Breeders Club – Page 35 – The Horse Magazine

The Horse Breeders of France

December 3rd, 2014
There has been no breed in Europe more rigorously and bureaucratically supervised than the French horse. In the seventeenth century, the Service de Haras was established to administer the breeding of six breeds of blood horses, nine cold bloods and thirteen varieties of pony. Like most of the breeds in Europe, the Selle Français […] Read Article 1 Comment »

Wiepke van der Lageweg

For such a little country, Holland has a wealth of regional differences, of architecture, religion, language and architecture, and nowhere are the differences more pronounced than in the Calvinist north, where there are some villages still so strict that they are forbidden to use their television sets on the Sabbath. The dialect of Friesland is […] Read Article Comments Off

Will Warmbloods take over Eventing?

With the introduction of the new format for three day eventing, many people suggested that the Thoroughbred would be replaced by the Warmblood, but the facts suggest otherwise... Read Article 1 Comment »

Talking Jumping Horses with Arnaud Evain

Arnaud Evain has made the study of jumping horses a life long obsession - and his views while often controversial are always well thought through... Read Article Comments Off

Hobe Bernhard – In the heart of Holstein…

December 1st, 2014
Breeding on the Bernhard farm had started with heavy horses, but after the Second World War, the attention turned to horses for the growing market of jumping competitors, but always as part of the overall farm economy. Hobe has five mares of his own, and takes care of another ten for their owners. He uses […] Read Article Comments Off

The Springpferdezuchtverband Oldenburg-International (OS)

November 25th, 2014
The name is so long - but we can just call it Oldenburg Jumping, the brain child of jumping wheeler and dealer, Paul Schockemöhle... Read Article Comments Off

Cassini I, one of Holstein’s success stories

November 21st, 2014
Cassini I, one of the most successful Holsteiner stallions, has died this month, aged 26. The Capitol I Caletto II-son, bred by Johann Hermann Claussen, Neuenkirchen, was found dead in his box. The grey had spent the day before with no evidence of any disease in his paddock in Borgsum / Foehr. Cassini was highly […] Read Article 2 Comments »

Dutch Breeding – looking to the future…

November 17th, 2014
Dutch journalist, and breeding expert, Dirk Willem Rosie, looks at the future for the Dutch horse... Read Article Comments Off

Breeding for jumping, for dressage, or both?

November 14th, 2014
Has Warmblood breeding become too specialised? Former director of the Westfalien stud at Warendorf, Gerd Lehmann argues that it has... Read Article 1 Comment »

Dutch Breeding, has it lost its direction?

By Christopher Hector The rise and seemingly irresistible rise of the KWPN dressage contingent on the world stage has been squarely on the shoulders of a group of stallions who were themselves Grand Prix competitors. But now, the young ‘stars’ in the Dutch stallion lineup are failing to make it through to the international dressage […] Read Article Comments Off