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2009 News

27th November - Diore leaves us to go to her new home as well as Bliss and Maisie (Maybrit) returning to their owner to start/resume ridden careers. Maisie unfortunately came back into season having been originally scanned in foal, too late to try again so she will now go hunting for the rest of the winter once she gets fit again. Thanks Steve for the loan of these two lovely mares, we have two fantastic colts to show for it!

November - A busy month for us! We have now got all our mares and youngsters home from their summer grazing and they are safely in their dry barns under cover. Some of them are looking decidedly plump as their foaling dates draw nearer - only 3 months until our first is due!

30th October - Another baby leaves for his new home. Ricochet (Rubin Star N x Lupina) goes off down country. He loads like a dream and travelled really well without turning a hair. He will be presented for his KNN stallion grading in time to come. We look forward to watching his progress.

18th October - Rolex and Lulu both go off to their new home. Hopefully they will be out and about on the show circuit next year - look out for them.

19th September - We took Yellow Gram and her 2009 filly by Nobody's Harlequin to the UK KNN Grading held at Rodbaston College. Holly does us proud by being awarded a PREMIUM grade and also taking the 'Best Filly' title and narrowly missing out on the Best Foal title. She had some very favourable remarks by both the Danish and British judges and behaved impeccably! Holly is currently for sale and will make a fabulous performance prospect - see our Horses For Sale page for details.

6th September - We collect our 'new' stallion. We have bought back our homebred Appaloosa colt TRESAISON DAVINCI and he will stand at stud here in 2010 alongside Nobody's Harlequin.

DaVinci is by Dance With Wolves and out of our lovely mare Champion Bibi Sahiba who we sadly lost in June this year. He is the only entire son of these two and, as such, we believe he is a valuable breeding prospect.

He passed his stallion licence in 2008 and has one foal on the ground so far - a stunning filly.

We look forward to seeing more of his offspring in years to come as he replaces his sire here at the stud.

August - WOW - look at this picture of our 2006 baby TRESAISON DOMINO EFFECT - hasn't he just grown into a stunning boy! Standing over 17hh with 24cm of bone, Domino is a fantastic ambassador for the breed. He turns every head wherever he goes!! He has been backed and will continue his career under saddle 2009/2010.

Sire: Nobody's Harlequin KNN 166

Dam: Skovlys Dana KNN graded mare (for sale)

6th August - 2 yr old Tresaison Destintobe (Dance With Wolves ex Hellovalass) achieves a 2nd Premium at the BEF Futurity despite sustaining a horrific leg injury as a weanling. Well done Sarah and Gary!!

July - This is a lovely photo of Tresaison Diva's 2009 colt by Dance With Wolves. Diva is now owned by the Pictus Stud who also own Tresaison Snow Wolf and stand him at stud.

25th July - We took our other two Thoroughbred mares (Severn Magic and Kiwi Harapa) to the Warmblood Breeders UK Mare Grading at Hartpury where they both graded into the Main Studbook. The German judge was very complimentary saying they were both "ideal types of mares for Warmblood breeding" and he particularly like KIWI HARAPA, our Mayhill mare. She has evented to Intermediate level and has 27 BE pts as well as having had 3 foals, the eldest of which now 9 yrs is Advanced. We plan to breed with her later on when her riding career is over but for now, we are enjoying her and she is enjoying her hunting and Team Chasing! Magic is currently in foal to Harley, due April 2010, and her foals will be eligible for full KNN papers and should be fabulous sport prospects with this breeding combination!

Severn Magic - Main Studbook WBS	Kiwi Harapa - Main Studbook WBS

24th July - Another scanning session with 4 out of 4 scanned in foal. Three of which are ours; Sahiba in foal to Harley, due 3rd June; Lupina due to Dancer due 13th June and Maisie due to Harley due 11th June. See here for details of all our foals due in 2010.

July - We have had some photos sent to us over the last few weeks of other foals by our boys. They all look wonderful and congratulations to all their owners! Keep the updates and pictures coming in........

Kai - a colt out of Fleur by Dance With Wolves, born 9th July. 6 days in this picture. Congratulations Sue!	Colt out of Scallywag (TB by Meadowbrook) by Harley born 23rd June. Suzannah is really pleased with this big boy and we can see why!	Another colt by Harley - this time out of Mischief, whose 2008 filly by Dancer won a first Premium and was one of the highest scores at her BEF Futurity last year.

15th July - Elektra and her foal Daciana (Dance With Wolves) go to their new home in Devon. We deliver them to their newly fenced paddock where they settle immediately! Elektra will be backed when Daci is weaned to start her new career under saddle. Good luck with them Shaun and family and Charlie - keep us posted!

4th July - We have decided that we really must reduce our mares a little more and have put Lupina up for sale. See Horses for sale. She is a lovely mare and her colt by Rubin Star N is simply gorgeous! I am sure we will regret it the minute she leaves but she is young and has loads of potential as a ridden mare or broodmare and will be a valuable asset for someone. Being 100% purebred and a few spot she is a rarity especially in the UK.

26th June - Lambada and Rozie both scan in foal to Harley due in May 2010.

25th June - Another early foal arrives! Our last for this year, Maisie chooses a nice sunny lunchtime and foals a gorgeous chestnut blanket colt very quickly and easily. Very quick to his feet he was suckling in no time although Hozana was very keen to join in as she thinks of Maisie as her 2nd mother!

He is pictured here at new born and just one day old.

21st June - Bliss surprises us and foals in the early hours - a solstice baby - a very sweet chestnut colt with lacey blanket over his quarters. Bliss was a bit concerned to start with, being a first time Mum and needed reassuring to feed him. However, now she adores him and is a very relaxed and caring mum!

Here he is at 4 and 8 days old........

13th June - With huge sadness we have to report the loss of our fantastic mare, Multi Champion BIBI SAHIBA. Bibi started foaling on Friday evening and very early on I knew something was wrong. She had to have an emergency caesarean operation which both she and her enormous colt foal came through. However the next 24 hours were critical and, despite looking promising to start with, unfortunately we lost them both. She was a fantastic mare who threw us some wonderful offspring including 3 fillies that we still have, Sahiba, Didi and Diore. Her son DaVinci stands at stud in Shropshire. Bibi was a prolific show horse in her younger days and won many Championships, often beating stallions to the big prize. Bibi was always a winner and champion when shown at National and County level and was British Appaloosa National Champion 4 times. She was a winner not just in hand but as Riding Horse, Hunter and Working Hunter classes and at Hickstead British Nations Cup in 1992 she was Champion in front of Champion Klaus and 7 other stallions! She was retired from the show ring at 8 years old and she spent the rest of her days as a brood mare, first with her breeder, Mrs Christine Neeson and then later with us. She was a very sweet mare with a temperament to match her good looks and she will be very much missed. Her name means 'What a Lady' and how true that was.

Bibi

Bibi Sahiba - 1985 - 2009

6th June - Hellovalass, who is back here to foal, has a lovely bay filly with a lacy blanket at around 7am. Congratulations Sue and John! 'Fluff' is going to be covered again by Harley before going home. Pictures below at 1 day old.

5th June - Calista, our young Hanoverian mare by Contendro, is scanned in foal to Nobody's Harlequin, due end April 2010. We really look forward to this super jump prospect!

4th June - Three outside mares have had Harley foals this week - all colts, two leopard and one blanket. Congratulations to the owners of them all.

Many thanks to Steve for this photo of his colt out of Solo, his TB mare, at only 12 hours old. What a strapping handsome boy!

1st June - Some of the mares enjoying a run!

1st June - Poppy comes back to be covered by Harley for 2010. With her comes her lovely big leopard colt by Harley - Leo. He is a really leggy and refined colt - a superb type of sports Knabstrupper. A very confident boy - here he is saying hello to Flint, our Deerhound!

25th May - Severn Magic, our lovely ex Pt to Pt and National Hunt mare is scanned in foal to Nobody's Harlequin, due 17th April 2010. We hope to get Magic graded this year meaning her foals by Harley will be eligible for main KNN Stud book. She is a super, athletic and sound, tough mare who is an ideal match for Harley to produce superb sport types so we look forward to this foal, her first by him.

22nd May - Lou and Jake sent us these pictures of Spook - look how grown up he is now! Spook (Tresaison Snow Wolf, 2007) looks well set to make the 17hh we thought he would. His dam, Tilde af Elmegard is in foal to Dance With Wolves again for a 2010 full sibling which we are hugely looking forward to!

13th May - Yellow Gram is scanned in foal to Nobody's Harlequin, due 29th March 2010. Yellow is by Ritterstern, a Danish Warmblood stallion who traces back to the great Romulus on his sire line. She has some great WB and TB lines in her breeding which matches so well with Harley - they have produced some lovely offspring, this years filly being no exception and who can be seen on our Horses for Sale page.

12th May - Tessa has sent us this lovely picture of Tresaison Hawksbay, 2006 colt by Harley ex. Rozel Bay, our graded TB mare competing at South Suffolk Show where he won the 3yr old Sports Horse class. Hawk is full brother to Tresaison Gracie, overall mare winner of 2007 KNN UK Grading, and it looks as if Hawk is following in his sisters footsteps.

Tessa says he is enjoying his ground work and she plans to back him at the end of the summer when his shows have finished.

11th May - Helen and Jan have sent us some pictures of Raz (Tresaison Numero Uno) now 22 months old playing in his sunburnt paddock in Perth, Australia. He has certainly changed since the gangly 9 month old colt left here last April.

6th May - Unfortunately, Tresaison Amaretto has come back up for sale through no fault of her own. She can be seen on our Horses For Sale page but her owner should be contacted direct. She is a fantastic event prospect having several good event horses in her pedigree.

5th May - Tilde and Dana confirmed still in foal, Tilde to Dance With Wolves and Dana to Nobody's Harlequin - both due March 2010.

Husqvarna is no longer a colt so that should put paid to any ideas that he was just brewing about the 'ladies'!! Tragically, we lose Sahara due to complications following castration. A great shock and horrible loss for us.

3rd May - Lupina foals and give us THE most stunning colt by Rubin Star N. He is simply gorgeous - what a head! We are looking forward to seeing how he develops.

1st May - Rozie foals late evening, a chestnut minimally marked filly with a blaze and tall white fore sock. We have been waiting for this foal with trepidation as we lost last years colt to a bacterial infection and her 2007 colt was also very ill. The Vets think that it is possibly something Rozie now carries (although this is her 12th foal and up until the last two all was fine). We decided that we needed to be ready this time and so the filly (Hozana) has been on a course of antibiotics since she was born as well as scrupulous hygiene methods. It seems to have worked as she is a bouncing happy girl although not overly keen on me at the moment because of all the needling she has had to endure!

19th April - Diva finally foals for her new owners. A strapping bay near fewspot colt by Dance With Wolves. He looks a smashing chap - they have called him Xtassy and he is already sold to an eventing home.

16/11/08 Showmaker at National Convention

14th April - Angel is scanned in foal to Showmaker, the stunning 17hh Westfalen Bay Stallion 2002 by Showstar. Fully graded and winner of his 30 day stallion test 2005 in Germany plus graded with the BWBS in UK.

Due 28th Feb 2010

10th April - A super new addition to our band - 'Buddy' comes from Devon. A 12.2hh gelding for our daughter Holly and what a super star he is proving to be! Here he is on his first day with us - already much loved!

Thank you, Linda and Alice for letting us have such a brilliant boy - we look forward to many years with him.

9th April - Poppy (ex broodmare of ours) foals very easily with her new owner Melanie and produces a huge bay near leopard colt. Congratulations Mel!!! Pictures soon.

1st April - Lambada ends this run of foalings with another filly. A stunning girl, tall and strong and, for some reason, very hairy!! She must have thought we would be having a cold spell and got prepared! Another leopard but this time a very dark bay base colour.

24th March - Yellow foals down at a very respectable 7am without much warning at all (as usual for Yellow!). Another quick and easy birth, this time a beautiful leopard filly and another who didn't hang around to get to the milk bar! Let's hope that this is how they all are this year. See both of these foals on our Foals Due 2009 page.

21st March (just!) - Elektra foals a few days early (better than the 3 weeks early last year!) at 00.30 am very quickly and easily. She gives us our first foal of 2009 and a lovely bay blanket filly. Up and suckling within a very short time, she is a beauty.

15th March - We are very pleased to announce the arrival of another brood mare to our herd. Pink papered Hanoverian mare Calista by the fabulous jumping stallion CONTENDRO and out of an ESCUDO 1 mare has been purchased and will be bred to Harlequin before starting her own career under saddle. See more details about her on our Broodmare page shortly.

October to February - We have had great fun hunting our wonderful mares, Boot and Royal Highlight (Blossom), this season with the Monmouthshire - some pictures here with great thanks to our fantastic photographers Bev and Sarah Canning.

30th January - we have another litter of Deerhound x Greyhound pups, unexpected and unplanned but adorable all the same!

2008 News

November - More foals are weaned and Roulette and Storm both go off to their new homes (congratulations Rosie and Katrina) and Maisie's boy goes back to his owner, Steve, to hopefully be sold from there.

Hellovalass has gone to Sue and John Gardners where she will be reunited with two of her offspring - I wonder if she will remember them? They are now 13 and 14 years old!! We wish Sue the best of luck with Fluff's 2009 Harley foal, due in May.

14th November - Two of our Broodmares left today for new homes. Joli Paprika (due to foal 31st March to Nobody's Harlequin) has gone off to West Wales, good luck with her Melanie, and Diva (due 3rd April to Dance With Wolves) has gone further North to Cheshire, good luck Louise. We look forward to the foal pictures in the Spring!

10th October - An up to date picture (left) of one of our pups, Lola, she is the one we are keeping. The others have all gone to their new homes now and it seems really quiet around here!

Lola is one of the pups who will end up with a rough coat like her mum rather than the real shaggy coat of the Deerhound.

Meg (right) is one of last years pups and is much more like her Dad.

26th September - We took two of our mares, Engel vom Birkenhof and Lupina vom Kreidefel to the UK KNN gradng in Devon as well as Angels foal Roulette. Angel (Engel) won 'Best Mare' and was awarded a premium with an overall score of 8 as was her colt, Roux. Lupi wasn't quite sure what canter was all about on the day although showed off what a fantastic trot she has and finished with an overall score of 7. They were all very well behaved and the whole day was brilliantly run. PIcs below; L to R; Lupina; Angel and Roulette; Angel in the trot up.

22nd September - Bad luck (or whatever it is) falls on us again as we lose another horse. Our 4 yr old TB mare by Kayf Tara suffers a massive brain haemorrhage and we lose her, completely out of the blue. She was a home bred, the first out of a successful NH mare that we had for many years and had been perfectly healthy up until the point she just dropped dead. A devastating blow to us yet again.

Both Amy and Spider (Amaretto & Hot Spice) have been weaned and gone off to their new homes. Both have settled in very well and we have had good reports from their new owners.

Colette sent us this lovely picture of Spider.

12th September - Bibi Sahiba is scanned in foal to Dance With Wolves - due mid June 2009.

Our puppies are growing rapidly and are now looking for new homes! Gorgeous, fluffy boys and girls who are loyal pets and great workers!

Congratulations to Georgina Bowen and Tresaison Splashback who had a successful day at the BApS National Show in August.

23rd August - We take Rozel Bay (Rozie) to the British Warmblood Breeders mare grading and she gets graded into the Main Studbook. The German judges were very complimentary about her and she behaved impeccably - not bad for a 15 year old mare who hasn't left our farm since arriving here from the race track over 11 years ago! She is a lovely mare in every way and doesn't look as if she has had 11 foals either! Rozie had an overall mark of 7.5 which we are very pleased with.

18th August - Sheer Bliss is scanned in foal to Dance With Wolves and Maybrit is scanned in foal to Nobody's Harlequin. Both are due at the end of June.

13th August - Sad news...... Our mini mule, Cefyn doesn't recover from colic surgery and we lose him. He was only little but such a huge character and he will be sadly missed by all of us, especially Harley who he was great friends with.

30th July - Our Lurcher bitch Lottie (Greyhound X Deerhound) gives birth to a huge litter of pups,15 in total! Proud daddy Flint (Scottish Deerhound) is watching closely with that look that says 'glad I'm a boy'!!! This is our second litter from these two and they are fantastic companions. The picture on the right is one of last years pups sent to us this week by her owner Steve Penny.

Pictures of them all soon - good homes wanted, they will be for sale!

Lottie and Flint enjoying themselves

22nd July - Angel is inseminated with semen from the fantastic and very promising young Westphalian stallion Showmaker. Subsequently scanned not in foal so we will call it a day this year and try again early next year.

21st & 22nd July - Our two boarders foal down with their ET twins. An exquisite chestnut filly with a blaze and white socks and then a very smart bay colt with one sock. Their owner Vicky is delighted with them and hopes that they will both be as successful as their mother.

12th July - TRESAISON HOLOGRAM (Yellow Gram / Nobody's Harlequin) does us all proud by winning the Spotted yearling, two and three year old class at Liskeard Show in good company with some very favourable remarks from the Judge who told his owners Amelia and Linda James that they 'could look forward to a very exciting future with him'!

Hologram at Liskeard

Well done to all of you!

2nd July - Skovlys Dana brings us our last 'home grown' foal of the season. A beautiful bay colt with lacey blanket and spotted quarters. Another big and well put together lad for Dana by Nobody's Harlequin - this seems a really good match! We have two more foals due here later this month out of visiting mares, both 'surrogate' mares in foal to Jumbo by embryo transfer. The dam of these foals is good event mare Tudor Romance owned and ridden by Vicky Tuffs and who completed Badminton 4* last year.

30th June - Hellovalass is scanned in foal to Nobody's Harlequin, due 15th May 2009.

29th June - we have added a further two mares to our broodmare band, thanks to Stephen and Barbara Morris. They are graded Danish Warmblood, Cranswick's Maybrit (May Sherif) who will be covered by Harley and main book Appaloosa Sheer Bliss (Centaur First Class) who will go to Dance With Wolves both hopefully for 2009 foals. Pictures and full details on our Broodmares page soon.

20th June - TRESAISON DAVINCI (Bibi Sahiba/Dance With Wolves b. 2006) passes his British Appaloosa Society Stallion licensing. He is now standing at stud at Burnock Stud in Shropshire and is available by AI or natural covering.

14th June - Angel (Engel v. Birkenhof) foals a gorgeous black near leopard colt out in the sunshine at around 10am having kept us wondering all night! This is our 2nd by the fabulous stallion Rubin Star N.

9th June - Lupina, our young few spot mare is scanned in foal to Rubin Star N, 100 day performance test champion, due 27th April 2009.

June - Tresaison Dark Wolf wins the Appaloosa Youngstock class at East of England show and takes Reserve Champion Appaloosa. Well done Tessa!

1st June - Hellovalass has a bay based few spot colt at around 10pm. We are back on to a 'colt run' now! See Foals Due 2008. He will be offered for sale.

May - Tresaison Hawksbay comes a very creditable 2nd in the well supported Sports Horse class at Herts County Show and maintains his record of never being out of the first two.

22nd May - Tilde foals a completely stunning bay near leopard colt by Rubin Star N. He is our first conceived by AI here at Tresaison. See Foals due 2008.

22nd May - Tresaison Numero Uno arrives at his new home in Perth, Western Australia. He travelled in his usual laid back manner and everyone on the trip commented on his attitude and character (typical Knabstrupper!) Helen and Jan are, to use their word, 'ecstatic' now that he has finally arrived safe and sound.

22nd May - Lupina is inseminated with Rubin Star N semen.

19th May - Centaur Elektra scanned in foal to Dance With Wolves; Yellow Gram scanned in foal to Harley; Poppy scanned in foal to Harley and Tresaison Diva scanned in foal to Dance With Wolves.

18th May - Tragically, disaster strikes us again and we lose Rozies little boy. Following a heartbreaking 24 hours of Veterinary treatment we have to call it a day as his pain and distress was too much to bear. We await lab results for the cause.

15th May - Rozie foals a few days early and unexpectedly (she never gives any warning!) a lovely blanket spotted colt.

8th May - Lambada is scanned in foal to Harley - due end March 2009.

4th May - Double trouble! Following weeks of waiting Severn Magic finally foals down 1 year and 4 days after her covering date! She has a healthy bay filly at 0.15am followed within the hour by Sahiba with a lovely dark dun colt. See pictures on our Foals Due 2008 page.

27th April - Bibi Sahiba foals down a few days early and gives us another filly. See here for details.

26th April - Raz (Numero Uno) has landed safely in Australia! He now has a 3 week quarantine period in Melbourne and then sets out on his very long road journey to his new home. 3 weeks in quarantine in Melbourne and then a long road trip to Perth where his new owners will be waiting for him!

Congratulations Jan and Helen - We hope he does well for you and look forward to all your news!

18th April - Sadly Joker (Yellow Gram's colt foal) couldn't win against the infection that raged around his body and, despite all our efforts and his brave fight, we had to make the heartbreaking decision to put him to sleep. He will be missed.

1st April - Numero Uno (Raz) leaves us to begin his long journey to Australia.

31st March - at a very sociable 9.15pm Poppy finally foals an adorable and huge bay leopard filly. See Foals due 2008 for details of all these foals.

30th March - our 2nd foal of the year, still not the one we are waiting for - a strapping and very good looking bay based few spot colt is born out of Yellow Gram and by Harley.

15th March - our first foal of the year arrives - Elektra foals early and unexpectedly but her filly is safe and sound and a real cutie!

2007 News

Nobodys Harlequin progeny shine at the KNN Knabstrupper grading held in England

Overall Best in Show and Best Mare was Tresaison Gracie, a mare owned by Karen Wealleans:

She is out of our Thoroughbred mare, Rozel Bay, and by Nobodys Harlequin KNN 166.

Best Foal was Tresaison Numero Uno a fewspot Knabstrupper colt by Nobodys Harlequin KNN 166 and out of Skovlys Dana KNN 2210:

Nobodys Harlequin fewspot Knabstrupper colt sold to Australia

We are delighted to announce that the fewspot Knabstrupper colt by Nobodys Harlequin KNN 166 and out of Skovlys Dana KNN 2210, that was born on 12th July 2007, has been sold to Australia as a stallion prospect. It is believed that he is the first Knabstrupper to be imported into Australia, where he will in due time, stand at stud.

Congratulations to his new owners, we wish them every success with him!

2007 KNN Knabstrupper Grading in the UK

There will be two Grading dates for the 2007 KNN Knabstrupper grading; one in Scotland and one in England.

Gradings will be held at Kingswood EC, Wolverhampton, on 5th October and at Balcormo Stud, Fife on 7th October.

Full information, schedules and entry forms are available on the UK KNN Grading Website:

Closing date for entries is 1st September

Tresaison young stock have been winning in the show ring!

	Tresaison Dark Wolf (Darcy) Went to his first show where he won his class out of 14 and then went on to take Reserve Champion In Hand. Well done Darcy! 2005 colt by Dance with Wolves out of Multi Champion Bibi Sahiba (see brood mares).
Tresaison Hawksbay 2006 Colt by KNN graded stallion Nobody’s Harlequin and out of Rozel Bay also won his class at his first show the previous week! Hawk is full brother to Tresaison Gracie, UK KNN Grading Best Mare and Best in Show 2007. Huge congratulations to the owner of both Darcy and Hawk, Tessa Green - keep up the good work!

6th April 2007 - Another Fewspot Colt!

Is it going to be a fewspot year???? Yellow Gram foaled a substantial few spot colt during the night of 6th April 2007

By Nobodys Harlequin who passed not only his KNN grading, (achieving a premium score of 8 in both Classic and Sport horse categories) but also his Performance test and his BSJA Assessment in October 2006 with flying colours. His performance score was the highest of ALL KNN stallions in 2006!

Out of Yellow Gram KNN 1983, Yellow combines the Knabstrupper blood with Danish Warmblood making her an ideal type of Sport horse mare and a fantastic partner for Harley - as you can see with this superb colt!

3rd April - Fewspot Colt born!

Tresaison Snow Wolf

15 Minutes old in this pic!

A huge chestnut few spot colt born on 3rd April 2007

By Dance With Wolves whose offspring are proving themselves both in the show ring and performance with stock successfully competing in a variety of disciplines, and out of Tilde af Elmegaarden KNN 1951, who graded with an '8' overall at her KNN grading.

Spook is being retained by us as he is the only son of Dancer that we currently have and what a beauty he is!

Three new arrivals!

January 2007 - We have recently imported three Knabstrupper mares to add to our herd. All three horses, a six year old pure bred mare by Norkrons Harlequin and 2 two year old 100% purebred fillies are all few spot making them homozygous for colour and are a valuable addition to our stud. They have all settled in very quickly and seem to be enjoying the Welsh climate and their new friends!

2006

The second UK grading of Knabstruppers by the KNN took place on the 28th October 2006 at Kingswood Equestrian Centre, Wolverhampton

Nobody's Harlequin passed his final grading achieving an 8 (1st PREMIUM AWARD) and performance assessment in fine style, with 840 points for performance out of a possible 1000 - this was the best of ALL Knabstrupper stallions Worldwide! He was also judged Best Stallion AND Best in Show.

Hellovalass also did very well, being awarded an overall mark of 7 by both the Classic and Sport Horse judges, with an 8 for type and body from the Sport Horse judges.

Full results will be posted shortly on the 2006 Grading Website, with grading photos.

More photographs taken at the grading:

http://equinational.fotopic.net/c1124096.html

and

Horse and Hound Report, 16 November 2006:

2005

The UK's first KNN grading of Knabstruppers took place on the 9th October at Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire (in conjunction with the Danish Warmblood grading).

Results on the KNN Website, with grading photos.

More photographs taken at the grading:

Knabstrupper Success at the Paralympics 2004

In Athens on 22nd September 2004, Ann Cathrin Lubbe (NOR) captured the gold medal in the Individual Dressage Championship, competing in Grade IV.

The Norwegian rider went one better and improved on her performance in Sydney, where she had won silver in the Individual Championship and the bronze in the Team event.

Ann Cathrin Lubbe & Zanko KNN 134

Lubbe riding Zanko, a Knabstrupper stallion by Xanthos (KNN 112) out of Olympia (KNN 1796) was the only participant who passed the 70% mark and by amassing 70.839% went to gold medal position and stayed there until the conclusion of the event.

Two days later on the 24th September the same combination set the crowd alight and with another first class performance earned the gold in the Individual Freestyle test in Grade IV.

On this occasion they were the last to compete and when they came out of the arena, everyone already knew who was the winner of the afternoon session. LUBBE scored 79.318%, the highest marks the judges accorded on Friday.