Spanish Young Horse Championships
Bloodlines are kind of a religion for the Spanish Pura Raza Espanol horses, and you really need not to make any conclusions as it could easily be a step into “very deep water”. Said that with kind of experience from watching the Warmblood breeding for many years, you just want to see the best moving horses with the best potential.
4 year old
The preliminary class for the 4 year old showed a significant improvement of the walk. The walk has for many years been the weakest basic gait for the PRE horses, but this class looked very different. In general the trot is expressive with lot of activity in the front legs and from the best here also with a nice angle and push from behind. Canter is the overall weak point, but again from the top, shared first place and two of the three placed next as no 3 (without Primero de Mesa from H2R point of view) the basic gaits were really good.
Interesting to watch two offsprings by the stallion Timbal YET, both modern type and very well moving by the 4 year old.Likewise one of the participants for 6 year old qualifier Brandy YET by Timbal YET, also modern and well moving. Remember the name Rondo de Indalo with World Championship rider Alejandro Sanchez del Barco - a super expressive top mover, unfortunately today with to much tension.
The stallion Timbal YET is by the very famous Utrerano VII which is the sire of over 150 stallions among them former international top dressage stallion Fuego de Cardenas with Juan Manuel Muñoz Diaz.
Winner of 5 year old qualifier was international top rider José Antonio Garcia Mena with Lclunon de Trujillo. The big bay stallion was well moving in all three gaits with a surplus for the canter with good balance and quality, the walk was ground covering and in a good rhythm, the trot was with good expression the collected trot was lacking bit more strength and carriage while the extensions were good and well balanced.
The top of the 6 year old class was showing good qualities with a clear winner Pampero FS ridden by former PRE World Champion Alberto GARCÍA-BRIÑÓN MARTÍN. Well balanced performance and common for the top of the 6 year old class was very nice canter quality og good quality of the flying changes.
Here you find the link for start lists and results.