Trakehner
Breeding News
Happy Hour Representing the Trakehner Breed in the
U.S.A.
The importance of the Trakehner horse for modern sport
horse breeding seems to get more recognition in the
United States day after day. Renee Delisle-Howes is
one of the many enthusiastic Trakehner breeders on the
American continent who saw benefit in buying, importing
and breeding Trakehner horses. With her stallion Happy
Hour, Delisle-Howes hopes to make an impact on the American
sport horse breeding market.
Happy
Hour is the first approved son of the German Trakehner
stallion, Induc, who was the '94 German Bundeschampion
(with scores of 10s for rideability, trainability and
movement) and was sold to the U.S. in the fall of '98
to Renee DeLisle-Howes of Hawk's Run Trakehners, located
in Maryland.
Owner DeLisle was extrememy impressed by the dark bay
stallion's foundation bloodlines. "Happy Hour possesses
impeccable Trakehner bloodlines on both sides, tracing
back to the original Main Stud Trakehnen. He has an
absolutely wonderful, kind & willing temperament and
like his predecessors, is very rideable and trainable,"
she said.
"Since the time of Happy Hour's importation to
the U.S., he earned his preliminary stallion approval
with the American Trakehner Association (ATA) with scores
of 8's and 9's, and recently earned his permanent stallion
approval by completing the required stallion performance
testing as prescribed by the ATA," Renee proudly
said. In addition, in October 2000, Happy Hour earned
"elite" stallion approval from the American Warmblood
Society (AWS) with scores ranging from 8.5 to 10+.
Happy
Hour is just 5 years old and is currently being ridden
and competed by Carole Lawrence of Willow Lake Farm
in Mt. Airy, Maryland. "Carole studied with Nicole
Uphoff for four years in Germany and continues to work
with Nicole at her farm in Maryland on a routine basis,"
DeLisle-Howes commented."We very anxiously await
Happy Hour's first foal crop in 2001, and look forward
in continuing the wonderful tradition of this lineage
to produce outstanding performance sport horses with
wonderful temperaments," says the enthusiastic
owner
Images copyrighted: Terri
Miller
Happy Hour's Website at American Trakehner
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