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Halimey (ATA
registered as Halimey Go)
To Breed to Halimey: contact Tim
Holekamp, Holekamp@aol.com
 THE STALLION:
2005-foaled bay Premium-approved breeding
stallion by German Trakehner Verband,
standing 16 hands and 1 inch.
THE RIDING HORSE:
Champion of his 70-day performance test
(HLP) at Marbach in 2009, with top scores
in both dressage (121.85) and jumping
(121.56), and scores of “10” in both
Character and Temperament. Overall
score: 127.98
Placed 10th at the Eventing
Bundeschampionat (German National Young
Event Horse Finals) as a five-year-old. As
a five-, six-, and seven-year-old had
numerous wins and high placings in Young
Event Horse, Young Dressage Horse, and
Young Jumper Horse qualifiers.
A win and high placings at one-star level
CICs in Germany and Austria. (FEI ID
number: 103FY85)
Watch video of Halimey
cross-country here
THE BREEDING HORSE:
Quite a popular horse in Germany, with 74
foals born there, 30% of whom scored
Premium at foal inspections. His
oldest offspring are just coming under
saddle, but one son was already invited to
approvals at Neumuenster (did not attend),
and daughters are doing quite well.
One, named Despina (dam by K2), won the
Championship title at the largest breeding
district Mare inspections, in Bavaria,
where Halimey stood until 2012.
He has excellent breeding manners, good
semen quality and numbers, but due to his
present situation, only frozen semen is
available. It is of good quality.
See photos of Halimey
offspring here
THE PEDIGREE:
To understand our special interest in this
horse, and the reason he is now in the
United States, it might be a good idea to
relate the story of his purchase, from his
German owners, a syndicate of individuals
and the Bavarian Warmblood state stud at
Schwaiganger. It was sort of a
last-minute decision to sell him in
September, 2012, based on some business
issues amongst the various owners.
He was a late entry in the Neumuenster
Hengstmarkt event in October and did not
make it into the Riding Horse Auction
catalog for that reason. To say I
caught wind of the matter would not be
inaccurate, but because of his quite
interesting pedigree, I was immediately on
alert and began researching the stallion.
His sire, Askar AA, was an Anglo-Arab
bred at the famed Polish National Stud at
Janow Podlaski; and was Poland’s Three-Day
Eventing entry at Atlanta in 1996, after
winning his first CCI** at age
7. Askar’s sire was
half-brother to the great Zeus, a show
jumper producer who was approved in nearly
every big sport horse stud book in the
world. Askar’s dam came from the
highly productive crossing of English TB
and Shagya-arabian blood
(see Windfall’s pedigree to
understand why this rang our bell!).
But it was Halimey’s dam’s pedigree that
tumbled me. It is full of features I
have studied, used already, and know to be
very productive in breeding upper level
competition horses. The dam herself
was both State and Verband premium, and
produced three approved sons in
Germany. Her dam was a full sister
to the dam of Hohenstein, and from the
same cross as our best two foundation
mares, both by Matador and out of closely
related Halensee mares. From these
mares (Havel and Havanna) we made many of
the best performance horses of our
breeding career, in both Eventing and
dressage (NAYRC double gold medalist,
Young Event Horse two-time National
Champion, US Prelim Horse of the Year, and
USDF Gold Medal-earning Grand Prix mare).
And the Sire of Halimey’s dam also
brought Donauwind’s rideability genetics,
plus one of the most important and
valuable mares of post-war Trakehnerdom,
the elite mare Palma by Morganglanz.
So, this combined pedigree has features that
fit our version of perfection for upper
level Eventing: 65%-70% “blood” and
Trakehner ancestors of highly proven worth
in producing riding/competition horses that
can run and jump at the upper levels, but
also excel at dressage. To say that this
caused me to want to attend that auction
would be quite the understatement.
Assembling the resources to use this young
stallion properly and fully meant a top
four-star rider who is comfortable with
stallions. Immediately Michael Pollard
of the Chatsworth Stud came to mind, and it
took no goading to get him to fly to Germany
for four days and carefully test this
stallion. The report was complete and
favorable.
Next I needed some financial allies to make
this happen, and that materialized in the
immediate commitment of my friend, Trakehner
breeder Christine Turner of Spring Branch,
TX. Michael wanted a piece of this
deal too, so the three of us formed an
agreement, sending me to Neumuenster with
hope and a quick-to-rise right hand.
After watching the horse work, reviewing the
vetting carefully, and lining up some
auction strategy with my partners, I went to
the auction, did the best I could, and that
turned out to be JUST enough, as we won the
bidding and brought him home to Florida,
landing at Miami just before
Thanksgiving. Cheryl and I met him as
he came out of the three-day quarantine at
MIA, loaded him up with big grins on our
faces and hauled him to Ocala for his
lengthy CEM quarantine.
THE PERSONALITY:
 He is all we had hoped for
and more. Because we were able to
station him just down the road in Ocala
from our farm, at the farm of Betsy and
Will Calder, we were with him every day,
and kept him in some semblance of fitness
through the quarantine. By the time
he left, there was no one there who was
not claiming to be his biggest fan.
He won the hearts of all people who came
in contact with him, including us.
This is one very calm and willing horse,
with just enough stallion temperament to
make him a good breeding animal, but a
workman’s attitude in tack that is just
right. He and Michael hit it off
immediately, and that resulted in one
training level outing and three
preliminary horse trials during the
Spring, winning three of the four.
One day, at prelim, Michael had him “just
right” on dressage day and declared he
could have won any level dressage at that
moment, at any venue. The judge
agreed, and scored him 17.7 penalty
points, or 82.3%.
As things unfolded, Halimey proved very
successful through the Advanced Horse
Trials level, but was not able to “go the
distance”, as one might say with regard to
CCI***, and so has been retired from
international aspirations. He has a
potential career in FEI dressage and has
been trained by Silva Martin.
Michael and I were thinking of a different
career path for him than was Chris Turner,
so she bought us out and has him
now. Even so, his frozen semen is
quite good and available through us.
OUR VERSION OF THE IDEAL MARE
FOR HALIMEY:
It is not reasonable to say that this type
or that type should not be crossed to this
horse, as he has proven himself
exceptional in all three disciplines, not
only in performance testing but also in
riding competitions. Could he
produce a world-beating dressage
foal? Of course he could, as will
likely be proven in the next five years in
Germany. Does his genetic make-up
imply show jumpers? You bet it does.
But we are interested in Eventing, and
that is what he has been aimed at in
breeding and under saddle. It is the
ideal sport for a true all-around horse,
which he most certainly is. So the
mare type this adequately “blooded” horse
needs could come from a mostly Warmblood
mare, an Anglo-Warmblood mare, or a
Thoroughbred mare. We would
like to see such a mare be proven in
Eventing, or a member of a family of
proven and successful eventers. In
terms of conformation and type:
leggy and longer-necked mares would be
best for him, I think. He has all
the bone needed, and excellent
“constitution” parameters, so he may very
well be a “corrector” of some of those
issues.
To Breed to Halimey: Holekamp@aol.com
Photos by Jutta Bauernschmitt
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