Is there somewhere easy to find all of the pedigrees of them?
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Is there somewhere easy to find all of the pedigrees of them?[/QUOTE]
There was a post on the Sport Horse Breeding forum that went over the pedigree’s of all the horses on the longlist. They usually have them listed on orders of go as well.
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Someone posted a link to a fascinating article in the Breeding Forum here a few weeks ago. Didn’t give the breeding for each individual horses but talked about most-represented sires and gave some statistics. Here you go: http://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/2016/07/whos-going-to-the-games/
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Is there somewhere easy to find all of the pedigrees of them?[/QUOTE]
Yes! Type in the name of the horse into Google, plus relevant information (i.e. stallion, mare, or sire or dam) AND “All Breed Pedigree”. The All Breed Pedigree website is pretty nicely complete. If you have any doubts about which horse is “your” horse on All Breed Pedigree, type into Google the name of the horse and rider, and you’ll find a clue about the sire/dam that will help you find the actual pedigree of the horse you’re interested in.
Yes - I had to sleuth Caravella because she is not on All Breed Pedigree and they only gave Caravella - Contango/Riverman. Turns out she’s very closely related to my mare (guess we had better get to work!) But fun to watch her with that connection.
Peaches did a list forRolex pedigrees this year - it was very neat.
I think there’s an angle for a story in the Sandro Hit representation at this year’s Olympics.
Traditionally there have not been highly successful horses at the large tour on the International scene, either by Sandro Hit directly or by one of his sons. That seems to have changed in really just the past two years or so.
Showtime is the more stellar example, and he really came on the scene relatively quickly at GP and has continued to impress and seems to be peaking at the Games. She really handled him right if this was her goal.
And still, there are not nearly so many S-line/Sandro Hit horses in the worldwide ranks or in the public eye at the large tour level. Not in comparison to the vast numbers that are being/have been bred. There’s been a sort of conventional wisdom up to just lately, among breeders and buyers for the upper echelon, that Sandro Hits will peak around PSG or I-1, or be okay for ammies after that, but they don’t go the distance for the GP for world-class pros.
So to me it’s interesting that these five (is it?) with SH on top are at the games and are coming on rather suddenly in terms of number of top competitions and even just name recognition.
I find the breeding of the German horse Cosmo interesting. He’s pure jumper bloodlines and sired by the lovely stallion Van Gogh
De Niro had four horses represented in Dressage, I believe. I noticed one of the horses had a white belly spot, and wondered if that was a De Niro. May have to go sleuthing,
My mare is by Donarweiss (a De Niro son). I’ve been told that De Niro passes along belly spots, and my mare has several.
