Bristol Ridge Farm

Amanda exhibits a hunter-type movement, with very little knee action and a long reaching stride. Because of her injury, she never had a performance career. However, I originally purchased her as a resale project for the hunter market, and I believe she would have been successful due to her generous nature and natural athleticism.

In addition, her pedigree shows an aptitude for performance. Her sire, Turkoman has been a Top 10 sire of steeplechasers. Turkoman's sire is Alydar, who was a very successful sire on the racetrack as well as a sire whose prodigy went on to successful careers in the show ring. Amanda's broodmare sire, What Luck, is a well-known sire of hunters as well. Amanda's full pedigree can be seen Here


Turkoman

Amanda was bred to the Hanoverian stallion Gragenit in 2001, and her first colt, Grantham was born June 16, 2002. She proved to be an exceptional mother. Grantham has many of the best qualities of sire and dam. For instance, he has his mother's height and his father's bone structure. He has Amanda's calm, trusting nature and the laid back attitude of a warmblood. He has a long sweeping stride of a thoroughbred with some added suspension of the warmblood gaits. For more information on Grantham, see his page Here.