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Scimitar's offspring continue to excell with his three year old daughter Sassafrass,owned and bred by Betsy Cawley out of a Weltmeyer mare winning the AHS Hartwig prize for the highest scoring performance test mare in the US. Her highlights included a 9 for rideability and a 9 for overall impression.
Sir Donald, owned and bred by Summit Sporthorses was reserve champion at the BLMs training level with Hilltop Farms Michael Bragdell riding him.
Scimitar's licensed stallion son, Saracen has moved away from home and is now in Florida with Bent Jensen who absolutely loves him. This is a very exciting partnership and we look forward to great things from them in the future.
Over and over again we get great emails from owners about how wonderful their "S" babies are and how easy to start and train they are! On that note, Susanne Hassler is telling me that the two Innkeeper kids they have at Hassler dressage are doing great. More news on them as they grow up.
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Scimitar was again represented by Oldenburg inspection site champions. His son Starcraft SL, bred by Shelley and Melissa Ferkovich was the champion colt at the Rainbow Equus Meadows inspection in California with an overall score of 8.3 and another son, Shamshir bred by Peter Bitely was site champion at Silver Lining Farm in Ohio with the overall score of 8.5 |
| We took Saracen and his three year old stable mate, Sirocco to an RPSI inspection in Ohio and both stallions were entered into Stud Book I, Sirocco pending his completion of their 30 days testing. We have since decided to geld Sirocco as we feel he would be better utilized as a performance horse and he is now offered for sale. View Video of Sirocco |
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Innkeeper is rightfully enjoying his retirement as he will be 21 this coming spring. He still is occasionally trail ridden and gives "pony rides" but, his main concern these days is his stud duty. His son and hopefully, heir apparent, Innverness will be making his showing debute this coming year.
Scimitar was represented by three Oldenburg/ISR site champions this year:
~ The colt Shea owned and bred by Barbara Hay was the champion colt at the Summit Sporthorses inspection in New Jersey with the scores of 8.1,8.2,8.2 and the overall score of 8.2.
~ The filly, Saphia owned and bred by Barb Baronas was the champion filly at the Willow Spring Farm inspection in Texas with the scores of 8.3,8.2,8.3 and an overall score of 8.2.
~ The filly Starlight, owned and bred by Angela Hartzog was the champion filly at the very large Virginia Tech inspection with the huge scores of 8.7,8.5,8.7 and the overall score of 8.6. She is tied as one of the top scoring fillies in North America.
At the Hilltop Farm inspection all the Scimitar offspring went premium and all were owned by Retta Hyatt, Schimer, Seven 000 and Sunsets Luna.
Scimitar had his first two RPSI foals presented this year and both were Gold Premium:
LJS Sublime a very flashy colt owned and bred by Marie Emrey
and Special Effect a filly owned and bred by Deb Campbell.
Scimitar's three year old son, Saracen (from his first foal crop) was granted a certified breeding license by Oldenburg/ISR and will be attending the 100 day stallion testing at Paxton Farm next year. Saracen is owned and bred by Mike and Jean Bitely.En Avant was represented by it's first, third generation offspring at Hilltop Farm's Oldenburg/ISR inspection.
Sirocco, by Scimitar out of the Innkeeper daughter, Inntuition, was the reserve champion colt with an overall score of 8.3.
Kathleen Jackson's Scimitar filly, Silhouette, was also a premium filly at the same inspection.
At the Summit Sporthorses inspection at Ringoes, NJ, the Scimitar foal, Sir Donald owned and bred by Ilona English was site champion colt with an 8.4, and Ilona's Innkeeper filly, out of a Guigan de Lully mare was premium with an 8.1.
Scimitar and Innkeeper are now both approved for breeding with RPSI International in Studbook I.
At the Hilltop ISR/OLD inspection the aforementioned Scheherazade went premium with a score of 7.9, and "Sasha" (Scimitar/Candidus) owned by Ken DeGroot went premium with an 8.1 !!
Congratulations to all the deserving owners of these exciting young Scimitar progeny!
Scimitar was represented by just one colt at the 2002 Dressage at Devon. The foal, Saracen out of a Davignport mare, Damoiselle owned and bred by Mike and Jean Bitely of Bruceton Mills, WV was seventh out of a class of thirty four entries.
At the Magnolia Farms Oldenburg/ISR inspection in Concord, GA the Scimitar foal, Shenanigan, owned and bred by Kathleen Jackson of Marietta, SC was awarded premium status and was the highest scoring colt at the inspection. Judge Karsten Kuhl commented that he was the best moving foal of the day!
We were approached about sending Innkeeper to Germany to stand at stud. At this time his future is still uncertain but either way we will offer him at stud either through fresh semen if he stays or frozen if he goes. Regardless of the outcome it is very flattering to have the German horse industry interested in him and his classic thoroughbred pedigree. We always knew he was great but now everyone else is starting to catch on. Scott Hassler, of Hilltop Farm wants to breed to him!
Innkeeper was also well represented at Dressage at Devon by the thoroughbred gelding, Concierge. The three year old held his own and pinned in every class up against warmbloods as the only full thoroughbred in the field. He was sixth in hand and third under saddle. In the big three and four year old suitable to become a dressage horse class, he made the cut and was in the top ten. This is quite an accomplishment after just six weeks of dressage training.Copyright - En Avant, All Rights Reserved