calcification hereditary?

[Rattery]

Looking at a stallion that had a bone bruise that calcified when he was younger. Is this something known to be hereditary?

[Irish Pixie]

I don't think that a calcified bone bruise would be genetic, it's just a hardened area where a bruise was, isn't it? Does he only have one?

[Rattery]

Yes, only one, front left.

Here's the pic from the ad.

[wr]

If that's what it is and he only has it in the one location, I wouldn't get too excited.

[Molly Mckee]

I don't think so, the same things happen to people.

[Rattery]

Seller said it happened as a yearling, and to call him for more details. This stallion is a registered, inspected and branded Trekehner. His sire is apparently from really good bloodlines and was/is a level 4 show jumper, he's only produced 2 registered stallions.

I'm kind of excited since I'm hopefully picking up a registered warmblood mare that is also trekehner approved.

Some pics of the sire I found after some internet searching, he's got a broke daughter for sale for $10,000 too

[malinda]

Who is he?

Is he approved for breeding?

I work for one of the largest Trakehner farms in the US, and am quite familiar with American Trakehner stallions, but not as much with Canadian Trakehners.

[Rattery]

The stallion for sale is "Tulpenfreeze", his sire is "Tulpenprinz" who I believe was sold in the last year and went to the US.

He was inspected as a yearling before being injured, but not as a stallion. I doubt he'd even be looked at with that leg unfortunately

Unbroken stallions have a hard time selling up here, unrideable ones rarely sell and this guy has been listed for awhile. He's just listed above meat price.

Here's his pedigree:

http://www.clrc.ca/cgi-bin/pedigree....gnumbersuffix=

[goodhors]

With that leg, I don't expect he ever got presented for approval, so any foals are probably not eligible for registration in the book. Maybe they have a hardship clause, for injured horses to let them into some category for breeding registration these days.

He has a nice look to him, but I am not a Trakehner fan. Just not my choice of breed. Breeding stallions have a limited market anyway, few want to deal with stallions at all.

Is he actually unridable or just untrained? Calcium lump is ugly, but looks to be above the joint, to not restrict motion. Guess you would have to see leg in person, to decide on his range of motion for being able to ride him. Lot of horses with lumps and bumps, UGLLYYY legs, who are totally usable.

Quite a few older stallions purchased, who get gelded and used as riding horses with no issues, for the rest of their lives. I would recommend you have him gelded at a Vet Clinic, to insure they have whatever they need at hand if things went bad. Older horses have MUCH bigger blood vessels, so they bleed out faster if there are problems. Not worth losing him doing it at home, instead of getting the gelding procedure done at the Clinic.

[where I want to]

My feeling is there are enough proven stallions out there to pass on an unproven one. It would take quite a bit of medical testing to convince me that it was indeed just a typical result of an injury. Every horse person has been handed the line about an unsoundness or blemish in a horse.
It's a lovely movie plot to discover the champion everyone dismisses and there are such Seabiscuit like cases. But it still took lots of wherewithal to make a champion.

[Rattery]

I did contact the registry and he was informally seen as a two year old. They said if he had shown any promise they would have done a preliminary inspection. So I'll be passing on him, there's a local pinto warmblood from a Samber son I can breed to live cover this year.

I found a better stallion to breed to next time around, unless I can afford a breeding to Distelzar

http://www.canadianwarmbloods.com/st...orseid=1000220