Ever since I purchased Willow in August of 2007, I have been trying to hunt down her sire in order to get her registered. When I purchased her, she was sold to me as a "grade" mare of Hanoverian / TB breeding. All I got was "her sire was an imported black Hanoverian that was standing in such and such area in Alberta" out of a Thoroughbred mare. The hunt was on. Trying to find an anonymous TB mare was going to be next to impossible, but how many black Hanoverian stallions could there be? From eWarmbloods discussion boards I got a name of a stallion; the only black Hanoverian stallion, standing in that area of Alberta in that time frame. With that name, I hunted through the Canadian Livestock Records Corporation and located the stallions registry numbers, breeder's name, and the last recorded owner. Getting closer! I also found out that the stallion was licensed for breeding with Canadian Warmblood Horse Breeders Association. After checking with them and finding out that they didn't have a DNA profile for the stallion, I continued hunting.Nearly a year later, I had hit a dead end. Since eWarmbloods had been useful before, I went back to post all information I had in the hopes that someone could elaborate on what I had found. Well, cha-ching! The stallion's breeder contacted me and started to help me hunt. Through her sources, and coincidentally another breeder reading the forum, we located the current owner of the supposed sire of my mare! Yippee. We have been in touch and the owner is willing to help me out by making a DNA sample available. In a few weeks time, I should know if this horse is in fact Willow's daddy. Fingers crossed, because if it is, my girl is very well bred...
