yarlands summer song

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Does anyone know of a horse called Yarlands Summer Song. He is shown as sire of Nemetis de Lalou who competed at Lion D'Angers this weekend. His breed is shown as SE which means I think Foreign Saddle horse that is how many pedigree horses are being put into French Stud Book.

I am just interested to know what breed he really is.
 
Yes I am sure. Nemetis de Lalou must be French bred, but what was Yarlands Summer Songs's breeding before he was exported? Many pedigree horses exported to France finish up as non-pedigree in French Stud Book. I would like to know how easy it is to trace parentage.
 
Well, he is by a trakhener, out of an irish sports horse so I suppose he's some variety of British warmblood!
Fleetwater Opposition has many other sucessful event stock
 
Thank you Volatis. I have had a look

By the way the irish Draught is not a draught horse - it was originally a cavalry mount and so was called the Irish Draft.
 
Yarlands Summer Song was evented to top level by Marie-Christine Duroy, he was the real "talking horse" of the time (at Badminton or the Euros, can't remember which), but then I think he got injured and was retired. Was an amazing looking horse and an effortless jumper, iirc.
 
That jumping picture is brilliant. I didn't realise just how British-bred he is! And he's getting on a bit now. I remember watching him on tv at the Atlanta Olympics, he was a bit scary there, think they fell, but you certainly couldn't question his enthusiasm!
 
Hello everyone this is an addendum.

Received a bag full of brochures at the Mondial Lion including Ouest Equestre. They gave Yarlands Summer Song a quarter page. It was very complimentary.

What a shame that so much that is good about British Breeding gets exported. And that our top riders are riding imported breeds.

Sadly his British Breeding is not recognised in the programme where he is a Foreign Saddle horse just like so many British Bred pedigree horses.

My mares whose passport pedigrees date back to 1940's and who come from a stud book which has been closed for 125 years are Foreign Carthorses!! Odd when you consider that the majority of warmbloods in Europe contain their ancestry at some point.

The stud book of the Selle Francais started circa 1958 in the 1960"s when Algeria became independent the Barb Stud Book was closed and the best mares put into the Selle Francais Stud book. One SF stallion standing at Lion D'Angers has Sir Ivor in his pedigree.

What is the point of an equine database? Does anything go?
 
I think that like many other "breeds"/types used originally as cavalry horses, the need was for a heavy robust type with a good calm temperament, capable of carrying man and armour over considerable distances .... which also made them, of course, great multi-purpose and farm horses. So its a bit of toss-up as to whether they should be "Draft" or "Draught", and as volatis says, the convention in the UK and Ireland is for the "Draught" spelling. Enniskeane Countess demonstrated her versatility when, as legend has it, she was pulling loads on the farm in the morning, and jumping a course in the afternoon! (Now I can't quite see my ISH mare, who has her in her pedigree, managing to do that .....
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