What a power movement - Jutta was beside herself - she claimed at the time that she had never seen a foal move like him. Berny reckons he saw this already when he bought him.

Fürst Patrick will be a very valuable addition to Vollrath's breeding programme.

FÜRST PATRICK has been broken in just recently and as our super mare LAURETTA (Lessing/Dynamit/Genius) was highly in season and teased the young fellow very much, we decided to get the colt changed into a stallion.

It took a while to have him jump the dummy for collection, but he complied and was very keen.

The resulting donation was examined under the microscope and made the studmaster very happy: 65 ml of filtered sperm = plenty of them with very good motility.

So we used the semen and I inseminated the 17.1hh Lauretta with Filou's very 'virgin' semen.

We will know in due course if it was all successful.

And after his good deed Jutta took FILOU into the arena and gave him a little work out:

Fürst Patrick - October 2010

The young stallion is in the process of being broken in. We took FP to the beach for his "virgin outing". He settled down very nicely and took all the tasks Jutta put him through in his stride.

We are certainly pleased with his physical and mental development.

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Fürst Patrick at 18 months

Fürst Patrick at 20 months on Nov 22, 2008 - his development is very pleasing to Berny and Jutta.

Let's play! ... all quiet again ...