Remus van Berkley

We are very pleased with Remus in the way he is maturing and developing.  He has an enormous trot and carries himself with pride.  He has developed into a a classic type with an extremely exotic head and LOTS of HAIR!!!

Remus is a noble character with outstanding bloodlines and is certainly an excellent example of Friesian horse.  We expect him to mature around 16.1hh.  Up until now our training programme with Remus has mainly been focusing on ground skills.  He will be started under saddle this coming spring. 

Remus was recently put on the market for sale, we did try to find him a new home and to be totally honest we just
didnt find anyone suitable to sell him too that we felt real happy about.  There was no way we were going to let him go unless everything was perfect.  His purpose for being kept entire had changed for us at Wallbrook and as we  could not find him a good enough home that held the same principals as us in regards to stallion ownership, it made the decision a lot easier to keep him and have him gelded.

Remus is an very, very nice horse, but with our extremely high standards he is not good enough to cover our pure bred mares.  We are now focusing on only breeding pure bred Friesian horses, with foals in the main studbook and BBook I.   We do not have  the time to take outside mares so there was no point of keeping him as a stallion. 

I have always had the opinion that there are way too many Friesian stallions out there that seriously are not worthy of breeding from.  Remus is a top quality horse there is no question about that, but I think its hard for some people who have paid a lot of money for a colt or stallion to even consider gelding, based on opinions like "he cost so much" and he really should 'earn his keep' or 'pay me back' type of attuitude, and I guess some peoples idea of quality is very different to mine.  Which IMO I think has seen a lot of inferior stallions stay entire.  For some, its more about the money generated from foals and service fees etc, ut for us its not about that at all, its more about principals and purpose.

We are looking forward to having Remus as a promotions horse, to use in photograhpy and starting him under saddle. He will be trick trained and will also do dressage, continue to be shown in hand, under saddle and maybe do a little eventing to show the true versitility of the Friesian horse.  He will also be re-presented at the next Keuring for ster and also sport.  He was very close to getting star at the 2009 keuring, with only missing out by approx 1 point.  His linear score sheet is most impressive, and better than some stallions in Australia with breeding permits with exception to his walk and trot.  We will be working on these which will obviously improve once he is going under saddle.