well-bred mares, each mare should also be able to produce a good sport horse baby and that the mares could take the MPT about halfway through their pregnancies. So, while the young horse training was going on, the girls took time out to choose stal- lions and the mares took time out to get pregnant. Te girls enjoyed the challenge
of choosing “husbands” for their mares. Although the girls wouldn’t own up to it, their father says they watched close to 100 hours of stal- lion videos online before making their choices. Te younger Jordan also took the initiative to reach out to Jessie’s breeder, Kate Palmquist, to get advice about the mare line. Jordan is interested in showing in hunter classes, so she was looking for a Hanoverian sire that might improve upon the lovely refined Jessie. What clinched the de- cision for Jordan was seeing a “gorgeous colt” at the Warrenton Horse Show that was a son of the stallion Apiro (Argentinus- Pyrah/Pilot), a 16.3 hand bay sabino stallion that is branded Bavarian but approved for Hanoverian breeding (and now stands at Marabet Farm in Florida.) Apiro was a top three hunter breeding sire in 2011 and 2013. According to Jordan, Apiro should add bone and longer legs to her “ballerina” mare. Unsurprisingly, Jordan wants to keep, not sell, the foal. Hanna made a choice similar to the one her father made
when he bred her mare, Lucy. Hanna chose to use frozen semen from one of the top jumper stallions in German Hanoverian breeding, Perigueux (Perpignon-Sensation/ Stakkato). However, unlike her father, Hanna chose a fairly young sire, not yet among the top rankings for jumping breeding values. Perigueux is a competition horse as well as a breeding stallion. He has many wins and placements in international jumping championships and was named 2013 German champion jumper. What convinced Hanna that the 16.3 hand chestnut Perigueux was the right match for Lucy was that he currently is being ridden very successfully by a woman, Eva Bitter from Germany. Also, Hanna liked the Perigueux foals and young horses she saw online, includ- ing one out of a Balou du Rouet dam, just like Lucy. Hanna hopes to produce a top prospect for the jumper classes in which she most enjoys competing. Because both girls like to jump, they both chose stallions that are in the Hanoverian Jumper Breeding Program (JBP). Tose were wise choices because jumping ability is the
single most heritable equine athletic ability according to a sci- entific study conducted by Dr. Ludwig Christmann entitled, Degrees of Heritability and Genetic Correlations in the Ha- noverian Breed (a study of 5,347 mares from 1987 to 1993,
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conducted by the Institute of Animal Breeding at the Univer- sity in Goettingen, Germany). It established that “the predis- position to be able to free jump has the highest heritability degree” (that is, more heritability than the horse’s natural gaits or his rideability).
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Balou Moon BHF scoring 9 for technique and 10 for scope in the jump chute.
A Smashing Success In more than a decade of attend- ing several MPTs each year, I have never seen anyone but an adult, and mostly professional horse trainers at that, take a mare through a Hanoverian MPT. However, in October 2014, nothing stood in the way of these young girls: not mini- mal preparation time, not the pregnancy of their mares, not
their own minimal training experience, not their total reliance on their own riding abilities and not the competition from participating professional riders. Te scoring for the MPT is on a one-to-ten scale. A MPT score that would qualify a mare as an Elite Mare for Hanoverian breeding is a score of seven or higher.
About the Jumper Breeding Program The Hanoverian JBP standards are the same throughout the world. In addition to having an appropriate jumping pedigree, a stallion must meet one or more of the following criteria:
A score of at least 125 in the jumping index of the stallion performance test; A jumping score of 8.5 in the stallion performance test; A successful competition record, examples of which include placings in show jumping at USEF levels 8/9 (five times in first to third place) or Equine Canada equivalent; participation at international levels of competition or qualification for World Breeding Championships for Young Jumpers or the Bundeschampionat in Germany; Offspring with successful competition records; or A breeding value for jumping of at least 120. By way of example, the stallion’s success in USEF level 8/9 jumping competitions, experience at international levels of competition, or qualification to participate in the World Championships for young show jumpers or the offspring’s successes at USEF level 7/8 jumping competitions would be factors considered in favor of including a stallion in the program. Successes in hunter competitions, however, are not considered.
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