i wouldn't breed from her if I wasn't sure she could produce something special. She is KWPN from the VDL stud so has good breeding herself an in opinion (biased of course 
) would produce a great foal.
but eventually they got her covered..
I can't really help but will tell you of our experience...
My MIL's very nice show mare had a very serious accident about 4 year's ago, the horse she was riding out with barged her into a ditch and the mare twisted her spine (mares head and front end were the normal way up in ditch but the rear end was upside down...)
She decided as she was never going to be able to ride her again that she'd put her in foal, they chose the stallion (a lippizanner) went through the counsil to get the agreement to put mare in foal.. sent mare of to foal - mare was extremely difficult to cover, she kicked the kicking boots of and kicked the stallion
X days later (or so) she was scanned not in foal - mil was devestated.. 9 months past and mare was getting ready to go to stud - very fat considering she'd been on a small paddock to lose some weight... mare went to stud and stud said "mares in foal" .. scans/blood test confirmed she was 9 months pregnant. She stayed at stud to have the foal as travelling her was to much of a risk - we'd never had taken her if we'd known (but in heignsight thank god we did take her)..
Mare hadn't shown any signs of foaling (she was a week over), she was checked at 6.30 and by 7.30 she'd foaled. We had a call at 10am - mil answered - "hello grandma, you've got a beautiful colt foal but get here now. He may not last the day"...
Turns out, Mare had foaled standing up, reared up and split her head on a beam, saw foal and freaked out - kicked foal over a 5 bar gate.. foal landed on his head and was staggering around all over the yard... luckily the stallion was shreiking as was the other mare on the yard (who'd just lost her foal so thought this was hers).. stud owner was awoken and came up to yard (stud owners in her late 60's).. managed to get the foal into the stable and shout for her next door neighbours.. who called the vet... by 8.30 they'd managed to sedate mare enough to milk collostrum off her - which saved foalie.
He didn't drink again until 5pm - which is when we got there. I had her front end, MIL guided a very very hungry baby to his mother (who was trying to kill him) and my OH (who's a farrier) had mares back leg up so she couldn't kill baby. He had his second drink at 5-5.30 (how he survived we don't know)...
Anyway long story short, foal was jabbed up to his eye balls for virus protection etc, we had to basically pin mare down each time he drank and by day 3 she was ok with him.. mare got perintinitus 14 days later, was rushed into equine hospital and nearly died (she had a 15% chance of survival going into the night) - she survived thank god.
Nothing has been easy and MIL recons all in all this foal's cost them (vets bills/stud fee/transport etc etc) roughly £5-8k already.. if mil had had heignsight she'd never have put the mare in foal.. stud owner and vet recons her reaction was because she was 14 and a maiden mare - to old --> but who know's. The mare in general is sharp and loses her head occasionally (like any TB) but they never guessed she'd react like that.
That was our experience and to be fair we've got the most superb foal out of it.. but it didn't half cost mil/fil a lot of money and stress and tears to get there.. it was an extremely scary time - i can still remember sitting in the car with OH through the night (11pm-5am) on foal watch - to make sure she didn't kill him.
Good luck with whatever you decide to do.. this is what we got out of it all....
Take your tin hat off
Vets assured us she wouldn't and wasn't in pain - she went to the best equine hospital in the SW.
And actually having the foal *touch wood* has cured her back.. We've just brought her back Into work and she's sound! Vets said that it was probably being pregnant and carrying the foal that relaxed her spine and muscles - so no pain,
However They could be totally wrong and she may have been - mil said though she knows Holly and if she was in pain she'd have gone through the gate to get away from it - she runs.
