HSI BREEDERISSUE 4 WINTER/SPRING 2012 HORSE SPORT IRELAND’S MAGAZINE FOR BREEDERS Irish-bred Loughview Lou-Lou wins Olympia Grand Prix INSIDE  Breeder features: Loughview Lou-Lou & Lenamore  Guide to CapallOir online database  Disadvantaged Areas Scheme  HSI Code of Practice  Mare Inspections 2011 results  Features, events, reports & sire tables PICTURE: Kit Houghton www.horsesportireland.ie HSI — PROVIDING INFORMATION TO HELP BREEDERS MAKE DECISIONS News HSI’s Breeding Sub-Board. Seated, from left: Michael Grace, Anne Bannon, Paddy Joe Foy, Chairman Jim Beecher, HSI Chairman Joe Walsh, John Jude Doyle and Tommy Brennan. Standing: Paul Duffy, Kieran O’Gorman, Sean Kavanagh, Pat McCarthy, Helen Kelly, Neil Henry, Joanne Jardin and Andy O’Donoghue. Horse premises must be registered by 1st May Includes studs, shows, sales, vets. ensure that the Department has a full partment s regional ofoces or from the The Minister for Agriculture, Food and picture of where horses are located, so Department’s Animal Health Division the Marine, Simon Coveney, TD, has that it can alert owners quickly in the by calling 01-6072466 or from the De- signed into law, a new order to require event of a contagious disease outbreak, partment’s website: www.agriculture. anyone who is the owner/person in quickly implement disease control gov.ie/animalhealthwelfare/animalwel- charge of any premises in which hors- measures and give advice on appropri- fare/registrationofpremisesanimals/ es or other equines (such as donkeys, ate precautionary, containment and registrationofhorsepremises/ ponies, etc.) are kept, to register their control measures as soon as possible. From 1st May 2012, it will be premises with the Department. Registration is through local Depart- against the law to keep a horse (or The Minister explained that the ment regional ofoces. Application other equine) on a premises that is purpose of registration is simply to forms may be obtained from the De- not registered with the Department. Registration discount for yearling, Renew your membership 2yo, 3yo or older horses Shareholders of the Irish Horse Board Co-operative From Monday 5th March to 30th  Adding pedigree to an existing pass- are reminded that, to avail of the following, you April 2012 – don’t miss out! port (fee includes DNA, naming and must pay your annual membership renewal fee of Do you own a yearling, 2yo, 3yo or older updating of passport). Shareholder, €25. Cheques should be made payable to the Irish horse that is unregistered or registered €50; non-shareholder, €80. Horse Board. Payment entitles you to: without recorded pedigree? If so, don’t  Substantial discounts on foal and horse miss out on our registration discount. Covering certs registrations  Registration of an animal with no  Note: Covering certs are required in  Free access to CapallOir (subject to usage limit) existing passport (fee includes DNA, all cases where a sire is being recorded  Inclusion on the mailing list for publications naming and passport). Shareholder, on a passport and all animals must be  €50 registration discount from FBD insurance €85; non-shareholder, €115. microchipped.  Entitlement to vote in IHB elections HSI has introduced a new phone system to improve customer service. For all registration queries contact the Registrations Unit on 045-850800 or email [email protected] 2 | HSI BREEDER | WINTER/SPRING 2012 ɵ BREEDER FEATURE ,OUGHVIEW,OU ,OUSlVE star performance HSI Breeder magazine spoke with elcome to the latest edition Judith Sossick, owner and breeder of of HSI Breeder Magazine. Loughview Lou-Lou (ISH) ......................................4 W 2011 ended with a bang, when Dermott Lennon and the Irish-bred ɵ CAPALLOIR Loughview Lou-Lou, owned and bred by Judith Sossick, won the Grand Prix at Track progeny and Olympia. This edition of the magazine performance online features an interview with Judith Sossick, A step-by-step guide ............................................10 which I think most breeders will o nd very interesting. The magazine also contains a feature on Ted and Helen Walsh, breeders of the ɵ MARE INSPECTIONS gelding Lenamore (ISH) by Sea Crest (ID C1) who has achieved so much in his long ca- Results for 2011 reer. He is an outstanding example of what Comprehensive results from the makes the Irish horse – ability, courage and 2011 inspections .................................................16 durability. Following recent elections we have three new members on the HSI Breeding Sub- Board: Anne Bannon, Wicklow, Sean Kava- nagh, Leitrim and Kieran O’Gorman, Cork. Many people in our industry have strong CONTENTS views on breeding but it takes courage to put your name on a ballot paper and face the News round-up................................................................................................................………......................2 judgement of your peers. I want to wish the Breeder feature: Judith Sossick and Loughview Lou-Lou (ISH)….........................................…...........4 new members well, along with chairman Why we need to breed event horses….....................................................................……………..........6 Jim Beecher and new vice-chairman Paddy The Market..................................................................................................................…………............8 Joe Foy. Disadvantaged Areas Scheme...........................................................................………………...........10 The magazine is packed full of infor- CapallOir step-by-step guide...........................................................................…………………..........10 mation to help you make your breeding IDHS (GB) Mare Inspections report...............................................................................……….......................11 decisions in 2012. It is our role to provide in- Breeder feature: Helen & Ted Walsh and Lenamore (ISH)...........................................………............12 formation but yours to make the decisions. HSI Code of Practice..............................................................................……………………….............14 While breeding will always be a gamble, Mare Inspections 2011 results…......................................................................................……............16 you can substantially improve your odds ISH Studbook Showjumping Series Sires 2011................................……………………………...........21 by studying all the information available FEI World Breeding Championships for Young Horses 2011........................................………...........22 before you make your decision. In this 5* & 4* Stallions…………….................................................................................................................24 regard, Horse Sport Ireland’s new online HSI/ISA National Showing Championship Series 2011 results……….............................................................26 database, CapallOir, is hugely signio cant. I Young Breeders Programme..............................................................................................…………...27 would advise any breeder to use this tool to Breeding highlights..........................................................................................…………………………28 help in your decision-making process. The British Eventing Sires...........................................................................................………………………29 days when breeders have to rely on hearsay WBFSH World Stallion Rankings...............................................................................................………30 and glossy brochures are gone – the facts are Regional breeder meetings...............................................................................................…………….31 now at your o ngertips. EDITOR | Ilona Blunden HORSE SPORT IRELAND Editorial Committee | Damian McDonald, Alison Corbally, Ilona Blunden, Laura Skelton, Michael Doherty, Andreina Doyle 1st Floor Beech House, Millennium Park, PHOTOGRAPHY | Horse Sport Ireland Osberstown, Naas, Co. Kildare COVER PICTURE | Kit Houghton Phone: +353 45 850800 IMAGING | Owen McGauley PRODUCTION | Leslie Horgan, Regina Horan , Fax: +353 45 850850 Rosie McCormack, Brian Murphy Email: [email protected] PRINTER | Walsh Colour Print, Castleisland, Co. Kerry Joe Walsh Website: www.horsesportireland.ie HSI BREEDER magazine is produced for Horse Sport Ireland by Chairman, the Agricultural Trust, publishers of the Irish Farmers Journal and Follow Team Ireland Equestrian on Facebook and Twitter Horse Sport Ireland The Irish Field. The publishers do not accept responsibility for the and follow the Irish Sport Horse on Facebook veracity of claims made by contributors and advertisers. While every care is taken to ensure accuracy of information contained in this publication, we do not accept responsibility for any errors, or matters arising from same. National Development Plan 2007 - 2013 © Irish Farmers Journal HSI BREEDER | WINTER/SPRING 2012 | 3 Breeder feature - Judith Sossick Loughview ,OU ,OUSlVE star performance (3)"REEDER-AGAZINESPOKETO!NTRIMS*UDITH3OSSICK OWNERANDBREED er of Loughview Lou-Lou (ISH), following the Irish-bred mare’s spectacular win with Dermott Lennon on board, at London’s Olympia Grand Prix in De- cember (pictured). HSI Chairman Joe Walsh congratulated Judith and said it was “a brilliant result for Ireland and a great boost for the sector’’. Tell us about Loughview Lou-Lou’s dam, competed in, we were