04/21/2026
Feather Bloom ( Mr Blue /Calvados Keur) did it again. Not only she was awarded the Preferent Predicate but this picture here is of her last filly, Summer Bloom by Conthargos. She won the 2025 Gert Van Den Veen Award for the best 3-5 years old mare in the KWPN North American Tour. She was honoured with the Ster Predicate and is Keur eligible.
What is most amazing is Feather Bloom had only 6 foals and it takes 3 Ster progeny to get this coveted Preferent Predicate. And Summer is her second filly of hers to get the Gert Van den Veen Award. I am very proud of both of them.
But nothing being perfect, Feather wasn't the most fertile mare unless she chose her mate it seems. She had an illegitimate son after jumping two fences to join the stallion pen ( yes she is a good jumper). Despite her difficulty to conceive and action to terminate any possible unwanted pregnancy, she kept this one... and when born in February only the DNA could say who was the unapproved dad! Go figure out how nature always gets his way.
And now she only has one o***y as she had one removed that had a tumor. So that could be her last foal BUT she gave her best shot in my opinion! 😆
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