Sporthorse Breeding – Page 4 – The Horse Magazine

Grow your own… Grassroots eventing breeding

May 17th, 2022
The number of star eventing horses bred for someone in the family to ride is simply amazing. Christopher Hector profiles some of the great eventing breeders... Read Article Comments Off

Clones – success or failure?

May 16th, 2022
Clones were going to revolutionise the world of Warmblood breeding? Did they? Christopher Hector sets out to find the answer... Read Article 3 Comments »

Start of great careers

March 25th, 2022
It's been running for twenty five years and the Hannoveraner freejumping program continues to identify world class stars that go on to the big sport... Read Article Comments Off

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