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Thu
29
Dec

Sire Lines Of International Jumpers The Marco Line

Marco xx

A very important jumping line in both Europe and North America descends from the English Thoroughbred stallion Marco.
Marco was a descendant of the Matchem line, a Thoroughbred line particularly noted to be slow maturing, staying race horses. Marco stood at stud in England, where he had several sons of importance in both racing and jumping pedigrees. These sons included Marcovil and Omar Khayyam. Marco was also the grandsire of Cottage, a famous ‘chasing sire in England.

Marco's son Marcovil was far from being a first class performer on the race course. Hampered by bad forelegs, he won only two unimportant races as a three-year-old, but he had the ability to produce offspring who were better than he was himself.


Marcovil sired Hurry On, a 17 hand individual of outstanding physique who was never defeated on the race track.
Hurry On became a leading sire in England, producing a line of stayers, horses who showed stamina over a long distance.... More

Sat
24
Dec

Thoroughbred Bloodlines Successful in the USA

Gem Twist International Showjumper

By Dr Peter Birdsall
article from the book The Leading Competition Sires of Great Britain and Ireland 1996-1997
Published by Otterswick Marketing.

The Performance Horse Registry (PHR) has announced the high score winners for the 1995 show season in jumping, combined training, dressage and hunter competitions.

This is the first year the recently organised Performance Horse Registry has made the awards. To be eligible for the awards program the horses must be at least one-half Thoroughbred and must be recorded in the Registry. Awards were given at both national and regional levels of competition.

An overview of the horses receiving awards has provided some interesting date. It is the goal of the PHR, an organisation operated under the auspices of The Jocky Club, to make bloodline and performance information available to the performance horse industry, much like the information that is available on a large scale to those involved in Thoroughbred... More

Wed
14
Dec

The Thoroughbred Influence on the Competition Horse

Hand In Glove International Showjumping Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred Influence on the Competition Horse By Jane Kidd
article from the book " The Leading Competition Sires of Great Britain and Ireland 1996-1997
Published by Otterswick Marketing.
All over the world, Britain is envied for her large and high class stock of Thoroughbreds, but in sport horse breeding we have made much less use of our abundant supply than the continentals have of their more limited numbers.
The tendency has been to use the Thoroughbred as a breed and any reasonable representative would do to upgrade half bred stock, inject some class and stamina, and with luck produce a good hunter, eventer or show horse.
How much more likely we would be to produce a good horse if Thoroughbreds could be used selectively and on the basis of data about their own ability to jump, move well and be trainable, to produce athletic stock, and bloodlines.
Fortunately all these sources of data are being developed; Thoroughbred mares and... More

Sat
19
Nov

Bay Ronald - Part One

Bay Ronald 1893
Bay Ronald by CM Frank

The names of Dark Ronald and his outstanding offspring Son-in-Law come readily to the minds of Holsteiner breeders, but what was the actual significance of these two stallions and their close relatives in the development of the modern sport horse? An email correspondence between myself and Linda Franz inspired us to research the answer to the question, "Who WAS this horse?" In a series of articles on sport horse sire lines originally published in The Chronicle of the Horse, Dr. Peter Birdsall, DVM, covered the Dark Ronald line and its impact on the sport horse in depth. However, to begin the story of the sire line with Dark Ronald, and not with his sire, Bay Ronald, serves to completely eliminate the influence of Hyperion--a tremendous source of jumping ability--from the equation. So, we'll begin our tale with a brief look at the progenitor of this remarkable line--Bay Ronald himself

"From time to time, sires without superior (racing) credentials... More

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