We proudly present; Halagador Cen!

This fantastic horse is now Yeguada VIKINGA PRE's new stud stallion! Fate has surprisingly arranged for us to have this horse = happiness! :-)
We are totally into everything about Halagador, his quality is super, he is the 'Donoso-type'. His movements are expressive, soft suspended and elastic. He is a total beauty, loves to show off and is a gentleman with people and other horses. He is very comfortable and easy to ride even though his level of education is very low so we will little by little get him into shape.
Story; Halagador already had his stable-name 'Hagge' as we have known and loved this horse for a long time now. We first saw him in 2007 and he has ever since been the ultimate black PRE stallion. Halagador was competing in important PRE championships 2006 and he qualified to the spanish championships, SICAB same year. After that he has been used as a stud and has several wonderful offspring.
His bloodlines are simply the best of Cárdenas/ Yeguada Militar. Halagador is a half brother to our beloved mare Intimidad Cen that we recently sold reluctantly. Now we can continue breeding our favourite bloodline through this stallion instead and this means alot to us! We have followed the offspring to Halagador's dad Delegado Mac over the years and we are very impressed by them, we can now spot the 'Delegado's in the herd on a miles distance, they all stand out, have class, beauty and a special expression. His sire Delegado Mac is the only Cárdenas stallion that defied his ancestors dominant grey genes and came out black without no white markings, he has 352 offsprings! Halagador is his best black stallion. He is a unique PRE stallion and as far as beauty and class dressed in black it doesn't get much better than this!
Curriculum;
- PRE championships 2006 where qualified to Spanish Championships, SICAB
- SICAB 2006 section 6 for 3 year olds, top scores
- 9 offspring, black, bay and grey
- 37 of his brothers & sisters are competing sucessfully in Spain and abroad
This is a very wanted and welcomed horse, thank You Richi!
Halagador Cen Jade today

Halagador Cen July 2007

Our friends at Centurion, Javier & Betty

New mares confirmed in foal with Donoso!!

These beautiful mares will have Donoso babies next year!

Carmencita - Champion mare 2006 and 2007 and winner of best movements all horses 2007

Bellezia

Festivo MR genetyped for chestnut!

Festivo is now genetyped EeAACC which confirms he is the carrier of the chestnut genes and will therefore bring down chestnut colour to his offspring!! (see below).
The mares with the following genetic formulas will very likely have chestnut offsprings if crossed with Festivo MR;
Bay heterozygote mare (EeAA) or (EeAa)
Black heterozygote mare (Eeaa)
Chestnut heterozygote mare (eeAA) (eeAa) (eeaa)
Grey heterozygote mare (Gg) (gG) (gg)
He can exclusively bring down bay, grey and chestnut to his offspring, if crossed with a mare of basic colour i.e black, chestnut, bay or grey mare. If crossed with a mare with C or D colourgenes all the diluted creme colours (palomino, perlino, buckskin etc) are possible. So far Festivo MR has 7 registered offspring, bay, grey and chestnut, the mother to this chestnut filly is grey. He will have several offspring 2011.

Short info on chestnut colour in the PRE race;The chestnut colour was present among the first spanish horses in the book 'Libro registro caballos españoles' (Spanish Horse stud Book) that was initiated in the 16th century. The colour was rejected in the beginning because of the general belief that a chestnut horse had a fiery temperament. This theory was deducted until the 17th century when science discarded the theory of correlation between colour and temperament. As the PRE horses were bred for the king it was considered dangerous to provide a horse of this colour, which naturally reduced the breeding of the chestnut PRE. This colour has later gone through phases of popularity and there are horses which bred exclusively for the colour. As a result there is a limited amount of chestnut PRE's that maintain also the excellent race standards in conformation and movement. The PRE chestnut is therefore in need of quality breeding horses with very high race standards. A stallion like Festivo MR is able to attain not only the exclusive colour but most importantly the quality of conformation, temperament, movement and class to the offspring.

Different shades of chestnut;
The deer like (alazán cervuno), white legs and limbs (deslavado), golden (dorado), with white hairs interspersed (entrepelado), the browish-grey (garbanzo), vinous (guinda or vinoso), light golden (limón), liver chestnut (oscuro), light (pálido), dirty brown (piel de vaca) and cocolate chestnut (tostado).
Festivo MR, see his page here

TRC grading

These are from the TRC grading last week, we went to see friends and to study the horses. For you that are not familiar with this event, the PRE stallions that are basic approved for breeding (APTO) can pass a second grading to prove their superior qualities. This test is called TRC and the horses passed this test will be 'Calificado' graded. Only 8 stallions were presented and quite a few mares. Very few breeders were represented. Only one mare was shown ridden in the functionality (ridden) test.
Saw some excellent mares. Only two of the 8 stallions were approved, passed the exam and can call themselves 'Reproductor Calificado'.

Here my spotaineous reflections I want to share to you, feel free to bounce back;
1. The test starts with composition examination, morfology. Functionality is the key to the development of a modern horse race, should we not start with the ridden test and then evaluate composition, morfology last. We can then see which horses are proven functional and pass exclusively the ones with the perfected composition.
2. How do we justify a high qualification grading for a important PRE breeding stallion by only having to perform a basic ridden test of circles?
3. It is still not obligatory to present the mares ridden, they can pass only from test 1. The functionality of the mare is equally important for the qualifying breeding status.
4. The costs, the grading actually sums up to some thousands of Euros and makes the TRC less accessible to all professional breeders.

Test 1 - Morfology - Examination of compostition and movements by hand



































































Test 2 - Functionality - Mare doing the the ridden test.

Aniara + Donoso = true

38 degrees and you can almost hear the heat...Trained Start in arena and took Donoso for a ride in the countryside with my mother braving the mirage. Here with some mares and their foals grazing, well, not much to graze these days but they were happy with the view!
Aniara, our black dressage SWB e. Bellini was finally ready today, she has not been in season for 1year so possibility for her pregnancy was very small so we are celebrating this today!
Donoso with spanish mares in the spanish wilderness :-)

Video Festivo MR - Part 2 training

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCT6bEElHfs

Olé olé España!

Yes! Final on sunday, even a non-football fan like me and my mum will enjoy that!
Today I had to go to hospital as I got a acute viral infection from the sudden change of weather, at 5 pm I swollowed some medicine that felt like it was frying my mouth but at 6 pm we are here so that seem to work!
Donoso & I

Start & Kerstin

Video Festivo MR in training - Part 1 warm up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MuMhpdvfJQ

Video Festivo MR

Yeguada VIKINGA PRE presents first video of Festivo MR!

Pessoa-training on lounge-line from last friday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AcsNm2kiok
More information of Festivo MR on his page here

Festivo's turn!

A young stallion like Festivo that has been using his hormones is unconciensously begging you to be his fair and consequent leader so we started with the leadership excercises in round pen today. He is a big baby, loves you instantly like a pupil likes his teacher that has good authority. I have been riding him with normal 3 part snaffle but he does not like it, I think he feels it is too small, like a thread in his mouth, so I tried a normal pelham today and he was very happy with this. Thanks he said, a little more to hold on to, he is a big guy and naturally he has a big mouth too... We did a good long work-out, a little shoulder in, half pass, counter canter and extended trot. Good boy! He doesn't know any of it but he is a very flexible and very willing guy. His canter is extremely balanced and both trot and canter are soft and suspended, mmm.. comfy! My achy body likes it until I have to step (jump rather) down and start walking around, uff, I think I have to stay up on the horses..
I forgot to say yesterday that the two new black sisters to Inma left together with a bay mare for Sweden yesterday, they are in Germany now a little tired they reported so they are resting them as much as necessary, very professional, thank you Freddy & Friederike! See Sportpferde Transport van-Hamond http://www.van-hamond.com/
I hope you will like these! Festivo MR

See Festivo's page here!

News!

Donoso breeding update
Today I got the happy news that two mares have confirmed their pregnancy with Donoso;
'Här kommer glada nyheter från Örebro!
Greta blev inseminerad 10/6 och Burlona 15/6 och båda är konstaterade dräktiga!
Jag var till Markebäck och kollade Burlona idag, vilken lycka!!
Vetr. Lotten Bäckgren ville att jag hälsade till dig att Donoso har extremt bra sperma-kvalité med mycket rörelse!'
Gossip news! We have a new secret client, a famous international dressage competition rider that wants a Iberian dressage star, to be continued...
This is Festivo MR from today's work-out. I had to take off Starts shoe as he stepped on it yesterday and Donut got a work out with the Pessoa, he swings up back, stretches head down and is in perfect balance in both sides, lovely.
Festivo MR