Advice On Grading my stallion please?

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I bought my boy about 6 months ago as a 5 year old and in this time he has been broken and covered a few of my own mares, he is working lovely and I want to grade him in spring. He is a late maturer and I have struggled to get body on him and maintain it but he's looking the best he's looked at the minute. I have been told to Try grade him with the Bspa and leave chaps until he's fully matured in a year or two. I have also been told to consider letting a producer take him to his grading or someone with experience in the process to give him his best chance. I don't know what to grade him as? I was thinking a sports pony, he's is 37.5% Arab x American Saddle Bred with a little bit of QH and Cob in there, he is 14.2 and he has beautiful straight movement and a good pop in him, he finds lateral work easy and I feel he will be a very versatile stallion for the future. Advice and opinions welcomed please??
 
Does he have a competition record? What height is he jumping/level is he schooling to at home?

I agree that getting someone with experience to present him at the gradings is a good idea. If he doesn't get accepted into the stud book would you breed from him anyway?
 
Pigeon said:
Does he have a competition record? What height is he jumping/level is he schooling to at home?
I agree that getting someone with experience to present him at the gradings is a good idea. If he doesn't get accepted into the stud book would you breed from him anyway?
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Hi I have another thread running in the breeding section that explains all this, please will you read and join that thread, this is the link
http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/foru...-Advice-on-my-stallion-and-grading-him-please
 
Pigeon said:
Does he have a competition record? What height is he jumping/level is he schooling to at home?

I agree that getting someone with experience to present him at the gradings is a good idea. If he doesn't get accepted into the stud book would you breed from him anyway?
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But in answer to your question he is has only been broken 5 months so is just starting lateral work which he is finding easy and just being introduced to jumps. If he doesn't grade he will be cut.
 
Okay will do :) He's really nice, lovely neck on him. I've just been told that the SPSS prefers stuff with comp records, but no idea how accurate that is!
 
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