They have bred with Trakehner stallions for years
now. “We like to use Trakehner sires to improve our horses. Before we started to breed, we visited the stallion selections of various stud books in Germany. With the
Trakehners, we found what we were looking for: the quality, the atmosphere, and how the horses were handled and treated.”
Breeding Results “Lominka’s first two foals were by Balzflug and E.H. Partout,” he continues. “The Balzflug was a bit too sensitive and the Partout could have been more so. In spite of that the Balzflug was already M dressage qualified at age five and the Partout was already a successful Prix St. Georges horse at the age of seven. Not until we combined Lominka with Gribaldi were we one hundred percent satisfied. That just fits perfectly. As a result, today we exclusively use Trakehner sires. At present we have done that 20 times. Last year, we had foals by Axis and Gribaldi, this year by Hirtentanz and Gribaldi, and now we have mares in foal to Silvermoon and Gribaldi.” The combination of Gribaldi with Lominka is an
exceptional one. As Jan puts it, “That just is a golden match that needs no change. We have made this combination now six times. Totilas is now age nine; his sister Uusminka is eight. After these two we had Lominka a few years in the sport. Then we bred her again to Gribaldi and have the three-year-old Bussard, the two-year-old Creon, the yearling filly Danzig, and she is in foal again to Gribaldi. So they all are full brothers and sister to Totilas.” Anyone who knows his way around the Trakehner
breed recognizes the names Bussard, Creon and Totilas. The Schuils do like to name the colts after famous Trakehner sires of the past. Jan explains, “We hesitated at first. His name should start
Above: Moorlands Totilas’s sire, the Trakehner stallion E.H. Gribaldi (by the Enrico Caruso *Ps*E* son Kostolany, out of Gondola II by Ibikus). Edward Gal listed Gribaldi as number one on his list of most influential dressage sires of the last 50 years in a press conference during the 2010 World Equestrian Games. Though Gribaldi has died, his sire Kostolony is still available for breeding at the farm of the photographer. Photo by Beate Langels (
www.gestuet-
haemelschenburg.de) Left: Moorlands Totilas and Edward Gal. Photo by Allen MacMillan/MacMillan Photography
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