Balt'Amour is fully Lifetime approved by Belgian
Warmblood Breeding Association (BWP) & Rheinland Pfalz-Saar (RPSI) and ISR/Oldenburg NA. He completed the 2009
North American 70-Day Stallion Test with excellent scores. He will begin his show career in 2010.
Raven (barn name) is an extremely good natured horse with a lot of personality.
He is very easy to work around and loves attention. He is kept in the same barn as the mares and he is very well
behaved. He is a sabino black stallion with four stockings and a star and a snip.
After a year of basic
Dressage, 2009 saw Raven in training with Nicole Shahinian-Simpson for jumping. She is one of the best riders in the
world, was the 1st alternate for the USA Olympic Show Jumping Team in 2008, and one of the nicest people you'll ever meet!
Check out her web site: www.NicoleShahinian.com
Now in 2010, we have hired our own trainer, Josh Young, and couldn't be more pleased with the quality of his riding.
We are expecting great things for this pairing.
Raven
is extremely comfortable to ride and is naturally well balanced. He can be ridden on a fairly loose rein and still keeps the
same relaxed pace. No rushing or pulling and seems to know that he has to be good when someone is on his back. When he is
turned out he loves to run and buck but under tack he is really surprisingly quiet. He has classic beautiful hunter movement,
very fancy, and has jumped (in great form) over five feet in the jump chute very effortlessly. He really loves to
jump too! He goes right back around to do the jump chute again if we don't stop him!
While we all focus on the stallion lines, and Raven’s
are terrific, Raven comes from truly great mare lines on both sides. A friend of mine owns Raven’s mother and we
own Raven’s grandmother, so we know for sure that he has gotten a lot of his good looks from them. Both are
Premium mares in several different registries (Holsteiner, Oldenburg GOV, Oldenburg NA, BWP & RPSI), as was
his great grandmother Lilly. He also gets his fantastic movement from them. La Laureate (Raven’s grandmother) was sought
out and purchased by us because we liked Raven so much and wanted to breed her. She was a successful dressage horse with
her previous owner, but we are mostly Hunter riders so when she got here she was taught to jump.
Boy, does she love to jump!!! To date she has never stopped, and we have jumped a four foot course with ease. To see Balt'Amour's
full pedigree and pictures of relatives
click here. 
