Hmmm. I may have been guilty of breed blindness. <g> I was looking mostly at Dutch stallions. Perhaps it's time to start looking at Trakehner also...
One of my reguirements for the stallions will, rightly or wrongly, be height. I can ride a "short" horse in endurance. Under 15 hands is fine. But for a person my size, a short horse combined with my size doesn't present the pleasing picture that is oh so necessary in open dressage competition. So my stallion prospect must be 16+ as the mare is breeding is "only" 15.1 >From: Truman Prevatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "Snodgrass, Bonnie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: 'Tamara Woodcock' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [RC] Warmbloods in endurance? >Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 07:29:40 -0500 > >You could ask Jim Barnett. His Trakener (probably about 1/2 Arab) racked up >about 5000 miles - mostly up front. The good news was he didn't act like >an >Arab:-). > >T > >"Snodgrass, Bonnie" wrote: > > > A really beautiful Arab/Trakener cross won the Old Dominion 50 a couple >of > > years ago. The Trakener breed has lot's of Arab and TB in it and is one >of > > the "lighter" warmblood breeds. Selle Francais' (sp?) also have a fair > > amount of Arabian blood in them. > > > > Bonnie Snodgrass > > > > > >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. > Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
