by Le Mexico. Deborah adds, “Idocus is himself internationally successful in Grand Prix dressage (and competed in the Athens Olympics for Holland), but also produces good hunters as well as dressage horses.” These breeders praise the benefits of specializing. “The
Dutch in general are pleased with the results and believe that was and is the way to go,” says Deborah. “When you concentrate on fewer traits you can make faster changes and progress in those traits.”
Breed Society Trends At inspections, some registries still require horses to jump, regardless of their bloodlines. The American Hanoverian Society Mare Performance Test, for example, includes free jumping. About stallions, Dr. Christmann says, “In the Netherlands, in
performance the dressage stallions are not jumping any more. We [in Hanover] feel that when we are testing the stallion that a dressage stallion should be able to do a little jump.” The Rheinland Pfalz-Saar International (RPSI) registry
requires stallion candidates to jump when presented for licensing. To qualify for the Stud Book, all stallions are free jumped in a chute. In Sweden’s Riding Horse Quality Test, the three-year-olds
are judged in an overall test for both jumping and dressage talent. Earning a diploma certificate rewards the outstanding
young horse, and a “double diploma” in both dressage and jumping is a rare honor. “They all have to jump,” says Swedish official Karl-Henrik Heimdahl about the stallion testing. Sweden now has an eight-day test, where stallions are trained to jump before the testing. In previous decades, German tests were much longer.
The program for Hanoverian state stallion candidates was eleven months at Adelheidsdorf, with all youngsters trained and evaluated in jumping and cross-country riding. A change in the Hanoverian selection is to focus on a horse’s predisposition. “There was a big discussion in the past: do we want to breed an all-around horse, or do we need to specialize,” Dr. Christmann explains. “This question has been very much answered. We need to specialize. We focus on one predisposition for either dressage, jumping or eventing.” By recognizing bloodlines and their characteristics,
breeders can produce horses for the sport. As Judy says, “Young jumpers or young dressage—you have to have the bloodlines.” Yet top jumpers have helped make top dressage horses for generations, contributing bloodlines—and the traits associated with them—that literally help dressage horses take flight and dance.
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