Pro-Set Offspring

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A curiosity post really, I have the ride on a Pro-Set baby, well he is 6 now, was broken and 4 and taken very slowly, ie he just hacked and played about a bit in the school.

He is my mares fieldmate, and as a result his owner and I became good friends, so I have been offered the chance to ride and school him. Have had him for 3 months and he is fab, so trainable and has the calmest outlook on life. Took him to his first dressage at the weekend and he scored 65%.

I was really just wondering is this outlook the norm for Pro-Set stock or has the mare (I believe a warmblood mare named Pistache) stamped her temprement on him?
 
My homebred baby is rising 3 & by Pro-set. The other day while she was munching her hay in the stable I got on her bareback whith no hat & she was just in a headcollar & walked her around the stable with hardly any reaction other than a gentle nibble of my foot. Not bad for an unbroken baby! Admittedly she is very well handled but even so, I think this is an exceptionally chilled response!

Pro-Set himself is very chillled for a stallion. I've given him cuddles in his stable at Meadow Stud and he can be stabled with mares next to him, even during the stud season. I can't wait until the summer when I can really start playing with my Pro-Set baby!
 
I have a 5 year old, that has been voted the best behaved in our stables against a variety of horses & ponies (she is the youngest).

Even the novices are happy to do her if i am not there. She is incredibly affectionate too.
 
Yes this boy is very friendly and affectionate too, almost too much so!! Since being with my mare though she has taught him a few personal space manners!
 
ours is quite loving now and well behaved but as a foal she was so dam sharp and wouldnt let us near her i had to rugby tackle her a couple of times to get her as she would climb the walls to get away from us
 
My Pro-Set yearling is actually a really sweet guy and very easy to handle... but he has been handled correctly (with the help of Richard Maxwell) from day one and this has really helped now he is 15hh at 10 months of age
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I would love to see some pictures of your Pro-Set babies...
 
Vanqueur, a Pro-Set colt I found for a friend in South Africa as a six week old foal is now stadning at stud there (having been the only warmblood ever to have been supreme in-hand champion at their Horse of the Year show in Johannesburg). He is also competing well in dressage-- at Elementary level as a 5 year old and is (and always has been) the sweetest tempered of stallions and very human-orientated. However, like all of the very best horses he can be sensitive and he is currently a little tense when entering the warm-up arena as a couple of months ago a HUGE uncontrolled Friesian cannoned in to him and pushed him off balance so much that he fell out of the arena :-(. He will get over it in time but it would have better had it not happended of course, and the sort of people that have so little control over their horses to allow this to happen don't deserve to be allowed to compete.

Pucks Glen, another young horse by Pro-Set, was the overall winner of the 4 year old section of the Futurity this year and as he was basically amateur bred, amateur produced and amateur ridden this says a great deal for his temperament and rideability too -- as well as his natural talent for sport.

HTH
 
We have got a yearling colt by Proset out of a sharp Oldenburg mare by Rhodiamont who is so far lovely and very easy to handle. He is barned with others but so far is the easiest in there so is going the right way to stay entire.
 
I have 2 Pro-Set babies and, although completely different tempraments, they are both blissful to deal with and the oldest is like a big, bay dog. Since 4 weeks she has been happy to stand with an arm round her. You can walk up to her in the field and put a rug and headcollar on her and she's only just 3.

I have photos aplenty but have no idea how to add them to this!
 
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