March 6th, 2015
Arnaud Evain looks at the brave new world of super cheap semen flooding the international market... Read ArticleComments Off on The rich and famous and the Horse Breeding Future ????
January 18th, 2015
Chris Hector looks at the 2014 Breeding Values - Ludwig Christmann comments on the new Hanoverian and German FN values... Read ArticleComments Off on Breeding Values – Poor value for the breeder?
Christopher Hector looks at the German licensing champions in 2014, and finds some left field selections... Read ArticleComments Off on Silly Season at the Licensings?
December 3rd, 2014
Friedrich Butt started breeding Hanoverians to race on the sand but ended up establishing the world's most successful eventing breeding program... Read ArticleComments Off on Friedrich Butt – Breeding Eventers
Once upon a time, each nation provided its own style of jumping rider, and jumping horse - now they all seem to be Warmbloods... Read ArticleComments Off on How the Warmblood conquered the English Speaking world…
Once the most closed of the European studbooks, now the French horse is a cosmopolitan mix from all over Europe... Read ArticleComments Off on Opening up the French Studbook
…Precipitation and Bay Ronald When we look at the antecedents of the modern Sporthorse, there are two names that crop up over and over again, the two Thoroughbreds, Precipitation and Bay Ronald. Precipitation Precipitation has had an enormous influence not just on jumping breeding but also on dressage mainly through his son, the French Thoroughbred, […] Read Article1 Comment »