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SBS Annual Meeting
 Once a year affiliate members from SBS labs around the world get together for a mini symposium. This year the 12th Annual Meeting was hosted by our new headquarters and state of the art facility in Chesapeake City, Maryland, December 7th to 9th. The Annual Meeting offers an excellent opportunity to review SBS protocols and policies, share ideas and plans for the upcoming year and socialize with our good friends and colleagues. The business section of the meeting was held in the well appointed conference facilities of the neighboring Riveredge Training Center, home of our good clients, Hassler Dressage. Every year we have a guest speaker, and this time we had the pleasure of listening to Dr. Sue McDonnell from the University of Pennsylvania, New Bolton Center discussing aspects of stallion behavior. Taking advantage of the new facilities at SBS-MD, we followed the business meeting with a wet lab where we could review and discuss improvements in our protocols and quality control measures. We also had a fun social program which included a visit to the amazing Christmas lights at Longwood Gardens, group dinners and a tour of Philadelphia that included the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall and sampling of the famous Philly cheese steaks.
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| Featured Breeder: Watermark Farm
 It's a family affair at Watermark Farm in Oxford, PA, the focus of our Featured Breeder profile this month. Bill and Anne Rawle, assisted by their daughter Ellie have been breeding good minded, talented and correctly built horses for dressage, eventing, hunters and jumpers since the 1960s. And what a talented family they are - Anne is USEF "S" dressage judge and trainer who competed successfully through Grand Prix dressage, Intermediate level eventing and in the Amateur Owner hunter and jumper divisions. Bill has competed internationally in Nordic Combined skiing as well as dressage and show jumping. Ellie has had great success in the dressage arena as both a Young Rider and then in the open classes, earning both her USDF Silver and Gold medals attaining international rankings at Grand Prix. Many of their competitive successes have been on horses they have bred and raised at Watermark Farm.
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Featured Lab: Emerald Ridge Farm
For the convenience of your Canadian breeders and in order to avoid shipping delays and additional expense, US stallion owners with SBS frozen semen should consider sending some frozen semen to our SBS Affiliate Laboratory in Ontario, Emerald Ridge Farm, for storage and distribution. Semen would then be immediately available to ship domestically to Canadian mare owners. To facilitate transfer, Select Breeders in Maryland and Texas will coordinate and combine the shipment of semen stored at their locations for transfer to Emerald Ridge, enabling participating semen owners to share the associated costs of the export shipment. Interested stallion owners should contact SBS-MD, SBSW,or Emerald Ridge for more information by January 20th so we can gauge the level of interest and timing of shipment. Emerald Ridge Farm, in Rockwood, Ontario has been in operation since 1997. Dr. Patrick Meyers, a veterinarian specializing in equine reproduction and his wife Anna have transformed the farm into one of the main Standardbred Stud farms in Ontario. Read More |
Congrats to our Clients
 Many of our Arabian clients achieved great success at the World Arabian Horse Championships, held in Paris in conjunction with the Salon du Cheval, a multi-discipline equine extravaganza that should be on the to-do list of all equine enthusiasts! Highlights include for Michael Byatt Arabians - Sire of the World Championships with Marwan Al Shaqab for the 5th year in a row. Marwan sired the Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal Senior Stallions, Marquis Cahr, QR Marc and Marajj respectively and the Gold Medal Junior Stallion, Kahil Al Shaqab. QR Marc was presented by SBS Italia client, Paolo Capecci (owner, Knocke Arabians) and Marajj is owned by SBS Italia clients, Albidayer Stud.
Congratulations to Hilltop Farm, their stallion Royal Prince received his 5th star under the ISR/OLD star awards program - a great accomplishment! He joins only three other stallions who have achieved 5 star status; two of these stallions, Bugatti and Parabol, are also Hilltop stallions. Royal Prince also won the USEF Dressage Breeding Sire of the Year for the fourth consecutive year. A fantastic year for Royal Prince! |
| Congrats to Affiliate Member Dr. Glenn Blodgett
Dr. Blodgett received the 2011 Racing Council Special Recognition Award for Lifetime Achievement. Since 1982, Dr. Blodgett has been at the Burnett Ranches' Four Sixes Ranch near Guthrie, Texas, where he is the resident veterinarian and manager of the ranch's horse division. In his tenure at the Four Sixes, the ranch has become an all-time leading breeder of both racing and performance American Quarter Horses, and in 1993 won the AQHA Best Remuda Award.
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The SBS-MD Mobile Lab is Traveling to Maine
The mobile lab from SBS Maryland is heading to Maine and will be collecting stallions and freezing semen at Dupuis Farm in Saco, ME, January 21st to February 5th. If you would like to include your stallion, please contact SBS for more information on semen freezing and Dupuis Farm for boarding info: SBS Maryland - info@selectbreeders.com, (410) 885-3202 Dupuis Farm/Lynn-Marie Plouffe - lplouffe@maine.rr.com, (207) 284-4726 |
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