Ischka fan de Groenbank – (Sake 449 x Teunis 332) filly (b. March 2010)

Ischka was born naturally to Femma in March 2010 and from the moment she was born she has been wonderfully entertaining! We call her our little ‘time waster’ as there is something about her that is quite addictive.  If we were asked to describe her in four words they would be ‘elegant’, ‘considered’, ‘sensitive’ & ‘intelligent’ all of which we think makes this lady quite special.

We took a risk with this breeding as it was Sake’s first season at Stud so the quality of his offspring are not know yet.  Sake’s father, Doaitsen has been very heavily used over the last few years because he is from one of the lesser used bloodlines.  We want to breed with the future in mind and recognise the importance of making good use of the smaller bloodlines and to keep the kinship percentage as low as possible, hence our decision to use Sake.  Time will tell whether this was a sensible risk to take.

Ischka went along to the gradings in September, taking it all her stride, as we expected her to and came out with a 1st Premie with the following scores:

Racial Type: 7
Frame: 7
Development: 7
Walk: 7.5
Trot: 7.5

Her movement is beautiful, her walk is strong and far reaching and her trot effortless and elegant.  We are quite excited to see how she progresses over the next few years.

Ischka