I think so but I also think she’s probably barking up the wrong tree with that.
I am having trouble figuring out who exactly it is that will spend mid-5s for a foal, doesn’t care or know a thing about conformation, doesn’t care about performance history, and doesn’t care about program reputation-- but does care strongly enough about KWPN papers to override everything else. Like… who on earth IS that???
Most hunter people don’t care whether a horse is registered, or what it’s registered as, if it can do the job and win. Once we’re past that threshold, they like to say it’s a (1) warmblood and (2) imported… but very few hunter people have strong feelings about KWPN v. OLD v. RPSI v. AHA etc. Fanciest you can have is imported WB with some papers that came from a “name” seller overseas but very no one cares UNLESS the horse can do the job. And not a one of these foals looks like it will.
Jumper people tend to care about bloodlines but not so much registry. I do think they might be lulled in by the STALLIONS this breeder is using. But they also want to win and like to have an imported WB. They probably care a little more than hunters what the bloodline is, but I don’t think they care much more than hunter whether the papers say KWPN or Zangersheide. Again, I don’t see the KWPN being much of a draw for this market. They’re just not that into breed classes/awards. And if the dam has done nothing… I feel like this market is the most likely to be critical of THAT. This market would pay more for MTM in the name but doesn’t care what is written on top of the papers.
Dressage people do care about papers and bloodlines and breeding. I can see this market caring a bit about having KWPN papers because the registries do have nice year end awards and classes (and the Dutch are a registry that does pull out the stops on this). But I also feel like this market is the least likely to be buying really young stock and feels the strongest about having a horse come from an established PROGRAM. They want to say their horse came from High Point or Hilltop or Iron Spring. This market cares about the reputation of the program the horse came from. And they want horses already broke to ride more than the other groups.
I don’t think eventers are looking to spend what she’s asking for these foals. And they don’t tend to prioritize anything she’s putting out there. I don’t see anything here appealing to them.
Breeders/breeding class folks care very much about bloodlines and registry but also conformation and NONE of them are going to be snowed by anything this person says. I do care a little about registry because some of them give out year end awards, but I don’t care enough to buy something built upside down that moves like a sewing machine. I lament sometimes that my current horse’s registry doesn’t care much what we’re doing in the US and my older horse’s registry ABSOLUTELY DID… but I wish more that my horse was PA bred than that he was in a different registry and at the end of the day I also want to buy quality with registration being secondary. The group MOST likely to buy young stock is the group LEAST likely to be so overjoyed by the KWPN papers as to overlook everything else.
So for whom, really, is the KWPN that much of a draw?
