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I love Trakehners!
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This was posted on CoTH, and it is well worth reading to see where Trakehners are being recognized and celebrated.
http://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/2011/03/breeding-values-a-survey-of-the-major-stud-books/
The eventing sires BLUP scores are topped by a horse that was bred in Britain, but who became a hero in the French team – Yarlands Summer Song. The amazing stallion is by the British born, Trakehner, Fleethingyer Opposition, by Muschamp Danube (also British born but solid German breeding, Isenstein / Boris), out of a Russian Trakehner mare, from the same family as international dressage star, Pepel and international showjumping stallion, Almox Prints J.
The steady return of Trakehner blood to competition ranks, and the breeders’ favour, continues with five Trakehner stallions making the cut: Münchhausen and Insterburg, and their sire Hohenstein, Hofrat and his Hanoverian son, Hotline, and the Latimer son, Hibiskus.
The Hanoverian Yearbook also publishes a Topliste for type, and every year since the Yearbook was first published in 1999, these standings have been headed by the Trakehner stallion, Caprimond (Karon / Mackensen) – and so it is once again in the 2011 edition, and once again, Caprimond wins by a considerable margin, with a breeding value of 173, with the second placegetter, Wolkentanz II (Weltmeyer / Ludendorff) on 161. Given that there is a slightly negative correlation between high scores for conformation and jumping ability, it is not surprising that this list is dominated by dressage sires, although Escudo and his sons, seem to be able to combine good looks and form over a fence. Embassy is in 9th spot, while his sire, Escudo I, is just behind in 11th. Out of 44 stallions top listed for type, seven are jumping sires, the most famous of which is Sandro Song, who presumably is not passing on his seriously weird front legs.
the second highest ranked stallion, the Trakehner, Blue Hors Hertug (Schwadroneur / Donauwind) with a value of 150
while the imported Trakehner, Schwadroneur (Arogno / Ibikus) ranks = 7th with another Trakehner, Gribaldi (Kostolany / Ibikus) with a value of 140..... and rounding out the top ten, Zardin Firfod (136), Danish born in case you hadn’t guessed, and by Gribaldi out of a Schwadroneur mare.
The dressage stallion that tops the values for sires with competitors between 7 and 9, Son de Niro is a real mix – by De Niro, out of a mare by the Trakehner Balzflug
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