Results from the young stallion testing in Leeuwarden
First group completes round 2. All 8 go to the testing!! One Fabe, one Jasper, 3 Onne, 1 Rindert, 1 Sape, 1 Teeuwis.
Best young stallion of show? My friend Walter liked him best from yesterday. He did make it past round 2 and goes to the 70 days test…
Group 2 – of the 8, three made it to the test. 1 Aan, 1 Eibert, 1 Doaitsen.
Group 3 had 9 stallions and 6 made it to the 70 day test – 1 Haitse, 1 Gjalt, 1 Hinne, 1 Jisse, 2 Jerke (the last horse has the same grandma – Wilmaa B – as my Dahlia 
). One more group to go.
OK! Group 4 (last group) done now. Congrats to the stallions owned by the Americans (Yorick owned by Vanderploegs and Wichard owned by Ballard Friesians – both made it to the 70 day test!). Of the group of 9, 6 moved on: 1 Fabe, 1 Maiko, 1 Felle [that is Yorick], 1 Harmen [that is Wichard], 1 Hinne x Fede – who was excellent, and 1 Ielke x Sape. Also excellent. That makes 23 total going. Note that the last one by Ielke must have another x ray review so he is conditional. A few stallions of the 34 that started got thrown out due to “vet remarks”. Not sure what that meant. They will also random drug test 3 of the selected stallions. Break now for dinner and then the evening’s show entertainment starts
Another video from last night – Yorick
This stallion is owned by the VanderPloegs in Michigan. This is Yorick (Felle x Jakob). He was tested for performance at one time (possibly as an offspring of Felle when Felle was being evaluated for offspring approval?) and Yorick’s scores were really high – 92 in under saddle and 85.5 in harness. In didn’t think he showed particularly well last night, but it was good enough to get him to round 2.
Blogging from the Stallion Show
Thrilled to report that the expo at the stallion show now has free wifi!! So I will do my best to provide some reports as I can.
Yesterday (Thursday Jan 6) was the first round of young stallions. I am not exactly sure how many competed but 34 made it to the second round, which will be held tonight. Included in those 34 are two owned by FHANA members – Yorick (Felle x jacob) owned by the VanderPloegs in Michigan, and Wichard (Harmen x Sierk) owned by Ballard Friesians, CA.
Today is filled with clinics and I am in a breeding one now (my area of interest). It was supposed to be in English but unfortunately is in Dutch. So I am not getting too much out of it 
. There are numerous dressage clinics in the main arena and these are being translated (you can rent headphone to hear the English). Anneke is translating and she is FANTASTIC. The headphones are worth every red cent. I am not a dressage person, but my friendSara (who is here now also) was very happy to see that there will be a clinic by Adelinde Cornelissen.
I am video taping and will try to post some. I have a great camera, but a crappy computer for processing. So quality may not be great. But I will do my best.
Here is a video from last night of Wichard. You can see what round 1 (“in the cage”) looks like:
Unofficial Results from my Keuring travels
Will comment more as I get time. Meanwhile, I’ll post results here as I get the chance to type them up.
Series of Educational Articles on the Friesian Inspection (“Keuring”)
KEURING SPECIAL [September 2010]
FHAME (Friesian Horse Association of the Mid-East) is my local FHANA chapter and has asked me to do an educational series on the Friesian Horse inspection (“keuring”). I am trying to do one article each day this week. Below are links to the articles. Again, I hope to add one each day, for about 7 total articles. Check back daily for new articles.
- [Sept 6] – The Keuring – What is it?
- [Sept 7] – Judging Conformation
- [Sept 8] – Judging the Walk
- [Sept 9] – Judging the Trot
- [Sept 10] – What do you do with this information??
