Boosting American Sport-Horse Breeding Ain’t About the Bloodlines
Illinois show jumper Taylor Flury accepted an invitation to fly to Lanaken, Belgium, to ride in one of the world’s most prestigious competitions: the Fédération Équestre Internationale WBFSH Jumping World Breeding Championships for Young Horses. The trip was a success. While there, Flury’s five-year-old Carrasca Z became the first US stallion to be approved by the Belgian studbook Zangersheide, with high commendation.
Two years later, however, when she returned to Belgium with Carrasca to compete in the seven-year-old division, the jumps towered well above four and a half feet. The course was technical, and the margin for error was
