Frederiksborgs

Today I had some extra time, and Wyoming decided to cooperate and provide sunny (albeit windy) weather, so I was able to get photos of my JCP 2011 Stablemates. The G4 dressage stallion, upon one look at him, told me quite bluntly that he was a Frederiksborg.

Fine, I replied. But do they come in palomino? And, just as importantly, can I find two living parents for you?

My initial search found me at a forum page discussing the conformation of the breed: http://fhotd64476.yuku.com/topic/62299/6yo-Frederiksborg

But more importantly, I found Sargo Vejleby.

The owner of the forum I saw him on did not take all of the photos shown on there. So, I decided to see where she got it from (If you don't know about this, pay very close attention, it is well worth knowing!) When you come across a picture like that, right click on it. Like me, you probably only use two of the functions provided in the long list and ignore the rest (copy or save as). But take another look. Near the bottom should be a command that says "View Image Info". This takes you to a lovely screen that shows you the image, as well as the source website.

It is this way that I found the large breed website: http://www.fhf.dk. Hello Google Translator! For those of you who don't know this already, either, but http://translate.google.com can translate whole webpages into your preferred language. (Clicking on the "Britian" language button doesn't always work, as in this case, where it takes you to a website in English, but lacking all the important stallion information).

After browsing through their gorgeous collection of stallions, success! I find exactly what I'm looking for!
http://www.fhf.dk/frh-vis-hingst.php?hingst=frh720-nigeria

Now, one of my GC's had BSO parents, and the sire's name was Hot Shot. The name fit him perfect, so I didn't change it. However, I decided to make the date of birth of my male GC's four years minus the year they came out (so they'd be a breeding adult by the time they were made). That means the earliest Hot Shot could be born is 1988. Nigeria was born 1986. So I have two choices. Use Nigeria's parents as parents to Hot Shot and assume both parents were still alive 2 years later (unless I can find death years for both parents or record of a foal born after 1988), or bump Hot Shot's birth year to 1990 to use Nigeria as his sire.

For anyone interested, here is a bay: http://www.fhf.dk/frh-vis-hingst.php?hingst=frh766-palnatoke-vejvad
And a gorgeous buckskin: http://www.fhf.dk/frh-vis-hingst.php?hingst=frh748-salisbury-vejleby
As well as a younger palomino: http://www.fhf.dk/frh-vis-hingst.php?hingst=frh763-sargo-vejleby(the one mentioned above)

The oldest stallion on the list was born 1979: http://www.fhf.dk/frh-vis-hingst.php?hingst=frh705-sebastian-skovagerhoej , for those of you into making old BSO's.

Just a note: if you put any of the names in allbreed, many of the horses are listed as Danish Warmbloods, Hanoverians, Trakehners, etc. As far as I read, Frederiksborg horses were used to start many of these breeds, so they were possibly dual-registered? If someone more knowledgeable reads this, I would love to learn the specifics. Warmbloods still confuse the heck out of me!