sorry - a bit boastful

lol yes it would be funny. Axey might be a bit more sensible by then!

I am thinking on putting the showing on hold for now as he gets too wound up trotting and cantering round with lots of other horses. He has really settled down in the dressage now, and we won a prelim today with 73% so I'm tempted to stick with that for the time being, and maybe get him out showing next year.
Although I've already entered for Cranleigh, Edenbridge and Oxsted and the south east region AHS autumn show!

take care
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Another update - and another mare scanned in foal this morning!
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A v nice pure-bred Arab this time.

I was so worried about this one as she is an older maiden mare and seemed likely to prove awkward to get in foal - but the rocket-fuel did its job and today she was scanned with twins !!!
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One has been pinched out, so fingers crossed she'll hold onto the remaining one...
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That's the third lot of twins this season - Tobago seems determined to over-populate the planet with his offspring LOL!
 
Sorry Seahorse I somehow managed to miss your last post!
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Sticking to dressage for now does sound like a good plan - especially if you are getting scores like that!
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And you can always come back to showing when he's a bit older and wiser.
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My sister lives in Oxted - when is the Edenbridge and Oxted show? I might be able to come and watch you!
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I saw an amazing photo of an Arab x Warmblood stallion today - he had a very beautiful Araby head and has been winning a lot in Dressage in the US.
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Edenbridge and Oxsted is on 28th and 29th of August, sunday and bank holiday monday. The Arabs are on monday. Would be great to meet you
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Congrats on another in foal mare, Tobago must be very fertile!
 
Bracken sounds like such a tart! I'm sure he would love her!

Is she in foal yet? I do hope so!

Well...a few of the booked mares (5 or 6) had to postpone till next year for one reason or another - one or two had complications with foaling and the owners wisely decided to leave them to recover for a year, that sort of thing. And we're still waiting for scans on a few mares...

But he has proved to be exceptionally fertile, getting everything in foal including several very difficult ones (e.g. a 20yo who had never taken by AI before, and most recently a dodgy 16yo maiden - and even, using frozen semen, a mare in Belgium who had failed to take even with fresh semen from other stallys)!

Despite the postponements, I think there should be at least 20 foals on the ground next year - quite a few from champions and champion-prodcuing mares. I've been told he was the most popular Arab stallion in the country this year, although it's only his first season - so he is a VERY lucky boy!
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And his 2008 book is already rapidly filling up - about 15 or so already booked - so next year looks like being even busier!
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I knew he was a super colt when I bought him, but I certainly never expected anything like this on my first venture into the Arab show/breeding world!
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Now I am just anxiously hoping that his babies will live up to their breeders' high expectations...
 
yep bracken major tart!!! not pregnant yet!! got covered again today 4th time!!! going to see her sunday and will be having stern word with her!!! if all else fails shes gonna be sent special delivery FAO Tobago!!!!
 
This time next year we EXPECT lots of baby pictures you know that don't you?!!

You remember that you were asking about where to advertise Tobago? Well, if you were thinking of breaking into North America as it were, the COTH magazine could be a good place, the forum has a pretty heavy duty arab following I am told.
 
Enfys - don't worry, you will be bombarded with baby-pics!
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Speaking of pics, I've just got a photo-pedigree album of Tobago (made by Liz Salmon, the international Arab judge I mentioned in my first boasty post on this thread): it's a 6-generation pedigree, illustrated with photos of almost every horse in his pedigree!
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Really fascinating to study what's gone into your horse's genetic make-up. I have the album on CD as well as a lovely leather-bound version, so I can email it to all the breeders who have mares in foal to him - and also to breeders who enquire about using him. It will save people a lot of time and effort doing pedigree-research!
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If any Arab-lovers here would be interested to see a copy I can email it to you. (It's quite a big file, though - 83,000 KB!
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Enfys - what is COTH? Sounds good!
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Oh, sorry. Chronicle of The Horse.

Bloodlines are fascinating, when you are interested in them. When I first started on the arab racing scene I was assured that I would soon become a pedigree junkie and get to know the lines, I wasn't convinced. They were right. I am a serious pedigree junkie. When I got my first Crabbet mare it took me months of research, AHS journals, stud books etc to trace her lines back to the desert, slightly annoying that now, 17 years later, I could do it in 10 minutes on the computer. Now I find the American Arabian lines just as interesting (had never heard of Amurath before) and because of my QH's I am learning about them now too, and find that my QH and my APHA, although registered with different registries have very similar bloodlines.

Have you ever considered getting a mare of your own and breeding her too?

www.chronicleforums.com
 
Thanks (I should have figured that out - I had vaguely heard of this site). Golly - not sure if we're ready to try to 'crack America' yet LOL! They have lots of great Arab stallions out there already!

I think all Arab-people are pedigree-junkies!

I'm still very much a novice at this, though - I don't feel I know enough yet to start my own breeding programme, so for the moment I prefer just to let wiser and more experienced breeders use my boy, and to learn what I can from them.
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It's kind of an odd way to start, I know - most people start with a mare, not a stallion! But I get on well with stallions, and I bought Tobago to be my friend, not a big stud-business venture. I had no idea he would turn out to be so popular - I've kinda been thrown in at the deep end here!
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In any case, non-horsey hubby won't let me buy a mare, cos he knows I would never sell the foals and would just end up with lots of babies all eating their heads off. He has no objections to another colt, though - the poor deluded fool now thinks I have some kind of 'Midas touch' and any colt I buy will be an 'investment' ROFL!!!
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no reason given!! but i'm off to visit the tart (armed with bubble wrap incase i need to post her!!) on sunday so will speak to stud owner as her line was quiet and as usual i was in work!!!! anytime you want a 15.2 mare you know i'm here!!!! will send her special delivery!!!!!your hubby wouldnt be able to say no if she just turned up on the doorstep!!!!
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