Breeding name:
Sire: Beart 411, Sport/Pref.
Dam: Grevinne fan Lutke Peinjum,
Dam sire: Ulke 338, Sport
Height: 16.2h
Year born: 2006
Status: Star/Pref./Prest./Crown Jewel
Approval: KFPS, AFHS
Dwarfism status: Negative
Hydrocephalus status: Negative
Breeding availability: 2026. On-site servicing is available only. Artificial insemination and embryo transfer are currently NOT available.
Breeding name:
Sire: Beart 411, Sport/Pref.
Dam: Grevinne fan Lutke Peinjum,
Dam sire: Ulke 338, Sport
Height: 16.2h
Year born: 2006
Status: Star/Pref./Prest./Crown Jewel
Approval: KFPS, AFHS
Dwarfism status: Negative
Hydrocephalus status: Negative
Breeding availability: 2026. On-site servicing is available only. Artificial insemination and embryo transfer are currently NOT available.
Breeding name:
Sire: Beart 411, Sport/Pref.
Dam: Grevinne fan Lutke Peinjum,
Dam sire: Ulke 338, Sport
Height: 16.2h
Year born: 2006
Status: Star/Pref./Prest./Crown Jewel
Approval: KFPS, AFHS
Dwarfism status: Negative
Hydrocephalus status: Negative
Breeding availability: 2026. On-site servicing is available only. Artificial insemination and embryo transfer are currently NOT available.
Breeding name:
Sire: Beart 411, Sport/Pref.
Dam: Grevinne fan Lutke Peinjum,
Dam sire: Ulke 338, Sport
Height: 16.2h
Year born: 2006
Status: Star/Pref./Prest./Crown Jewel
Approval: KFPS, AFHS
Dwarfism status: Negative
Hydrocephalus status: Negative
Breeding availability: 2026. On-site servicing is available only. Artificial insemination and embryo transfer are currently NOT available.
Breeding name:
Sire: Beart 411, Sport/Pref.
Dam: Grevinne fan Lutke Peinjum,
Dam sire: Ulke 338, Sport
Height: 16.2h
Year born: 2006
Status: Star/Pref./Prest./Crown Jewel
Approval: KFPS, AFHS
Dwarfism status: Negative
Hydrocephalus status: Negative
Breeding availability: 2026. On-site servicing is available only. Artificial insemination and embryo transfer are currently NOT available.
Breeding name:
Sire: Beart 411, Sport/Pref.
Dam: Grevinne fan Lutke Peinjum,
Dam sire: Ulke 338, Sport
Height: 16.2h
Year born: 2006
Status: Star/Pref./Prest./Crown Jewel
Approval: KFPS, AFHS
Dwarfism status: Negative
Hydrocephalus status: Negative
Breeding availability: 2026. On-site servicing is available only. Artificial insemination and embryo transfer are currently NOT available.
Some of the specifics
Fees
Royal Association of the Frisian Horse Studbook
Through the centuries the Friesian Government has made many regulations in order to safeguard good breeding. The Koninklijke Vereniging ‘Het Friesch Paarden-Stamboek’ (KFPS) has been registering Friesian horses since 1879 and now the Dutch Horselaw of 1939 (modified) gives rules for studbook and breeding.
We comply with their guidelines.
Our goal is to breed beautiful horses with typical Friesian characteristics, which are competitive at liberty or under saddle in dressage (we breed “sport” as opposed to “baroque” style horses) and are also a joy to have in the stable.
We spent over a decade studying mare lines, stallion lines and the mare line of each stallion to ensure the breeding stock we acquired had the highest breed traits and characteristics and best temperament.
We breed by selection within the breed and look for breeding pairs which express the quintessential “modern” Friesian: high stepping, fluid, elegant movement and perfect Friesian conformation, with minimal to zero in-breeding co-efficients.
We want our foals to be the best in the world, to enhance and promote the Friesian breed and contribute to its further success.
We breed very few foals. Our mares are in foal every two years maximum and we do not allow artificial breeding practices. Stallions cover mares only under controlled conditions.
Growing Approach
Free is best. While we stable our horses at night to mitigate against theft and feral dogs, we prefer our horses to be free, out in the fresh air, being horses.
Our young horses are allowed to stay in the field from birth to three years, this means that they are well developed and ready to begin training with optimal bone and muscle development. We allow the mums to wean their babies on their timetable. We don’t force wean.
We believe that free allows the proper development of our babies. Growing up in natal herds allows foals to learn leadership and respect, features that will be very useful later in training.
The Friesian horse is gentle, honest, sober, high-mettled and clever; harmoniously built and properly proportioned. The noble head has clear, intelligent eyes and small, alert ears with the tips pointing slightly toward each other.
The neck is of adequate length and is lightly arched. A strong back joins a croup of good length, which doesn’t slope too steeply. The shoulder is strong, long and sloping and the body has good depth and well sprung ribs. The feet and legs are strong with a well-developed forearm and proper stance.
The horse has fluid, elegant and suspended gaits, which are emphasized by feathering on the lower legs, a fine mane and beautiful, long tail. Jet black is the preferred colour with no white markings anywhere on the body.
This is a horse of luxurious and proud appearance, full of personality, honest and eager to work.
At Naturaliste Friesians we concur. Friesian horses are the best, most noble, most kind and most clever of all the horse breeds.
Breeding Standard
In more specific terms, the three stallions and four mares of the Naturaliste Friesian’s breeding stock have very low inbreeding co-efficients and exhibit high breed trait characteristics of:
If you come from the Cape Naturaliste area or you have an interest in Western Australian history, you may noticed that all the Naturaliste Friesians have Dutch or French names, reminiscent of the area.
Dutch Ships and French Captains
The Friesian breed originates from Friesland, a northern province of the Netherlands, historically and traditionally known as Frisia, and named after the Frisians.
Many of the ships that visited the south west of WA were from the Netherlands and the Naturaliste Friesian horses are named after ships which, or captains who, were instrumental in mapping or exploring the Geographe Bay and Cape Naturaliste to Cape Leeuwin region.
Leeuwarden, for example, is a city and municipality in Friesland, Netherlands, after which the Leeuwin sailing ship was named. Leeuwin, one of our breeding mares, was bred in Friesland and named for the vessel Leeuwin. She then just happened to end up living in Leeuwin country, half a world away!
It’s interesting to note that according to Western Australian historian and university researcher Noelene Bloomfield, most of the Dutch-sounding names in Western Australia were, in fact, given by French explorers.
Naturaliste Baudin (Stallion): Named after Nicolas Thomas Baudin (February 17, 1754 – September 16, 1803), a French explorer, cartographer, naturalist and hydrographer. In October 1800, Baudin was selected by Bonaparte, whose wife Josephine had something of a fascination with Australia, to lead what has become known as the “Baudin Expedition” to map the coast of New Holland. Baudin had two ships, Géographe, which he captained, and Naturalisté, captained by Baron Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, and a suite of nine zoologists and botanists, including Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet and Jean-Baptiste Leschenault de La Tour.
Naturaliste Freycinet (Stallion): Named after Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet (7 August 1779 – 18 August 1841) was a French naval officer. He circumnavigated the planet and in 1811 published the first map to show a full outline of the coastline of Australia. In 1800, Freycinet was appointed to an exploration expedition to Southern and South-Western coasts of Australia under Nicolas Baudin, on Naturaliste and Géographe. Freycinet’s brother, Louis-Henri de Freycinet, was also part of the expedition.
Naturaliste Hamelin (Stallion): Baron Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin (13 October, 1768 – 23 April, 1839) was a rear admiral of the French navy and later a Baron. From 1 October 1800 to 23 June 1803, Hamelin captained the bomb ship Naturalisté, along with Captain Nicolas Baudin, on Géographe, on a scientific expedition exploring the South Seas. This voyage was intended as a scientific exploration of New Holland and the charting of the, as yet unknown, southern coastline.
Naturaliste Leeuwin (Mare): Leeuwin (“Lioness”, also spelt Leeuwine in some Dutch East India Company documents), was a Dutch galleon that discovered and mapped some of the southwest corner of Australia in March 1622. It was captained by Jan Fransz and was the seventh European ship to sight the continent. The south-west corner of Australia was subsequently referred to by the Dutch as ‘t Landt van de Leeuwin (“The Land of the Leeuwin”) for a time, subsequently shortened to “Leeuwin’s Land” by the English. The name “Leeuwin” still survives in the name of Cape Leeuwin, the most south-westerly point of the Australian mainland, so named by Matthew Flinders in December 1801.
The Leeuwin was named after the city of Leeuwarden, a city in Friesland, Netherlands, where the Friesian breed originated and is still bred today.
Naturaliste Leschenault (Mare): French botanist Théodore Leschenault travelled to Australia in 1800-1803 aboard the Géographe. Leschenault was 26 when he set out from France with the Baudin expedition to explore the “unknown coasts” of New Holland. Leschenault landed on New Holland for the first time on 2 June, 1801, at Geographe Bay.
Naturaliste Dordrecht (Mare): On 19 July, 1619 commander Frederik de Houtman sailing on board Dordrecht, skippered by Reyer Jansz, and the Amsterdam, under skipper Maarten Cornelisz, struck upon ‘the southland lying behind Java’, much further south than the ships that came before. The Dordrecht was built in 1692 by the ship builder van Leeuwen, headquartered in Leeuwarden, and served in the Battle of Malage in 1704. Little is known of Dordrecht’s exploration of the Capes Leeuwin and Naturaliste other than mentions in despatches of it being “off course and likely navigated the south coast of the great south land by accident”.
(This is a very interesting YouTube channel about the south west region and tsunamis, for anyone who’s fascinated with the Cape Naturaliste region).
More information about the history of the Friesian breed can be found here!
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