Never Bend BetterBREED REGISTRY: ThoroughbredFOALED: 1984HEIGHT: 17.2 hhCOLOR: GreyREG. APPROVED BY: JC, TBHSACHIEVEMENTS: Never Bend Better has been 100 Day Stallion Tested and scored nines in Character and Willingness. He is a grade II eventer and has competed in USDF Dressage qualifying for the Championships. He is an AHSA Combined Training year end champion at intermediate level and reserve champion at preliminary level, a highpoint award winner in USCTA, a PHR Silver Stirrup Award winner, and an American Warmblood Society Highpoint winner. For information about Never Bend Better's latest achievements, please read our newsletterPRODUCTION: His son Rainy Day placed 3rd in the 1993 International Hunter Futurity Finals. His daughter Crimson Abbey successfully competed in AHSA 'A' rated Amateur Owner Jumper (4'6") classes all over the US. His son A Magic Act won his AQHA R.O.M. as a 3 year old and placed 9th in Jr. Working Hunter, at the AQHA World Show as a four year old. His daughter Bonnie Parker finished Top 10, AHSA Zone 7 Yearling Breeding. His 5 year old son Felix is scoring in the 70%'s in dressage. More information about Never Bend Better's offspring can be found in the "Offspring Accolades" section of this site. SIRE'S PEDIGREE: Bend Again (winner 2 races), by Triple Bend, Stakes Winner of $366,760, who held the World Record at 7 furlongs for 12 years. Bend Again's dam,Ormea, imported from Argentine by Spendthrift Farm, won over $100,000 (S.W. US). Triple Bend's sire, Never Bend was Champion 2 Year Old and Leading Sire of England, earning $641,524. He sired 60 Stakes Winners, including: Mill Reef, Horse of the Year in England; and Riverman whose grandson, the US TB, Slaney (Buckpasser dam), now stands in Holland, as an Improver for the Dutch WB registry.DAM'S PEDIGREE: Painted Missile- Sire Fool's Paint had progeny race winnings over $250,000. Great grandsire War Relic (by Man o' War), sired Relic. Exported to Ireland, Relic founded a line which has produced stallions such as Chromatic XX, sire of 6 Approved WB stallions in his first two foal crops in Germany and Pericles XX, one of only four Preferent stallions in Holland. |