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Warmblood Stallion Show

Bank Holiday Monday March 24th 2008 at Moulton College

Please contact Lynn Crowden - Tel. 01497 851318 / Email: lmcrowden@aol.com. Goblaen House, Rhosgoch, Powys, LD2 3JT.

Anual Breed Show August 27th 2007

Three mares achieved the highly sought after title of Elite at this years British Hanoverian Horse Show. In the Performance test Alison Reddy rode her own Chanel D by Chasseur I scoring 9.5 for jumping ability and 8.5 for ride ability with the test rider. The very beautiful High Society by Harvard owned by Mrs Hargreaves exhibited top class dressage potential and scored 9 from the test rider Lesley Peyton-Gilbert. Donata by Der Lord owned by Mrs Golding also showed dressage paces and style jumping. Dr Ludwig Christman and Lynne Crowden commented on the quality of the mares forward with the latest bloodlines showing breeders ably keeping up with the German parent society.
More mares were presented for Studbook inspection this year as the rules have changed to allow mares from other studbooks to be presented, they have to average a 7 to get into the main studbook and we saw mares from Hessen, Oldenburg, Trakehner and thoroughbred accepted. These mares will need to be covered by a foal branded Hanoverian Stallion.
The show classes saw some real quality with Fleetwood Mac by Furstenreich owned by Sandy Senior winning the colt foal class. Dr Christman thought the fillies were the best he had seen with Dancing Queen by Don Frederico owned by Sara Williams really living up to her name taking the filly foal and overall foal championship. The mare classes had some really impressive movers with two of Sara Williams’s mares St Pr Donata K by Donnerhall showing wonderful rhythm and power in her trot, winning the 6 to 9 year old class. The mother of the champion foal St Pr Angelina by Admiral II won the 10 years old and over class and went on to take the Mare Championship.
The new venue of Moulton College worked out well with the huge indoor arena split into two with good viewing and seating. The stables were new and top class positioned next door to the arena and the College staff helped tirelessly all day. We need to make the jumping area smaller so we don’t waste time catching horses after they run free. The working in was quite far away if we use the top door so may need to swap the rings around.
This year the Regional Brandings were very close to the main show, some foals that qualified at regional’s did not enter but just turned up expecting stables and to show. This caused us problems with too many in some groups. So next year when you qualify a foal you will be given an entry form and you need to enter. WE WILL NOT TAKE LATE ENTRYS. They make the show run late and a large group of foals in the arena is not safe.

If any members have any helpful comments how we can improve the show please let us know.
2007 Show Results will be on Results page soon.

An exhausted Neil Johnson receiving
best handler trophy after showing 26 horses

Photographs from the show can be found at:

http://www.johnbritterphotography.com/

Lost horse passports

An interesting point has come to light regarding applying for replacement passports. Clearly only the person who was the owner at the time the passport was lost can apply for a replacement. If any one could apply this leaves the whole thing open to fraud. This effects people who have bought branded Hanoverians where the previous owners have "lost " the papers. Do not hand over money until the issue of lost papers is resolved. In German law the owner of the horse is the person who has the papers not the person who has the horse. Many German Societies will require the person who lost the passport to swear in front of a Notary the circumstances of loss and will not issue replacements with out this statement. This leads to problems for people who have bought horses which have been issued with passports by an E.U recognized breed society who will not issue replacements. Sue Mealy at DEFRA says it is up to the German Issuing Society to sort out.

Horse passports

All horse owners must have applied for a passport by the end of this year. The society will bind an existing pedigree certificate with a flu/vac certificate for £25 inc. p&p recorded delivery. Members with BHD passports can have them replaced and upgraded to the new requirements for £25. For non members we wish to remind you that we only issue documents for the progeny of stallions licensed to stand for the German Hanoverian Verband and its daughter societies we do not issue papers to unlicensed stallions in any form. There will be a charge for the issue of replacement passports that will be about £50 excluding an extra costs for DNA to prove identity. Do not pay for a horse until the passport is handed over as this will be a requirement of the new legislation. Remember the passport belongs to the studbook that issued it not the owner of the horse. The requirement for the passport has been amended slightly in that you will need a passport to travel a horse to competitions in the UK by February 2005 but must have applied by June this year. It seems the Order is specific about when a horse needs a passport and DEFRA will be on thin ice if it makes statements about when a horse needs its passport that do not follow the legislation closely. If it had said that a horse must be accompanied by its passport in its movement,this would be clear and to exempt hacking or hunting ect but to say you cannot use a horse for competition or breeding that does not have a passport might not mean the same thing.

Overstamping

Members will have read in the Young Horse Evaluation classes and British Dressage young horse classes a reference to the overstamping by a British Breed Society of imported horse. As far as Hannoverian imports are concerned we do not have to overstamp as such, as long as members notify us of the change of ownership and we then enter that in our records, that will suffice. There is no charge.

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