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News from the Belgian Warmblood Breeders Association
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Members, please send in photos to put on our 2009 Keuring Highlights page on the BWP website. Photos can be sent to Maddy Carolan. We look forward to seeing everyone's favorite moments from their keuring sites. |
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The 2009 Keuring Tour was a great success this year. A summary on the tour and the exciting new H-label can be found below. Full tour results are available here.
Looking ahead, we are looking for breeding members to serve on the Board of Directors this next term that can dedicate time and work on the World Equestrian Games. The next board will be focusing/dedicating efforts towards WEG for marketing, selling advertising for the Stallion and Breeding guide, and work with Belgium for the booth set up and merchandise. We would welcome board members that had expertise/time to dedicate towards this project.
Nominations for the board need to be sent in Sept 1 - Oct 31. To run for the board please email a short biography to membership@belgianwarmblood.com. A special edition newsletter will be sent out to the members for voting in November. Ballots will be sent out Nov 15 and will need to be returned by Jan 1, 2010. |
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2009 Yearling Futurity Winner(s) - $200.00 Three-way tie
Illusionist ES - Colt - Laura Trumbower - 80
Ind'aire - Colt - Kate and Dave Earl - 80
Ikahn WW - Colt - Borderline Farm - 80
2009 Yearling Futurity Second Place - $100.00 Two-way tie
Iago JSF - Colt - Jump Start Farm - 79
Izadora - Filly - Jessica Rosch - 79
2009 Two-Yr Old Futurity Winner - $200.00
Houdini B - Colt - Bannockburn Farm - 83
2009 Two-Yr Old Futurity Second Place - $100.00
Harper's Bazar - Filly - Jessica Hughes - 80
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The 2009 BWP/NAD Keuring tour was a great success this year! We welcomed back Etienne Van Muylem and Boudewijn Schepers as representative and judges from Belgium. Chris Sallee, Kelly Gordon and Julia Robinson were the BWP/NAD Representatives that traveled on the tour. We visited 27 sites along the way including new sites in Jacksonville, Lexington, Maryland, New York, Ontario, Louisiana, Southern California and Vancouver. We registered and inspected over 280 horses this year. Boudewijn and Etienne believed this to be the overall highest quality of horses this year, as many of the breeding programs here are producing top notch offspring, as well as bringing in and producing well bred mares, which is the foundation for all good breeding programs. The BWP/NAD stallions and mares are consistently producing high quality offspring, many that are competing at high levels with the best riders in sport!
Some of the highlights of the tour included traveling to new sites in Jacksonville, FL and Paula Quinn's beautiful facility (thank you Stacia Purcell for loaning us your beach house for the night! What a treat!). There we also branded Joie de Vivre, the first BRp Foal to be branded in the U.S. He is owned by Jo McCracken.
BRp Foal - Joie de Vivre
Our site in Lexington, KY was at the incredible new facility of Spy Coast Farm located next to the Ky Horse Park. Our gracious host, Lisa Lourie, presented 18 mares to the BWP this year including her 2008 Olympic mare, Rolette. The BWP/NAD mare base has certainly grown in terms of quality and volume.
Boudewijn, Kelly, Spy Coast Farm's
Lisa Lourie, Etienne & Chris
In Lexington we also inspected and approved Wiebke Van de Lageweg and Ricardo Villa's, VDL Bubalu, who will be on his way in September to compete in Belgium in the "Sire's of the World" championship at Zangersheide. This will be our first NAD approved stallion to compete in this competition!
We ended up driving (thank you Kelly for driving!) to Brewster, NY to inspect and approve Sapphire's "little brother" Domino. We got to meet Sapphire herself and present "Sara" (her barn name) with a BWP Bred to Perform halter, and got lots of good photo ops with her. Thank you Erica Hill and Jean Brown from Blue Chip Bloodstock!
During the tour, we were privileged to witness Boudewjin ride a Tennessee Walker, BWP Stallions Tailored Fortune, Figaro B, Blue Bayou B, and a Bull! Julia, Boudewijn and Etienne had a big time at the Fort Worth Stockyards (thank you Nicole!)
Julia, Etienne, Boudewijn and Nicole
from October Hill Farm at the Stockyards
We approved a stallion (F-Darco's Legacy) out of our first Elite Mare in the U.S, Mistery, owned by Rose Sullivan. Many of the stallions approved in Belgium each year are out of Elite Mares. We branched into Canada again this year in Ontario (thank you Amber Anderson) and Vancouver (thank you Isauro Flores). We hope to broaden our presence there for the future!
We approved 16 fantastic new Stallions this year with incredible bloodlines and stellar performance records. Congratulations to all our new BWP/NAD Stallion owners this year! Maddy Carolan has been busy getting all these new stallion's pages up on the website, if you have not sent her your stallion's info, please do so at herselffarm@yahoo.com, thank you Maddy! Throughout the tour our gracious hosts treated us to wonderful meals either grilled out or at great restaurants, and took wonderful care of us during our visits! We'd like to thank all of our gracious hosts Diana Greenwell in Miami, Andras Szieberth in Wellborn, Paula Quinn in Jacksonville, Laura Trumbower in Chapin, Lisa Lourie in Lexington, Carolyn Rice & Karen Severns in Mount Airy, Jean Brown and Erica Hill in Brewster, Amber Anderson in Norwood, Dee Drott in North Branch, Kathy & Gordon Peterson in Highland, Stef Collier in Indianapolis, Allyn & Fletcher  McCracken in Patricksburg, Nancy Maloney in Hartford, Hilda Lanaux in Folsom, Lucy Meyer and Ronda Stavisky in Georgetown, Wendy Gerrish in Weatherford, Kate & Dave Earl in Care Free, Mary Slouka in Newport Beach, Rose Sullivan in Camarillo, Janet Sally in Arroyo Grande, Linda Bobrik in Galt, Lori & Bill Wilton in Sherwood, Isauro Flores in Vancouver and Debbie Morrison in Kansas City. Thank you all for your wonderful hospitality and putting on great keurings for all our breeders!
October Hill Farm - Weatherford, TX
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This year we introduced the "H-Label" for the Hunter Book and had three sites Jacksonville, Florida, Mount Airy, MD and Hartford, WI to host our "pilot" program. We had 24 horses participate and receive their "H-Label" judged by well known Hunter Judges, Joyce Ainsworth in Mount Airy, David Erlandson in Jacksonville, and John Berkos in Hartford. We would like to thank our H-Label Hosts, Karen Severns & Carolyn Rice, Nancy Maloney, and Paula Quinn and each of the Hunter Judges from our pilot sites this year!
The purpose of this program was to recognize those BWP horses, with potential for the U.S. Hunter Ring, and/or to produce Hunter type horses. The "Hunter" is unique to the U.S., and represents nearly 50% of our show horses. The Hunter differs from the traditional European style dressage horse or jumper, in conformation, way of going and style of jumping. With those differences in mind, a USEF Hunter or USEF Hunter Breeding Judges officiated for the Hunter Label.
The Hunter Judges and BWP Judges did a great job explaining the similarities and differences that each look for in terms of conformation and movement. They both concurred that good conformation is necessary for good performance in any discipline and looked for very similar qualities overall. Belgium has been very supportive of our pursuit to develop and grow the Hunter program here in the States.
H-Label Stallion Ironrule
(photo by ShortHorse Studios)
We are very excited about this pilot program, which is the only Hunter program of its type currently offered by a registry in the U.S. We hope to move forward and expand to more Keuring sites for 2010. This program will give the BWP/NAD the ability to offer U.S. Hunters a performance based registry to join and contribute their excellent bloodlines. Feedback, on the program, was extremely positive and the desire to host an H-Label was expressed at several sites. The format for the H-Label class was similar to a Hunter Breeding Class. Judges filled out a very thorough evaluation form, which allowed participants to gain feedback and learn from this experience. It also allowed participants to compare the views of both the Keuring Judges and the USEF Judges points of view on their horses. |
BWP stallion Ublesco was featured in the Chronicle of the Horse with Cara Raether as they were on the US Team in the Meydan FEI Nations Cup of Falsterbo, Sweden. This combination contributed a clear and four-fault round for a 7th placed U.S. team effort.
BWP Mare Sapphire won the $50,000 Spy Coast Farm Grand Prix with McLain Ward at the Hampton Classic Horse Show on August 28th. Then on Sunday August 30th, Sapphire and Ward made history by winning the $250,000 FTI Grand Prix and FEI World Cup Qualifier for a record fourth time. Sapphire is owned by Ward and Blue Chip Bloodstock.
The 3 year old BWP Stallion Gran Casso (Fal Turro x Galant) was Champion Colt at the HDS Spring Classic Breed Show.
BWP Mare G. Beda'czzled Herself (Balta'Czar x Pioneering xx) was Best 3 year old, and Reserve Champion Best Young Horse under both judges at the June One Day Horse Show. She also ribboned in a very large 3 year old class at the Upperville Colt & Horse Show.
Das Sagenhafte a 6 year old BWP gelding by Titan out of Prunelle was fourth in both of his first two USEA events at the Beginner Novice Level. He is owned by Anna Clader and is being trained and ridden by Anne Eilinger.
BWP Approved stallion Clair de Lune won his third 5 Year Old Young Event Horse Championship at the Event at Rebecca Farm. He received a terrific score of 81.3 for conformation, dressage, show jumping, and cross country. He was featured on the front page of the USEA website for this terrific win.
Photo by Emily Daily
Bannockburn Farm is currently #6 on the USEF Leading Jumper Breeder list with Centurion B (12,775 pts), Concorde B (2,790 pts), Wiebe B (1,218 pts), Cielo B (98 pts), Eclipse B (18 pts) and El Dorado B (5 pts).
USEF News, "With 300 points earned aboard her mount Centurion B, Lisa Goldman of Hawthorn Woods, IL, was named as Cavalor Show Jumping Hall of Fame Rider of the Month for the month of July. Goldman competes in the Series' East Conference amateur-owner division, and was victorious with Centurion B during the Cavalor Show Jumping Hall of Fame Jumper Classic Series class held at the Equifest I horse show. The pair also finished second at the Ledges Summertime horse show and fourth at the Showplace Summertime horse show."
"We are very excited to honor Lisa with the Cavalor Rider of the Month award," said Philippe Collard, President of Cavalor, Inc. "July was one of the most competitive months the Cavalor Show Jumping Hall of Fame Jumper Classic Series has seen, making Lisa's win that much more impressive!"
BWP approved stallion Contester II has earned his Permanent Stallion License through Dressage. He also was recently featured in the Chronicle of the Horse for winning all of his Level 4, test 3 classes at the Golden State Warm-up/Cool-down show July 25-26. This young stallion finished as the high point horse, 4th Level champion, and scored a fantastic 73.9% on Sunday.
Have competition results and/or photos to share? Please send them to us, we love to brag about our member's horses.
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