Breeders Club – Page 18 – The Horse Magazine

Jumping Breeding in Holland: KWPN stallion show

January 31st, 2020
The Dutch are masters of jumping horse breeding - join us at the KWPN show as the young stallions come before the Selection Commission - who will be selected to go on to the performance test? Read Article Comments Off

Kannan Dead – Warning on fraudulent semen!

January 26th, 2020
Kannan is dead - and the France Elevage Group warns that frozen semen straws being sold may well be fraudulent... Read Article Comments Off

Breeding at the Burg-Pokal 2019

December 19th, 2019
The young horses in this year's Nürnberger Burg-Pokal, see just how specialised dressage breeding has become in the past ten or fifteen years. Right now the lesson is, dressage breeds dressage... Read Article Comments Off

WBFSH Eventing Sires 2019

December 6th, 2019
The World Breeding Federation rankings of Eventing Sires has been released. Gemma Alexander and Christopher Hector analyse the state of play... Read Article Comments Off

WBFSH Dressage Sires 2019

December 4th, 2019
Who were the top dressage sires in the world over the past 12 months? Gemma Alexander and Christopher Hector investigate... Read Article Comments Off

Joris de Brabander – Number one breeder of brood mares!

November 12th, 2019
Christopher Hector examines a surprising result… The website hippomundo.com is a treasure trove of information about Sporthorses and Sporthorse breeding. They have recently analysed the top broodmares (maximum 25 years old) with black type offspring and amazingly the top two mares are both owned by the Belgian Master Breeder, Joris de Brabander. Cordula de Laubry […] Read Article Comments Off

Jan Pedersen – the hands on President

October 1st, 2019
Jan Pedersen has been the president of the World Breeding Federation for Sport Horses for 20 years. In this wide-ranging interview with Christopher Hector, he looks at the challenges facing sport horse breeders today... Read Article 1 Comment »

The Visionary: Hans Joachim Köhler (1917 to 1997)

September 6th, 2019
Hans Joachim Köhler was a crucial figure in the transformation of the Hanoverian horse from an all rounder to the dressage star that conquered the world... Read Article Comments Off

Aachen and Ermelo – the Breeding De-Brief

August 15th, 2019
by Christopher Hector Those two great pillars of Dutch dressage breeding, Jazz and Ferro, are in the twilight of their breeding careers – a polite way of saying they are dead. But they still feature when the wonderful roster of competition horses at this year’s Aachen CHIO is distilled down to the top fifteen who […] Read Article 2 Comments »

Bastards or Bluebloods in 2019?

July 31st, 2019
Gemma Alexander asks the question - are the best showjumpers bluebloods or bastards?? Read Article Comments Off