German Young Breeders representing the Holsteiner society became the grand winners of the 2015 World Breeding Federation For Sport Horses (WBSFH) International Young Breeders (IYB) Championships held at Hartpury College on 8 - 9 August 2015.
The championships are for teams from member studbooks of the WBFSH. There are two sections; Junior (16-19 years) and Senior (20-25 years). Each team member and individual is assessed in each of four sections; breeding theory, loose jumping and paces, conformation and in-hand presentation.
The Holsteiner team was unbeatable winning the junior team competition with 1021.2 points and the senior team competition with 1067.5 points to total 2088.7. The German Hanoverian society finished second with 2053.8 points, followed by the German Brandenburg society with 2045.6 points.
The top six was entirely covered by German breed societies. The Austrian warmblood society followed in place 7 with 2001.5 points, followed by Selle Francais and Danish Warmblood society. One of the biggest studbooks in the world, the Dutch KWPN society, did not send a team. Britain's AES studbook finished last with only a junior team present in Hartpury.
The home British teams represented four studbooks; British Hanoverian Horse Society (BHHS) Warmblood Breeders UK (WBS UK) Sport Horse Breeding of Great Britain (SHB-GB) and the Anglo-European Studbook (AES). The WBS UK team was the best of the British in the senior division taking 11th place. This very experienced team took first place overall for turnout. Team members, Rebecca White and Emily Abbott both gained 100% in the theory section. Camille Best took 6th place in the senior conformation assessment and Rebecca went on to take joint second place in the loose jumping section and 12th in presentation.
Camille said, “I am thrilled with how well we did. The team score was brilliant and I am delighted to be 15th in the World. I have worked at both Twemlows and Woodlander stud which has given me some really good experience. I am hoping to further my experience over the next two years for the 2017 World Breeding Championships which will be held in Canada”.
Celia Clarke, the organiser of British Young Breeders (BYB), commented; “We had some very experienced team members at Hartpury, several of whom have competed in World Championships before. This experience really showed with some fantastically consistent results being recorded. We have some very talented and enthusiastic juniors coming up through the ranks who are learning all the time and are being helped enormously by the team of enthusiastic breeding trainers, including Lynne Crowden and Eva Maria Broomer that the British Young Breeders are so lucky have”.
Lynne Crowden, who bred the double World Young Dressage Horse champion Woodlander Farouche, said, “We are delighted with the success of the World Breeding Championships at Hartpury. We were determined to put on the best possible Championships at an amazing venue and so many people ensured that this happened. We are very grateful for all those that lent us horses for the Championship. We needed 30 horses for 70 competitors to run with each day, they all need to be horses that are straightforward and good to handle. Opinion was very positive on the horses we had”.
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