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AniQ

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I have a 17.2h Hanoverian mare that I am looking to breed from next year. Her bloodlines are through Florestan I on the sire side and Rubinstein & Rosenkavalier on the dam's side.
I am happy to email her full breeding if anyone is interested.
My priorities are: a dressage horse, easy temperament (I am an amateur rider who manages my horses on my own), and straight action. I would also like to produce a smaller horse than the mare and preferably something that matures a little quicker and with slightly less leg length.
If anybody has any ideas for a suitable stallion I would love to hear from you.

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There are some really nice pony stallions about, which is the way I would go if I was trying to reduce height. Off the top of my head for top quality pony stallions I would look at Bernwode Stud and Meadow Stud has a new pony stallion standing this year.
 
Definitely look at the pony stallions as it can be hard to bring down the size of a big mare and they are cracking value as well.
Bernwode Brokat is suer and well proven, but is himself quite leggy, does well producing eventing destined youngsters looking at Futurity results, there are some super stallions on the SPSS website and new stallion list gets updated on 1st Feb. Ponies on their I really like include Brokat as above, Ceasar and his son I LOVE LE Chiffre, Penny at Bathleyhills has some super pony stallions and progeny doing loads too, for dressage and shortening a big mare you could do worse than Sunwillow Jubilee, he is tiny and sec A but that shouldn't put you off if you are breeding for yourself or even if not. I thought he was fab at the grading and seems to put asuper top line and a lot of movement on his foals. He is another one out doing loads too. I looked at him and thought he would work really well on a bigger mare, 3 really good paces. Loads more worth a look and most are proven dressage competitors and working well above the medium requirement for team ponies.
 
As someone who does not possibly know much about breeding I would advise that you stick to a licensed Hanoverian stallion because you would have a pure bred to sell if things did not turn out well and you did not get what you wanted in size. There is a risk that you could end up without breeding you could register if you chose some pony stallions. I find size is pot luck except that generally first foals are smaller.
 
Oh no that is so sad, such a beautiful boy and not that old.
To the poster that suggested if you use a pony stallion graded with the SPSS you would risk having a foal with a pedigree you couldn't register then I suggest you do your homework before you knock some of the best breeding and one of the best run studbooks in the country at present.
Even if you use a licensed welsh pony you will still get a Welsh partbred passport with as much pedigree as you can provide on the non welsh side and probably about two hundred years worth on the welsh side. However if you go through the SPSS you get the benefit again of a proven pedigree, DNA tested on both sides, a graded stallion and passport issued by a studbook with the same aims and goals as any other warmblood sport orientated stud book.
 
sywell said:
I find size is pot luck except that generally first foals are smaller.
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The Warmbloods we have previously bred all seem to be crazy and very sensitive.
My colt at the moment is Warmblood x Irish Cob and for what I want he is perfect. Easy to do, laid back, but light on his fit.
 
Cherrygarden said:
To the poster that suggested if you use a pony stallion graded with the SPSS you would risk having a foal with a pedigree you couldn't register then I suggest you do your homework before you knock some of the best breeding and one of the best run studbooks in the country at present.
Even if you use a licensed welsh pony you will still get a Welsh partbred passport with as much pedigree as you can provide on the non welsh side and probably about two hundred years worth on the welsh side. However if you go through the SPSS you get the benefit again of a proven pedigree, DNA tested on both sides, a graded stallion and passport issued by a studbook with the same aims and goals as any other warmblood sport orientated stud book.
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Unfortunately, Cherrygarden, as the man who runs the British Hannoverian Horse Society (BHHS), Sywell HAS done his homework and STILL believes that anything that isn't Hannoverian, or other European Warblood, at a push, isn't worth the paper it's written on :mad:.

Having had the displeasure of dealing with the BHHS as a PIO, when I very misguidedly thought it would be a good idea to register my foal by a Hannoverian stallion & out of a fantastically well-bred ISH with the BHHS, I have had the following experiences:

- When I chased the passport with the BHHS, because the paperwork had been with them for a couple of months, I got told, rather shortly, that he was ONLY a part-bred and they would get round to doing those when they had a moment.
- When the passport finally arrived, the mare pedigree was missing entirely (that's a performance ISH mare with green passport, 5 + generation pedigree, and DNA tested with the Irish Horse Board). The BHHS obviously thought her irrelevant as a non-warmblood and decided to just ignore her, despite me including a full copy of her passport with the registration documents.
- When I wrote to them nicely and politely asking that the mare pedigree be added to the passport, with full formal cover letter & further copy of the mare's passport & recorded delivery, they did add the mare pedigree, then return the passport to me with not a word of apology, not even a cover letter.

Now, I appreciate that PIOs are run by volunteers, but I dealt with the British Warmblood Society a couple of years before for the same mare previous filly, by a Trakhener stallion and they were helpful, courteous, polite and frankly, I should have stuck with them. Lesson learned.

Anyway, if Sywell believes that my mare's breeding wasn't even worth recording, imagine what he thinks of a PONY???? or a NATIVE???? God forbid.:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

ETA: I don't consider myself to be a vindictive person, but as Sywell continues to post sarcastic and frankly unpleasant comments on here, I can report that I was hugely pleased when my PART-BRED, then a yearling, did better at the Futurity at Keysoe last summer, than all 3 of the youngsters bred by Sywell - Call me childish, but that made me feel good! LOL!
 
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LOL we are such a friendly bunch! How many weeks into 2012! And before anyone jumps, yes I have also been less then patient with one or two posters. And I hoped to be more tolerant, oh well such is human nature.
 
AniQ said:
I have a 17.2h Hanoverian mare that I am looking to breed from next year. Her bloodlines are through Florestan I on the sire side and Rubinstein & Rosenkavalier on the dam's side.
I am happy to email her full breeding if anyone is interested.
My priorities are: a dressage horse, easy temperament (I am an amateur rider who manages my horses on my own), and straight action. I would also like to produce a smaller horse than the mare and preferably something that matures a little quicker and with slightly less leg length.
If anybody has any ideas for a suitable stallion I would love to hear from you.

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My type of breeding...lovely bloodlines and lovely mare... :-)
 
She looks a lovely type to keep modern, ad she looks pretty much along the more modern lines I'd think about Floriscount and a super temperament teak is Garuda k
 
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