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Visit the American Warmblood Registry Visit the NorthAmerican Sportpony Registry Welcome to Warmblood News Home Warmblood News is the place to find out what’s happening in the world of the American Warmblood and the NorthAmerican Sportpony. Check back frequently for updates on recent happenings including inspection results, the foal Features & Braggin' Rights futurity, awards, and our members’ successes throughout the world. Awards New Membership Benefit! Members may now take advantage of free online classified advertising on this website! Newsletter Submit your classified ad of 50 words or less (and a 150h x 150 w pixel picture if you Archives wish) to [email protected]. Ads will be posted for free for three months after which regular classified ad rates apply. Horses and ponies must be AWR or Advertising NASPR registered. Member Services Classifieds The AWR and NASPR welcome the following 2010 sponsors: d The AWR and NASPR welcome the following 2010 sponsors: Featured AWR Stallions of 2010 Featured NASPR Stallions of 2010 Please visit our valued sponsors! and a most sincere to our 2009 sponsors! for providing gift bags featuring Farnam products to our 2009 NASPR Junior Awards Winners! for their 2009 calendar sponsorship! Learn to take awesome photos online! • Flexible schedule • Fun & creative • Take great photos www.learntotakephotos.com for providing Whinny Warmers to our 2009 AWR Awards Winners! We appreciate our sponsors’ support of programs for our members. Please visit these vital sponsors at www.whinnywarmers.com www farnamhorse com www.whinnywarmers.com www.farnamhorse.com www.printingcenterusa.com Congratulations to our 2009 Foal Futurity and Awards Program winners! AWR NASPR Click on the stars above to see the results of the 2009 AWR & NASPR Foal Futurity and the 2009 AWR & NASPR Awards Programs winners. The AWR & NASPR are now offering Sporthorse and Sportpony Clinics The AWR & NASPR are now offering Sporthorse and Sportpony Clinics across North America to help handlers prepare themselves and their horses or ponies for evaluation. If you are interested in attending or hosting a clinic contact the office at 406-734-5499 or e-mail us at [email protected]. <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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Box 197 Carter, MT 59420 E-mail us at [email protected] Phone: 406-734-5499 • Fax 775-667-0516 Visit the American Warmblood Registry Visit the NorthAmerican Sportpony Registry Home Features & Braggin' Rights Awards Newsletter Archives Advertising Member Services From the Salt Block Gazette, December 2009, Vol, 6, Issue 9 Sport ponies have come increasingly popular in the U.S. and Canada, as more small adults recognize the potential Classifieds for the diminutive mounts in a variety of disciplines. Some ponies have even proven successful at high levels, including the Olympic Games. From dressage to driving, eventing and jumping, the sportpony is catching on. In direct response to the surge in popularity of these ponies, the NorthAmerican Sportpony Registry (NASPR) was founded in 1997 to create a distinctly North American sportpony out of the many pony breeds and their crosses The yp g g, gjpg,ppy g In direct response to the surge in popularity of these ponies, the NorthAmerican Sportpony Registry (NASPR) was founded in 1997 to create a distinctly North American sportpony out of the many pony breeds and their crosses. The Featured AWR NASPR provided structure and established standards and procedures for improving this sportpony breed. Since the Stallions of 2010 registry’s inception, the number of quality ponies in North American has skyrocketed, and the NASPR assists breeders with documentation, grading, and promotion. Featured NASPR Stallions of 2010 Standards Accord to the NASPR, North American sportponies do not represent distinct breeds, but rather a new type of sportpony breed. The goal is to produce a well-balanced, Please visit our athletic pony with round, groundcovering strides and natural, elastic movements. Breeders seek to produce a valued sponsors! bold pony of even, willing temperament that is physically and mentally able to perform with excellence at all levels of the modern sportpony disciplines. A NorthAmerican sport pony is a pony in the general range of 13.2-14.2 hands that looks and moves like a small horse, capable of competing in the Olympic disciplines of jumping, dressage, and eventing, as well as in driving and hunter divisions. It is not the traditional Thelwell cartoon-type of pony, but rather is much more athletic and horse-like in appearance and ability. Sportponies are comprised of most pony breeds as well as Thoroughbred bloodlines, however ponies with draft blood are excluded. The sportpony is an easy keeper, good natured, ready and willing, courageous and intelligent. All colors are accepted and conformation is marked by a small, regal head with kind eyes and small ears. The neck is long, wide and well set with narrowing towards the poll with good room in the throatlatch. The ideal sportpony body should be refined, but athletic, and slender through the girth, with a longer croup that slopes slightly and tail set at medium height. The limbs are correctly aligned with dry, flat knees and dense medium-sized hooves. Movement is paramount to the quality NorthAmerican sportpony, and that movement should have great suspension, articulation, impulsion and extension. A large stride with correct cadence is ideal. In Learn to take awesome the hunter division, it does strive for the traditional photos online! “daisy-cutter”, flat-kneed movement that is so popular in • Flexible schedule the hunter ring today and is not excluded as a factor within the NorthAmerican Sportpony Registry. • Fun & creative Therefore, the “hunter-type” pony, especially one which • Take great photos excels in jumping and has the correct conformation, www.learntotakephotos.com “look”, and cadence can be considered a NorthAmerican Sportpony. All ponies accepted into the registry must undergo an inspection and be DNA-typed. It is in this way that pedigrees can be documented from this point forward, even with breeding stock that is currently of unknown parentage. Stallions accepted into the registry undergo additional performance and progeny requirements gy parentage. Stallions accepted into the registry undergo additional performance and progeny requirements Promotion Throughout the year, the NorthAmerican Sportpony Registry organizes inspections throughout the United States and Canada. The ponies are graded on temperament, conformation, gaits and athletic ability to perform as sport ponies. The NASPR actively supports its members by sponsorship of many events including the Sportpony Star Search Challenge Cup held at the Royal Winter Fair Horse Show in Toronto, Canada, Young Breeder’s Seminars, and awards programs for competitors including the only registry-sponsored Hunter Awards program for sportponies worldwide. For more information visit the NorthAmerican Sportpony Registry at www.northamericansportponies.com. Braggin’ Rights From Ellie Rawle of Oxford, PA: Avebury placed 3rd at the February Paradise As You Wish was 7th at the February Sporting Farm Horse Trials in Open Beginner Novice. Days Farm Horse Trials in Open Novice. From Jessica McKnew of Maryland: “Dear NorthAmerican Sportpony Registry, I would like to thank you for the Award, Gift Bag and Jacket. I have been riding since I was 3 1/2 years old. With my parents help I purchased my new NorthAmerican Sportpony, Double Copper Twist LG in April of 2008 She is the most wonderful pony In 2009 we purchased my new NorthAmerican Sportpony, Double Copper Twist LG, in April of 2008. She is the most wonderful pony. In 2009 we competed all over and did great. She is such a fantastic pony. I have never won anything like this before. It was so exciting to get an Award and Gifts for something I love to do. Copper just had her baby so in a few months we will be able to start completing again. Thank you so much for everything!” Double Copper Twist LG and her foal Picasso News from Europe Germany has decided to ban all branding of horses, effective immediately. Germany was the only country still branding horses whereas all other nations had abandoned this practice years ago. The only 2 registries that agreed with this were the Hanoverians and the Neustadt-Dosse (an East German organization). Focus on Our Breeders Fox Run Farm Lynn Reed Lynn Reed was raised in Garrison, New York and rode as a junior through the pony hunter ranks to junior hunter in the Medal & Maclay Divisions. She trained as a junior with Bob Freels, Tina Stephenson, Anthony D’ambrosio and Leslie Burr Howard. As an amateur she rode several horses to national championship titles riding with Gary Zook, Frank Madden, Jimmy Toon, and Don Stewart. As the ability to find nice horses at reasonable prices became more and more difficult Lynn went to Europe and bought Shamrock, Spellbound’s father, to train, show and start her own hunter breeding program. Spellbound is the result of careful breeding and old time practical horse knowledge learned from keeping her own horses at home and learning to train from the ground up. Lynn’s whole business concept is to breed hunters in the United States mixing European jumping lines with the refinement and elegance of the American Thoroughbred resulting in a premier show horse that you don’t have to go to Europe to find.