Specializing in Disciplines In the last decade, the KWPN has separated stallion dressage and jumping evaluation in its Keurings. Judy Reggio of Windy Ridge Farm, Bethel, Pennsylvania, is secretary of the KWPN-NA. “I think it’s fabulous—the greatest thing to have a direction,” she says in favor of the discipline-specific judging. “There are so many qualities that you look for in a dressage horse, in conformation, that are detrimental to a jumper. One is the more vertical neck— not good for a jumper; and movement in the front leg is not necessary. So when you lump them together you slow down your progress as a breeder.” She explains that the breeder’s goal is to produce a horse
that makes his job as easy as possible. “If you want a jumper, and the selection process rewards the vertical neck, longer pastern, and more sloping shoulder, it will discourage the jumper breeders. It goes even further back. The Dutch are so cognizant of the mare lines and what they produce, that they are very good about rewarding the mare lines. The jumper mares were being discriminated against. Their offspring weren’t getting top foals, and maybe didn’t produce the first premiums.” Breeder Deborah Harrison agrees about the emphasis
on mares. “The Dutch are now emphasizing even more than before when considering stallion prospects: the dam and her relatives and bloodlines, her own and their performance and their offspring’s performance. So, more of the breeders in Holland are now getting back some of the top international performance mares to use in their breeding programs. “Some mare lines are extremely ‘strong’ and produce multiple top performers year after year, so it makes sense to use these damlines.” Judy sees that with the two directions, breeders can
focus on separate qualities for dressage and jumpers. Mares that didn’t produce fancy movers for dressage may earn recognition for their jumper offspring. “I think you
can progress so much faster when you produce the disciplines you want.” She notes that the studbook remains the same, although the breeding direction has changed. Deborah
explains that at a Keuring, “The owner can declare what they want. They can ask the jury what they think the horse should be. The jury would basically base it on pedigree, unless they see the horse move and jump and say it’s more suitable for jumping,” she says. “The jury may recommend a change in direction (i.e., from dressage to hunter or to jumper), but they may need to come back another year to do the free jumping, if the horse is not accustomed to it.” Judy mentions the stallion Idocus (Equador x Zonneglans). “By the pedigree, Idocus should have been a jumper, but he’s a top dressage sire in the U.S.” His sire is by Voltaire, and damsire is
Well Known U.S. Dressage Stars with Jumping Bloodlines
Gifted (Garibaldi II x Lombard) ridden by Carol Lavell Kingston (Voltaire x Burggraaf) ridden by Leslie Morse Komo (Ramiro x Almé) ridden by the late Carol Plough Graf George (Graphit x More Magic xx) ridden by Michael Poulin and later Guenter Seidel
Foltaire (Voltaire x Afrikaner xx) ridden by Guenter Seidel Rainier (Rolando x Figaro) [Rolando a son of Ramiro, and Figaro a grandson of Furioso II] ridden by Robert Dover and later Katherine Bates-Chandler
Flim Flam (Wilhelm Tell I x Cavalier) [both sire and dam trace back to the F-line’s Ferdinand, known for producing jumpers] ridden by Sue Blinks
Rafalca (Argentinus x Rubinstein I) ridden by Jan Ebeling
top left: Gifted and Carol Lavell at Gladstone in 1991. top right: Kingston and Leslie Morse at the U.S. Olympic Trials, 2004. left: Komo and the late Carol Plough at the U.S. Olympic Trials, 2004.
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above, top to bottom: Contendion (Contendro x Wanderer) at the 2012 USEF National Dressage Championships, Prix St. Georges Developing Horse, ridden by Regina Agren. Idocus (Equador x Le Mexico), ridden by Ashley de Groot.
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