Wind Rose by Wonderful

Thanks to Wind Rose's breeder, Elizabeth Lewis, for sharing the pictures of her beautiful and extravagant moving 2-year-old filly by Wonderful.

Pictures of Wunderland, USEF 4-year-old FEI Championship Qualifier/Participant

These are pictures taken from Scott Hassler Clinic. Enjoy.
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Wunderland is by Wonderful out of Diachee by Diamont, bred by Nanni Baker. He looks really cute in the pictures. Nanni rebred her mare and had a successful embroy transfer this year.

Oldenburg Young Horse Training Program was a great success!

Wonderful Sport Horses sponsored the Young Horse Training program hosted by German Oldenburg Verband and Redhawk Ranch in the beautiful Temecula area. It was very well run and extremely educational to young sport horse owners and breeders. Katrin Burger was patient, thorough and systematic with her teaching. Here are a few snapshots I took from the program.

I finally found my camcorder charger after coming back from the trip. Well, the YHT Program will have all training sessions available on DVD, so call Red Hawk Ranch, the gracious program host, http://www.redhawkranch.tv/ to order a set.
Since I have my camcorder charger now, I can get my video of Katrin's ride on French Kiss in World Championship for Young Dressage Horse on line... I hope I can find my tapes now... Stay tuned!
Here is the sponsorship banner that Wonderful Sport Horses used at the program. It was great to see old breeders to our stallions and meet some news ones too!

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Wonderful Sport Horses offspring awarded USDF Year End Honors

Weltinvader by Welt Klasse (see picture)

• Reserve Champion AHS All-Breeds at Second Level Open with rider Stacy Parvy Larsson
• 12th USDF Second Level Nationally
• 3rd Region 3 Championships Second Level Open 68.8%, only 0.1% behind Reserve.
• 3rd Third Level test 3 behind well known trainer Bent Jensen and Jules Anderson
  

Winwood by Wonderful

• 5th Prix St. George Open USDF AHS All-Breeds Award
• 4th Intermediaire-I Open USDF AHS All-Breeds Award
  

Rubino Bellissimo qualified for Grand Prix Championships AGAIN this year, but unfortunately he was sidelined due to an injury, so he didn't get the chance to repeat or beat his Gread Prix Res. Champion title from last year.

Breed Show winner Roosevelt by Rubino Bellissimo out of Wisentanz (Wolkentanz)

Roosevelt, aka Teddy, was great at Proud Meadow Fall Sporthorse Breed Shows I & II.


His great movements wowed the judges and spectators in spite of his uneven growth spurt at the moment. He achieved the following great honors:


Proud Meadow Fall Sporthorse Breed Shows I

• Second, Colts of 2007, 76.2%
• First, Hanoverian Individual Breed Class, 76.4%

Proud Meadow Fall Sporthorse Breed Shows II

• First, Colts of 2007, 72.4%
• Champion Colt
• Great American/USDF Breeders Cup Qualifier

Great American/USDF Breeders Cup Final

• Reserve Champion Colt 74.85%

Congratulations to owner Jacquie Hawks and Teddy's breeder Dr. Jackie Nixon-Fulton of Wild Oaks Ranch, that also earned great awards with their mare Rosantanz, by Rosathal and out of Teddy's dam, and another youngster from their breeding program, Prada.

Portrait of Regal Dona and Demitasse HF

Regal Dona (Rubino Bellissimo X Prince Thatch xx) and her foal Demitasse HF by Delaurentis. Both bred by Dr. Julie Ballard-Haralson.

Photo by Bella Vita Photography.

Elite Mare Regal Dona and her foal Demitasse HF

Demitasse HF top filly at her AHS Inspection and Reserver Grand Champion at the Southern Hospitality Dressage Sport Horse Breed Show II. Congratulations to breeder and owner Dr. Julie Ballard-Haralson!
Photo by Bella Vita Photography.

Wunderland and Erika James ranked 11th for Markel/USEF National Young Horse Dressage Championship

Wunderland by Wonderful out of Diachee, bred by Nanni Baker, DDS., and ridden by his amateur owner/rider Erika James ranked the 11th for the 4-year-old division of the Markel/USEF National Young Horse Dressage Championships with a score of 7.9. Erika reported that Wunderland was unfortunately injured with a severe knee laceration, so she is not sure if they will go to the final yet. She did report later that Wunderland was completely sound and moving beautifully. She will make a decision with her trainer soon. Wish Wunderland a speedy and full recovery and Erika much success with him.

Nanni rebred Diachee and successfully did an embryo transplant this year. We look forward to another WONDERFUL foal from this cross.

GOV Premium foal by Wonderful out of Glimmer by Grundstein

Just visited Rolling Stone Farm's website and found that the colt by Wonderful out of Rolling Stone Farm's Glimmer received Premium at GOV inspection last month. Wow, what a flashy boy! He was first named Whipped Cream, and it's obvious to see why with all the whites. Congratulations to Mo Swanson, and thanks for selecting Wondreful for your mare. Click here to read the story of his name and see more of his dazzling pictures at Rolling Stone website.

Regal Dona is officially an Elite mare and a Site Champion producer!

Regal Dona's owner Julie reported that Regal Dona's foal by De Laurentis (De Niro) was awarded Inspection Site Champion in a very competitive field today. Julie promised incredible pictures! I can't wait!!

Meet the Top Colt at the Huston AHS Inspection

Rhinestone Cowboy by Rubino Bellissimo out of Freshaire by Wuemmenstern, bred by Sharon Pike of Rocking Horse Farm

Thanks to Sharon for sending me the pictures.

Two Inspection Champions in one weekend!!

August 26:
Roosevelt (aka Teddy) by Rubino Bellissimo out of Wiesentanz (Wolkentanz I) - Champion out of 13 foals at Stargate Inspection. Bred by Jackie Nixon-Fulton, MD. of Wild Oaks Ranch, and owned by Jacquie Hawkes.

August 27:
Colt by Rubino Bellissimo out of Freshaire by Wuemmenstern was named the top colt out of 10 colts. Bred by Sharon Pike of Rocking Horse Ranch.

Congratulations to all the breeders/owners!

More updates coming...

Elite Mare candidate Regal Dona by Rubino Bellissimo

Thanks to Dr. Julie Ballard-Haralson for sharing these pictures of Regal Donna by Rubino Bellissimo X Prince Thatch mare. Julie is not only the owner but also the breeder of Regal Donna. Donna received 7.33 at her Mare Performance Test ridden by Julie. Donna produced a filly in 2007 by De Laurentis (De Niro) to fulfill her Elite title requirement.

The pictures show her free jumping and being ridden by her owner at the MPT at only 3-years-old.

Photo credit: Alicia Frese.

An update on Rubino X Hideaway's Dream Girl (Connemara) foal

Rubi's Dream has grown up!

Wonderful granddauther Top 5 at the national 4-y-o class at World Breeding Championship

Congratulations to Stefan! Rosemary by Romanciero H out of a Wonderful mare, ridden by Stefan Blanken, scored 7.90 and ranked the 5th out of 68 starters in the 4-year-old national class at the 2007 World Breeding Championships for young dressage horses. I wonder if this is the Wonderful mare that came from Stefan's family mare line.

Yap, just checked on Stefan's website: This mare is bred by Stefan, and owned by Sharon Garner of the United States. What a beautiful horse.

R ST '03 v. Romanciero - Wonderful
Züchter: Stefan Blanken
Besitzerin: Sharon Garner, Texas USA

• Siegerstute Tarmstadt '06
• 3. Platz Landeschampionat Hannover
• Siegerin in ReitpferdeprüfungenStutenleistungsprüfung Dressurindex 8,37

Check out the exciting news on Rosemary and other horses he trained at Stefan's website: http://www.blanken-horses.de/sites/news.html

Wonderful is the grandpa of 2 foals and great grandpa of one filly at Verden Elite Foal Auction

I hope my bank account balance is not so close to $0, so I can get at least one of them, unfortunately it is. :-( Let me check what the jackpot for the lotto is now.

(Edited to add: This beautiful filly was sold for ~$22,000 US, not including auction commission, tax or shipping!)

Rosetta and Rubi Tuesday

Rosetta (was Rossellini, but her owner doesnt' feel it was good fit) and Rubi Tuesday are ~3 weeks old now. They are playing together a lot.

Rosetta's dam is Archipel X Diamont X Wenzel I

Rubi Tuesday's dam is a States Premium mare by Lauries Cruisador. The two fillies look like twins.

A lot of pictures

Rubi Tuesday and Rossellini's breeder commissioned Terri Miller to take a lot of pictures of her foals. Take a peek! The foals by Rubino Bellissimo are the two red head fillies. Rossellini is the one with a big star and a think blaze, and and she was just shy of one week old. Rubi Tuesday has a star, and she was 3 days old in the pictures. This ranch also breeds Clydesdales and some ponies, too. http://www.terrimiller.com/gallery/gallery.php?galleryid=969&tnpage=1

Enjoy!

Two new red heads born

Both have red eyelashes!

Rossellini by Rubino Bellissimo out of Aktiva (Archipel), 4 socks, star and strip - Born July 6th.
Rubi Tuesday by Rubino Bellissimo out of SPS Laura Bella (Lauries Crusador) 3 socks and star - Born 7/10 Tuesday. You can see Rubi Tuesday and Mom are still in the stall today. See them in the LiveCam: http://www.wefoal.com/ Double click on LiveCam --> Scroll down to Williams Ranch and double click on the mare's picture. Enjoy.

Pictures coming ...