Congratulations to client, Emily Sanders, one of the officiating veterinarians at this year's event. Her Rascalino mare, Irish Blend, won the Young Event Horse five year old division with an 83.4! Not only that, Emily was approached by a USEA representative who suggested her mare was a likely candidate for the $20,000 grant to send the talented mare to the world championships for young event horses in France in 2015. How exciting is that? Click link below for photo of Irish Blend at Rebecca Farm:
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Emily described the Irish dam of "Peanut" as having a topline like a cow. So, improving the topline was her main concern. "I went through every photo on your website and looked at every stallion's topline," Emily said. "I called you when I had narrowed it down to two stallions. When you said everyone who'd used the Rascalino semen so far had gotten a conception, I chose him." A fortuitous choice, for sure, as the inherent jumping ability of the Rubinstein line through Rotspon seems to come through quite strongly.
Emily and I talked about the fact that US eventers are actually breeding event horses now, rather than simply searching for them in the general horse population. This is a trend I have definitely noticed accelerating over the past three or four seasons. Thus, I am actively looking for event type stallions to add to my roster. In fact, I did an importation of Chilli Morning semen from the UK for Emily and a group breeders this year. Since they had good results with the semen, I will hopefully repeat an importation of his semen in 2014. http://www.sporthorsegb.co.uk/horse.aspx?id=132997 A look at his progeny is quite impressive.
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