United States Sport Horse Breeders Association
2016 Breeders’ Course

Featured Speaker Dr. Christian Schacht
Evaluating Conformation, Movement, & Jumping Technique in the
Modern Sport Horse
March 5-6, 2016
Hilltop Farm in Colora, Maryland
Topics
  • Evaluation of Conformation in Sport Horses
  • Form vs. Function - Conformation’s Impact in the Performing Horse
  • Dr. Paul Loomis & Dr. Dave Scofield from Select Breeders Services will present on Mare Management Techniques & Stallion Management from the Mare Owner’s Viewpoint
  • Insurance Questions for Breeders Answered
  • Nutritional Requirements for the Broodmare & Developing Young Horse
  • Young Horse Trainers Panel Discussion
The weekend will include a combination of lectures, Q&A time, demonstrations & practical evaluation with live horses.
Course Registration
Seminar Registration Includes: Saturday & Sunday seminars, breakfast & lunch each day, and Saturday evening dinner.
Registration (Non-Member)..........................................................$395.00
Registration (2016 USSHBA Member Rate)................................$295.00
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Christian Schacht
Christian Schacht is a fourth generation equestrian and has extensive experience breeding sport horses as well as competing through Prix St. Georges and in 1,40 m show jumping. Dr. Schacht holds a FEI judging license for jumping and dressage license in Germany up to I1 and judges competitions across the world. In 1993 he received his degree from the famous vet school at Hannover and during his stay at the university he worked as an auction rider, winning the German Championship for student riders two times. Upon graduation, he became professional rider earning the Steensbeck medal. In 1999 he obtained three master degrees issued by the German government in riding, breeding and management of horses. From 2006 to 2013 he has been the Breeding Director of the ISR/Oldenburg of North America, the largest organization of its kind in the US. Since 2013 he is one of the main judges for the Young horse Show series provided by Spy Coast Farm KY. He has published several books and is well known international speaker, traveling across the world for clinics, judging, and speeches.

Dr. Dave Scofield​
Dr. Scofield grew up in Delaware and on the eastern shore of Maryland. After college in North Carolina, he received his DVM from Oklahoma State University in 2009. Following graduation, Dr. Scofield completed an internship at Weatherford Equine Medical Center in Weatherford, Texas and later joined Colorado State University’s Equine Reproduction Laboratory for a residency in Equine Reproduction. His research focused on anti-microbial agents for bacterial and fungal infections in mares.

At SBS-Veterinary Services, his day-to-day activities include managing reproductively challenged mares and stallions, embryo transfer, foaling mares, high-risk pregnancies, and neonatal foals.  He has a keen interest in equine and canine reproduction and is excited to expand the canine services at SBS to include semen cryopreservation, storage, distribution, and reproductive management of the female.
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He has presented at both the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) and the American College of Theriogenologists (ACT) annual conferences and published multiple peer-reviewed papers. He passed the certifying exam for Diplomate status in the American College of Theriogenologists (Board Certification in Reproduction) in 2012.

Russell Crawford
I am a third generation equine specialty agent. My grandfather was a large insurance industry professional starting in the 1920’s.  His brother was the head trainer for Calumet Farms from Lexington Kentucky.  My grandfather founded Thoroughbred Service Corp. and during his career helped create many of the coverages that are the basis of the mortality insurance contract of today. Both my parents were equine insurance agents, with my father also having been a fire engineer for the Royal Globe Liverpool Insurance Group.  They operated their own specialty Equine Insurance Agency for over 30 years, handling many celebrity clients before finally selling their business.

For over ten years I ran the equine division for the purchaser, building up that agency to one of the largest equine based divisions in the US, outside of Kentucky. In October 1998 I formed Equine Brokerage.   I have run Equine Brokerage as a niche insurance agency, only handling a select clientele.  I am now going into my 19th year.  I handle all breeds; thoroughbreds, Standardbreds, hunter jumpers, equitation, and dressage.  We provide all risks for mortality and breeding covers, as well as farm structure and liability coverage.  I am one of two or three agents in the country who is appointed by the only two insurance companies that provide workers compensation coverage for farms and training stables. We have a broad range of market accessibility, and can design the exact policy that will work for each client. 
Paul Loomis
Paul Loomis is the Founder and CEO of Select Breeders Services, the largest provider of equine semen preservation services in the world, specializing in semen freezing, storage, domestic and International distribution. SBS owns two laboratories in the US, with headquarters in Chesapeake City, MD and a second facility in Aubrey, TX.  Together these two facilities store more than 85,000 doses of frozen semen and process over 1300 domestic and international frozen semen shipments per year. SBS also established an International network of Affiliated Laboratories which today consists of 23 veterinary clinics worldwide dedicated to providing quality frozen semen services using the technology developed by SBS over the last 28 years.

Paul is a 1982 graduate of Colorado State University where he earned a Master’s degree in Reproductive Physiology and conducted research on developing techniques for successful cryopreservation of Stallion sperm.  He has also managed a large sport horse breeding farm and has previously served as the Director of Biological Research for Hamilton-Thorn where he worked on development of the Equitainer system for cooled semen and computerized sperm motility analysis instruments.

Paul has been an invited speaker at scientific and veterinary meetings around the world and has authored numerous scientific publications and popular articles on a variety of equine reproduction topics.
Dr. Kathleen Crandell
Dr. Kathleen Crandell earned her MS in Equine Nutrition and Exercise Physiology and PhD in Equine Nutrition and Reproduction from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). Dr. Crandell was Superintendent of the Virginia Tech Middleburg Agricultural Research and Extension Center (MARE Center), where she ran the equine research center and the breeding program, which was home to over 100 Thoroughbred horses. In addition, she and her husband have had a small breeding operation of their own.

She has been an equine nutrition consultant for Kentucky Equine Research (KER) for 19 years, responsible for support of the national and international feed mills associated with KER with feed formulation, advising on issues of manufacturing and packaging of equine feeds, educating sales personnel on equine nutrition, and customer equine feeding recommendations.  She also provides recommendations for nutritional programs of individual horses or farms and equine publications and has consulted for some of the top equine competitors in the US.  Dr. Crandell has presented nutritional seminars for education of the general equine public, veterinary organizations and scientific community around the world.  For KER she writes articles on specific topics in equine nutrition for KER publications and Equinews.com website, an equine nutrition information website.  Dr. Crandell also has written book chapters, articles in refereed journals and popular press magazines.    

​In addition, Dr. Crandell is an Instructor for Equine Guelph, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, teaching an online advanced equine nutrition course “Advanced Equine Health through Nutrition”, an in-depth study of nutritional related diseases and disorders. Dr. Crandell has been awarded a John H. Daniels Fellowship at the National Sporting Library in Middleburg, Virginia two consecutive years to study equine nutrition and laminitis. She is an avid trail rider and over the last 25 years has competed in both Competitive Trail and Endurance. 

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