Horsespre: September 2010

How often do we see these qualities in a pure Carthusian PRE? This horse has several important qualities that are unique for a pure Carthusian, the most important being the straightness in movement. Among today's professional PRE breeders the straight movements are fundamental in the selection of a PRE breeding stallion. Winging, paddling or 'campaneo' is not a desired movement for the breeding of a quality PRE. This horse is the result of professional breeding where the unique qualities of the PRE has been maintained and in his case the racestandards of the Carthusian has been improved in colour and movements.

He has class. Class shows the subtle characteristics of the special expression in the horse standing and moving. A classy coat is skinlike and shiny and the horse has alot of mane and tail. A classy temperament is noble when necessary and expressive, energetic when asked for. In a classy movement we see the expression with high kneeaction, power from behind with talent for both collective and extended locomotion.

A classy conformation; Is simple beautiful from being correct and proud.

A 100% carthusian horse is most often grey, it is very difficult to maintain the purity and engange other colourtraits such as bay and black. This horse also has no white markings which of course makes him even more exclusive. In the PRE breeding white markings are not desireable, a horse without white markings are always more valuable than one with white hairs. Same goes for coatcolour, if horses of same quality are compared a bay and black PRE is always more valuable than a grey. This horse is also professionally educated in dressage, he performs a beautiful passage, piaffe, half pass and extended trot which also proves the quality, when performed correct, like we see here.
This stallion has 12 excellent offspring, all are bay, except one that is grey and one black. We recommend him as exclusive breeding stallion and as a schoolmaster.

For more info see his page here Nr 470