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EDITORIAL
COMPETITION NEWS
2009 USDF Year-End Awards
INSPECTION
2009 Inspection Results
2009 Inspection Statistics
Interview with Lars Berglund
WORTH READING
From Spinda to Duenna
TRANSFERS REPORT
Dear Swedish horse breeders and friends,
Yet another year of great inspection results, we should all be very proud! I have compiled all the results by evaluation group which gives you an idea of how the results were distributed. I also included the total sum for each group. I also had a pleasant chat with Lars Berglund one of our judges participating in this years inspection. He had some great insights and advice. -- Katarina Antens-Miller
We are pleased to announce SWANA's 2009 USDF Year-End Award Winners. Congratulations to you all!
Peruse the complete 2009 Inspection Results.
Katarina Antens-Miller compiled some statistics for us, based on the 2009 inspection results. Read the report (PDF format).
By Katarina Antens-Miller The 2009 inspection tour was conducted by ASVH’s judges, Jan-Ove Olson and Lars Berglund. The judges visited 11 sites and thought that the tour overall was a very successful. “The quality remains high, especially for horses with dressage focus” says Lars Berglund. There is however room for improvements for the horses being evaluated for jumping, he commented. Both Jan-Ove and Lars’s believed that the horses would have scored higher overall if the handlers had been more proficient. This was an observation they made at all sites. Lars explains, as we all know, we are putting much faith in the horse exhibiting its qualities in a very brief moment. Clearly a young horse may not possess the control and calm required to present its best qualities at a new and strange location. Therefore it is very important that the handler is capable of showing the horse at its best despite the mitigated environment. It was very obvious to Lars that many of the handlers were inexperienced. The two main faults that he observed were the handling of the whip and not being able to keep up with the speed of the horse. So what difference does it make? The horses probably lost an average of 1/2-1 score due to poor handling, says Lars. In terms of the misuse of the whip, many handlers cracked it hard resulting in a loud noise which startled the horses and consequently made them tense. Tensions often had a negative impact on the gaits; explained Lars. Other times the handler was trailing behind and not able to display the horses’ gaits to its fullest. Lars’ final recommendation for the handlers, breeders and owners was to prepare the horses better by setting up a “practice site” to get the horses familiar with the type of environment they would typically face at an inspection.
A dam line with uncontested influence on Swedish sport horse breeding: From Spinda to Duenna
Many of the most influential horses in Swedish equestrian sport and sport horse breeding originate out of the so called ”Spinda mare line” (F2). Without Spinda being imported to Flyinge close to 100 years ago, we would not have the international top competition horses Cazino, Kurage, Evertino, Garibaldi, So What, Feliciano, Duenna, Briar and Mistral Höjri among many others. Feliciano and Briar are also two of the most influential breeding stallions in Swedish sport horse breeding today and the mare line is currently ranked among the top three in the world. By Peter Ljungcrantz
Reprinted from Show Jumping Scandinavian Jumper Club Magazine, No 3 09
Translated by Hillevi Brasch Spinda 1866 is an excellent example of how importing one individual brood mare can have such incredible influence in the generations to come. She was born 1918 in Hannover and was imported to Sweden by Flyinge, the National Stud in 1924. Brood mares producing offspring with excellent traits typically have excellent pedigrees, and Spinda was no exception.
The sire, Schwabenstreich, who belonged to the most influential sire line in Hannover, the so called Schlucker line, sired many successful brood mares and breeding stallions. Spinda came out of the Hanoverian line 1290, a producer of many successful stallions and mares.
Her full brother, Schwabenkönig was a coveted breeding stallion at the Celle Stud. The dam line was line bred on the Hanoverian stallion King (by Kingdomxx) which in spite of her sire being of a bulkier type, resulted in Spinda being ”a highly elegant mare with unusually good movement, correct in legs and extremities, possessing great ambition and spirit” A mare line with great ambition and spirit
Anyone that has been in contact with horses from the Spinda mare line (F2) knows that the ambition and spirit is a trademark for all individuals stemming from the F2 mare line. Spinda was way ahead of her time due to the fact that the only negative comment found in the descriptions about her is that she was considered lacking the “depth” that was desirable in brood mares at the time. Flyinge hoped to get many successful stallions out of Spinda, however she only produced Taktik (by Onkel) who died at only 5 years of age. Instead she produced six fillies out of which three vouched for the Spinda family today being one of the mare lines with the most number of horses in Scandinavia. Read more...
See the list of transfers of ownership recorded from May 23, 2009 and December 31, 2009.
We welcome your news, error reports and feedback! The SWANA Office can be contacted at office@swanaoffice.org. The editor of this newsletter can be e-mailed at editor@swanaoffice.org.
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