Werites Pregnant!

Finally! After five tries last year and three tries this year, Werites is pregnant to UB-40. Her first and last colt, also be UB, is exceptional, so we're excited about this cross again. I use the "we're" liberally...Michaela is not as excited as the rest of us. She's been riding Werites and is totally in love with her. The mare has had three years off since her shipping injury, and is (knock on wood) finally sound again. I'm sure she'd never hold up to serious, hard-core training again, but it's pretty amazing to see her talent in the dressage ring again. From a breeding standpoint, the only thing I did different with this breeding was to use both doses of fresh-cooled semen at the same time. I decided that maybe the small volume of frozen and single doses of fresh-cooled might be the issue, so I put it all in immediately, then kept the mare on Oxytocin every six hours for the next 24 hours. Not sure what worked, but something did. So, at this point in time, we have three confirmed pregnancies: Orchis to Everdale, Eliscia SSF to Florianus, and Werites SSF to UB-40. We bred D'Orites SSF to Florianus this morning, and will breed Mistral to Contango tomorrow.