Breeding horses for the highest level in showjumping.
A dam line that started over 60 years ago, with the goal to breed the excellent showjumper. An excellent showjumper, which can handle 1.60 courses easily and has the ability to compete against the best showjumpers in the world. We succeeded in that, and we still do. European Championships, World Championships and even Olympic Games were seen through the eyes of so many showjumpers bred by Van Dam Horses.
We are convinced that the best ingredient to breed a showjumper, is a strong maternal line. Through selection year after year, we have managed to build our own dam line. Ninety percent of our horses is related to eachother via their damline. With this way of breeding, we stay close to the kind of horse we want to breed. We saw and knew every horse in our line and that gives us the knowledge to make the perfect combination with a stallion.
We want to keep and improve the quality that our mares already have. With quality we mean a conformation that is suitable for showjumping, scope, elastique, intelligence and most important: the willing to jump and to be careful at the same time. We also think that health is a high priority for a showjumper. We select health through X-raying and by using solid stallions and mares. A strong, healthy horse guarantuees a longer showjumping career.
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