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here, that stallion for me is, again, Totilas. Of course, you need a second stallion to use on the first stallion’s daughters. So I guess I’ll go with Chagall for that. Judy: Argentinus is my all-time biggest heart throb…just an emotional thing. Rachel: Balou du Rouet. Ronda: Cassini I, Darco, Quidam de Revel, Chin Chin, Nabab
de Reve. Annalou: I would go stallion shopping at Zangersheide
and in France! Ann: A mix of great, proven
sires and some interesting young stallions like Stockholm (Stedinger x Silvio I), who has produced several licensing champions recently in southern Germany; DaMarco (Darco x Raphael-Zeus), who is the prettiest Darco I’ve ever seen and has an amazing jump; the Dutch stallion Wynton, because I like his rideability and so many of his offspring I saw in Den Bosch; and for the ponies, Fehkamps Nightly—because he was the only pony stallion in the 2012 Bundeschampionat actually ridden by a child!
Where would you shop for dream mares, or would you keep more of your own young mares for your breeding program? Scot: We are fortunate to have one of the top dressage-
producing marelines in the world. We have our foundation mare, Orchis (Jazz x Roemer) and five of her daughters. Ronda: My dream mares come from all over the world—
Belgium, Germany, Denmark, and exceptional North American breeding programs. I specifically look for bloodlines that are proven at the upper levels of jumping. Rachel: I just came back from a
trip to southern Germany and I saw half a dozen mares I want to bring home. I would like to try different combinations of jumper and dressage lines to breed that elusive perfect hunter! Annalou: If I had an extra
What role does your mare herd play in the future of your farm? What are the greatest strengths in your mare herd and breeding program? Weaknesses? How can your breeding decisions in 2013 and beyond address this? Judy: In 1977, I paid $11,500 for my Trakehner foundation
mare Helena “E” (Herbstraum x Pregel–Boris). That was a fortune back then but she’s earned over a million dollars for me! A top mare is worth her weight in gold. People look to the stallion too much to improve the mares, but the stallion should rather complement her and perhaps bring that little extra sparkle. Scot: It’s everything. A top
Judy Yancey and her foundation mare Helena.
mare gives a breeder a lot more leeway to screw up—she’s going to have a better chance of producing something really good than an average mare if the breeder makes a bad choice. In terms of weaknesses?
Our horses can be hot and need a little more suppleness. But for a KWPN breeder in North America there is no way to address this without using frozen semen. We simply don’t have more than two or three quality, KWPN-approved dressage stallions available for fresh-cooled semen in the North America. If I have to rely solely on fresh-cooled semen, then I need to switch to a different studbook. In other words, I can’t always address the weaknesses of my breeding program because I’m limited by the options available to me. Fortunately, enough really good KWPN stallions are available via frozen that at least I have options for our mares who are candidates for frozen. Nonetheless, my program is not as good as it would be if it were based in Europe. I’m not sure this is true for members of other studbooks in North America—their breeders have many more options both in fresh- cooled and frozen. Ann: I am focusing on an
Rachel Jones and her Bavarian Warmblood stallion Coronet D’Honneur.
million euros I would buy the great mare Valentina van 't Heike! She is also the mother of a young stallion I like, Epleaser van ‘t Heike. Abigail: I would shop for broodmares worldwide, including
the last vestiges of Thoroughbreds that are suitable in America for sport horse development.
‘Heirloom’ breeding program right now to continue developing a strong mare base—we are fortunate to have direct sons of Pilot, Ramiro Z and Donnerhall standing at our farm. You often
see Pilot and Ramiro in mother-lines of top performance horses and stallions in Europe. I started with wonderful Thoroughbred and Selle Français (Galoubet) mares that I evented and showed in the ’80s and ’90s and I have many daughters and granddaughters in my mare herd now. This gives me a
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