The Breeders – Page 7 – The Horse Magazine

The Family Klausing

December 3rd, 2014
The whole family from grandfather to grandchild have been involved in breeding horses for the past 80 years, in that time they have produced 35 approved stallions and more than 50 state’s premium mares... Read Article Comments Off

The Family Nijhof

Breeding tomorrow’s horses Chris Hector intervews Jeanette Nijhof. Photos by Roz Neave Everything about the Nijhof Stallion Station is professional, even Jeanette Nijhof’s map is so brilliantly detailed that we have no troubles finding our way down the tiny roads to one of the world’s largest stallion operations. As Jeanette explains, her family is continually […] Read Article Comments Off

The Horse Breeders of France

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

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

Dr Schulz Stellenfleth

November 13th, 2014
Dr Shultz-Stellenfleth bred an incredible 22 licensed stallions on the basis of his mare line, a line that began with just one mare... Read Article Comments Off

Dr Burchard Bade: An Interview

November 11th, 2014
Since 1979, I have been the director of the stud. At the time I came to Celle, the change in the breeding of the riding horse, had already occurred. In earlier years, horses were bred for riding, as well as harness and agricultural or to work in the forest... Read Article Comments Off

Paul Schockemöhle and the future of sport horse breeding

September 25th, 2014
The PSI empire started in 1974 when the brothers Alwin, Paul and Werner decided to purchase stallions to stand at their parents’ farm in Mühlen. Breeding has always been a tradition with the Schockemöhle family... Read Article Comments Off

Werner Schade – Hanoverians in the Brave New World…

August 19th, 2014
It’s been seven years since my last interview with the director of the Hanoverian Verband, Werner Schade in 2007. In that time, so many dramatic changes have occurred in the world of Warmblood breeding, changes that neither of us could have predicted seven years ago. Who would have thought that the whole French National Stud […] Read Article 2 Comments »

Dr Thomas Nissen: The Holstein Future

August 6th, 2014
An interview with Christopher Hector Dr Thomas Nissen became the breeding director of the Holsteiner Association in 1989. He joined the Holsteiner Association in 1988 after completing his Agriculture degree at Kiel – the appointment was a logical next step since his thesis topic was The mare performance test and fertility of the Holsteiner horse. […] Read Article 2 Comments »