Tomorrow (Saturday 16th March) sees the Stallion Event taking place at Addington Manor in Buckinghamshire. The showcase of some of the very best sporthorse stallions standing in the UK is organised by British Breeding and supported by Baileys Horse Feeds and Competition Stallions.
There are too many stallions attending to preview each here but some of the most exciting already are featured on this site. They include:
Dankeschon – a recent arrival from Germany with an excellent small tour record about to start competing Grand Prix and with a wonderful damline
Noble Warrior – a tall, athletic British bred show jumper who is now competing internationally with some eye catching results
Volatis Defiant – a dual purpose gentleman of interest to showing, eventing and dressage breeders
Britannia’s Mail – a son of one of the greatest eventing mares ever, who is now at Advanced level himself
Multicouture – a young dual graded stallion with an eyecatching mix of colour genetics
Spring’s Spirit – a British bred eventing sire who has his first offspring on the sunshine tour this year
Volatis Defiant
Tickets can be purchased on the door with the first horse in the arena at 10.30. There are a number of tradestands covering all aspects of the industry, and the stables will be open to the public. If you are thinking of covering your mare this season, this event cannot be missed.
A full list of stallions with start times can be found on https://british-breeding.com/stallion-event/2019-stallion-event
Lindsey Roberts
I was rather disappointed that the WFFS status of the stallions was not very in evidence yesterday. This is an increasingly hot topic for breeders and I personally feel British Breeding should be helping breeders by encouraging stallion owners to declare their stallion’s status by having a ‘Wffs status’ heading in the stallion handbook and by reading out the status as part of the commentary.