Friesian Horse Inspection Schlüchtern 2019
Unlike last year, this time I planned my visit at the Friesian Horse Inspection in Schlüchtern months before.
I was the official photographer this year, so I had a little bit more preparations to do this year.
We started the day with Ibop tests, which are basically friesian-specific riding tests. This time, we only had dressage entries, but driving tests are often just as popular as dressage.
Like most riding arenas, this one had almost no windows. Schlüchtern is located in a valley, and at this time of the year the sun rises quite late. There was no light during the first two tests, but it got better after an hour. The fact that friesians are always black didn't help the lighting problem in the morning.
The award ceremonies then took place outside.
After the ceremonies we continued with the actual inspections. The individual horses are inspected seperately and then may be integreted into the different studbooks. The foals might be entered into the foal books, the older mares can be entered into the registry, and if they're really good they might be entered as Ster-mares. About 30% of every year become Ster-mares. If a Ster-mare extraordinarily meets the breeding goal, she becomes Kroon. A Ster- and a Kroon-mare can do a performance test at at least 3 years old and if she gets a certain score, she can become a Model-mare.
Starting with this years' colts...
We continued with the fillys...
This filly got to be the foal champion in the end. Surprisingly, her owner already knew some of my photos that I took of a friend's horse. It turned out that she bought her horse from him!
Next were yearlings and under 3 years old and under mares. Yearlings usually have a very ugly conformation and are almost impossible to photograph. One of the two year old mares won this category
After lunch break, we continued with 4 years and older mares and later on geldings. This is the category that most of the horses here are in.
At the end of the day, a Champion and a Reserve Champion mare were selected out of the 4 years and over category. The Champion mare additionally became tentatively Kroon until she does her peformance test.
I was the official photographer this year, so I had a little bit more preparations to do this year.
We started the day with Ibop tests, which are basically friesian-specific riding tests. This time, we only had dressage entries, but driving tests are often just as popular as dressage.
Like most riding arenas, this one had almost no windows. Schlüchtern is located in a valley, and at this time of the year the sun rises quite late. There was no light during the first two tests, but it got better after an hour. The fact that friesians are always black didn't help the lighting problem in the morning.
After the ceremonies we continued with the actual inspections. The individual horses are inspected seperately and then may be integreted into the different studbooks. The foals might be entered into the foal books, the older mares can be entered into the registry, and if they're really good they might be entered as Ster-mares. About 30% of every year become Ster-mares. If a Ster-mare extraordinarily meets the breeding goal, she becomes Kroon. A Ster- and a Kroon-mare can do a performance test at at least 3 years old and if she gets a certain score, she can become a Model-mare.
Starting with this years' colts...
We continued with the fillys...
This filly got to be the foal champion in the end. Surprisingly, her owner already knew some of my photos that I took of a friend's horse. It turned out that she bought her horse from him!
Next were yearlings and under 3 years old and under mares. Yearlings usually have a very ugly conformation and are almost impossible to photograph. One of the two year old mares won this category
After lunch break, we continued with 4 years and older mares and later on geldings. This is the category that most of the horses here are in.
At the end of the day, a Champion and a Reserve Champion mare were selected out of the 4 years and over category. The Champion mare additionally became tentatively Kroon until she does her peformance test.
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