Breeding Values – a survey of the major stud books
Chris Hector looks at Warmblood Stallion breeding rankings across Europe... Read Article 3 Comments »
Category: The Big Issues
Chris Hector looks at Warmblood Stallion breeding rankings across Europe... Read Article 3 Comments »
Top Warmblood Stallions Rankings 2010
The 2010 World Breeding Federation for Sport Horses rankings at analysed... Read Article Comments Off on Top Warmblood Stallions Rankings 2010
Breeding Analysis – the horses at the WEG from 1990 to 2010
Christopher Hector looks at the bloodlines of the horses competing at the 2010 WEG in Kentucky and compares them to the horses that competed at the first WEG in Stockholm in 1990... Read Article 1 Comment »
Do we still need Thoroughbred blood to breed Performance horses…
Chris Hector looks at the role of the Thoroughbred in producing the modern sporthorse, and finds some surprising statistics... Read Article 1 Comment »
The 2010 KWPN Stallion Show
This report focusses on one of the world's great breed shows - the KWPN Stallion show in s'Hertogenbosch. This is a showcase of Dutch horse breeding at its very best... Read Article 1 Comment »
Bastards or Bluebloods – a performance horse breeder’s dilemma
Do the best performing sport horses come from the crossing of individuals from a number of studbooks - or are the winners 'pure'? Read Article 2 Comments »
Australian Warmblood History – Part 7
Frozen Semen – the next breakthrough! The pioneers were Eilbert Kingma and Glenis Dyason, who as International Horse Breeders were established in 1989 with aim of importing frozen semen from the Celle State Stud. In the 1994, Frozen Semen special in THM, Glenis describes the process: “The idea came about seven or eight years ago. […] Read Article 2 Comments »
Australian Warmblood History – Part 6
Yet MORE Australian Warmblood Studbooks! In 2002, a bitter factional war erupted in the Hanoverian Society, and when Holger Schmorl was narrowly defeated in an election for President, he showed just how assimilated he had become to the ‘Aussie’ way of doing things, and left to found his own studbook, Studbook Kinnordy – named after […] Read Article Comments Off on Australian Warmblood History – Part 6
Australian Warmblood History Part 5
The AWHA – boom and bust! For a while, the AWHA was easily the number one studbook in Australia. It had the most members, the highest media profile and an active promotion program with well-attended Gala days right around Australia. The annual AWHA Breed Special in the September issue of THM, was a major event […] Read Article Comments Off on Australian Warmblood History Part 5
Australian Warmblood History Part 4
The fourth in a series that traces the development of the Warmblood in Australia Read Article 2 Comments »