If its the video I found, a chestnut with chrome, he’s a 2019 model, so still a baby. But even so, he has the more swan neck thing going on, very Hackney and not at all Lusitano. The one thing you’d want from an Iberian cross is the natural good neck carriage and light in front, so that’s sad to see.
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@Kasheare, you seem to be an enthusiastic yet novice breeder, who could do with some further education regarding KWPN NA Keurings (announcing that your foals were first or second premium is indicative of that.) There is always more to learn, but people expect a Breeder to know the ins and outs of their registry.
As you agreed, breeding is a long term endeavor, and the success or failure of your new program to produce jumpers depends upon the performance of your stock as riding horses.
I suppose you might succeed financially in the short term, by selling an (unproven) cross on DHH mares, in utero, to amateurs, and waiting to see how/if they eventually perform in the jumper ring. However (IMHO) that is not a breeding program as such, it is a selling program.
It would be better not to make untrue claims online, (being an Attorney is one) because trust is important and what you say publicly, and how you say it, matters.
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I am quite curious why someone who is not a lawyer has a video out there where they are saying that they make more money braiding horses (while wearing flip-flops) than they do in their equine law practice.
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I wouldn’t read too much into this, as every news article ever written about something I know well gets things wrong.
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Isn’t it a video, not an article? In which it says she is a lawyer?
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That is not, in fact, what I ever said. Please note that I, in point of fact, referred you to the chart of registration possibilities for what happens when one crosses a harness x gelders, for example. Generally, in order to change breeding directions at the studbook presentation, one parent should be in the new breeding direction or the horse should pass an ibop in the new direction. A tuigpaard x tuigpaard moving to the North American hunter book would be very rare indeed.
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For the record, you do not need to have a KWPN re-evaluated at 3 at all. Going to a Keuring is not even required at all if the mare and stallion are approved. If you want a Predicate or to do an IBOP, you have to take them back later, it is necessary…and I think it is a really good thing to take them young for experience.
I find the KWPN-NA hunter category to be quite confusing and not well developed yet. I am considering putting my 2023 Gaudi foal in that book, as my mare’s sire was imported, gelded, and is a top junior hunter (Championships at Indoors, WEF, Junior Finals, etc.).
I don’t see that a pure DHH would fit in that category but hey, what does? Kate, why did they suggest you bring her back for hunters? I just don’t get that category and what they are looking for, as basically no one has that breeding direction in their history.
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I watched it I never heard her say she was a lawyer. I couldn’t watch the next video about her , it had a paywall, but she never said that. And we all know the media usually gets stuff half right anyway.
Man do some of you guys really like to pick nits
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Tough question since she didn’t say that.
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That link was to an article, maybe there is an imbedded video I couldn’t see.
If it’s the same one then yes, a 3 year old who looks to have been started very poorly, in a way that highlights every flaw of this unfortunate breeding.
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Ok she didn’t say it flat out. And I’m sure whoever produced this could have just made it up completely, because you know, media BAD!!
But the video I watched (no article I could find?) had these snippets in between her talking about how much money she made at the show:
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Must be hard to make money practicing law if one isn’t an accredited lawyer who is eligible to practice.
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A diplomatic way of saying that the Dutch saw the economic development potential 
more quickly than the Germans did, n’est pas? Trust me I did/do see the irony in paying my hard earned cash to inspectors for their opinions on my hunter direction horses given that it’s a discipline in which I have a lot more experience than they do. But as I said, in general they look at a lot of foals and a lot of horses.
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I have a ‘23 baby cooking that is App/Lipizzan x PRE.
Dam (App) was a big PRE-looking (chunky, cresty, big “square” gait) girl who dropped me a surprise. Mare looks just like her father (Favory Lip), nothing like her dam.
Bred her to a PRE (long story).
Sounds weird on paper but here we are.
As a Poodle owner… I really, really hate the doodle craze. Labradoodles and groodles are about the extent of my patience as they make sense. But borderdoodles and bernadoodles and bloody dobedoodles? Dear god - no!
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What’s a “groodle?”
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Beat me to it by this/much. Lol.
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Completely off topic, but @Old_Mac_Donald, I seem to remember an old thread about an App mare and a surprise foal. I think the foal was also a loudly marked App but going gray. Is that the mare you’re breeding? Time sure does fly, if so!
Sorry, you guys call them golden doodles. Goldens x Std Poodles. They are a nice cross.
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Yes! That’s her. I lost her mum last year to colic.
She is an interesting beast. Way too smart and very aware of her own importance. I’m hoping some of the sire’s “sweetness” comes through in the cross. The PRE stud was charmed by her, little stinker.
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