Bayo, an Andalusian / Hanoverian cross stallion, was bred in Germany and sold to Switzerland.
Duque IX, out of a different Florestan mare) at a previous auction, also for an excellent price. According to Ulli Kasselman,
“The offsprings of the cross breeding had extraordinary basic gaits and the desired power and work ethic. We offered the horses to our normal dressage clients and we can confirm that the type of the horses and their great potential for collected work played an important part in the decision of the buyers. I´m still thinking positively about the cross breeding of good Warmblood mares with Lusitano and PRE stallions.” Brazil: The crossing of Lusitanos and Warmbloods has
also started there, but the programs are still too young to have competitive horses of note. United States: Judy Yancey, well known agent for selling the semen of top European stallions, bred a Kiger mustang mare to an Andalusian stallion (by Gaucho) and the resulting mare has been a great producer that she has bred in turn to Sandro Hit and other important Warmblood stallions. The resulting excellent offspring were sold as foals and we have not seen them in the show arena yet. My wife Shelley and I of Baroque Farms USA have
stood six Lusitano stallions over the years: Lusiadas, Hipogrifo, Istoso, Fabuloso (ex Modico), Hussar (deceased) and Lavrador (sold to Vintage Iberia). These stallions were crossed over the years with 50% purebred mares (Andalusian, Lusitano and Luso-Spanish) and 50% mares of other breeds (Warmbloods, Thoroughbreds, Arabians, Quarter Horses, Paint, Kiger mustangs). The results have been excellent and very adapted to the
majority of amateurs who owned them. The stallions have usually contributed an improved rideability based on great responsiveness, soundness and a very friendly character interested in cooperating with their humans. For example, we have been crossing a Holsteiner mare with the Lusitano stallion Istoso. The oldest product is now four years old and has excellent work ethic and good movement. Istoso has been bred to other Warmblood mares with great success, such as some Hanoverian mares by Gold Luck/Grundstein. This has proven to us that the Iberian genotype is very
powerful and its influence has always been positive in the making of a riding horse, but it never obliterated the different qualities brought by the mare (speed, gaits, cow sense, whatever they possessed) as long as those qualities were the result of a sufficient genetic concentration. The great advantage of crossing with Warmbloods is that many of them are good movers and they tend to pass it on.
THE FUTURE OF DRESSAGE The ideal dressage horse has a trainable character, three energetic and ground covering gaits with elevation and a naturally slow cadence, uphill balance, lateral flexibility and ability to collect and perform transitions. Above all, a dressage horse must enjoy being ridden and accept human interference. Totilas is the most extravagant example of this ideal horse. As a phenotype, he looks and moves like an Iberian horse on steroids. He has the ability for piaffe passage and pirouettes of the Iberian horse to a supreme degree. In fact, he has a lot in common with Fuego XII (PRE stallion in Spain) and the Totilas style is probably responsible for Fuego’s style to be so well rewarded in world competition. Ten years ago, this type of movement would not have received the nod of approval from judges as it has now. Being a crossbred himself (Trakhener X Dutch
Warmblood), there is no guarantee that Totilas will reproduce himself until a homogenous group of suitable mares will be identified and serviced by him. On the other hand, we can create a horse on this model by crossing a big moving Dutch or German horse with an Iberian horse gifted for collection and with the goodwill to be trained. I believe that the future of
Left to Right: Totilas, a Trakehner / KWPN cross, and Fuego XII, a PRE stallion from Spain, both demonstrate their extreme movements and abilities during the Alltech 2010 World Equestrian Games. Photos by (left) Allen MacMillan, (right) Kim Macmillan/Macmillan Photography
dressage resides with horses which possess the gaits of the Warmblood and the collection of the Iberian. Crossing the two breeds with care is one of the surest ways to produce this versatile dressage horse that we all wish to own and ride.
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