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Jumping stallions at den Bosch
An on-the-spot report from the KWPN stallion show. Christopher Hector looks at the jumping stallions that made the cut in 2024…
The Trakehners Strike Back: Part 1
Trakehners are starring right now. Jan Tönjes one of the experts on the breed, in this first of a three part series, outlines the breeding program that is bearing fruit at the highest levels right now!
KWPN dressage stallions DELIGHT!
Amazing, wonderful, fabulous, the KWPN stallion show was once again a triumph for Dutch dressage breeding, Christopher Hector has this exclusive on-the-spot report, just for you…
KWPN Stallion Show 2023: The Jumpers
The KWPN stallion show is a feast for any fan of jumping horses and jumping horse breeding. An exclusive on-the-spot report from Christopher Hector…
The Big Issues / View All
Dutch Dressage Breeding – how did it start?
How did the Dutch become world leaders in the breeding of dressage horses? This is the fascinating story of the first breeder to turn from jumping to dressage, with fabulous results…
Checker 47 – when a pedigree is a history of jumping breeding
The Paris Gold Medallist Checker 47 combines all the great jumping sires in one amazing pedigree… Christopher Hector analyses the bloodlines
Dressage Breeding – Where is it at?
Christopher Hector honors some of the stallions that are making their mark in the world of dressage… The Prix St Georges at Aachen this year, was a triumph for Dante Weltino (above)… I have always loved this stallion, always wondered why he wasn’t just a little bit more successful, always thought I would be happy […]
New Book, Heroes – the foundation sires of the Sporthorse
Christopher Hector’s new book is now available on Amazon, 477 pages packed with information, stallion profiles, breeding interviews, exclusive graphics and lots and lots and lots of photographs…
The Breeders / View All
Geldings and Ghosts – the sires of the future?
Smart mare owners follow the competition results to find a likely sire for their next foal. Well right now there are some likely options that thanks to the magic of frozen semen, and the whims of their owners, are either geldings, or long dead!
Do dressage horses need jumping blood? An interview with Dr Lehmann
We celebrate the ninetieth birthday of one of the great breeding administrators, Dr Gerd Lehmann.The former director of the Westfalien State Stud argued that the Performance horse stallion must be able to jump even if the aim was to breed a dressage horse…
The immortal Almé – an adventure story with a happy ending….
It took an equestrian journalist with passion in his heart to bring one of the most important jumping stallions back to his rightful home in France, and even today the blood of Almé continues to flow in the veins of the world’s top jumping horses…
Horse Breeding Wisdom, with Ingo Pape
Ingo Pape has always been at the cutting edge of Warmblood breeding. In this exclusive interview with Christopher Hector, he discusses the rise of the Dutch influence, WFFS, and the future for Sporthorse breeding…
Great Stallions / View All
Can you keep a Secret?
Secret’s progeny starred at the recent World Championships, but he is also something of a mystery. Christopher Hector interviews some of the key players in the stallion’s rise to the top…
Heraldik – Eventing’s Greatest Sire?
They say you can’t breed eventers, well no-one told the great Thoroughbred stallion, Heraldik that – he went on to breed eventing star after eventing star. We examine the career of this horse that came from no-where…
Woermann – the first? dressage sire…
Woermann was a sensation at his licensing, the Hanoverian world had never seen a trot like this before, and he went on to establish one of the most influential of dressage lines, the W line – but then, what happened?
Rubin-Royal
Rubin-Royal has died at the age of 27. He has been the most important of Rubinstein’s male descendants, and is the product of the visionary breeding program of Harli Seifert…