Your mare is very pretty with a lovely shoulder and neck. Her head is a bit heavy (to be expected from her breed) but the Trak should certainly lighten that up. Her hindquarters look to be overly sloped and she appears somewhat weak in the loin, so this is what I would look for the stallion to improve. Shouldn’t be a problem to find those requirements in a TK =)
Best wishes!
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I love the photos I seen of Lord Locksley, unfortunately he appears to only be available via frozen, maybe by the time I’m looking to breed my mare (2014) he’ll be available fresh. I’m a serious sucker for a grey! :)[/QUOTE]
You & Maren both (lovers of grey horses)! Miichelle, I would think Idaho Equine Hospital should have good expertise w/frozen. Still as you say, it’s possible Lord Locksley could be available fresh by 2014.
Maren, do you have a link to the video of Lord Locksley? I’ve seen several photos of him online but no video or pictures of any of his offspring. Thanks! 
Off to see if I can find any Lord Locksley foal photos before I contact his owner about pics…
TSH, I agree with your assessment of my mare. I also think she needs more angulation to her hocks which is why BV is so high on my list. He definitely has the loin, hip and hock angle that I’m looking for. Love Lord Locksley, wish he wasn’t frozen…
Hello, I haven’t been on here in well over a year or two. I just wanted to chime in as someone told me there was a post and someone asked about Pacific.
I used to own Pacific, but do not own any horses anymore so therefore my website Millcreek Trakehners is no more. It is true, he was sold and was sent to Palm Springs about two years ago now. He was unfortunately gelded last year by his new owner and is competing in the hunter ring now. I sold all the frozen semen that I had ( I did not have much) and I do not know if any was collected before he was gelded.
To the OP… The Enrico Caruso boys are wonderful producers, you are picking the right bloodline!! Good luck with breeding your mare. :winkgrin:
Thanks for the info Cheekyhorse. Sorry to hear that Pacific’s been gelded and that you no longer have any horses, I don’t know what I’d do without mine (but I WOULD have a lot more money!).
After lots of reading & research, I’m starting to rethink my stance on using frozen with a maiden mare. If the stallion has a good production record with frozen & my vet also has a good record with frozen, I definitely may consider it.
Miichelle, I remember a video of LL from the big show in Wellington this year, I think, and it was a night in costumes (frestyle under floodlights)? Maybe that will help your youtube search - or check DressageDaily? I think they had a link.
Thanks Maren! I finally found a video of LL, he’s lovely but I think I’ve FINALLY come to a decision on a stallion… I’ve decided on Brioni. He’s gorgeous & I LOVE that he’s half Russian Arabian!
Nice choice. Brioni is on my ‘one day’ list
Congrats on making a decision! This thread has given me lots to think about for my haflinger mare
The fact that Brioni has high % arabian in him is pretty cool… I would think would play well with the haflinger since they have arabian in their foundation.
Yes, the high percentage of Arab (& the quality of Arab, WOW!) figured highly into my choice. Outcrossing Haffies is highly frowned upon in Austria but a very popular cross in Itally with good results. A 3/4 Haffy, 1/4 Arab is prefered.
Seems like crossing haffies in the US is pretty frowned upon too… Glad to see others stepping outside the box
I don’t think outcrossing in the US is so much frowned upon as it’s just not done because Haffies don’t have the greatest reputation as sporthorses. If you search you’ll find Haffy crosses but they’re crossed with QH or Appy or whatever is available… :S
I’ve seen a lot cross with apps or paints - but mainly to get color… I haven’t seen hardly any haflingers crossed with TB’s, WB’s, etc. other than 1 or 2 people who replied to threads here to say they did it. I even posted questions about crossing haflingers to get a sporthorse prospect in the AHR FB group and all of my posts were deleted. I never got an answer as to why - I think though it’s because they are not fond of crossing and want to keep them pure. There was a big stink too because of NASH (national american spotted haflinger) and seems like AHR was not happy about producing “spotted haflingers”. Maybe I’m wrong, I haven’t had a ton of communication directly with AHR people because I can’t get them to answer me, so that is my impression.
I read somewhere on the AHR site (at some point & time) that crossbreeding isn’t encouraged but if you MUST Arabs are prefered… The hardcore Haffy people remind me of any other breed fanatic…
I’m on my phone & can only post a paragraph at a time… The “my breed is so perfect how can outcrossing improve it” seems to be rampant in people who show breed shows & not Open or Dressage, etc. I see it locally ALL the time with QH & Arabs…
The TB & Arab have a closed Stud Book but a HUGE gene pool. The Haflinger has a closed Stud Book but a WORLD population of about 250,000. How do you continue to improve if you can only breed to stallions that aren’t any BETTER than your mare?
i was going to suggest a stallion with a goodly amount of arab, brioni sounds great. like to like and all that,lol.
Hopefully by 2014 I’ll be able to pull it all together. I turns out that all of the frozen in the US for Brioni was destroyed in the CSU fire. Waiting for a reply back from Maren as to the future of frozen for Brioni in the US.
