Getting TB mares approved - share experiences?

[mortebella]

Hi,

I am curious if anyone has TB mares they are using in a breeding program and if they have gotten them approved in a main mare book and whatever you'd care to share - pictures :), scores, were you dead cert she'd be approved, holding your breath, etc? Just how much drama, PITA, is involved? :lol:

Thanks much!

[TKR]

I have enjoyed all positive experiences with my Thoroughbred mares and their produce at GOV inspections and ATA. My mares presented to the GOV were both approved to the Main Studbook/Marebook and all their foals have been "Premium" when some pure wb foals were not. No, I was not surprised. I know a good mare and have been breeding long enough to be objective. My mare presented to the ATA scored very high -- many pure Tk's don't score that well. I enjoyed the experiences in every venue, met very nice and interesting people and learned alot.
PennyG

[Samotis]

I have a TB mare that I got approved in 2008. She ended up being high score mare and tied for top score in the country that year for Old NA.

I was a little shocked. Only because she is so petite and I showed her in the hunters.

I knew she had good conformation, but I thought she would get marked down for her lack of bone and flat movement. Well, she didn't. They loved her. The judge wanted her!

Go for it. It is all ones man opinion. It is nice to have feedback.

I didn't think it was a pain. All I had to do was braid her and walk and trot her in a few triangles!

I don't have any show pics of her on my computer, but here she was after we weaned the baby. She wasn't in work, so she does lack a little muscle, but you can see her type. She is 8 years old in this picture. She is 15.3 and when she showed she wore a 00 shoe!

[DownYonder]

We almost always have a TB mare or two each year at our Oldenburg (GOV) inspection. Some of them do quite well. Penny (TKR), for one, always has very nice TB mares. We do occasionally have a few older ones with some conformation or soundness issues that affect their scores, and these may not score well enough to be placed in MMB, but their foals still receive full papers.

[mortebella]

Lovely mare, Samotis! Thanks for sharing, everyone!

[nsm]

I have had very positive experiences with getting my TB mares approved, all have made main mare books or gone Premium. I have presented them to BWP, RPSI and ISR Oldenburg. Below are pictures of Miz Yenko, my main broodmare.

Nancy

[tuckawayfarm]

I have one TB broodmare and she is in the AHS Main Studbook.

I was a little surprised that she was so well received only because I had been told they were looking for mares who resembled WBs and she is very refined. Fortunately a fellow CoTHer encouraged me to take her to a local inspection.
The only prep involved was pre-registration, a bath, and braiding. No PITA factor at all and a great learning experience :)

I have reached a whole new level of owner blindness with her new As Di Villagana colt! :D

[JenRose]

I had a wonderful experience with Old NA/ISR.

I was lucky enough to "adopt" a TB mare from the COTH giveaway forum earlier this year. Hopeforroyalty is a 17 year old broodie who had fallen onto bad times and was rescued by COTH BB member City Ponies.

I am a hunter rider and have never owned a broodmare or taken a horse for inspection.

I originally picked Old NA because I live in the middle of nowhere and they had an inspection a little over 1 hour away. Everyone I talked to with the registry and the inspection site were FABULOUS! They put up with my gazillion questions and were very welcoming.

Hope is booked to Cunningham for 2010 and I wanted to go ahead and get her approved (hopefully) this year. I had no idea how she would do. She is older, not really "fit" and moves like a hunter.

The inspector loved her. He was also complimentary of her condition being an older mare. She scored a 101 and was entered into the Main Mare Book. I could not have been more proud of my old rescue girl! :cool:

Hope at the approval in September:
http://pets.webshots.com/photo/2107734710101086842zxlriY?vhost=pets

Video...if you crank up the volume at the end you can hear the inspector's comments:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wH6nMCWVaw

[JazCreekInc.]

We got a freebie named "Brae's Spice" who wound up to be very well bred (Native Host x In Zeal) and was 3rd overall at the AHHA inspection in Half Moon Bay. She went with a foal by Crown Affair by her side who was a premium foal and she was MMP with 46 bonits. I really had NO ideal what I was getting in to and was thrilled as she is a wonderful mare but has broken withers, creating a very "strange" topline.

They loved her "feminine" look, kind eye, and overall type. It was very cool because she is a 17 y/o "flawed" mare who beat out almost all the 2-5 y/o AHHA mares.

I can't figure out how to add a pic but if anyone can tell me how do I will :)

[AllyB]

We have one TB broodmare that is in the AHS Main Studbook. Ignorance was bliss describes my trip with her through the inspection. I had never even seen any in-hand presentation (except QH halter classes) and I had only the AHS office suggestions with which to work with. I just did my thing with her in the dressage training that I had been schooled in and lunged her over some make shift jumps. I thought she was a pretty mover and rideable but didn't know about the breeding end.

She won her inspection and the performance test, having never been through a jump chute before! Boy, was I surprised! She scored a 9 for her walk in hand and was also top twenty mares for the year. She has produced both hunter/jumper and dressage offspring.

What a good girl!

[genevieveg17]

I have had very good luck presenting thoroughbred mares for inspection. I mainly use Old/NA and RPSI.
One of my mares, Santiago Rojo, scored a 107 at her Old/NA inspection.

[allanglos]

I have a 16.2H TB mare that is approved Selle Francais. She got nice remarks and scores, and the judges were definately not giving them away. I was very pleased she made it in. She has had two foals by the SF (Anglo Arabian) stallion, Baladin d'Oc.

I also have an Arabian mare that is approved Trakehner. She is a tank of a mare, so I thought she would be approved. She looks like a WB, but only instead at 15.2H.

Neither mare had foals at side, but the TB mare was in foal at the time.

The dark one is the TB. The chestnut the Arabian (I am breeding her to Jones Hall this spring).

[Dressage_Diva333]

I had one of my TB mares approved MMB of OLD/NA last September. I had planned to take my other TB, and had kept her more in 'Inspection Condition", but she came up with an abcess the week before. I took my other one who had very little muscle, and was too skinny (I had her boarded at the time). She is sound-ish (fine to trot a triangle, not a racing related injury, she didn't race). She could have scored higher had she been in better condition, and I may end up having her rescored, but she did make it in.

I intend to present both her and my other TB to GOV next summer, we'll see how it goes.

[spacely]

I have 2 approved TB mares. One (http://inlinethumb40.webshots.com/29863/2654850740055789344S600x600Q85.jpg) was Premium with the RPSI in 2007. Her score was completely unexpected but a nice surprise. She's not a big, fancy mare but she can move & is correct & powerful. The other (http://inlinethumb46.webshots.com/42477/2609434090055789344S600x600Q85.jpg) is MMB Old NA. She has a racing related injury so doesn't move as well as she would if she were sound & her scores reflected that but was still high scoring mare of the day at that inspection. I have one TB mare I am contemplating presenting to the AHS next year, but we'll see how brave I am feeling about it.