A Note About This Blog

I used to be a writer. Unpublished, but a writer just the same. I have several 100,000 word novels sitting on my hard drive. Then I fell off a horse and got a concussion that scrambled my brains really good (yes, I was wearing a helmet.) After that forming a written sentence was very difficult for quite some time. It's still difficult, but at least now generally the sentence structure isn't egregiously flawed. Verbally and written wrong words pop in, I switch words around, and sometimes I make no sense at all. It isn't because I don't have knowledge of grammar and punctuation, but my brain simply can't do it sometimes. Reading this blog you're accepting that there's going to be things that look like typos or make no sense. It's not because I don't proofread, it's because my damaged brain doesn't see what's wrong. I try my best, but things will slip through. I don't need them pointed out, I know they're there, but if I continued to worry about them I wouldn't write at all. I didn't for quite some time. It's painful as a past master of words to use them so badly, but fortunately the words don't seem to mind.

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Holsteiners

Side affect of hanging out with someone who is into Holsteiners: you learn about them. I spent an afternoon many weeks ago learning the basics with the Taskmaster.

Bean's sire is Le Santo, who is by Landgraf:
Landraf video

Landgraf is a big name and he's by Ladykiller, another of the big influential stallions.

Bean's dam, Catrin, was by Caletto 2. He was the father of Ludger Beerbaum's 1992 Olympic Gold Medal mount Jewel's Classic Touch. So, Bean's aunt was an Olympian.

Caletto 2 is by Cor de la Bryere. From what I can tell, there isn't a horse bigger than Cor de la Bryere in Holsteiner breeding.
Cor de la Bryere video
Condi is by Condino who is also by Cor de La Bryere.


Looking at Bean and Condi I have to say I'm impressed by well bred Holsteiners. Condi looks awesome for 28 and if he didn't have saddle anxiety he'd still be being ridden/competed. Bean started her competitive career at 21. They're both really excellent horses.
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