Rose has stood several stallions in her lifetime and at one time had four approved stallions. “It’s a lot of work!” she exclaims. “I’m getting older now, I’m 62, and Clair de Lune is very easy to handle—I put him on the trailer and take him to get collected and he goes right back into training and it doesn’t affect his performance.” She is passionate about breeding a certain type of event
horse. “I want to incorporate the hardiness of the horse because eventing is such a difficult sport and horses that are going to make it to the top levels need great brains, really good movement, good conformation and good feet because of the galloping and the impact of all the jumping. I wanted to make sure the mares I used, in combination with Clair de Lune, would produce that type of offspring,” she explains. “His oldest babies are seven and had done very well with
the Future Event Horse, the in-hand program for the very young. One of the reasons I do that is I like to get them into the trailer and exposed to the venues. It gets them out early, and they are groomed and clipped, which is really good for their training to get used to that early on. They’ve all scored between 80 and 89.9 percent, which are ridiculously high scores. That gives the horses a good name, gives the stallion a name, and then it’s not hard to find partners with those kind of scores. I’ve been very blessed to find some good riders to take them up the levels.” Rose has horses in partnership with a variety of profes- sionals: beside Taryn, they include Frederic Boland in Arizona
who has Cosimo SE; Alexis Helffrich in northern California has Crème De La Crème SE, who won two Training level events in 2017 as well as Leonado SE, whom he has competed up to the two-star level. Another youngster, Morning Glory SE, is with eventer Erin Sylvester in Pennsylvania. US Eventing Team member Marilyn Little had Clair De
Lune several years ago and was aiming to take him up to the top levels of both eventing and show jumping. Unfortunately he suffered a tendon injury and had to be off for a year. “I just brought him home and rehabbed him and then sent him to Rich Fellers. He’s 12 and I think show jumping will be a little easier on him,” Rose says. “He’s been to Thermal and up to Thunderbird and has had a pretty successful career so far.”
What’s Next? Clever is recuperated and back in training now, having beat the odds against his recovery. Taryn says she is competing him for fun, not putting any pressure on him. “He’s kind of a miracle horse—I got him for a dollar and he was unbroken at age six because he was so dangerous,” she says. “But now he’s like a puppy dog. He was really tough and taught me more patience than any person ever could! He taught me how to deal with babies and how to work with the young horses.” This winter, Taryn is enjoying working with her string of
young horses and hopes to return to the YEH championships in 2018. Her future with the young American-breds she trains and competes looks very bright indeed.
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