trains the Donnerhall granddaughter, Walking on Sunshine (Worldly x Davignon), also presented at the forum. This 2003 Hanoverian mare, owned by Robin Shearer, has competed in the FEI 5-Year- Old and 6-Year-Old Tests, and the USEF Developing Horse Prix St. Georges. The forum included
a judging workshop, where all attendees rated horses on the appropriate FEI, USEF or USDF tests. They compared their scores with Dr. Schüle and Thomas Münch. The top score went to Rohan (Rock
Forever x Fidermark), a three-year-old on his second ever trip away from home. In the USDF Materiale test, Dr. Schüle awarded him a total score of 8.74. Thomas remarks on the sire Rock
Forever. “He competed in the Bundes- championate and was second. He showed a lot of talent for collection and a good riding attitude. He sires good foals [the oldest are now three- year-olds].” This Westfalen stallion was Reserve Champion at the NRW licensing in 2005 and won the 30-day test in Münster-Handorf. Sabine Schut-Kery presented Rohan and also
Sanceo (San Remo x Ramiro’s Son II), a 2006 stallion that won the 2011 West Coast Selection Trials for the FEI Dressage Test for 5-Year-Old Horses. Nationally, he was fourth at the 2011 Markel/USEF National Young Horse Dressage Championships. Sabine talks about how she chose these two stallions in Germany for Horsegate Ranch in Texas. “I looked at 185 horses and picked these two stallions. Sanceo had been ridden ten times when I got him. Rohan was being prepared for the stallion licensing and had only been worked in hand.” She admits that she took a chance buying Rohan at two and a half years of age, but notes it is one she does not regret. “I broke him six months ago, and he’s not ever taken a funny step or bucked.” Fleeceworks Cinco is a Holsteiner eventer
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Rohan showing good articulation of the joints at the canter, ridden by Sabine Schut-Kery.
(Cascani x Carneval) from October Hill Farm in Texas. He has Cassini I on the sire line and Capitol on both sides. Ridden by Rebecca Ratte, the canter was his best gait earning him an 8 in the USEF Dressage Test for 4-Year-Old Horses. “A canter like the Holsteins have at the moment, we all like it very much,” says Dr. Schüle. “You get good flying changes with the good activity in front.” About Cinco, he adds, “The breeding is Cassini and the dam also of the C line, perfect for the jumping. And if the paces are good enough, why not for dressage? Event riders know you need a good dressage score to be in front.” Fleeceworks Cinco won the Young Event
Horse four-year-old division at Rebecca Farm this year, scoring 84.7. Soon after this forum he competed at the West Coast Young Event Horse Championships, where he took the four-year-old championship on September 22, winning both dressage and jumping with a total score of 86.7. Owner Judy McSwain, president of Fleeceworks, describes how trainer Kristi Nunnink found Cinco. “Kristi has a good sense. It was his bloodlines and then when she rode him, she had a feeling. You look at your bloodlines and feel it will work.” When Judy McSwain’s trainer, Tamra
In the FEI 5-year-old test, Sanceo shows the stretching on a long rein in working trot, ridden by Sabine Schut-Kery.
Smith, tried Cinco, “Tamra had this huge smile. You have the reputation of the breeding behind the horse and it’s also the whole intangible, that the horse feels right,” Judy remarks. Vindicator (00
On Fleeceworks Cinco, Rebecca Ratte encourages the four year old to relax at the poll in the canter.
Seven x Ferro Keur) is a U.S. bred 2002 Dutch Warmblood. Trainer Barbi Breen-Gurley bought him as a three-year- old from DG Bar Ranch, California. “The knowledgeable people know how to produce a good riding horse with a good mind and sound gaits that will last. He has excellent breeding
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