South African Boerperde
Anine Swart
We had the extreme good fortune to be able to visit one of
South-Africa's top SA Boerperd Studs last weekend.
Mr Hancke told us that his great grandfather realise that the SA
Boerperd needed more height, quality and substance to be recognised as
a sporthorse so he set out to breed just that.
He showed us his main herd sire, several purebred colts and fillies
and some crossbred youngstock too. The Hancke bloodline seems to be
heavily influenced by the horses the early spanish settlers brought
with them to Africa. The majority of the Hancke bloodline are grey
with the remaining animals being bay or brown. Most of them are over
16 hands high
The horses are raised in the veld and brought back to the stables when
they're about 3 years old or if they show particular promise. Most of
the animals we saw we were told are in 'pasture condition' ;)
I'd love to hear what you all think of the conformation, type and
quality.
some pictures at:
http://community.webshots.com/album/179029293eHnNnf
Anine
Sue Rogers
asw...@cids.org.za (Anine Swart) wrote:
> http://community.webshots.com/album/179029293eHnNnf
Initial impression is:
"Slim, athletic looking beasties with long legs and lovely heads."
Very nice.
Celia Clarke
Who are these horses registered with and where exactly are they/you.
I ask with some degree of interest as I will be visiting South Africa
between 20 September and 6 October as a guest grading judge for the South
African Sport Horse Federation so it might be possible that I will be seeing
them in the flesh :-)
I will also be giving a couple of lecture demos on sport horse type and
assessment, one in Joburg and one in Cape Town whilst I am there so
hopefully we might also meet face to face -- and perhaps your lovely
Friesian might bethere too <VBG>
I am also going to the Bundeschampionat in Warendorf with a lot of South
African warmblood and sport horse breeders later next week (I think my role
will be help them see through the hype and enable them to see the true
pluses and minuses of any horses thrust upon them as possible purchases by
their hosts :-)) so I'm in the middle of a fairly concentrated SA period at
the moment.
Celia
"Anine Swart" <asw...@cids.org.za> wrote in message
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Philippa Paul
> I'd love to hear what you all think of the conformation, type and
> quality.
> some pictures at:
> http://community.webshots.com/album/179029293eHnNnf
>
> Anine
Hiya,
Could you write under the pictures the age, sex and whether the horses
are in work or not?
thanks
Pip
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Philippa Paul
> Hiya,
>
> Could you write under the pictures the age, sex and whether the horses
> are in work or not?
Sorry ignore me. Viewing slide show mode, meant it kept
displaying "loading next image" rather than you comments.
Anine Swart
The horses are all registered with the South African SA Boerperd Breeders
Society. They're all SA Boerperd horses. (the purebred ones anyway, I dont
know if the studbook accepts crossbreeds). The owner of the studfarm is
Manie Hancke and his horses are registered with the prefix Carel Hancke
<insert horses's name>.
The studfarm is close to Bethal in Mpumalanga in SA. That would be about
3hrs drive from joburg.
send me the details on your demos! I'd love to come watch. Draco is stabled
in pretoria and I probably wont be taking him to any demos.
The annual SA friesian keuring is coming up too though.. major stress!
Anine
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Anine Swart
if you want any specific details on any of the horses I'll share what I know
:)
Anine
"Philippa Paul" <winge...@fly-by-night.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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Corey Kaye
<snip>
> I'd love to hear what you all think of the conformation, type and
> quality.
> some pictures at:
> http://community.webshots.com/album/179029293eHnNnf
Wow.
Could you please package up that bay filly and send her to me? ;)
How much to these horses sell for, in US$?
Corey
Celia Clarke
>
> The horses are all registered with the South African SA Boerperd Breeders
> Society. They're all SA Boerperd horses. (the purebred ones anyway, I dont
> know if the studbook accepts crossbreeds). The owner of the studfarm is
> Manie Hancke and his horses are registered with the prefix Carel Hancke
> <insert horses's name>.
Yes it was actually the part-breds I was wondering about a I know the
pure-breds have a protected stud book
> The studfarm is close to Bethal in Mpumalanga in SA. That would be about
> 3hrs drive from joburg.
I don't usually know where I am going exactly until I arrive but I'll look
out for signs to there :-)
>
> send me the details on your demos! I'd love to come watch. Draco is
stabled
> in pretoria and I probably wont be taking him to any demos.
The Joburg one will be taking place on the evening of Friday 25(?) September
at the Spanish School display hal on the showgroundl in Kylami and I think
that amongst the horses appearing will be Swanbourne Lake, Ubergabe,
Southern Cross and hopefully Lindenburg, Winter Satrand a couple of ponies
so it should be quite an interstng evening.
I don't know the date, location or horses involved in the Cape Town one yet,
but both will set out to answer the questions 'What makes a show jumper a
showjumper?', 'What makes a dressage horse a dressage horse?', What makes an
eventer an eventer?' and 'Is there such a thing as an all-rounder?'
Lesley Delaney is organising it and there should be adverts in the
equestrian press telling you where to get tickets and how much they cost.
Celia
Cindi
> I'd love to hear what you all think of the conformation, type and
> quality.
> some pictures at:
> http://community.webshots.com/album/179029293eHnNnf
I find them initially very pleasing to look at. :-) They all strike me
as being pretty upright and short in the pastern, nice short strong
canon bones, long forearms, necks set on well, thicker throatlatches
than I'd expect given the rest of their bodies, good length of croup,
good shoulder and hip angles, good hock sets, and for the most part,
nice big feet. Their heads and muzzles could be finer and prettier,
but personally I don't mind their look. I am no expert on conformation
and am trying to learn to have a better eye!
Thanks for posting the pics!
cindi