Ik vond dit wel interessant om te lezen (sorry, wel in het Engels):

http://www.horsemagazine.com/BREEDINGBA ... lions.html

The deputy breeding director of the Hanoverian Verband,
Dr Ludwig Christmann takes a look at the stallions on offer, and comes up with the radical suggestion that perhaps we should be looking to certain jumping horses to breed our top dressage performers!

What are the right partners for Weltmeyer?
"For most breeders the first aim is to produce sellable riding horses, not many are looking to produce a Grand Prix dressage horse, they want a talented riding horse with three good gaits and rideability. We find that Weltmeyer works well with mares with Thoroughbred blood, he has always worked well with Bolero, and he also seems to work well with Lauries Crusador. He himself is not a refining stallion and he is not a stallion to put longer legs on the offspring. Sometimes the walk could be better for the Weltmeyer offspring. So I would say long legged mares with a certain proportion of Thoroughbred blood."
What other stallion is going to play a major role in the next few years?
"Definitely Lauries Crusador xx and his sons. A Thoroughbred stallion like him who in the first generation produces Grand Prix horses, is very rare. Already there is Lesotho with Ellen Schulten-Baumer, and Le Beau in northern Germany with Mr Koch. Falk Rosenbauer has been very successful at Prix St Georges with Little Big Man."
Do you think Dr Bade even dared to hope that a Thoroughbred could produce such horses in the first generation? Or was he hoping that in the second generation his choice would prove itself?
"We don't expect this of a Thoroughbred stallion. Often it is the second cross, not the first cross, but we are lucky with Lauries Crusador who has produced good stallion sons like Longchamp and Londonderry, and they will play a big role."

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What are the qualities that Lauries Crusador brought to Hanoverian breeding? What is his stamp?
"He improves the frame of the horse. He puts on the long legs that we like, and the big shoulders that we hope from a Thoroughbred. What is also very important is the rideability of his offspring. They are very good in their mind, very co-operative, also good for collection. They have good movement and they are really trainable so the movement gets better under saddle."
Did he come straight from the racetrack to Celle?
"No, he came to Celle from England via Holland through the Dutch stallion owner, Henk Nijhoff and the legendary Maas Hell."

http://www.horsemagazine.com/ARTICLES_M ... udwig.html

In retrospect, Thoroughbred stallions are of great importance in the breeding of modern riding horses. We now must think about how we can do these sires justice in the breed value estimation.

http://www.sporthorsepedigree.com/influence.html
There have been many studies done by renowned scholars of Sport Horse breeding considering the influence of the Thoroughbred in the Sport Horse breeds. One of the most famous is the 1937 study done by Count von Lehndorff. In this study he went back to the beginnings of the previous century to calculate the Thoroughbred influence, not just with his native Trakehners, but also in the Hanoverians, Holsteins, and Oldenburgs. What he found is that they all trace back to 74 foundation sires. Of this 74, 62 were Thoroughbred! – (the rest were 7 arab and 2 half-breeds).
A more recent study conducted by the University of Munich in 1992 studied the 188 most successful German show jumpers. They found that overall, these horses averaged 22% Thoroughbred blood, but it was determined that the horses having more than 50% Thoroughbred blood had significantly higher winnings than the others. They also found that these same horses stayed in competition longer. (Nicholas O'Hare) Dr. Peter Birdsall in 1993 published his findings from a study he conducted of the 100 top show jumpers in the world from 1988 to 1991. He determined that 60% of these international stars had more than 50% Thoroughbred blood. (Nicholas O'Hare)