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His fourth generation shows three Thoroughbreds and his fifth generation shows eight. They took the gold. Beezie Madden’s mount, Cortes ‘C’ (a gelding of 2002), is


by Randel Z and out of a Darco mare. As stated earlier, Darco is our jumper-only representative. This BWP jumper’s fourth generation reveals one Thoroughbred and his fifth genera- tion reveals eight. The pair earned the bronze.


Lessons


Obviously jumpers tend to beget top jumpers, but some jumpers also beget top eventers. The top 30 jumpers at WEG tend to have more discipline-specific bloodlines than the top dressage horses and the top eventers at the Games. Dressage horses also tend to beget dressage horses in some cases. However, even if the pedigrees of dressage hors- es might be primarily dressage oriented, that is not necessar- ily the case in all instances. The top 30 dressage horses from WEG contained jumper blood, eventing blood, multi-purpose blood and even non-traditional blood (i.e. the Hackney blood in Verdades’ pedigree). Eventers carry a higher percentage of Thoroughbred blood and lean more towards jumping bloodlines than dres- sage bloodlines in their heritage based on the finishers from Normandy. There are exceptions, of course. For example, the Connemara/Thoroughbred cross, Portersize Just a Jiff, should remind us to keep other doors open.


Dressage gold medalists: Charlotte Dujardin (GB) and the KWPN gelding Valegro, by Negro x Gerschwin, took the final freestyle with a phenomenal score of 92.161%.


And finally, many of the top horses have full or half sib-


lings that did not excel in sport. That means that, while pedi- grees can be a useful guideline, they are never a guarantee of success, no matter what the field of endeavour.


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