Warmblood Breeding – Page 13 – The Horse Magazine

The Studbook Zangersheide

December 3rd, 2014
One man's dream... Leon Melchior set out to breed the world's best jumping horses and the in the process created Zangersheide, and now he has handed the reins to his daughter... Read Article Comments Off

The Swedish Warmblood

Flyinge was one of Europe's oldest breeding centres, and for many years lead they way, particularly with dressage horses, but now Flyinge is closed... Read Article Comments Off

The Trakehner

One of the oldest riding breeds of Warmbloods - the Trakehner has had its ups and downs, and now is enjoying a revival... Read Article Comments Off

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

Will Warmbloods take over Eventing?

With the introduction of the new format for three day eventing, many people suggested that the Thoroughbred would be replaced by the Warmblood, but the facts suggest otherwise... Read Article 1 Comment »

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

The Springpferdezuchtverband Oldenburg-International (OS)

November 25th, 2014
The name is so long - but we can just call it Oldenburg Jumping, the brain child of jumping wheeler and dealer, Paul Schockemöhle... Read Article Comments Off

Dutch Breeding – looking to the future…

November 17th, 2014
Dutch journalist, and breeding expert, Dirk Willem Rosie, looks at the future for the Dutch horse... Read Article Comments Off

Breeding for jumping, for dressage, or both?

November 14th, 2014
Has Warmblood breeding become too specialised? Former director of the Westfalien stud at Warendorf, Gerd Lehmann argues that it has... Read Article 1 Comment »

Dutch Breeding, has it lost its direction?

By Christopher Hector The rise and seemingly irresistible rise of the KWPN dressage contingent on the world stage has been squarely on the shoulders of a group of stallions who were themselves Grand Prix competitors. But now, the young ‘stars’ in the Dutch stallion lineup are failing to make it through to the international dressage […] Read Article Comments Off