Rox Dene
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Rox Dene http://community.webshots.com/photo/96290157/1096292596050057682DPPTithttp://community.webshots.com/photo/96290157/1105110667050057682wBoTSA (named after Roxdene of Bermuda) was one of the most famous horses to ever compete in hunter
competition in the United States. She is considered "Hunter Horse of the Century."
The mare won championships at nearly every major horse show, and held the title of USEF Horse of the Year from 1991-1995. She is often held as a standard by which modern hunter horses are judged, possessing an almost perfect jumping form with great bascule
http://community.webshots.com/photo/96290157/1105110460050057682NjcyZg, high knees and tight folding at the knees and ankles http://community.webshots.com/photo/96290157/1096291440050057682meeLje, excellent movement, and wonderful conformation.
Rox Dene's competitive career ended in 1998, and she took up the new role as a brood mare. Her owners began with embryo transfer, but the embryos did not take in the surrogate dams, so she was instead bred using artificial insemination
(AI). She produced two healthy foals using this technique, a chestnut colt named "Rocky Rules" http://community.webshots.com/photo/96290157/1096290329050057682aidkMC and a bay filly named "Roxy" http://community.webshots.com/photo/96290157/1096396357050057682PCBRgn, foaled two years apart. However, her 2000 breeding was lost 5 months after conception, and she lost her 2002 and 2003 foals in the first few months as well.
The Boylens decided to retry breeding Rox Dene using embryo transfer. She was bred to Popeye K
http://www.fieldstone-farm.com/images/popeyek.jpg, another Dutch Warmblood hunter, by whom she produced the filly Eyelet ("Poppy").
Rox Dene is now living in retirement on Pine Meadow Farm in Vass, NC.
Rox Dene has also had a Breyer Horse Model made in her likeness.
Show hunter
The show hunter is a type of show horse that is judged on its movement, manners, and way of going, particularly while jumping fences. The horses are shown in hunt seat style tack, and are often of Warmblood or Thoroughbred type, though a hunter-style pony is also seen in youth classes...
competition in the United States. She is considered "Hunter Horse of the Century."
- Foaled: 1986
- Color: GrayGray (horse)Gray or grey is a coat color of horses characterized by progressive silvering of the colored hairs of the coat. Most gray horses have black skin and dark eyes; unlike many depigmentation genes, gray does not affect skin or eye color Their adult hair coat is white, dappled, or white intermingled...
- Sex: MareMare (horse)A mare is an adult female horse or other equine.In most cases, a mare is a female horse over the age of three, and a filly is a female horse age three and younger. However, in Thoroughbred horse racing, a mare is defined as a female horse more than four years old; in harness racing a mare is a...
- Breed: Dutch WarmbloodDutch WarmbloodA Dutch Warmblood is a warmblood type of horse registered with the Koninklijk Warmbloed Paardenstamboek Nederland A Dutch Warmblood is a warmblood type of horse registered with the Koninklijk Warmbloed Paardenstamboek Nederland A Dutch Warmblood is a warmblood type of horse registered with the...
/ThoroughbredThoroughbredThe Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed... - Breeding: by Aristos B http://community.webshots.com/photo/96290157/1096293184050057682NHxCCH, out of Ninety Nine by Frosty Hai
- Owner: Elaine and Chanda Boylen
- Rider: Laura Kent-Kraut, Bert Mutch, Rodney Bross, and Elizabeth Solter
- Breeder: Susan H. Hice in Marshall, Virginia
The mare won championships at nearly every major horse show, and held the title of USEF Horse of the Year from 1991-1995. She is often held as a standard by which modern hunter horses are judged, possessing an almost perfect jumping form with great bascule
Bascule (horse)
Bascule is the natural round arc a horse's body takes as it goes over a jump. The horse should rise up through its back, stretching its neck forward and down, when it reaches the peak of his jump. Ideally, the withers are the highest point over the fence. This is often described as the horse...
http://community.webshots.com/photo/96290157/1105110460050057682NjcyZg, high knees and tight folding at the knees and ankles http://community.webshots.com/photo/96290157/1096291440050057682meeLje, excellent movement, and wonderful conformation.
Rox Dene's competitive career ended in 1998, and she took up the new role as a brood mare. Her owners began with embryo transfer, but the embryos did not take in the surrogate dams, so she was instead bred using artificial insemination
Artificial insemination
Artificial insemination, or AI, is the process by which sperm is placed into the reproductive tract of a female for the purpose of impregnating the female by using means other than sexual intercourse or natural insemination...
(AI). She produced two healthy foals using this technique, a chestnut colt named "Rocky Rules" http://community.webshots.com/photo/96290157/1096290329050057682aidkMC and a bay filly named "Roxy" http://community.webshots.com/photo/96290157/1096396357050057682PCBRgn, foaled two years apart. However, her 2000 breeding was lost 5 months after conception, and she lost her 2002 and 2003 foals in the first few months as well.
The Boylens decided to retry breeding Rox Dene using embryo transfer. She was bred to Popeye K
Popeye K
Popeye K is a well-known stallion that competes on the "A" circuit in show hunter classes.*Foaled: May 22, 1997 on Ashland Farm in Canada*Color: Bay*Markings: blaze, stockings on all four*Sex: Stallion*Height: 17.1 hh...
http://www.fieldstone-farm.com/images/popeyek.jpg, another Dutch Warmblood hunter, by whom she produced the filly Eyelet ("Poppy").
Rox Dene is now living in retirement on Pine Meadow Farm in Vass, NC.
Rox Dene has also had a Breyer Horse Model made in her likeness.