Loukas T

04/20/2025

2023 c**t by Loukas T, ‘Loki’ got 3rd overall in the United States for Westfalen verband on the same token his mother won the AHS mare high inspection of the year. So exciting! Go Luka babies!!

11/20/2024

When ya have had the summer off and ya come back to work with a fresh haircut 💁‍♀️

10/30/2024

2023 + 2024. Loukas T babies

My pretty babies 🥰 “Let’s Tell the T” aka Toddy my yearling gelding on the left, and “Spill the T” aka Cinder my coming 6month old filly on the right. Both sired by LOUKAS T and are out of my Tb mare, ALLIE GRACE aka Ginger.

A big thanks to and their 🌸. So important to have the proper nutrients with no fillers for the broodmares and babies to grow them right. So pleased with their growing and conditioning.

Both kiddos were premium at their inspections and the judges commented on how well built and conditioned they were ❤️So excited to have them out and competing in a couple of years.

10/30/2024

Do Recipient Mares Pass Traits to Foals?

ONE RESEARCHER DESCRIBES WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE RECEIVING MARE’S EFFECT ON THE FOAL IN EMBRYO TRANSFER SCENARIOS.
RECIPIENT MARE SIZE MATTERS

In a recent study French researchers tested the effect of recipient mare size and breed on the growth and hormone levels of the foals they carried. Pauline Peugnet, PhD, of the French Agricultural Research Institute, in Jouy-en-Josas, and her team transferred pony, saddle horse, and draft horse embryos into recipient pony, saddle, and draft mares. While many of the embryos went into the “right” size mares (and were used as controls), Peugnet’s group also “mixed up” the sizes, putting pony embryos in draft mares and saddle horse embryos into pony mares, for example.

They found that saddle horse foals from pony mares weighed 37% less than foals born from saddle mares, but they spent on average two weeks longer in the uterus. Pony foals from draft mares were born about a week earlier than ponies from pony mares, and they were 57% heavier at birth. The recipient mare also affected wither height, leg bone length, barrel circumference, and growth rate, Peugnet says. And certain hormone levels—namely insulin and growth factors—varied considerably among sibling foals born from different kinds of mares.

—Christa Lesté Lasserre

Photo: “Don Dia” 03/12/2024 Hanoverian filly out of 16hh 2014 Premium (elite) Hanoverian mare Boudicca (Benidetto (X Belissimo) X EM Diva (Premium (elite))x Donnerhall) by Don Quichot, 17.1hh international GP dressage stallion, (now deceased)

10/13/2024

More to be proud of!
I’m four for 4!
Four foals , four First premiums.
Judged in the Holsteiner / Hanoverian and Westphalian stud books!