Fun Choice - Pedigree and Performance

Edgewood Meadow Farm

Fun Choice by Don's Choice out of Altitude Spray

American Hanoverian Society Approved Studbook Mare

Non-Hanoverian Champion

Passed Mare Performance Test with 8 on Rideability

Fun Choice xx - 5 generation pedigree

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Excellent jumping and dressage potential

Sire: Don's Choice

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Offspring of Fun Choice xx

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2007 Hanoverian filly by Fabuleux

2006 Hanoverian colt by Fabuleux

2004 Hanoverian Colt by Pablito

2000NAWPN Mare by J Quest

It comes as no surprise that Fun Choice has the aptitude to succeed in sport or in producing excellent sport horses. Under a previous amateur owner, she successfully competed and placed in combined training and show jumping (4 ft division). With her current owner, she became a successful lower level dressage horse, competing equally with and often beating warmbloods. She has received High Score awards, qualified for the BLM Championships and placed in Year-End Championship classes.

Some comments from judges include: “Pleasant test, well started horse” by judge Anita Owen (gave 3 scores of over 70%), “Elegant horse” by judge Hilda Gurney, "Wonderful, steady ride" by judge Carter Bass, "Wonderful combination and very nice horse" by judge Lois Yukins, "Nice test" and a score of 68.8% from judge Debbie Rodriguez," "Attractive horse with so much potential" by judge Kay Meredith, "Wonderful, steady and round" by judge Janine McDonald.

She further established her quality by becoming the Non-Hanoverian Champion Mare and passing her MPT under the Hanoverian Inspectors, Dr. Axel Broekman of the Hanoverian State Stud at Celle and Gerd Zuther, noted breeder, rider and sport horse judge. These inspectors were impressed with her overall conformation and further impressed with her performance ability, giving her a rideability score of 8 for the ridden portion of the MPT. The American Hanoverian Society has very high standards for acceptance of TB mares: only ~40% of TB mares presented are approved into the Pre-Studbook while only 34 TB mares (by 2002) have been upgraded into the Studbook after passing the MPT.

Fun Choice has an excellent sport horse pedigree, with ancestors that were successful performers at the racetrack, were excellent TB broodmare sires, established influential TB sire lines and appear in successful warmblood horses of yesterday and today.

Eleven stallions in her pedigree were ranked by The Blood Horse as the top 100 racehorses of the 20th Century, including Man o’ War (#1), Count Fleet(#5) Native Dancer(#7),Tom Fool(#11), Buckpasser(#14), Damascus(#16), Swaps(#20), Nashua(#24), Sword Dancer(#53),Eight Thirty(#78), and Blue Larkspur (#100). In addition, many of the stallions in Fun Choice’s pedigree were leading broodmare sires (Bull Dog, Count Fleet, Buckpasser, ) or established influential sire lines in TB breeding (Balladier, Blue Larkspur, Buckpasser, Bull Dog, Eight Thirty, Hyperion, Man o’ War, My Babu, Nashua, Native Dancer, Polynesian, Teddy, Tom Fool).

The quality of Fun Choice’s offspring was verified when her filly Kaleidoscope did very well at sport horse shows. Kaleidoscope was the 2 yr old filly champion at the BFK Sport Horse Show, 8th out of 27 in the 2 yr old filly class at Dressage at Devon, and 7th in Hunter Breeding 2 year old Non-TB fillies at The Devon Horse Show.

Kaleidoscope is currently showing as a 6 year old with her 14 year old owner in rated hunter shows. Recently, she was 6th of 17 horses in Schooling Hunter and 7th of 10 horses in Childrens 14 and Under Hunter at the AA Rated NC State Fair Hunter Jumper Show. Her young rider, riding Kaleidoscope, also ribboned in 3 equitation classes. Earlier in the season, she was 2nd of 18 horses in the PreChild/Adult Flat class at the AA Rated NCHJA Benefit Show. This is her young rider's first horse and she has only been showing her for around 10 months. In 2007, she continues to receive high placing ribbons in large classes (~17+ entries) in Children's Hunter and Children's Equitation. First time out in 2007 in the Pre-Greens, she was Reserve Champion of the division.