Monday, September 21, 2009

FINALE and Me at SE Regional Championships


This past weekend was a big one for this 3 year old daughter of Reina H and Furst Heinrich.
In her first trip off the farm, I asked her to qualify and then compete in the SE Regional finals for the USDF Sporthorse breeding Championships.
She qualified on Sat., with Judge Bill Solyntjes scoring her with an 89.4 ... rather grand! Then she won the Oldenburg Horse Breeders/German Oldenburg Verband class and High Point for the show.

By Sunday afternoon, she had secured her Southeast Regional Championship title!

"Grand Champion Filly and the Great American USDFBC SE Series Finals Champion Filly"

I wish her dam Reina could know what a special mare she is to us..... first a son licensed for breeding last week and then this daughter winning soundly her first time out.

I can't say it enough to breeders: YOUR MARES ARE THE FOUNDATION OF A SUCCESSFUL BREEDING PROGRAM!!
SO NOT settle for less than the highest quality in your brood stock. CULL, CULL, then CULL again. This young mare goes back to my foundation Trakehner mare, HELENA, who was a jewel and I knew it the moment I first saw her (and paid quite a bit of money for her back in 1977 - but it has been repayed a thousand fold since.))