Rebecca Neff
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Watch – Learn – Enjoy at a KWPN-NA Keuring By Faith Fessenden
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his year’s KWPN-North America keurings (inspections), held from August 26 to September 15, are just around the corner. Seventeen stops are scheduled for the jury to
evaluate foals, yearlings, two-year-olds and three-year-olds bred as jumpers, hunters, dressage prospects, harness horses and all- around horses (Gelders). We invite you to attend an event near you, and here are some guidelines to help you get the most out of your experience.
Basic Evaluation and Linear Scoring Te foals are shown loose at the side of their dams; the yearlings
and two-year-olds are shown in hand; and the three-year-olds and older are shown in-hand and loose to display movement only for the dressage horses, movement and free-jumping for the jumpers and hunters, and either movement and/or jumping and/or driving for the Gelders group. Harness horses are shown only in-hand, or for the three-year-olds and older, driving. Linear score sheets are compiled by the jury for all three-year- old and older horses. Tese scores become part of the KWPN and KWPN-NA databases for traits, qualities, reliabilities and projection values of the sires and dams. It is at this time, that if a horse’s talent lies in another breeding/registration direction, the jury will suggest to the owner that the horse be reevaluated at that keuring using the specific score sheet for that direction. A very interesting class is the ‘Stallion Pre-Approval’ for two-
year-old colts. Evaluated in-hand, a linear score sheet for his designated direction is filled out. Free movement is then scruti- nized and then, for the hunter and jumper breeding directions, free jumping. A detailed report is then made for the owner and the KWPN-NA office indicating whether or not the jury recom- mends the owner pursue the procedures and requirements for a stallion prospect and presentation at three years old.
Under Saddle Classes Under saddle classes/performance testing for three-year-old and
older mares, geldings and stallions bring excitement as the talent search is on! Where do their abilities lie? How much promise is shown at each age? Are they beginning to fulfill their genetic potential?
Te I.B.O.P. (acronym for Dutch Riding Test) scores are
needed by all sexes both for themselves (results noted on their papers) and for their dams and sires by adding ‘predicates’ (indi- cators of mare and stallion passing on performance characteris- tics to their offspring).
Above: Cornerstone LPR, 2007 KWPN gelding by OO Seven out of Vix- en LPR (Ster), shown at a keuring in Florida in 2010. Cornerstone LPR’s results exemplified the flexiblity and support of the keuring system. Entered in the Hunter Inspection class, the jury advised owner/breeder Nancy Debosek to switch to the Dressage evaluation. She did, and was rewarded with top results and placings. Top of Page: Kimberlee Farms bred First Mate KF Ster Q, 2013 KWPN-NA Reserve Champion Hunter Geldings, presented at a California keuring.
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North American Keuring-wide Competitions In addition to the KWPN requirement of the IBOP testing,
North America offers additional performance classes creating more opportunity for our breeders with an eye to future training and breeding of the horse as well as opportunity for marketing. Te DG Bar Cup spotlights dressage with classes for three-,
four-, five/six- and seven/eight-year olds with movement expec- tations related to their ages. Te latter age group test is on par with the USEF Developing Horse requirements. Te hunter/ jumper breeding direction has a similar competition with the Claybrook Farms Cup for Free-Jumping, open to two-, three- and four-year olds. Both cup competitions have a single overall age-group winner for the entire tour.
Purposes Past, Present and Future North American breeders and owners will be bringing more
than 300 horses for evaluation and commentary, as well as breeding and training guidance from the skilled jury. Owners and breeders will learn if their stallion/mare pairings were op- timal, what the strengths and weaknesses are in their mares for
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