At public auction in Ohio the approved KWPN stallion Baanbreker sold for $140,000. How exciting, wish I had been there! http://kwpn-na.org/stallions/details.php?unid=2052&catid=33 and a little video from the sale http://youtu.be/17e390LkEdE
Wow! Glad to hear that folks appreciate the Dutch harness horses! That’s a higher price than we would have had in Holland, don’t you think, Renae?
Not sure what they paid for him in Holland 
The previous owners imported him about a year ago and have only had him for one breeding season and they bred 70 mares to him.
Do you know the price ranges for the DHH sale in Ohio? I’m located in CA and would like to know if the sale is worth my travel.
They love their trotters in the Ohio Valley!!!
I would be curious to know which discipline the mare owners are breeding for.
Are there really that many folks interested in fancy driving horses in US or are they cross breeding for dressage, etc.? anyone have more input on this?
Thanks Renae for posting this.
I am breeding for combined driving.
Most of the top drivers in the world now are driving Dutch Harness Horses.
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I would be curious to know which discipline the mare owners are breeding for.
Are there really that many folks interested in fancy driving horses in US or are they cross breeding for dressage, etc.? anyone have more input on this?
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Look at the crowd in the video. I would put money that he was bought by AMISH. I have to do some checking, but I wouldn’t be surprised in the least if he was bought by Amish. They have imported several nice (high priced) Dutch Harness horses in the last 10 years.
The American Dutch Harness Horse Association (ADDHA) is mostly Amish horses. Their quarterly (?) mag is kind of funny; they haven’t quite mastered turning one out. Some fantastic horses though.
If someone is looking at their trotting above level, chromed out black DHH as they go down the road, that person isn’t looking them. That’s the logic I’ve been given. :lol:
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Do you know the price ranges for the DHH sale in Ohio? I’m located in CA and would like to know if the sale is worth my travel.[/QUOTE]
I’ve seen DHH, non KWPN, go for $5K+ at mud sales in NE IN. There is a big sale (North American Dutch Harness Sale) in Ashland, OH in April; PM me if you want the contact info. There are at least a half dozen sales in the north OH- north IN region throughout the year.
The Dutch harness horse has supplanted the ASB as the high priced ride of choice for the Amish. Kind of like how warmbloods have pushed out TBs in the sport horse show rings.
About 10 years ago I worked at a big arabian farm. They had a few Dutch harness horses and they crossed some of them with arabians. They used them for driving. They use to hook up the big mare and take her around the block in a cart. She was stunning to watch. Not sure if they showed her, but they paid big money for her and their other ones.
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About 10 years ago I worked at a big arabian farm. They had a few Dutch harness horses and they crossed some of them with arabians. They used them for driving. They use to hook up the big mare and take her around the block in a cart. She was stunning to watch. Not sure if they showed her, but they paid big money for her and their other ones.[/QUOTE]
I’m seeing a LOT of DHH crosses in the Arabian world.
The horse had been imported by an Amish guy in northern Indiana last winter.
http://www.kwpn.org/2012/02/harness-horse-stallion-vaandrager-hbc-to-the-amish/
I found another, not as good, video of him at home.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjpoow010Ho
I think I was in the barn this summer looking at ponies. The church sign looks familiar. 
I’m pretty sure the sale was the Fall Buckeye Dutch Harness & Driving Horse Sale on September 13-14, 2013 at Windy Knoll Farms. I missed yesterday that the OP was from September & was trying to figure out what sale had taken place already this year.
He was in the last ADHHA glossy magazine, standing around Lagrange, IN.
The road horses in Ohio & Indiana are not the same horses they drive in Lancaster, PA.
Dutche Harness Horse? Really?
Just a minimal investigation shows at least 5 crosses to Cambridge Cole, who is a Hackney.
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Try Immigrant who was bred at Callaway Hills Farm in Mo & is all saddlebred, and was imported to Holland years ago. :lol:
I’ve seen Majesteit (x Henriette) and he is gorgeous.
That is fantastic! They are beautiful in their movement. I love seeing them at the mare show in Holland.
Kathy
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Try Immigrant who was bred at Callaway Hills Farm in Mo & is all saddlebred, and was imported to Holland years ago. :lol:
I’ve seen Majesteit (x Henriette) and he is gorgeous.[/QUOTE]
I had a Majesteit gelding out of an Arab mare that was the best field hunter I’ve ever had.
DHHs do other stuff too. Here is our imported DHH mare, Ugone, USHJA zone 7 high adult champion 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y76UWElOjc0
Tom N
‘red mares’, I PMed you.
