Sporthorse Breeding – Page 4 – The Horse Magazine

Most Popular Hanoverian Stallions

March 17th, 2022
Christopher Hector looks at the most popular stallions with the Hanoverian breeders, and finds that it is fusion, fusion, fusion... Read Article Comments Off

Specialist or All-Rounder? Dressage or Jumping??

February 18th, 2022
Hanoverian breeding is changing. Where once the aim was an 'all-round horse', last year for the first time there were two separate stallion licensings, one for dressage, one for jumping. Christopher Hector outlines the changes with some great photos from the first dressage licensing... Read Article Comments Off

2021 German FN jumping breeding values

December 22nd, 2021
Christopher Hector analyses the latest collection of numbers, Gemma Alexander constructed the graphs… While the FN breeding values for young horse dressage sires produced a somewhat eccentric collection of stallions, many destined to sink without trace, there is a real similarity in the jumping list between the young horse chart and the HEK and competition […] Read Article Comments Off

Who are Germany’s top dressage stallions?

December 8th, 2021
The new breeding values of the German FN have been released - we analyse this annual who's who of dressage breeding and find there are some new faces on the rankings.... Read Article Comments Off

WBFSH Jumping Sires Rankings 2021

November 12th, 2021
(1st) Chacco-Blue (Chambertin / Contender) (2nd) Diamant de Sémilly (Le Tot de Sémilly / Elf III) (5th) Casall (Caretino / Lavall I) (4th) Mylord Carthago (Carthago / Jalisco B) (8th) Cardento (Capitol / Lord) (3rd) Toulon (Heartbreaker / Jokinal de Bornival) (9th) Nabab de Rêve (Quidam de Revel / Artichaut) (11th) Cornet Obolensky (Clinton / Hearbreaker) […] Read Article Comments Off

WBFSH top ten dressage sires – 2021

November 11th, 2021
The World Breeding Federation for Sport Horses has released the 2021 dressage sires rankings... and this year there are really some changes at the top... Read Article Comments Off

The Greatest Showjumping Mares

November 3rd, 2021
Is this the longest breeding article EVER??? Christopher Hector goes in search of the greatest jumping mares in history, with the assistance of four experts: Ludwig Christmann, Egbert Schep, Thomas Nissen and Arnaud Evain... Read Article Comments Off

The greatest showjumping mares – the view from Holland

October 7th, 2021
I set out to find the greatest mares in showjumping history with the aid of four acknowledged experts, Ludwig Christmann, Thomas Nissen, Egbert Schep and Arnaud Evain. Here is the view from Holland… (you can find the first two parts of this four part feature with Ludwig Christmann and Thomas Nissen HERE) Egbert Schep Egbert […] Read Article Comments Off

“Reine Freude” (pure joy) in Verden

August 24th, 2021
The Herwart von der Decken show is THE show for the sporthorse connaisseur - an amazing gathering of the very best Hanoverian mares... Read Article Comments Off