Trakehners Hit the Eventing Headlines
Our decision to introduce trakehner bloodlines into our breeding programme received an unexpected boost this week with the arrival of our copy of December's Eventing magazine. Trakehner horses hit the headlines at both ends of the spectrum with Darren Chiacchia and the trakehner stallion 'Windfall' winning the individual Gold Medal at the Pan American Games, and trakehner youngsters taking both the 5 and 6 year old Breeding Championships at Tweseldown.

Our homebred mare 'Future Illicit Affair' is in foal to 'Fleetwater Opposition' (sire of 'Opposition Heracles', winner of the 5yr old Championship), and both 'Holme Grove Genevieve', and the stallion she is in foal to ('Holme Grove Prokofiev') are trakehners.

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Holme Grove Genevieve joins Future Sport Horses
We are delighted to announce that Holme Trakehners, best known for their fantastic trakehner dressage horse breeding programme, have agreed to lease Holme Grove Genevieve to us, in foal to their outstanding stallion Holme Grove Prokofiev. HG Genevieve was the highest graded mare at the Trakehner Breeders Fraternity Show in 1993, and is already the dam of a number of exciting youngsters including a TBF graded mare, and two youngsters exported to the USA and competing successfully in dressage.

HG Prokofiev is 100 day performance tested, scoring 10/10 for stamina and jumping and is currently competing at Advanced Medium level dressage with Julia Wetton. He competed at the Summer Regional Finals this year, and has already qualified for the 2003 Winter Regional Finals where he will be ridden by Peter Storr. He is 5/8ths thoroughbred as well as carrying some of the best continental dressage and showjumping bloodlines. We are extremely excited about what this breeding will bring to our programme, both next year and in the longer term, especially with the increasing change to short-format FEI competitions.

Future Eclipse produces another double clear and lands a place at Gatcombe Park British Novice Championships !
Future Eclipse has yet again produced another stunning double clear in what was a challenging British Novice Championship. Although this was the Novice Championships, each Championship is run at a level above the qualifying level - therefore the Novice Championships are the equivalent of a 'serious' Intermediate competition. Add to that the crowds and the buzz of a major event and you have the makings of a highly charged competition. However, Future Eclipse was fazed neither by the crowds nor the size and technicality of the tracks that Capt. Mark Phillips is well known for, and produced one of only 18 double clears from 70 starters. She produced a 33.0 dressage test which left her in the top 25% overnight. Future Eclipse then delivered a foot perfect showjumping round in a daunting environment which left her in 8th position going into the final phase. Over the biggest track she has seen to date, she produced a flowing and confident cross country round which attracted only 11.2 time penalties. Even with these additional penalties she posted an extremely respectable 15th place in a competition which had seen may good combinations have problems.

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Future Eclipse wins Novice Area Final at Buckminster !
Future Eclipse has repeated her win last weekend by taking the Novice Area Final at Buckminster on Sunday 6th July. Future Eclipse has now qualified for the Novice Championships at Gatcombe next month, as well as being qualified for the Intermediate Championships next year. The showjumping proved a decisive factor in the outcome of the event, and many good combinations came away with faults, however another stunning clear round after a good dressage, left Future Eclipse amongst the leaders. A perfectly judged cross country by Tiny ensured that no further penalties were added and Future Eclipse finished on her dressage score, enabling her to take the section. Tiny also won the Doresa Challenge Shield for the highest placed local rider - Well done Tiny!

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Future Eclipse features in the Horse & Hound TopSpec advert 17/07/03 !

Future Eclipse wins Aske Hall Intermediate Section !
Future Eclipse recorded her first win at Intermediate level at Aske Hall on Saturday 28th June. Lying 2nd after dressage, she completed a foot perfect show jumping round to put her into first place before cross country. The time proved difficult to get, and with no horses completing inside the time, Future Eclipse's 7.2 time penalties did not affect the final result. She completed the event over 8 penalties clear of her nearest rival. Well done Tiny! This result qualifies Future Eclipse for the Intermediate Championships at Gatcombe in 2004.

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Dam of Lexington CCI**** winner 'Winsome Adante' joins Future Sport Horses
Future Sport Horses is delighted to announce the purchase of 'Juswith Genoa' from Chris & Janet Gooch who bred the very successful event horse 'Winsome Adante'.

We are very lucky to be able to call on Marian Vaughan who bred 'Juswith Genoa', and was instrumental in the selection of 'Saunter' as the sire of 'Winsome Adante' to help us select a suitable sire to repeat the feat! Fingers crossed we can produce another!