September
We attended the Trakehner show with four
mares and four foals this year, as we had to grade three of our mares
for their foals to get pink papers.
Henriot graded well with 51,5 points and
Herbstwolke with the amazing score of 57 points, the highest marks of
the day making her the Champion of the grading.
Hightech was retired on the request of the
judges, due to her bad foaling this year where her foal Highlander
ripped out her rectum and vulva. We cannot breed from her again, as we
cannot take the chance that this might happen again and that if we do
breed from her, we might not be so lucky next time to still have her
with us. The judges decided that it was not fair on Hightech to grade
her for movements, as she was not moving to her ability due to her
problems behind and so we retired. She has been accepted into the
studbook and is graded with the Trakehner society and her foal
Highlander will get pink papers. Hightech will now have to go through
operations and then when she has recovered from these, she will
go under saddle and start work as a show jumper.
On the Sunday morning Henriot’s filly was
found in the stable with a nasty cut on the leg and so we retired the
mare and foal from showing.
We decide to show Hightech and her foal, as
it would be good for Hightech to get out and about. Her foal is very
lazy just like Herbstwolke’s foal and we didn't expect to get anywhere
with them, but they where at the show and so we showed them.
Highlander came 6th and Hightech was given a special rosette for
attending her show class and as Lars Gehrmann said to me when
presenting the rosette “ you know why”
We also took Henny with her filly foal due to
having a space left on the lorry. It was Henny’s first outing and she
had only been in for two weeks before the show, as it was a last
minute decision. She was 3rd in her class due to being a “bit” weak
behind and her filly was 2nd, which we where very pleased with, but we
did bring her as we thought we might just nip the Championship with
her. I understand from Kim “my little helper” that the filly was
keeping well up with mum in trot, (Henny was jogging according to Kim,
I thought we where flat out … I know I was), but was not showing her
excellent high hind leg and front leg action, which she can do and
this then explains the 2nd place. But look out for Henna she is
a future Champion in the making just like her mum.
Herbstglanz was as always so dam lazy, a real
nightmare for us to watch, as we have a fantastic photo of him on our
web site (see mares due 2004) showing just how good a trot he has. He
came 5th, but we where not surprised, however he will show of his
quality when he grows up and we truly look forward to seeing his
amazing trot then, he is going to be as good as his mum. Herbstglanz’s
mother was a real star. Champion of the grading with the marks of a
total of 57 points, wow…. and to see her trot was wonderful. She has a
real fab canter and also a fantastic walk and should have been under
saddle, but I don’t ride, I breed horses and so we shall have many
foals like her and Glanz really has got his mums good walk, trot and
canter. Herbst didn't stop there she went on to win her brood mare
class and then was Champion mare and then she was Champion In Hand for
then to be awarded Overall Supreme Champion of the show. A truly good
ending to a good year out showing.
August
We attended the best British foal show and
auction at Addington this year and took two very nice colts foals with
us. Herbstglanz, which got good marks of 74,6 % being 2nd in his class
and Highlander which got marks of 64,4 % being last in his class. We
were very disappointed in the laziness from Herbstglanz, and poor
Highlander didn’t seem right and had lost all his oomph when in the
ring. It was Highlanders first outing and we think it might have been
too much for him. But we are very happy to wait to see him under
saddle, when he is 3 years of age.
July
At the Royal Show this year we took
Herbstwolke and her colt foal and was placed 6th with Herbst and out
of ribbons with Glanz. We are not going to come up with excuses, but
we just had a very bad day. Herbstwolke was very irritable and even
kicking out at other horses. We also had her feet trimmed the day
before big mistake and Marleen had torn a thigh muscle on the
Wednesday and still insisted to run the mare up and only manage 3 good
strides to the disgust from her staff, which commented that this was
absolutely appalling, as the mare only showed 50% of herself, so why
didn't Marleen let her run the mare up. Talk about eyes that could
kill. However we really had a lovely day, as we manage to have a good
look around the place the big favourite being the heavy horses all
dressed up with their wagons and the people also looking great. What a
shame someone has to be last in those competitions, as there is so
much preparation to be done before hand. We where lucky with the
weather and will be back next year to hopefully do a better job.
June
June 25th: The Singing Stud went to Addington,
where once again we entered the mare and foals classes of the
British Dressage Young Horse and Breeding Championship. We took
Herbstwolke and Luana von Steinberg and their two foals. Herbstwolke
came 1st in her class and Luana von Steinberg came 3rd in her class.
Herbstwolke won her mare class and became Dressage Champion brood mare
for then to become Dressage Breeding Champion and then she was overall
Young Horse and Breeding In-Hand Champion out of over 100 horse of
different warm blood breeds. After all this she also went on to be
awarded the Young Horse and Breeding In-Hand Championship out of over
a 100 horses entered. Luana von Steinberg's filly Singing Lantana came
4th in her filly class and Herbstwolke's son Herbstglanz, came 5th,
which was last in his class, but he was very tired after running
around after his mum so much before his class.
However on the very next day Saturday the 26th, The Singing Stud went
to the Midlands In-Hand National Championship in Malvern and although
our horses had not had much sleep (neither did the staff) they went on
to do really well. Herbstwolke came 1st in the mares warm blood class
with Luana von Steinberg coming 2nd to her and then Herbstwolke won
the Warm blood Championship. The foals did really well to. Herbstglanz
which did not have to do to much running before his class came 2nd out
of 10 warm blood foals and Lantana came 4th again out of 10 foals, so
all in all a fantastic weekend for showing. |
