Westphalian (or is it Westfalen) - who's got one

Mine seems to be of different breeding... from Polydor and Pilot lines, out of a mare called 'Hauptstutbuch' by 'Friedenstraum'. The number under her brand is 95, does anyone know what these relate to??
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Maybe we should start a 'Westphalian appreciation clique'
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Yes, Rappe is black, but Schimmel is grey. Doesn't matter if it's dapple, iron grey, or a pure 'white' grey. Funny thing is Schimmel is also mould, as you said. Mould, as in mouldy cheese or bread (Yuk!), but I don't know how or why grey horses were given this name
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Westfalen is the correct spelling in German, but it's perfectly OK to call them Westfalians. The Germans call the Hannovarian horses Hannoveraner, so it's just a matter of which language you happen to be speaking. Sometimes I use both German and English in the same sentence and end up being the most confused person in town
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How did you get on with the Mecklenburger and the Württemburger? There's always the Schwartzwälder Kaltblut or Pinzgauer, if you're up for a challenge!
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fee fee, hauptstutbuch is not the dam's name, but means she was graded into the main stud book. I imported a Westfalen who was by Capitalist who had show jumped in Germany. Lovely looking horse, quite chunky and deep barelled.

After Hanoverians and Oldenburg, Westfalens would be one of the bigger German stud books, and all of a similar type. Trakehners would be generally lighter in stamp.

I also used to have a Baden Wurttemburger, cracking big horse, Wendekreis grandson, real dressage star, and my first warmblood was a Brandenburger!!

Love the F line, especially through Fidermark, real dressage blood.
 
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fee fee, hauptstutbuch is not the dam's name, but means she was graded into the main stud book.

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Can you explain what that means please? Underneath the word haupstutbuch is 'Palmina', is this possibly the Dams name?

Im finding learning about Westfaliens and my mare very interesting!
 
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Maybe we should start a 'Westphalian appreciation clique'
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I vote we should - who wants to join?
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Wuttemberg
This medium warmblood, suitable for riding as well as driving, has a good overall appearance, with impressive head, broad chest and heavy boned legs. Overall, it is a robust horse, mainly seen as black horse, bay or chestnut.
Todays Wuerttemberg horse is an elegant riding horse, comparable with all the other "traditional" riding horse breed, but still retaining the reliability and good temper of the old type. Today on the grounds of the more than 400 years old stud at Marbach (the oldest stud in Germany) an old breed has arisen in new glamour.
Mecklenburger - couldn't find an english description but noted it has english throughbred in its history.

Pinzgauer, is that not a type of cattle!
Schwartzwälder Kaltblut - its a cold blood of the forest, which suggest a type of native pony, the one in the picture was very pretty. This is fun
 
My boy has a few mares from this Hauptstutbuch' line I am working my way through tracing details.

can I join the Clique aswell please ???
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fee fee, hauptstutbuch is not the dam's name, but means she was graded into the main stud book.

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Can you explain what that means please? Underneath the word haupstutbuch is 'Palmina', is this possibly the Dams name?

Im finding learning about Westfaliens and my mare very interesting!

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Go to http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/palmina2

It will tell you about Palmina's breeding. Ours are distantly related as they both have Radetzky and Fruehling in their blood lines
 
oh pinkwellies, you did well! The Pinzgauer might be a breed of cattle (I'll take your word), and it's also the name of an off-road vehicle. However, the Pinzgauer I was asking about is related to the Noriker, an Austrian breed of heavy horse. If your interested, there's video of one on www.horse2buy.com/horse-breeds/noric.html
There's one at the yard where I keep my coloured cob and she makes my boy look like a pimple. She's huge. Mind you, so's her rider
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Glad you liked the Schwarzwälder - lots of these hereabouts and if I didn't have my boy, I'd probably have one of these instead
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fee fee, hauptstutbuch is not the dam's name, but means she was graded into the main stud book.

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Can you explain what that means please? Underneath the word haupstutbuch is 'Palmina', is this possibly the Dams name?



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Palmina is the dam's name yes. Mares need to be presented from grading (as do stallions) so that their offspring can be registered into the main stud book. Haupstutbuch (stut is stute = mare, buch = book and haup = main) means the mare passed her grading and so her foals are eligible for registration in the Wstfalen stud book and to be branded.
The highest scoring mares are given the title State Premium or the initals St Pr St before their name.
Sometimes Haupstutbuch is abbreviated as HbSt.

Some more info on westfalens here
http://www.horse-gate.com/cms/front_content.php?idcat=74
and the state stud at Warendorf here with some mouth watering stallions http://www.hengstparade.nrw.de/
 
Hi, I have a Westphalian but know absolutely nothing about him! I thought he was a cross breed when I bought him but when his summer coat came through I saw his brand! Does anyone know how I can find out about his breeding from his brand number? He is a soppy, loveable angel and turned out to know every advanced dressage movement there is, another thing I didn't know about when I bought him!
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