British Breeder Online Feb 2019 issue

BRITISH 

BREEDER 

February 2019 

February 2019 

Stallion 

EVENT 

2019 

STALLION PROGRAMME 

Your Guide to the Stallions 

Appearing at the Event 

UPDATE: 

The Equine Bridge 

& Futurity 

GARUDA K: 

Stallion 

Spotlight 

RAMIRO B: 

The Great Sire 

Remembered 

BREEDER PROFILE 

Shirley Light & 

Brendon Stud 

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Welcome 

the recent British Breeders Dinner 

where Futurity champions were 

celebrated. 

FEBRUARY ISSUE - WHAT’S INSIDE 

To this very special edition of the 

British Breeder magazine which 

includes profiles for all the stallions 

entered for the Stallion Event. This 

year’s Event promises to be the biggest 

to date with over 80 stallions being 

presented. We are extremely grateful 

to Competition Stallions and Baileys 

Horse Feeds for their ongoing support. 

With the uncertainty of Brexit still 

looming, mare owners have no 

guarantee that they will be able to 

import chilled semen from Europe 

without delay or restriction. Therefore 

it is even more important to consider 

our home-based stallions. With 

international show jumpers, sires of 5 

star eventers, blue-blooded dressage 

horses, and proven producers of 

amateur friendly mounts, there is so 

much choice for every breeding 

programme. I don’t think there has 

ever been such a strong selection of 

bloodlines to choose from on British 

soil. 

In this edition we also meet Shirley 

Light of Brendon Stud who discusses 

their show jumping breeding 

programme, and meet Trakehner Grand 

Prix dressage stallion Garuda K. 

As ever we celebrate the wonderful 

broodmares who consistently produce 

talented sporthorses. This time we 

focus on the Billy Stud’s Annagroff, dam 

of rising star Billy Diamo. There is 

studbook news and reports from the 

biggest winter shows and images from 

The British Breeding Futurity was 

revamped in 2018 to great acclaim 

with a panel of discipline specific 

and international judges. The linear 

profiling system used to evaluate the 

young horses has been enhanced again 

for 2019 and is proving to be one of 

the most sophisticated systems in use 

in Europe. Dates for the two weeks 

of Futurity assessments are due to be 

released shortly. 

The Equine Bridge is also set to be 

relaunched in 2019 with the three 

Olympic disciplines in full support. 

The best of the stock assessed at the 

Futurity will be invited to participate 

and the scheme will really bring 

together our best riders, producers 

and young horses. The production of 

young horses to ensure they fulfil their 

potential is a key topic for the British 

Breeding group, and one that will be 

developed over the next few years. 

What I am most looking forward to in 

2019 is being able to report on more 

British bred success at every level. 

2018 saw incredible results in all three 

disciplines from young horse 

championships all the way through to 

the World Equestrian Games. 

With the quality of our mare base, the 

enthusiasm of our breeders and the 

talent of our riders, British bred 

success in sport is set to become 

commonplace. 

Sacha Shaw - Editor 

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2019 Stallion Event Programme. 

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Stallion Event 

AES Studbook News 

BHHS Studbook News 

NPS Studbook News 

Trakehner Studbook News 

SHB(GB) Studbook News 

SPSS Studbook News 

Breeder Profile - Brendon Stud 

Great British Broodmares - Annagroff 

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Stallion Spotlight - Garuda K 

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NEWS 

DATES FOR 2019 

February 

16th February – The British Stallion Event – Addington 

March 

6th – 10th March : Myerscough College – BD Premier League & Young Horse Qualifier 

30th March : Blue Barn Equestrian Centre - BD Young Horse Qualifier 

April 

4th April : Fieldhouse Equestrian Centre - BD Young Horse Qualifier 

9th April : West Wilts EC - SHB(GB) Spring Stallion Grading 

14th April : Hunters - BD Young Horse Qualifier 

20th April : Wales & West – BS Big Star 6 Year Old Qualifier 

21st April : Pachesham - BD Young Horse Qualifier 

26th - 28th April : Keysoe – BD Premier League & Young Horse & Pony Qualifier 

28th April : Weston Lawns – BS Big Star 6 Year Old Qualifier 

28th April : Widmer - BD Young Horse Qualifier 

May 

1st - 5th May : Badminton Horse Trials, including stallion parade and BYEH qualifier 

2nd - 6th May : Chepstow CSI** including young horse classes 

4th May : Onley Grounds Equestrian Centre - BD Young Horse Qualifier 

8th - 12th May : Windsor International Horse Show 

10th - 12th May : Addington Equestrian Ltd - BD Premier League & Young Horse Qualifier 

10th - 12th May : Floors Castle International Event including BYEH qualifier 

11th - 12th May : Chatsworth International Event including BYEH qualifier 

14th May : Manor Grange Stud - BD Young Horse & Pony Qualifier 

17th May : Kings Sedgemoor - BD Young Horse Qualifier 

17th May : Kingswood - BD Young Pony Qualifier 

17th - 19th May : Rockingham Castle International Event including BYEH qualifier 

23rd - 26th May : Houghton International Event including BYEH qualifier 

24th - 27th May : Somerford - BD Premier League & Young Horse Qualifier 

24th May : South View - BS Big Star 6 Year Old Qualifier 

25th - 26th May : Hambleton Show including BYEH qualifier 

29th May : Northallerton - BD Young Horse Qualifier 

29th May : Yorkshire Sport Horse Show including BYEH qualifier 

31st May : Oldencraig - BD Young Horse Qualifier 

Feb 

16th 

The Stallion 

Event, 

Addington 

MUST 

NOT 

MISS!! 

www.british-breeding.com 

For all the latest news on Futurity, 

Magazine, Equine Bridge, 

Stallion Event and Parades... 

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2018 

IN REVIEW 

2018 proved to be a very successful 

year for the British breeding industry 

on the international stage and this 

must encourage more and more riders 

to look at home when sourcing their 

next competition ride. 

The highlight must be the World 

Equestrian Games where 50% of the 

British bronze medal winning dressage 

team consisted of British bred horses 

– Hawtins Delicato (Diamond Hit x 

Regazzoni) and Super Nova II (De Niro 

x Weltmeyer) and a third, Dono Di 

Maggio, is by the British owned stallion 

Dimaggio. 

Also British bred was the eventing 

individual silver medallist Mr Chunky 

(Jumbo x Sergeant Drummer), ridden 

by Irishman Padraig McCarthy. There 

were no medals in the show jumping 

but two outstanding individual 

performances came from Australian 

Rowan Willis on Blue Movie (Chacco 

Blue x Pilot) and Israel’s Danielle 

Goldstein on Lizziemary (Cabri D’Elle 

x Acord II). Lizziemary had a fabulous 

season winning the CSI***** Grand Prix 

at Wellington and top placings on the 

Global Champions Tour. 

Sticking with show jumping, our 

August cover celebrated the Billy Stud 

breeding a Hickstead Derby winner 

when William Funnell rode Billy 

Buckingham (Billy Congo x Clover Hill) 

to victory. Kim Barzilay’s homebred 

Kimba Flamenco ( Je T’Aime Flamenco 

x Heartbreaker) was an impressive 

winner of the 5 star Falsterbo Grand 

Prix under Billy Twomey, and the pair 

were only just touched off in CSI**** 

Grand Pix at Bolesworth, and won the 

Grand Prix at Vejer de la Frontera. 

Eventing saw two of the 4 star events 

won by British bred mares, both 

ridden by New Zealander Jonelle 

Price. First of all was a Badminton 

victory sealed by a masterclass across 

country riding Classic Moet (Classic x 

Bohemond). This was followed by a 

win at Luhmuhlen on Trisha Rickard’s 

home bred Faerie Dianimo (Dimaggio x 

Catherston Dazzler). 

These are just a few of the 

outstanding British bred horses that hit 

the headlines in 2018. 2019 looks set 

to fill this magazine with many more 

incredible British achievements. 

NEWS 

Jonelle Price and Classic Moet at Badminton 2018 

Image courtesy Kit Houghton 

RAMIRO B 

The team at British Breeding were very sad to hear of the passing of 

Ramiro B. One of the very best event sires ever to have stood in the 

UK. 

Ramiro B was diagnosed with irreversible kidney failure at the age 

of 24. Ramiro B had been standing in the UK since 2011, and has 

consistently been one of the most popular Eventing Sires in the World, 

currently standing at number 6 on the World Breeding Federation 

Eventing Sire rankings. 

His progeny had their most successful year to date in 2018, with Cooley 

Master Class winning the Rolex Kentucky CCI 4* with Oliver Townend, 

followed by Cooley SRS achieving runner up spot at Badminton Horse 

Trials also with Oliver later in the Spring. 

Nina Barbour, owner of Ramiro B said: 

‘Ramiro B owes us nothing. It was a real shock for us this week, when 

the team at Leahurst diagnosed him with irreversible kidney failure, 

following a deterioration in his appetite. He has been much loved and 

I am very grateful to both the teams at Stallion AI and Bolesworth who 

have looked after him beautifully to the end. We will all miss him very 

much, but it is a comfort that we have frozen semen stored and will 

be able to continue his legacy for some time to come.’ 

Ramiro B’s frozen semen will be available for 2019 from Stallions AI. 

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NEWS 

2018 OLYMPIA 

International Show 

El Wee Widge - Image courtesy of Olympia 

Was a successful event 

for British Breeders in 

the FEI 5 star classes 

in both dressage and 

showjumping. 

British breeding was dominant in the 

2018 Dressage World Cup qualifier at 

Olympia with no less than 4 of the top 

5 born here in the UK. 

The Winner - Frederic Wandres & Duke 

of Britain (Dimaggio x Rubinstein) BHHS 

Bred by Sarah & Tony Pidgley 

2nd - Charlotte Dujardan & Hawtins 

Delicato (Diamond Hit x ) BHHS Bred by 

Judith Hawtins 

4th - Hayley Watson-Greaves & Rubins 

Nite (Rubin Royal x Limbo) BHHS bred 

by E Richmond-Watson 

5th - Richard Davison & Bubblingh 

(Lingh x Picandt) KWPN bred by Richard 

Davison. 

Interestingly the rest of the line up had 

2 more Rubin Royal sons, 1 Lusitano, 1 

by a show jumper, a Selle Francais with 

a Holstein jumping sire line, a Danish 

horse with a Trakehner sire line and a 

Dutch Warmblood from the important 

Ferro sire line. 

Duke of Britain had already won a 

World Cup qualifier in 2018 at Zakrzow 

and had good placings at Aachen and 

Falsterbo. He was also 4th in the 6 

year old young horse championships in 

Verden. His sire Dimaggio is still the 

most important sire of dressage horses 

in the UK, consistently producing 

huge numbers of horses successful at 

Regional, National and International 

level. The dam Real Gold proved to be 

a fantastic producer for the Pidgley’s, 

as she is also the dam of Beltoni (by 

Belissimo M), Performance test winner, 

5 year old National Champion and 

small tour winner for Vicki Thompson- 

Winfield. She produced a full brother 

to Duke of Britain called Dinamic who 

qualified for the Bundeschampionate 

and is a breeding stallion in Germany. 

Duke of Britain. Image courtesy of Olympia 

Since being sold Real Gold has also 

produced the Bundeschampion Bitcoin 

OLD (by Bordeaux). 

The Billy Stud had a strong showing 

in the international show jumping 

classes. Darragh Kenny was just pipped 

to victory in the opening class on 

Billy Dorito (Billy Mexico x Vechta) 

and there was another 2nd place in a 

1.50m class for Billy McCain (Cevin Z x 

Cruising). The consistency of the stud’s 

breeding programme continued on the 

Thursday with Billy Angelo (Tangelo x 

Kroongraaf) again taking the runner up 

slot. Will Funnell rode this 15 year old 

into the runner up slot once again on 

Friday in the accumulator. A fourth Billy 

bred horse came into the placings on 

Saturday night, with Billy Diamo (Cevin 

Z x Andiamo) one of only 4 clears in the 

1.55m class. 

The opening international class of 

the show also saw a 4th placing for 

the Hales’ homebred SFS Vincomte, 

a Veni Vidi Vici son. Victory in the 

major class on the Thursday was not 

directly one for British breeding, 

but indirectly as the winner was the 

British breeding stallion Golden Hawk, 

available through Breen Equestrian. 

Shane Breen was also victorious on the 

final day in the Masters with another 

of his breeding stallions – the Caretino 

son Clyde VA. Friday’s top class was 

the Longines Christmas Cracker stakes, 

and this saw the AES registered and 

British bred mare El Wee Widge, 

ridden by Robert Whitaker and owned 

by his uncle Michael, topping a 13 

strong jump off. The 9 year old gelding 

was bred by Mark Evans of Castell 

Sport Horses by the Dutch bred but 

French influenced stallion Wheaweij de 

Landetta. 

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NEWS 

The Theraplate 

UK Liverpool 

International 

Horse Show 

The Theraplate UK Liverpool International 

Horse Show ran for the 4th time over the 

Christmas and New Year break and once 

again proved to be the perfect compromise 

between top class sporting action and family 

entertainment. Four star show jumping, the 

biggest names in British dressage, opera 

singers, motorbikes, shetlands….. and all 

being live streamed across the globe. 

This made Liverpool a great showcase for 

British breeding and the first international 

class on the opening day resulted in victory for 

the British bred Simply Splendid (by Ustinov, 

bred by C Robson) and Scot James Smith. 

The following day the main class was won by 

Harriet Nuttall on Galway Bay Lad, a son of 

international competitor Romanov bred by 

Justin Burke, after a 12 horse jump off had 

the crowd on the edge of their seats. 

Class sponsors Voltaire Design are fittingly also 

Harriet’s sponsors. The pair were also runners 

up in the Grand Prix, rounding off a fantastic 

week for Harriet. The Grand Prix winner was 

Shane Breen on the British based breeding 

stallion Golden Hawk (Vigo D Arsouilles x Chin 

Chin) and in third place British bred 

Billy Diamo ridden by Will Funnell. 

The very popular Puissance also saw British 

victory for the Renwick’s Top Dollar IV, bred 

by Sue Clark. The big scopey Dollar Du Murier 

son is normally ridden by Laura Renwick, but 

on this occasion Matthew Sampson took the 

ride. 

Remarkably all these horses are registered 

with the Anglo European Studbook, except 

Golden Hawk who is licensed with them. 

New Young Horse Championship 

The team behind Liverpool Horse Show, 

headed by Nina Barbour are also the team 

behind Bolesworth. Based on the success 

of these two shows, British Showjumping 

recently announced the move of their Young 

Horse Championships to a new show to be run 

at the Cheshire showground. This new event 

will be run from August 13th-18th and will 

incorporate the qualifiers for the Young Horse 

World Championships at Lanaken. 

Harriet Nuttall and Galway Bay Lad. 

Image courtesy of Liverpool International Horse Show 

The show will also include CSI** international 

classes and a British bred foal auction. 

Article by Sacha Shaw 

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NEWS 

Heritage Arrrakis 

Eventing Equine Bridge. 

EQUINE BRIDGE 

& Futurity 

There are some exciting developments in the pipeline for 

2019 from the British Breeding team. The first of these is 

the return of the Equine Bridge. The Bridge is a transition 

for the best youngstock from the Futurity programme, 

into a training and development scheme, the aim being to 

ensure these talented youngsters get into the right hands. 

On the flip side, our top British producers and riders get an 

opportunity to source pre-selected and high quality young 

sport horses on home soil. 

The date of the 2019 Equine Bridge day has been confirmed 

as 14th & 15th October at Addington Manor. Keep an eye on 

the www.british-breeding.com website for details on the 

Bridge programme and how to qualify. 

Futurity 

Planning is already underway for the 2019 Futurity series, 

with the series again starting at the end of July, with a 

week of assessments, followed by a second week at the 

end of August. All the dates and venues will be announced 

in full detail in the May edition of the magazine. This year 

there will be specific dates for 3 year old eventers and 

show jumpers, with the option of a preceding training 

day to ensure the young prospects have the maximum 

opportunity to impress. 

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International Workshop 

Dr Eva Broomer has been invited to give a talk on the 

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NEWS 

BRITISH BREEDING 

Baileys Futurity Awards Winners 

Britannia’s Mail - Advanced Event Stallion 

Stunning looks, a beautiful mover with an exceptional technique over a fence 

Born in 2008, 7/8 TB, 16.1 hh / SHB (GB), Approved AES 

SHB The No (GB), 1 stallion Approved choice Anglo for 2019 Eupean Studbook 

Presented by Jane Buchan of Baileys Horse 

Feeds at the 21st British Horse Foundations 

Breeders Dinner Saturday 13th January. 

Foal - Esme X 

All images courtesy of Craig Payne Photography. 

Main Photo by Bob Atkins 

Britannia’s Mail is a “Brit Legacy” elite syndicated stallion by Olympic Show Jumper Jaguar 

Mail out of triple 5* winner Olympic Medallist Headley Britannia. 

Britannia’s Mail is stunning looking, has three super paces, exceptional technique over a 

fence and is incredibly careful, sure-footed and quick across country. After seven seasons 

eventing he continues to prove himself to be an outstandingly tough, sound and confident 

competition horse, and his relaxed, affectionate, honest and kind temperament is coming 

through in his young stock. 

Britannia’s Mail is progressing in his International career to meet his parents’ successes and 

will continue to compete together with his sister Little Britannia around the UK and Europe 

at the new International 4* level in 2019. 

Semen is available for UK and European Distribution. £800 + VAT 

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Yearling - Hammerwood Flamingo 

2 Year Old - Cundlegreen Garanwyn 

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Certificate of Merit Awards 

NEWS 

Presented by Eva-Maria Broomer of The British Breeding Partnership 

at the British Horse Foundations Breeders Dinner Saturday 13th January. 

WFD Daiangello Argentus Catherston Tick Tock 

Crocket Kylie Masterclass 

SB River of Faith Summer Solstice Sunny Side Up 

All images courtesy of Craig Payne Photography. 

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After last year’s success, we are 

delighted to return to Addington Manor 

to bring you a wonderful line up of 

truly top class Stallions of all ages for 

the 2019 British Breeding Stallion Event 

run in Association with Competition 

Stallions and kindly sponsored by 

Baileys Horse Feeds. 

• The Event starts at 10am with 

the Showjumping Stallions 

followed by the Eventers. 

• Before the Eventing Stallions 

start, we will be treated to a 

display rarely seen of Arko III and 

his sons. 

• We break for lunch approximately 

12.30pm. 

• After lunch, before we resume 

with the Eventing Stallions we 

will be holding our own tribute 

to Ramiro B supported by Harthill 

Stud. 

• Once the Eventers are completed 

we will have a short break while 

the Arena is cleared before 

the Dressage Stallions kick the 

afternoon off. 

The Stables will be OPEN for Stallion 

viewing from lunchtime onwards so 

please take time to go and visit the 

Stallions you are interested in, get 

to see them close up and speak to 

their connections. 

Around the Arena are trade stands 

of the top Breeding professionals 

in the Country alongside the 

major studbooks. 

Please take the time to visit 

the trade stands. 

The full running order of the day 

is available from the entrance. 

Trade Stands 

AES - Anglo European Studbook - www.angloeuropeanstudbook.co.uk 

B & W Equine - www.bwequinevets.co.uk 

Baileys Horse Feeds - www.baileyshorsefeeds.co.uk 

Bolesworth International - www.bolesworthinternational.com 

British Breeding - www.british-breeding.com 

Clements Equine / Rossdales - www.rossdales.com | www.clementsequine.com 

eVet & Chiltern Equine - www.evetdrug.co.uk | www.chilternequine.co.uk 

Elite Foal Tour & Equus Vets - www.elitefoals.co.uk | www.equusvets.co.uk 

Elite Stallions - www.elitestallions.co.uk 

Protexin - www.equinepremium.com 

Royal Equestrian - www.royalequestrian.co.uk 

SHB(GB) - Sports Horse GB - www.sporthorsegb.co.uk 

SPSS - Sports Pony Studbook Society - www.sportpony.org.uk 

Stallions AI Services - www.stallionsai.com 

Tomlinson Equine - www.tomlinsonequinevets.co.uk 

Towcester Equine Vets - www.towcester-vets.co.uk 

Twemlows - www.twemlows.co.uk 

West Kington Stud - www.westkingtonstud.co.uk 

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British Breeding Stallion Event 


Argento 

Argento needs no introduction. 

He is the product of careful 

breeding, crossing the legendary 

Olympic stallion, Arko III 

(Argentinus x Beach Boy) with 

the British bred dam Flora 

May (Gasper x Crespino XX). 

Argento is the best-known son 

of the world famous Arko III, 

with an ever-growing list of 

1 

achievements including over 

16 Grand Prix wins under John 

Whitaker, most recently a 

victory in the 1.55/1.60m - GCL 

Team Competition Round 2 at 

the CSI 5* at Chantilly 2018. 

In 2014, he was the second 

biggest money winner in the 

UK and in 2015, he topped the 

World Breeding Federation 

for Sport Horses World 

Rankings list. Argento is also 

accredited with Gold British 

showjumping Stallion status by 

British Showjumping. Notable 

progeny include the 8 year old 

stallions Bazento and Areba II, 

both of which are competing 

successfully at CSI2* level. 

2003 Bay 

Height: 16.1hh (165cm) 

Stud Book: AES 

Grading: AES Graded ‘Elite’ 

Stud Fee: £1000 + VAT with LFG for fresh & chilled. 

£450 VAT per straw with not terms for frozen 

Stands At: Stallion AI Services 

Contact: Tullis Matson 

Tel: 01948 666295 

Email: office@stallionai.com 

Website: www.stallionai.co.uk 

Arko III 

Flora May 

Argentinus 

Unike 

Gasper 

Perdi 

Showjumping 

Argentan 

Dorle 

Beach Boy 

Unique 

Jasper 

Vulita 

San Michele 

Rosita 

Arko III 

2 

1994 Bay 

Showjumping 

Arko is by the prestigious, 

world famous Argentinus who 

was Champion Oldenburg and 

Hanoverian Stallion of the 

Year 2005. His Dam, Unika, 

was number 1 show jumper 

in Europe for 5 years and was 

voted the no.1 in the World for 

2 years. Unika is sired by Beach 

Boy. 

Arko’s earnings to date are 

over £1 Million, and he was the 

Number 1 horse in Europe 3 

years running in 2004, 2005 and 

2007.He is also the only horse to 

be given lifetime membership 

of British Showjumping for his 

outstanding achievements. In 

addition to the outstanding 

progeny listed below, he is also 

the sire of successful young 

up and coming horses such 

as, Arkuga & Gerko III van de 

Zeilhoek. 

Arko III passes on his 

phenomenal scope coupled 

with a careful technique & 

outstanding temperament. 

Height: 16.2hh (167.6cm) 

Stud Book: Oldenburg 

Grading: KWPN, AES Elite, SF, OS, Hann, BWP, ISH, Z 

Stud Fee: £1,100 + VAT 



Tel: 01948 666295 



Argentinus 

Unika 

Argentan 

Darle 

Beach Boy 

Unique 

Absatz 

Worms 

Duden II 

Winterrose 

Zeus 

Safane 

Onyx 

Monique-Utopia 

Ashdale Legend 

3 

2013 Bay 

Showjumping 

Ashdale Legend, who is licensed 

by Breeders Elite, combines two 

of the best European stallions 

with Luidam and Lux Z. 

His sire Luidam has won 

international Grand Prix’s and 

Nations Cups all over the world, 

as well as competing in all the 

major Championships. He has 

also already produced numerous 

progeny winning at the highest 

level. 

Lux Z also brings the blood 

of a Grand Prix winning and 

producing stallion. 

Ashdale Legend himself has 

all the qualities required for a 

modern day sports horse. He 

has a fantastic temperament, 

is super brave, scopey and 

shows a great technique over 

the fence. He is currently 

competing in 1.20m and 5yr old 

classes. 

His full sister “Ashdale Luxara” 

is competing internationally up 

to 1.60m level, including many 

placings in international Grand 

Prix’s 


Stud Book: 

Grading: Licensed Breeders Elite 

Stud Fee: £600 + VAT LFG 



Tel: 01948 666295 



Luidam 

Lux Good 

Guidam 

Eljenohve 

Lux Z 

Imenta 

Quidam de Revel 

Fougere 

Akteur 

Poline 

Lord Calando 

Apocalypte Z 

Concorde 

Camenta 


Sponsored by 

Balou for Pleasure 

4 

2014 Bay 

Showjumping 

This stunning young stallion 

by Balou du Rouet combines 

fabulous bloodlines on both the 

sire and the dam (For Pleasure) 

with a modern and an athletic 

type. 

Currently graded with the 

Anglo European and British 

Warmblood Society. 

He has already proved himself 

a worthy winner of the British 

Breeders Supreme Championship 

2017 and his superb 

temperament and star quality 

shown through. 

He was the highest graded 3 

year old showjumper 2017. 

He was an Elite foal at futurity 

2014 and was also the highest 2 

year old across all disciplines in 

2016 at the BEF futurity. 

Balou for Pleasure has an 

outstanding natural and scopey 

jump with huge presence and is 

a fabulous character. This young 

stallion has shown huge promise 

this year and is competing in 

Discovery and Young Horse 

classes including Hickstead. 


Stud Book: AES , BWB 

Grading: AES Graded 

Stud Fee: £550 Chilled £400 Frozen 

Stands At: Buntingford, Hertfordshire 

Contact: Lisa Maynard 

Tel: 07837 655309 

Email: lisa.maynard@hotmail.co.uk 

Balou du Rouet 

Lordships La 

Rochelle 

Baloubet du Rouet 

Georgia 

Landmark 

Lordships Ferien 

Galoubet A 

Mesange du Rouet 

Continue 

Georgette ll 

Lancier 

Goldstern 

For Pleasure 

Waldlady 

Barrowby Lord Darcy 

5 

2015 Buckskin/Grey 

Showjumping 

Elite Premium Eventing 

Sport Pony Stallion, Licensed 

Connemara, Dually Graded 

with the Sport Pony Studbook 

Society.2018’s Highest scoring 3 

year old in the British Futurity 

series with an average score 

of 9.1 

His potential as a sire and 

competition pony is very 

exciting. Darcy’s outlook and 

current performance to date is 

just super, he has an amazing 

child friendly temperament, 

intelligence and technique 

when jumping and Correct 

Conformation - non of which 

came by chance, he derives 

from proven performance 

bloodlines in Showjumping and 

Eventing, with a history of 

European Team producing sires 

and competitive Pony Grand 

Prix successors in Europe. 

His sire Drummore Sea Breeze, 

comes from the performance 

line of Castle Gizmo, Moy Hazy 

Cove and Canal Misty Fionn. 

His Dam Cill Bhrid Judy was 

awarded a broodmare diploma 

by the BEF Futurity. 


Stud Book: Connemara 

Grading: BCPS & SPSS 

Stud Fee: £400 NFFR 

Stands At: Barrowby Connemaras, Grange Barn, Moor Lane, 

Harrogate, HG3 1HU 

Contact: Frankie Lee 

Tel: 07803752345 

Email: barrowbyconnemaras@outlook.com 

Website: www.barrowbyconnemaras.co.uk 

Drummore Sea 

Breeze 

Cill Bhrid Judy 

Castle Gizmo 

Castlestrange Katie 

Woodbrook Cognac 

Anner Erica 

Moy Hazy Cove 

Castle Misty 

Windy Day 

Glencarrig Katie 

The Fugitive 

Kiltulla Snowdrop 

Ormond Oliver 

Ballingary Mountain 

Branduardi 

6 

2006 Chestnut 

Dressage 

Branduardi’s stunningly compact 

frame gives him the ability to 

move expressively and fluently 

with three exceptional paces. 

His trainability is highlighted by 

his outstanding temperament, 

which has stood out throughout 

his entire career. As a young 

horse he started training with 

Kathrin Meyer Zu Strohen and 

at only 5 years old qualified 

for the 2011 World Breeding 

Championships in Verden. 

He was later purchased by 

Caunton Manor Stud to continue 

his competitive career in the 

UK, where he eventually was 

based at Carl Hesters yard with 

Amy Woodhead. Branduardi 

moved up the small tour levels 

successfully with Amy, where 

he achieved scores over 70% 

at Prix St Georges and Inter I, 

also competing Internationally. 

He is continuing his career and 

working towards Grand Prix. 

His father Breitling W has sired 

a series of absolutely top-rate 

horses. 


Stud Book: Hanoverian 

Grading: AES Graded 

Stud Fee: £650 + VAT (Frozen) £900 + VAT (Chilled) LFG 

Stands At: Caunton Manor Stud, The Stables, Neatholme Lane, 

Lound, Retford, DN22 8RT 

Contact: Victoria Wright/Matthew Wright 

Tel:07966507205/07968695082 

Email: victoria@cauntonmanorstud.com 

Website: www.cauntonmanorstud.com 

Breitling W 

Wildrose 

Bismarck 

Maja 

Weltmeyer 

Baccara 

Bolero 

Duellfarm 

Maat 

Grafenkrone 

World Cup I 

Anka 

Bolero 

Granini 

BRITISH BREEDER| 15



Brechfa Brynach 

7 

2003 Skewbald 

Eventing 

Brechfa Brynach is a stunning 

looking stallion wilth great 

presence and personality, a 

wonderful temperament and 

bred to compete in all Sports 

Horse disciplines. This stallion 

has an outstanding competition 

record. His sire, Ramexico, 

is the result of crossing two 

influential jumping pedigrees 

and his dam was a successful 

BSJA Show jumper. His breeding 

shows not only in his talent, 

correct conformation and 

straight movement, but also in 

his excellent jumping technique 

and brave, natural cross-country 

ability. 

Brechfa Brynach was shown 

in-hand as a 2 and 3 year old, 

standing champion at County 

level both in coloured and 

Sports Horse classes. The 

second stage of his career 

was British Eventing. He 

moved swiftly up the ranks, 

qualifying for the six-year-old 

championships and competed 

up to intermediate and CC1*. 


Stud Book: CHAPS 

Grading: CHAPS, BSPA 


Stands At: Brechfa Farm Stud, Llan-y-cefn, Pembrokeshire, SA66 7JE 

Contact: Wyn Morris / Gillian Davies 

Tel: 07971 823838 / 01437 563660 

Email: wyn.morris700@btinternet.com 

Website: www.brechfafarmstud.co.uk 

Ramexico 

Two Tone Two 

Damiro 

Catty 

First Consul 

N/A 

Ramiroz 

Torette 

Le Mexico 

Patty 

Crepelli 

Lady Senator 

N/A 

N/A 

Britannia’s Mail 

Proven advanced eventer, 

Britannia’s Mail is a “Brit 

Legacy” elite syndicated stallion 

by Olympic Show Jumper Jaguar 

Mail out of triple 5* winner 

Olympic Medallist Headley 

Britannia. 

Britannia’s Mail is stunning 

looking, has three super paces, 

exceptional technique over a 

8 

fence and is incredibly careful, 

sure-footed and quick across 

country. After seven seasons 

eventing he continues to prove 

himself to be an outstandingly 

tough, sound and confident 

competition horse, and his 

relaxed, affectionate, honest 

and kind temperament is 

coming through in his young 

stock. 

Britannia’s Mail is progressing in 

his International career to meet 

his parent’s successes and will 

continue to compete around the 

UK and in Europe at the new 

International 4* level in 2019. 

Britannia’s Mail has excellent 

fertility rates. 

2008 Bay 


Stud Book: SHB(GB) 

Grading: AES & SHB(GB) 

Stud Fee: £800 + VAT 

Stands At: Frozen available from Tomlinson Equine. 

Fresh/Chilled available during the season around competitions 

Contact: Lucinda Fredericks 

Tel: 01380 813316 

Email: marketing@lucindafredericks.com 

Website: www.lucindafredericks.com 

Jaguar Mail 

Headley Britannia 

Hand in Glove XX 

Elivira Mail 

Jumbo 

Alan’s Bambi 

Eventing 

Best Turn XX 

Miss Betty XX 

Laudanum XX 

Adoret 

Skippy 

Betty 

Alanrod 

Hazy Blue 

Challenge 

9 

2007 Grey 

Showjumping 

International 1.45m 

Showjumper with placings at 

Jardy, Moorsele and Keysoe CSI** 

shows. Grade A with over 2500 

points. As a young horse was 

5th in the National 6 year old 

championships and competed 

BE100 and BD. Challenge shows 

an amazingly powerful and 

careful ability to jump. He is 

known for his temperament 

being gentle and freindly. 

Oldest offspring just starting 

under saddle with Challenge 

Accepted already with multiple 

wins BE100. All of his youngsters 

take on his easy going attitude, 

ability and have the best 

personalities. 

Sired by the renowned 

international jumping stallion 

‘Lucky Boy’ who is approved 

by 5 stud books including 

Oldenburg and KWPN. His 

dam ‘Woh I Noor’ is out of the 

TB stallion ‘Roven’, who has 

proved an invaluable addition to 

the KWPN breeding programme. 

Height: 16.1hh (165m) 

Stud Book: KWPM 

Grading: AES, Breeders Elite, SHB(GB) 

Stud Fee: £ 

Stands At: Bluebell Stud 

Contact: Catriona Walker 

Tel: 07729240088 

Email: info@bluebellliveriesandstud.com 

Website: www.bluebellliveriesandstud.com 

Lucky Boy 

Wok I Nor 

Lavall II 

Carol III 

Roven xx 

Koh I Noor 

Landgraf I 

Madam 

Calypso I 

Fosortitin 

Lefty xx 

Recaimer xx 

Creool 

Esther 


Sponsored by 

Chartstürmer WE 

10 

2013 Chestnut 

Dressage 

Chartstürmer WE is a 6yr old 

german riding pony who was 

licenced with Weser Ems in 

Vechta in Nov 2015 where he 

was 1 of only 5 colts to be 

awarded a premium status 

and given his ‘WE’ suffix 2017 

was his first year of ridden 

competition where he was 

unbeaten in everything he did, 

he qualified for the British 

Dressage Young sports pony class 

on a winning score of 83.5 and 

then went on to become 4yr old 

National Champion at Hartpury 

in July 2017, he also had his 

first progeny on the ground 

which also had a successful 

season achieving Gold Premium 

and premium statuses with both 

Weser Ems and SPSS. 

Going into his 3rd breeding 

season he has 100% 1st time in 

foal success rate. 


Stud Book: Weser Ems 

Grading: SPSS Approved, Licensed Weser Ems 

Stud Fee: £500 



Tel: 01948 666295 


Website: www.stallionai.co.uk/stallions/chartsturmer-we 

Caramel 

Greatest Hits 

Cyriac 

Birkenhain Golden 

Deern 

FS Golden Highlight 

Seven Mountain Nasty 

Constantin 

Aguine 

Golden Dasher 

Golden Felina 

FS Golden Moonlight 

Pretty Smooth 

Catherston Nightsafe 

Golden Elly 

Chello III VDL 

As a son of legend Contender 

and a dam by Sandro. Chello 

combines Europe’s jumping elite 

in his pedigree. His damline 

Holstein 318d2 is ranked # 

3 worldwide with over 26 

approved stallions in the last 

three generations among which 

Diarado, Corofino, Coriano 

and Mill Reef VDL. Damsire 

Sandro produced Silvio I (sire 

11 

of Shutterfly), Santander and 

Sandro’s Boy. 

Chello makes commercial 

offspring with dream 

movements and inimitable 

style over jumps. All his foals 

inherit his sweet and elegant 

face. Chello is the perfect mix 

between blood and composure, 

he adds frame without weighing 

down the mares. Chello is a 

very good-natured stallion and 

is a lovely horse to handle and 

be around. 

His eldest progeny were 9 in 

2018 and include; Fortuna 

(1m50), Jarko Van Het 

Mettenhof (1m40), Felicity (5yr 

old French Dressage Champs), 

Ello S (5yr old eventing champs) 

2005 Bay 


Stud Book: Holstein 

Grading: KWPN, SbS, AES, Z, AA 

Stud Fee: £700 LFG 

Stands At:B&W Equine Veterinary, Willesley Equine Clinic, 

Tetbury, GL8 8QU 

Contact: Carol Potts or The Stallion Company 

Tel: 01666 880501 or 07540 321666 

Email: stud@bwequinevets.co.uk or info@thestallioncompany.com 

Website: www.bwequinevets.co.uk or www.thestallioncompany.com 

Contender 

Gracia III 

Calypso II 

Gofine 

Sandro Z 

Werona 

Showjumping 

Cor de la Bryere 

Tabelle 

Ramiro Z 

Cita 

Sacremento Song xx 

Durte 

Cor de la Bryere 

Golda 

Colony Cuthbert 

12 

2016 Chestnut 

Eventing 

Colony Cuthbert’s conformation 

is very true and correct. He 

is beautifully put together 

with 11 inches of bone. He 

has impressive movements 

and a powerful hind leg. 

Colony Cuthbert has a super 

gentle temperament, well 

mannered and is kind and 

honest particularly for such 

a young stallion. He has a 

fantastic desire to please and a 

willingness to learn. He is very 

trainable. Colony Cuthbert 

could produce quality pure 

bred Suffolk’s but also make 

a fantastic cross breed giving 

substance and bone over lighter 

mares for all disciplines. 

Colony Cuthbert was a 

champion yearling in 2017 at 

the Suffolk horse society foal 

and young stock show. He has 

also won and been champion 

Suffolk at various county shows 

in various classes throughout 

2017 and 2018. Colony Cuthbert 

will be continuing his career in 

showing 


Stud Book: Suffolk Horse Society 

Grading: Suffolk Horse Society 


Stands At: Brackenspa Stud, Spa farm, Stainfield, nr Bourne, 

Lincolnshire, PE10 0RP 

Contact: Sally Lister 

Tel: 07788670108/01778570123 

Email: info@brackenspastud.co.uk, hrpsal@aol.com 

Website: www.brackenspastud.co.uk 

Shotleyfield 

Dazzling Duke 

Vumba Deeanne 

Euston Bobby Dazzler 

Shotleyfield Lucky Lady 

Besthorpe Achilles 

Craigogantlet Imogen 

Donhead Hall Navar 

Easton Amber 

Colony Millennium 

Honey Bee of Shotleyfield 

Springtime Hector 

Besthorpe Pearl 

Colony Ivan 

Colony Ingrid 

BRITISH BREEDER| 17



Corrindon Dancer 

The IDHS(GB) stallion inspectors 

said “Corrindon Dancer is a 

wellproportioned Irish Draught 

standing over plenty of ground. 

He has three good powerful 

and active paces. He shows 

good technique and scope when 

jumping.” 

At the SHB(GB) inspection 

the inspectors were equally 

13 

impressed with his jumping and 

athleticism and awarded him a 

PREMIUM. 

Corrindon Dancer is by the 

legendary Gold Merit stallion 

CROSSTOWN DANCER and out of 

the RDS Reserve Ch broodmare 

Moylough Holly. I believe 

Crosstown Dancer is currently 

the only ID to have won in all 

3 rings at the RDS, winning the 

stallion class on 3 occasions, 

the performance class and 

represented his country in 

the main Show Jumping ring. 

Crosstown Dancers progeny 

dominate the Blue Chip and 

Heavyweight Show hunter 

classes. 

2011 Liver Chestnut 


Stud Book: Irish Horse Register 

Grading: IDHS (GB) Class 1 and Bronze Merit. SHB(GB) Premium 


Stands At: Stanley Grange Stud, Great Ayton, Middlesbrough,TS9 6QD 

Contact: David Dixon or Jerome Harforth 

Tel: 01642 722386 / 07768 091851 / 07732 645066 

Email: Jerome.harforth@stanleygrangestud.com or 

margaret@corrindondancer.co.uk 

Website: www.stanleygrangestud.com / corrindondancer.co.uk 

Crosstown Dancer 

Moylough Holly 

Flagmount Diamond 

Tara Sky 

Merry Mate 

Killanena View 

Eventing 

King of Diamonds 

Gowran Betty 

Pride of Shaunlara 

Softee 

Merry Gold 

Silver Queen 

Carrabawn View 

Killanena Pride 

Count Codex 

14 

2010 Bay 

Showjumping 

A beautiful modern showjumper, 

Count Codex is powerful 

and extremely intelligent 

with a big stride and perfect 

conformation. He achieved a 

premium grade at his stallion 

licensing test in Hannover and 

has represented himself well 

throughout this career to date. 

The proven combination of his 

sire Contendro I and his dam 

sire Gluckspilz have brought 

high-calibre horses such as 

Codex One to the sport who 

took the international jumper 

scene by storm in 2010. He 

represented Germany in the 

2012 Olympic Games and in 

2013 won a European Team 

Silver medal. 

Count Codex has had consistent 

success at International Young 

Horse competitions. 


Stud Book: Hannoverian 

Grading: AES 

Stud Fee: £600 + VAT (for up to 3 doses per mare) 

Stands At: Gornall Equestrian, North Yorkshire 

Contact: Laura Clegg 

Tel: 01423 339222 

Email: stallions@gornallequestrian.com 

Website: www.gornallequestrian.com 

Contendro I 

Gigi 

Contender 

Bravo 

Gluckspilz 

Alwine 

Calypso II 

Gofine 

Reichsgraf 

Ofarim 

Glucksstern 

Poesie 

Avus 

Guinness 

Craig 

15 

2005 Dark Bay 

Dressage 

Craig is the elegant stamp of 

the modern Trakehner breed, 

by Elite stallion Buddenbrock, 

producer of 13 Approved sons 

and two Elite, namely Connery 

and King Arthur. Buddenbrock 

lines are royalty of the 

trakehner breed showing his 

incredibly consistency producing 

FEI dressage horses as well 

as 3*** eventers and +1.40m 

showjumpers too! True dual 

purpose… 

Clearly stamped by 

Buddenbrock, Craig has athletic, 

elegant conformation, good 

length of leg and extravagant 

paces, with graceful movement 

noted by many dressage 

judges. Recently paired with 

his rider, they quickly travelled 

from Elementary to Advanced 

Medium showing Craig’s 

phenomenal trainability. Shortly 

to debut at Advanced he is 

qualified for the 2018 Winter 

Regionals at both Medium and 

Advanced Medium. 


Stud Book: Verband 

Grading: AES, SEIS 


Stands At: Stallions AI 

Contact: Melissa Wood 

Tel: 01798 867768 

Email: bellegracestud@gmail.com 

Website: www. bellegracestud.com 

Buddenbrock 

Caro-Dame II 

Sixtus 

Ballerina XXV 

Karo AS 

Cornau 

Habicht 

Stradelle 

Diamant 

Blinklicht 

Vollkorn xx 

Karawane II 

Lothar 

Corry 


Sponsored by 

Cwmesgair Flash Harry 

16 

2015 Black 

Eventing 

CFlash Harry is a promising 

young performance pony 

stallion, bred from the very best 

welsh lines linking back to the 

infamous NEBO BLACK MAGIC 

and NEBO DANIEL. His looks 

and exceptional temperament 

make him a very promising pony 

for the future. As only rising 

four years old, this pony shows 

he is a well adjusted and level 

minded pony with excellent 

trainability. Handled by adults 

and children he is trustworthy 

and genuine. 

Harry shows superb technique 

loose over fences with a bold 

and honest attitude, clever 

like a cat he is sure to be 

campaigned eventing and 

already shows a super attitude 

whilst following hounds. 

Harry is a straight moving pony 

with very good conformation, 

showing good length of neck 

and shoulder, a very powerful 

compact hock and powerful 

hind end. Can be viewed at 

home in Wiltshire 


Stud Book: Welsh Pony & Cob Society 

Grading: WPCS Licensed 


Stands At: Tomlinson Equine Veterinary 

Contact: Rosa Callan 

Tel: 07500 084390 

Email: dansastud@gmail.com 

Website: www.facebook.com/theflashyharry 

Gwynfaes 

Matholwch 

Fronath Bet 

Gwynfaes 

Culhwch 

Gwynfaes 

Goleuddydd 

Ceredigan 

Tywysog 

Fronarth 

Brenhines 

Crugybar Mabon Mai 

Penllwynuchel Sioned 

Tymor Pele 

Gwynfaes Lleucu Llwyd 

Brenin Dafydd 

Tyngwndwn Malen 

Brenin Dafydd 

Fronarth Pride 

Dankeschön 

17 


Dressage 

Dankeschön is a movement 

artist of special quality and 

has three outstanding gaits. In 

2010 he was the sovereign 70 

day Test Winner in Warendorf 

with a total index of 127.33. 

He convinced both the best 

in dressage (127.03 points), 

as well as good jumping 

performance (115.61 points), 

where he finished 3rd. Among 

other things, he received 9.5 for 

his outstanding temperament 

and a 9.0 for rideability, gallop 

and willingness to perform. He 

is currently training towards 

Grand Prix now based in the UK. 

His famous father Danone I, was 

2003 champion stallion and was 

licensed in Verden in 2004. 

He qualified for the 

Bundeschampionat in 

Warendorf and was, in the 

same year, finalist at the world 

championships of the young 

horses in Verden. 

His mother, the State Premium 

Mare Fantasy by Fidermark 

is full sister to the licensed 

stallions Farewell I - IV. 


Stud Book: Westfalen 

Grading: Westfalen, Hanoverian & AES 

Stud Fee: £800 + VAT Frozen, £1200 + VAT Chilled LFG 

Stands At: Caunton Manor Stud, The Stables, Neatholme Lane, 

Lound, Retford, DN22 8RT 

Contact: Victoria Wright/Matthew Wright 

Tel:07966507205/07968695082 

Email: victoria@cauntonmanorstud.com 

Website: www.cauntonmanorstud.com 

Danone I 

Fantasie 

De Niro 

Well Done 

Fidermark 

Riga 

Donnerhall 

Alicante 

Weltmeyer 

Bellis 

Florestan I 

Watonga 

Rosenkavalier 

Anastasia 

Daquiri 

18 

2009 Grey 

Showjumping 

Daquiri is an outstanding 

stallion who oozes presence and 

substance. He is a true athlete. 

Daquiri has been showjumping 

up to Newcomers BSJA and 

won first time out at British 

dressage.Daquiri flew through 

his Anglo-European Grading and 

they were impressed with the 

quality of this stallion. He is 

due his first crops of foals this 

season, and we are sure they 

are going to be amazing. 

He is by the lovely sire Ontario. 

Ontario has bred some fabulous 

foals and a lot of them were 

produced in the top fields for 

dressage, showjumping and 

showing. Ontario was known for 

his amazing temperament. 

Daquiri’s Dam is Gasayas- 

Knokout. Her record speaks for 

itself. She was Grade A and has 

bred 6 talented foals who are 

all at the top of their game. 

His grandsire was Animo. Animo 

was one of the most talented 

showjumping sires around and 

real sought after stallion. 


Stud Book: 

Grading: AES 


Stands At: Bluebell Stud 

Contact: Catriona Walker 

Tel: 07729240088 

Email: info@bluebellliveriesandstud.com 

Website: www.bluebellliveriesandstud.com 

Ontario 

Gasaya Knokout 

Sultan 

Sofielama 

Animo 

Gazpacho FImogen 

Marinier 

Nireina 

Wahtamin xx 

Lafilama 

Alme Z 

Irene 

Kaiserstern xx 

Zolanda 

BRITISH BREEDER| 19



Dark Knight 

19 

2005 Bay 

Dressage 

Dark Knight has one of the 

strongest pedigrees in Europe 

for sport ponies. Year after 

year winners and champions 

are announced from Dark 

Knight’s full siblings’ offspring 

and grand offspring: Der Kleine 

Lord Individual Bronze European 

FEI medal winner for GB; 6 

Bundeschampion winners and 

many champions of stallion 

licensing and mare classes 

throughout Europe. 

Dressman is one of the most 

successful FEI dressage ponies 

ever. He has 6 FEI European 

team Gold medals and two 

individual Golds to his name. 

Champion of his licensing, 

winner of his 30 day stallion 

test and the first pony to win 

the Bundeschampionate four 

years running, Dressman has 

over 30 graded sons, 20 State 

Premium daughters and many 

champion stallions, mares, 

Bundeschampion and Vice- 

Bundeschampion winners. 


Stud Book: Westfalian 

Grading: SPSS 


Stands At: TBA 

Contact: Diane Kilshaw 

Tel: 07920 426834 

Email: diane.kilshaw@gmail.com 

Website: www.darkknight2.com 

Dressman I 

Gina 

Domingo 

Nadin 

Folklore 

Giana 

Derby 

Varlerina 

Niklas I 

Suleika 

Power Boy 

Brigitte 

Brillant 

Gina 

Debutante’s Dream 

20 

2015 Chestnut 

Dressage 

Debutantes Dream ‘Dex’ is 

a young dressage stallion 

who is rising three. He has 

recently licensed with the 

Anglo European Stud Book . He 

was the first licensed son of 

Shamwari Debonair. 

He has a beautiful kind 

temperament and a wonderful 

family line. 

His father is Shamwari Debonair 

who in 2014 achieved 1st 

place at the Badminton Young 

Dressage Horse Championships 

and 3rd place in the Shearwater 

National Championships at 

Stonleigh. Debonair’s sire is 

De Niro. Debonair’s mother 

Show Hit is an Elite and 

State Premium Mare with 5 

generations of State Premium 

Mares in her line.Dex’s mother 

is Woodlander Dixie Chick who 

has 52 state premium mares 

in her motherline.5 grand prix 

stallions are in his family line 

namely Dimaggio, De Niro, 

Donnerhall, Olympic Cocktail 

and Sandro Hit. 


Stud Book: BWB 

Grading: AES 


Stands At: Bramble Stud, Newfield Farm, Chicheley, MK16 9JD 

Contact: Liz Ball 

Tel: 07919 345709 

Email: bramblestud@bramblestud.com 

Website: www.bramblestud.com 

Shamwari Debonair 

Woodlander Dixie 

Chick 

De Niro 

St Pr Show Hit 

Woodlander Del Amitri 

Wanda 

Donnerhall 

Alicante 

Showstar 

St Pr Pagera 

Dimaggio 

Happy Girl 

Wittinger 

St Pr St Carmen 

Don Dante 

Don Dante’s sire Dancier has 

an incredible pedigree that 

includes top stallions such as 

De Niro, Donnerhall, Lancier 

and Espri.2009, Don Dante 

was reserve champion at the 

BWBS UK stallion grading. 

2012, placed at all the major 

Young Horse Championships 

including the Shearwater 

21 

Potential International Dressage 

Horse Championships at the 

National Championships.2014, 

1st - Medium Restricted 

Champion at the National 

Championships.2015, placed 

in Medium Open at the 

Winter Championships. 2016, 

placed in Advanced Medium 

Restricted & Advanced Medium 

Open Freestyle at Winter 

Championships & Advanced 

Medium Open at National 

Champis. 2017, wins at Premier 

League shows in both PSG & 

Inter I achieving 70%+. 2018, 

wins at Wellington PL Competes 

in Hartpury CDI3*, 6th in PSG 

and 5th in Inter I Freestyle. 

2007 Black 


Stud Book: BHHS 

Grading: BWBS & BHHS 


Stands At: Oldfields House, Stratton Audley, Bicester, Oxon, 

OX27 9AN 

Contact: Wendy McKay 

Tel: 01869 277932 

Email: wendy@strattonstud.co.uk 

Website: www.strattonstud.co.uk 

Dancier 

St Pr Sabrino 

De Niro 

St Pr Lacarna 

Salvano 

St Pr Laika 

Dressage 

Donnerhall 

Alicante 

Lancier 

St Pr Edpina 

Salem 

St Pr Dina 

Laibach 

Marina 


Sponsored by 

Double Pleasure 

22 

2013 Bay 

Showjumping 

This unique one off 148cms pony 

stallion is out of the great mare 

Desdamona, Quidam de Revel/ 

Robin Z, ridden by Joe Whitaker 

was European medallist, English 

National Champion and Multiple 

winners of International Grand 

Prix. 

Sire; Follow Me, For Pleasure/ 

Sandro Boy. He was sold at 8 

years old to America where 

he continued winning at the 

highest level winning World 

Cup qualifiers and placed in the 

final. 

Double Pleasure is a fantastic 

mover, scopey careful jump with 

a lovely temperament. He has 

jumped upto 1.20m as a five 

year old. 

Will be standing in Europe 

at the VDL Stud later in the 

season. 


Stud Book: Breeders Elite 

Grading: Breeders Elite 

Stud Fee: £500 + VAT NFFR 

Stands At: Pye Greave Farm, Silkstone, Barnsley, South Yorkshire 

Contact: Steven Whitaker 

Tel: 07767 138258 / 07730066497 

Email: carole.whitaker1@btinternet.com 

Website: stevenwhiltakershowjumping.com 

Follow Me 

Desdamona 

For Pleasure 

Sandrina 

Quidam de Revel 

Duenna 

Furioso II 

Gigantin 

Sandro Z 

Santa-Lucia 

Jalisco B 

Dirka 

Robin Z 

Dansa 

Dream On 

23 

2002 Black 

Dressage 

Dream On is approved in some 

of the most prestigious sport 

horse studbooks in the world. 

By Depardieu (De Niro) x 

Lavauzelle AA Dream On carries 

66% AA/TB blood making him 

an excellent dual purpose 

stallion. Dream On imparts his 

superb temperament, correct 

athletic frame and expressive 

paces to his offspring. He has 

proven himself as a sire of 

offspring of outstanding talent 

and trainability with dressage 

horses competing to Grand Prix, 

FEI Showjumpers competing at 

S level, FEI Eventers, a silver 

medal winning FEI carriage 

driving horse and County level 

showing champions. 

Dream On himself competed 

in the Bundeschampionate as 

a showjumper and is dressage 

trained to small tour. He was 

sold as the top lot at the 

Oldenburg licensing for 130.000 

euros to Gestut Holkenbrink. 

Height: 16.2 hh (168m) 


Grading: Oldenburg, Westphalian, AES (Elite), British Rhineland & 

AHS (Approved) 


Stands At: The Dressage Company The Limes, Fersfield, Diss, 

Norfolk, IP22 2BL 

Contact: Terri Knight 

Tel: 07717 170777 or 07849 879806 

Email: terriclareknight@gmail.com 

Depardieu 

Pavedena 

De Niro 

Elfi 

Lavauzelle 

Primera 

Donnerhall 

Alicante 

Luciano 

Elfenblume 

Fol Avril 

Iole 

Inschallah 

Praefecta 

Duke of Deerleap 

24 

2014 Dark Bay 

Dressage 

All of the characteristics that 

distinguish a major sire have 

been united in his sire, Dante 

Weltino OLD. A fabulous mover, 

the 1st Reserve Champion 

of the 2009 Oldenburg 

licensing in Vechta fulfilled 

his performance requirements 

in 2012 by qualifying for the 

Bundeschampionat in the class 

for five-year old dressage 

horses. The Hanoverian Verband 

also approved the sparkling 

black stallion for breeding 

that year. Ever since Dante 

Weltino OLD’s first foals arrived, 

everyone has been talking about 

them. In 2018, Duke competed 

in a small number of dressage 

tests before his departure 

for stud but showed great 

temperament and achieved 

scores over 70% in his first 

Novices. In 2018, Duke was 

a big competition success, 

winning and qualifying Novice 

for Regionals, before going to 

stud in April. His first crop of 

foals were attractive and good 

moving types with absolute 

charm and presence. 



Grading: WBS-UK 


Stands At: Woodlander Stud & Stallion AI Services 

Contact: Lynne Crowden 

Tel: 07768 323351 

Email: woodlanderstud@mac.com 

Website: www.woodlanderstud.com 

Dante Weltino 

Marquesa 

Danone IDazzler 

St Pr Rihanna 

Medoc 

Marching Dancer XX 

De Niro 

St Pr Well Done 

Welt Hit II 

Verb Pr Riconess 

Maat 

Georgia 

Niniski 

Lady Go Marching 

BRITISH BREEDER| 21



Dvorak 

25 

2014 Black 

Dressage 

The perfect sport package with 

a modern build, a quick hind leg 

and a dam bought in Germany 

but trained in the UK by her 

owner and rider from Novice 

success at 5 to Inter I success 

There is no question that 

De Niro, represented by 

many offspring at national, 

international and Olympic level, 

has topped the rankings as a 

dressage producer. His biggest 

star is probably Desperados 

but in London 2012, he was 

represented by six offspring. 

His combination of gaits and 

ridability have made him a 

pick for the professional and 

amateur alike. Florestan should 

need no introduction with the 

great success of his F line, 

bringing forward the blood of 

the great Furioso xx (British 

bred by the way). In 2018, in 

his first outing, Dvorak qualified 

for the Shearwater Semis at 

Hartpury and qualified also for 

the Regionals at Voice within 

very few outings. 



Grading: WBS-UK 


Stands At: Woodlander Stud, Frenchlands Lane, Worcester, WR2 6QU 


Tel: 07768323351 



De Niro 

St Pr Fame 

Donnerhall 

Alicante 

Florestan 

St Pr Cosimo 

Donnerwetter 

Meli 

Akzent II 

Wiesenelfe 

Fidelio 

St Pr Raute 

Calvados 

Medina 

Edobantos 

26 

2009 Bay 

Eventing 

EDOBANTOS is a very modern 

compact stallion, bred from 

the best Show Jumping lines in 

Europe, his stunning looks and 

great temperament make him 

a very promising investment 

for future stock. He is an 

exceptional foal maker and his 

first crop have graded at top 

rating for the studbook with his 

2018 foal making a super price 

at the Brightwells Elite Foal Sale 

in August 2018. 

Starting Late EDOBANTOS has 

been produced slowly and 

campaigned lightly in British 

Eventing and British Show 

Jumping to date gaining 4 BE 

points in his first season. He 

finished third at Gatcombe 

International 2017 after only a 

limited number of outings and 

has spent 2018 Show Jumping 

with success in foxhunter 

classes. As well as jumping 

and British Eventing he has 

also gained 29 BD points and 

regularly scores 20’s in BE tests. 

He can also be seen out hunting 


Stud Book: KWPN 

Grading: AES Graded & SHB(GB) 


Stands At: Walk in to Beaufort (Tomlinson, KL Stud and other local 

facilities) Frozen stored with Beaufort 

Contact: Nicola Marins 

Tel: 07917 421945 / 07851 698522 

Email: rafamarins@hotmail.com 

Website: 

Amadeus 

Anobanta 

Guidam 

Elottie W 

Indorado 

Nobanta 

Quidam De Revel 

Fougere 

Ramiro Z 

Oklahoma 

Corrado I 

Aida 

Abantos 

Hannabanta 


Sponsored by 

Envoy Merelsnest Z 

28 

2013 Brown 

Showjumping 

Dime Bar is bred from a special 

mare, the same mother as 

Don VHP Z and Carlos VHP!!!! 

Probably the only mare to have 

two offspring in the top ten 

in the world!! The sire, Elvis 

ter Putte is an approved son 

of Diamant de Semilly out of 

a Darco x Quidam de Revel 

motherline. 

He shows tremendous scope and 

carefulness when free jumped, 

and super natural cadence and a 

great trainability under saddle. 

He has successfully competed BS 

in young horse classes in 2018 

including championship shows at 

Addington, Pyecombe and Arena 

UK showing great trainability 

and attitude at shows. 

He will continue with young 

horse classes in 2019. 

BS Grade C – Actual £138. 

Points = 56. 

Height: 16.3hh (171cms) 

Stud Book: Zangersheide 


Stud Fee: £100 booking fee + Stud Fee £400 + VAT 

Stands At: Brendon Stud, Haresdean Lane, Pyecombe, West Sussex. 

BN45 7EG 

Contact: Shirley Light 

Tel: shirleyno2@hotmail.com 

Email: www.brendonstud.com 

Elvis Ter Putte 

Sara vh Parelshof 

Diamant de Semilly 

Ukases Ter Putte 

Voltaire 

Etsina 

Le Tot de Semilly 

Venise des Cresles 

Darco 

Quinette Ter Putte 

Furioso II 

Gogo Move 

Ramiro Z 

Tsarina 

Escape Z 

29 

2012 Chestnut 

Showjumping 

Now co owned by Danielle Ryder 

/ Willem van Hoof / Harrie 

Smolders (World number 1 

showjumper) 

‘A horse of exceptional quality 

that easily reaches the width 

of oxers. I am always looking 

for something exceptional. The 

rights instincts that you as a 

rider cannot change.’ Co-owner 

Harrie Smolders 

2016- 4 years National UK 

Champion. 

2017 - leading 5 years stallion 

UK. 

-Winner of best showjumping 

foal in UK. 

2018 - CSI Lanaken Winner 

Grand Prix. 

- 6 years Big Star Championship 

- 7th Foxhunter Masters 

National Championships double 

clear. 

- 2018 foal qualifies Elite Foal 

UK Championship. 

2018 CSI Mechelen under saddle 

of World number 1/ co owner 

Harrie Smolders 

Escape Z – the leading 5yr old 

Jumping Stallion in the UK in 

2017 & Leading 5yr old at CSI 3* 



Grading: Approved Zang, AES Approved, Breeders Elite Approved 


Stands At: Sports Horses Direct, Smolders Sporthorses B.V 

Caroline Smolders +31 622 523 648 

Contact: Danielle Ryder 

Tel: 07792 912 539 / 0031620640895 (Willem Van Hoof) 

Email: sportshorsesdirect@live.co.uk 

Website: www.sportshorsesdirect.co.uk 

Emerald v’t 

Ruytershof 

Promesse 

Diamant de Samilly 

Carthina Z 

Heatbreaker 

Chablis 


Venise de Cresles 

Carthago Z 

Tanagra ‘S’ vh Daohof 

Nimmerdor 

Barcarole 

Carthago Z 

Cerrie 

Fabrice van Overis 

30 

2008 Bay 

Showjumping 

Mickey as he is known at home 

has had a fabulous young horse 

career with championship wins 

at Hickstead, Addington, Welsh 

Masters and Royal Windsor. 

2015 saw him finishing 3rd at 

Royal Dublin Horse Show and 

5th at Hoys in the Foxhunter 

final. From 2016 he stepped 

up to 1.50m Area Trials & 

international shows including La 

Baule Derby. He is impeccably 

behaved, has a natural bascule 

with a scopey and careful 

jump. His paces are flowing and 

correct. He is a short coupled 

model with an easy attitude. 

He is by For Pleasure who is a 

two-time Olympic Gold Medal 

winner, World Champion & 

Hanoverian Stallion of the year 

in 2000. He was a member of 

the gold medal-winning German 

show jumping team at the1996 

Atlanta Olympics. He is by the 

great breeding sire, Furioso 

II; hence carrying plenty of 

blood with the TB Furioso and 

Precipitation. 



Grading: Breeders Elite & AES 

Stud Fee: £100 booking fee + Stud Fee £500 + VAT 

Stands At: Brendon Stud, Haresdean Lane, Pyecombe, West Sussex. 

BN45 7EG 


Tel: shirleyno2@hotmail.com 

Email: www.brendonstud.com 

For Pleasure 

Delphine van Overis 

Z 

Furioso II 

Gigantin 


Daphne Z 

Furioso 

Dame de Ranville 

Grannus 

Goldi 


Venise des Cresles 

Darco 

Quivive van Overis 

BRITISH BREEDER| 23



FHS Diamond in the Rough 

31 2008 Black 

Dressage 

A successful cross of 2 

outstanding bloodlines of 

Voltaire and the TB Strong Gale, 

has produced a stallion capable 

of anything! In 2014 he was 

awarded Class 1 Elite status in 

the NaStA Performance Test. In 

2018 he gained Approved status 

with the AES as a result of his 

performance record, his ability 

on the day and his progeny. 

He has evented to Novice level, 

show jumped successfully at 

Foxhunter and is now competing 

full time in dressage having 

recently started competing at 

PSG. He has qualified for both 

Summer and Winter Regionals at 

Advanced Medium. 

His progeny have been out 

competing a couple of times 

in dressage and gaining scores 

over 68%. With excellent marks 

for their movement. They have 

been XC and SJ schooling, 

showing great scope and ability. 



Grading: AES Approved Tested -ve WFFS 


Stands At: Fishers Hill Stud Sport Horses, Mill Farm, Ashorne, 

Warwickshire CV35 9AA 

Contact: Madeleine Gardner 

Tel: 01926 651015 / 07921 760814 

Email: info@fishershillstud.co.uk 

Website: www.fishershillstud.co.uk 

Solitair 

Whatacarryon xx 

Voltaire 

Nigrante 

Strong Gale 

Continuity Lass 

Furioso 

Gogo Moeve 

Libero H 

Jubilante 

Lord Gayle 

Sterntau 

Contunuation 

Cloudlass 

Future Gravitas 

32 

2010 Bay 

Eventing 

* BE WINNER at 5yr Old Qualifier, 

BE100 and BE Novice levels - 

now at CIC* level. 

* BD WINNER and National 

Championship Finalist at 

Medium and Elementary levels. 

* No.1 Ranked BEF Futurity Sire 

of Eventers (2015).* Used by 

MARY KING on her 4* WINNER, 

Kings Temptress. 

Future Gravitas is the sire of: 

• British Dressage Quest 

National Champion (2018). 

• Champion Futurity Mare (GBMS 

2018).• Futurity Champion 

Eventer (2015). • Multiple 

County Show Champions and 

British Breeders Network 

Winners. Future Gravitas’s sire 

is Grafenstolz who evented to 

3* level and was both the 6YO 

Eventing Bundeschampion, and 

6YO Young Event Horse World 

Champion.Future Gravitas’s 

dam is the Elite mare Juswith 

Genoa, making Future Gravitas 

a maternal brother to Olympic 

Silver Medallist,WEG Gold 

Medallist Winsome Adante 


Stud Book: ZfDP 

Grading: Life Graded SHB(GB), Life Approved AES 

Stud Fee: £650 LFG on Fresh/Chilled. £550 Frozen **Special Deal** 

Stands At: Walk in to Oakham Veterinary Hospital. Frozen semen 

with Stallion AI Services 

Contact: Julia Hodkin 

Tel:07951 519288 / 07775 633004 

Email: info@FutureSportHorses.co.uk 

Website: www. FutureSportHorses.co.uk 

Grafenstolz 

Juswith Genoa 

Polarion 

Gipsy Lady 

Bohemond 

Just Gingerbread 

Van Deyk 

Polareid 

Camelot 

Grazie II 

Auction Ring 

Kaftan 

Carbrooke Surprise 

Trincomalee 

Future Guilty Pleasure 

33 

2016 Grey 

Eventing 

Exceptional licensing scores 

including 9.5 for trot, 9.25 for 

canter and 9 for walk! 

Comments from the AES Stallion 

Licensing Panel: 

“Every now and then we 

encounter a young horse who 

has future greatness stamped 

all over him. And this simply 

breathtaking son of Levisonn is 

such an example. Bred to jump 

and event, with gaits of such 

quality that they will also be 

of interest to many dressage 

breeders, this young horse 

certainly breaks the mould.” 

His sire Levisonn was Double 

Champion of both his 30 and 70 

Day Performance tests for both 

Showjumping and Dressage. 

Levisonn’s sire Levisto Z is 

the ‘Sire of the World’ in 

Showjumping. His dam Future 

Guilty Secret is a Grade 1 

AES mare by Champion of 

the Holsteiner licensing for 

Showjumping, Cantoblanco. 



Grading: Licensed AES 

Stud Fee: £750 LFG on Fresh/Chilled. 

Stands At: Walk in to Balinmore Stud, Bewholme, E. Yorks 


Tel:07951 519288 / 07775 633004 


Website: www.FutureSportHorses.co.uk 

Levisonn 

Future Guilty Secret 

Levisto Z 

Melodie VIII 

Cantoblanco 

Future Gold Digger 

Leandro 

Hirtin 

Lennon 

Narwan 

Canto 

G-Casablanca 

Primitive Proposal 

Juswith Genoa 


Sponsored by 

Future Prophecy 

34 

2016 Dark Bay 

Eventing 

A Thoroughbred that jumps 

and moves, Future Prophecy 

had excellent marks at his 

AES Licensing including 9 for 

Canter, 8.75 for Trot and 8.75 

for Jump… 

Comments from the AES Stallion 

Licensing Panel: 

…”a beautifully balanced and 

very harmonious young colt 

who convinced with a keen 

attitude over a fence and three 

expressive and correct gaits…” 

His sire Power Blade 

showjumped to 1.30m level 

and was crowned Croker Cup 

Champion at the Royal Dublin 

Horse Show. He has sired 

CCI*** eventers, Grand Prix 

showjumpers and County Show 

Champions. Prophecy’s dam-sire 

Hand in Glove jumped to Grand 

Prix level, competed at Prix 

St. Georges dressage and was 

a Stakes winning racehorse. 

He sired Olympic jumper and 

leading sire of Event horses, 

Jaguar Mail, as well as Young 

Event Horse World Champion. 


Stud Book:SHB(GB) 


Stud Fee: £650 LFG on Fresh/Chilled. £550 Fozen **Special Deal** 



Tel:07951 519288 / 07775 633004 



Power Blade xx 

Future Golden 

Glove xx 

Fine Blade xx 

First Field xx 

Hand in Glove xx 

Persephone Heights 

xx 

Fortino II xx 

Cursorial xx 

Forties Field xx 

Gretto xx 

Best Turn xx 

Miss Betty xx 

Golden Heights xx 

Jalland xx 

GreenLanes Jester 

35 

2014 Chestnut 

Dressage 

GreenLanes Jester is a stunning 

young stallion born in 2014 by 

the great Negro out of a mare 

by Florencio. He has exceptional 

presence and a great “look at 

me” factor. To go with that he 

has a wonderful temperament 

and is a joy to have on the 

yard. He is stabled with mares 

and gelding around him and is 

very relaxed about life on the 

yard. He also has exceptional 

paces and is quick at learning 

his job, gaining very high scores 

at his first few competitions 

and qualifying for the Winter 

regionals 2019 very easily. 

Standing at about 16.2 hh and 

with very attractive markings 

he stands out from the crowd in 

any arena. With his exceptional 

quality and temperament, we 

think Jester will be a huge asset 

to British breeding for many 

years to come. 

2019 will be his first year 

standing at stud and we look 

forward to seeing his first foals 

in 2020. 





Stands At: West Kington Stud 

Contact: Tessa Clarke 

Tel: 01249 782050 

Email: westkingtonstud@aol.com 

Website: greenlanestud.co.uk 

Negro 

Amusora 

Ferro 

Fewrie 

Florencio I 

Uronie 

Ulft 

Brenda 

Variant 

Mewri 

Florestan I 

Walessa 

Lancet 

Goldy 

Hocus Pocus 

36 

2012 Chestnut 

Showjumping 

Hocus Pocus is an eye-catching, 

7 year old, British bred stallion, 

licensed with the AES and 

boasting outstanding and proven 

bloodlines on both sides of his 

pedigree. His sire is the Dutch 

Warmblood Zambesi - son of 

the legendary Heartbreaker and 

out of a Calvaro Z mare. His 

Damsire is the Selle Francais 

Vancouver and his Granddam 

brings Silvio 1 and Concorde into 

the mix too. 

He has superb conformation and 

paces, an athletic and powerful 

jump together with a laid back 

nature and fantastic attitude to 

his work. At the British Breeding 

Evaluations 2015 Hocus Pocus 

achieved an Elite score of 

9.13 making him the highest 

scoring 3 year old across all 

disciplines and consequently 

winning the 3 Year Old Futurity 

Award 2015.Hocus Pocus started 

his show jumping career in 

the summer of 2016 and was 

10th in the National 4 Year Old 

Championship at Stoneleigh 






Contact: Joe Hugh-Jones 

Tel: info@team-j.com 

Email: www.teamh-j.com 

Zambesi 

Della Testa Ross 

Heartbreaker 

Colando Z 

Vancouver 

Nolindo 

Nimmerdor 

Bacarole 

Calvaro Z 

Le Tot de Semily 


Perpetua Du Crocq 

Silvio I 

Jolinda 

BRITISH BREEDER| 25



Holme Park Kobalt 

37 

2009 Black 

Dressage 

Graded by the TBF in Sept 2013 

following completion of a very 

successful NaSTA Stallion 

Performance test in August 2013 

where he achieved a Class 1 

Elite. He has proved an 

extremely willing horse who is 

easy and to train and honest 

and bold. He has all the 

athleticism required for a 

modern sport horse with 

strong correct limbs but most 

importantly a very good mind! 

In 2014 Kobalt passed his 70 

day Stallion Performance Test in 

Germany at Schlieckau scoring 

a 10 for character! He stayed 

in training with Grand prix 

dressage rider Sorrell Klatzko 

in Germany until 2015 when he 

returned to Holme Park Stud. 

He is now ridden by our Stud 

Manager Sharon Woollaston 

and training with Adam Kemp. 

Holme Park Kobalt is the 

maternal brother of UK Elite 

Stallion Holme Park Krug and is 

by German Elite Stallion Oliver 

Twist out of our Elite mare 

Holme Park Kremona 


Stud Book: Trakehners Breeders Fraternity 

Grading: Trakehner Verband Approved, NaStA Class 1 Elite 

Stud Fee: £650 + VAT NFNF (1st Oct) 


Contact: Susan Attew 

Tel: 01767 685705 / 07803271110 

Email: susan@holmetrakehners.com 

Website: www.holmetrakehners.com 

Oliver Twist 

Holme Park 

Kremona 

Monteverdi 

Olga III 

Kostolany 

Kiara 

Partout 

Miami 

Sixtus 

Oda 

Enrico Caruso 

Kapstadt 

Tenor 

Kurbella 

Integro 

38 


Dressage 

Exceptional young stallion 

with a very exciting future 

ahead for him and his progeny. 

His exceptional breeding is 

already showing in his presence, 

conformation and natural 

movement. All 3 paces 

are showing every sign of 

progressing well: his walk is 

loose with a good overstep, 

his trot is balanced, powerful 

and elevated and his canter 

is wonderfully uphill with 

very good use of hindleg. His 

shoulders are loose allowing a 

very good front leg and knee 

action and his hindlegs are 

active and supple with very 

good hock flexibility. 

His breeding combines the 

outstanding dressage linesof 

Weidyfleur II, full-sister to 

Valegro, combined with World 

Breeding Champion Dimaggio. 

Having been brought on slowly 

and correctly Integro started 

competing at Novice level in 

October 2018 and won 3 classes 

achieving scores of 74 & 75%. 



Grading: AES Approved 

Stud Fee: £1,000 NO VAT 

Stands At: Frozen only, collected at West Kington Stud 

Contact: Claire Hester 

Tel: 07803 303548 

Email: integro@btinternet.com 

Dimaggio 

Weidyfleur II 

Don Primero 

Winnipeg 

Negro 

Maifleur Keur 

Donnerhall 

St Pr Fantasia 

World Cup I 

Lisa 

Ferro Pref 

Fewrie Keur 

Gershwin 

Weidyfleur Keur 

James Bond 

39 

2014 Chestnut 

Dressage 

James Bond is a young athletic 

stallion imported from 

Holland. His breeding needs 

no introduction, he is by the 

legendary stallion Negro, out 

of an Elite PROK mare by 

Donnerhall. 

He has three elastic, uphill 

paces, a big free moving walk, 

athletic forward trot and a huge 

uphill canter with amazing hind 

leg movement. 

He has basic training, but is 

showing the ability to collect 

and also to extend all his paces, 

with a very trainable and 

rideable attitude to his work, 

which is very important for 

training and breeding. 

His temperament makes him 

easy to handle and is genuinely 

a nice character to have around 

the yard. He is newly licensed 

with the Anglo European 

Studbook and is ready to start 

his competition career in 2019. 





Stands At: Private yard in Henley on Thames RG9 

Contact: Luke Norbury 

Tel: 07500008728 

Email: lukenorburydressage@gmail.com 

Negro 

Donna Flocke 

Ferro 

Fewrie 

Donnerhall 

St.Pr.St Bino Bo 

Ulft 

Brenda 

Variant 

Mewrie 

Donnerwetter 

Ninette 

Borneo 

St. Pr. St Wendy P 


Sponsored by 

Je T’aime Flamenco 

40 

2000 Bay 

Showjumping 

Je T’aime Flamenco is a winner 

of seven of the world’s major 

Grand Prix and is a stallion who 

has performed consistently 

through the grades.Winner 

at Valencia CSI5* in 2011, 

Barcelona & Amsterdam CSI5* 

in 2010, St Gallen & Amsterdam 

CSI5* in 2009, HOYS & Belfast in 

2008 CSI3*. Je T’aime Flamenco 

is the son of Flamenco de 

Semilly, who is from one of 

the strongest stallion lines - 

Le Tot de Semilly. His dam, 

Quansie van de Halhoeve, won 

at 1.50 in Belgium. Her sire 

is Landetto, by Landgraf I. Je 

T’aime Flamenco, was 3rd in 

the 6yo Championship at Horse 

of The Year Show and 2nd in an 

International 6yo Championship 

in Mauberge. 

He was the leading money 

winning sire in the UK and 

Ireland 2009 in and 2010. 


Stud Book:SHB(GB) 

Grading: Approved 



Contact: Lauren Williams 

Tel: 01948 666 055 

Email: sales@stallionai.com 

Website: www.stallionai.com 

Flamenco Desemilly 

Quansie Van de 

Halhoeve 


Quenotte du Chemin 

Landretto 

Korena Van de 

Halhoeve 

Grand Veneur 

Venue du Tot 

St Brendan xx 

Gavotte 

Landgraf I 

Odetta 

Westworld xx 

Dorina 

Jonagold 

41 

2014 Bay 

Showjumping 

By Cidane and out of the 

Burgraaf mare Rosalina, 

Jonagold is one of the most 

exciting up and coming young 

stallions currently competing 

on the circuit. Jonagold boasts 

3 expressive uphill paces, 

masses of scope, endless talent, 

braveness and trainability. 

Having competed and been 

regularly successful in the 4 

year old classes throughout 

2018, he has had many wins and 

only 2 poles down in his 2018 

campaign since the start of his 

career. He is brave, careful and 

has the brain to be able to cope 

with even the most electric of 

atmospheres. He won both the 

Weston Lawns and Bicton young 

horse championship 4yo classes 

in 2018 as well as jumping in 

the Hickstead 4yo final. 

He had several wins and was 

well placed jumping countless 

double clears last season. 

Now with frozen and fresh 

semen available, Jonagold 

would suit high quality mares 

from all disciplines. 

Now competing at Newcomers 



Grading: Approved AES 


Stands At: Kington Langley Stud, The Stables, Ashes Lane, Kington 

Langley, Chippenham, SN155NP 

Contact: Bob Livock 

Tel: 07768262434 / 07824664639 

Email: info@kingtonlangleystud.com 

Website: www.kingtonlangleystud.com 

Cidane 

Rosalina 

Heartbreaker 

Larnike 

Burgraaf 

Liberlina 

Nimmerdor 

Bacarole 

Ramiro Z 

Garnike 

Landgraf I 

Loanda 

Libero H 

Claudia 

Jonkers Metyo 

42 

2000 Bay 

Eventing 

Metyo is a delightful pony, who 

qualified for the Pony Club 

championships at Draycott 

House, hunted, competed in all 

disciplines and is easy to handle 

at all times. 

He has proven his worth as a 

breeding stallion by consistently 

producing foals with good 

temperaments, movement and 

conformation. All his foals have 

received Higher First Premiums 

at the BEF Futurities. 

Fairlight Moondance won the 

2011 SPSS Sports Pony Foal 

class, foal championship and 

was reserve overall to 

Woodlander Wales. She was 

bred for eventing but according 

to her evaluators at the 

Futurities, moved well enough 

for pure dressage. Metyo is used 

on both horse and pony mares 

and is consistently producing 

good stock with all. Two of 

Metyo’s 2016 foals received 

SPSS gold premiums and our filly 

foal, Fairlight Rhiannon was the 

top scoring foal. 


Stud Book: NWPCS 

Grading: Holland, SPSS Approved 


Stands At: Fairlight Stud, New Farm, Clevedon Lane, Clapton in 

Gordano, North Somerset, BS20 7RJ 

Contact: Jo Sholl-Evans 

Tel: jo@fairlightstud.com 

Email: www.fairlightstud.com 

Highmead Duty Free 

Janet 

Small-Land Mambrino 

Oakley Be Free 

Tetworth Crimson Lake 

Carlijn 

Downland Mohawk 

Gazelle 

Oakley Bubbling Spring 

Set Free of Oakley 

Lechilade Scarlet Pimpernel 

Tetworth Swan Lake 

Puppur 

Talsarn Misty 

BRITISH BREEDER| 27



Jupiter TN 

43 

2014 Bay 

Showjumping 

New for 2019 Jupiter TN, 

one of the most successful 

showjumping 4 year olds in 

Great Britain for 2018 

with winnings of over £600 

in just 6 months, from March 

to August of his first year 

competing! He took 2 titles 

winning the 4 year old, Non 

British bred class at Addington 

alongside the 4 year old Grand 

Prix at Pyecombe. To add to 

this, he was 3rd in a strong line 

up at the British Showjumping 

National Final Championships 

held at Stonleigh. Imported 

from Holland in 2017 as a 3 year 

old, he has been backed and 

produced carefully without 

overjumping, showing a willing 

attitude to his work, leading to 

tremendous rideability with the 

most fantastic temperament 

to match! A true gentleman on 

the ground and to deal with at 

home and at competitions. His 

technique over a fence is very 

clean, careful, with a powerful 

engine. 




Stud Fee: £650 + VAT NFNF (1st Oct) 

Stands At: The Forge, Barnby Moor, Retford, Notts, DN22 8QU 

Contact: Jake Elliott 

Tel:07545026500 

Email: jelliottequestrian@gmail.com 

Website: www.myspiresstud.co.uk 

Sandro Boy 

Parodie 

Sandro 

Wiadora 

Pilot 

Wakonda 

Sacramento Song 

Duerte 

Grannus 

Walide 

Pilatus 

Gratia 

Weinberg 

Aness 

Killour Star 

44 

2013 Buckskin 

Showjumping 

An Exciting young stallion 

proving himself in performance 

and as a sire, there is truly 

no compromise on type or 

performance here. An approved 

stallion with the Sports Pony 

Studbook his potential to 

influence FEI level competition 

has already been recognised. 

Connemara royalty, he is 

flooded with a history of proven 

Elite performance sires and dam 

line producers of FEI European 

Eventing ponies, Grand Prix 

Showjumpers and many HOYS 

contenders. Killour Star is 

breeding fantastic type and 

temperament into his offspring, 

he crosses exceptionally well 

with Thoroughbreds and Welsh 

part-breds producing excellent 

Small horses for sport as well 

as show stopping purebred 

Connemara’s. In his early years 

as a sire he has produced Gold 

Premium offspring and many 

show winners. He has been the 

choice of many professional 

breeders. 


Stud Book: CPBS 

Grading: CPBS, BCPS, SPSS 


Stands At: Barrowby Connemaras, Barrowby, Kirkby Overblow, 



Tel: 07803752345 



Dooneen 

Supermatch 

Lough Mask Lee 

Frederiksminde Hazy 

Match 

Dooneen Star 

Slaney 

Kerry Lee 

Hazy Dawn 

Oxenholme Mandy 

Thunderbolt 

Dooneen Grey 

Thunder Storm 

Hidi Rambler 

Ardravinna Andy 

Tully’s Snow 

Kippure Lancelot 

45 

2006 Black 

Showjumping 

An Extraordinary Black dually 

graded SPSS 2016 England 

and Wales Champion Graded 

stallion and Class 1 Connemara 

Stallion. A previous RDS 

Reserve champion stallion, 

now a successful junior 

148cm showjumper he has 

proven himself in all areas 

of competition. Added to his 

super temperament, correct 

conformation with desired pony 

characteristics true to the type 

of the native Connemara Pony 

makes him highly sought after 

as a sire. Lancelot is passing 

on his exceptional quality, 

substance, bravery, technique 

and temperament to all his 

progeny. He is crossing very 

well with Thoroughbreds, 

Sports horses, BRP & Welsh 

with some super prospects up 

and coming as hunters, Sport 

horses & ponies and purebred 

Connemaras He has had 

numerous offspring awarded 

gold premiums at evaluations 

and winners in the show ring. 


Stud Book: CPBS 



Stands At: Barrowby Connemaras, Grange Barnm Moor Lane, 



Tel: 07803752345 



Frederiksminde 

Hazy Merlin 

Kippure Kim 

Hazy Dawn 

Oxenholme movie 

star 

Thunder Bay 

Westward Girl 

Dale Haze 

Castle Park 

Marble 

Oxenholme Marigold 

Thunderbolt 

Inverin Rosebud 

Killyreagh Kim 

Lady of Thull 


Sponsored by 

KL Mac 

46 

2011 Grey 

Dressage 

This athletic young stallion 

demonstrates amazing 

movement, exceptional 

temperament and incredible 

scope. He would make an ideal 

sire for those wishing to breed 

Showjumpers, dressage or 

eventers due to his world class 

breeding and bloodlines. His 

breeding dates back to the age 

old championship blood lines 

of the trakehners in Liese in 

1945 and his sire’s line were 

prolific winners in dressage and 

eventing. His dam sire was the 

East European 4, 5 and 6 year 

old show jumping champion 

and also has Olympic show 

jumping medal winning lineage 

through Quidam De Revel, and 

breeding from the successful 

“Rosette” line. KL Mac’s sire, 

Larduc, was a ZFDP graded 

premium stallion. KL Mac has 

competed successfully in the 

show jumping age classes in 

Europe and is also excelling at 

dressage, competing at National 

level. 


Stud Book: British Sports Horse 


Stud Fee: £650 NO VAT 

Stands At: Kington Langley Stud, Kington Langley, Near Chippenham, 

SN15 5NP 

Contact: Bob Livock 

Tel: 07768 262434 

Email: info@kingtonlangleystud.com 

Website: www.kingtonlangleystud.com 

Larduc 

Gratina 

Marduc 

Lajana IV 

Graf Quidam 

Petra-Utopia 

Halali 

Halali 

Mahon 

Lissa II 

Quidam De Revel 

Landwind II 

Westworld 

IMCA-Utopia 

Klaris Giddy-Up 

47 


Showjumping 

Krispy as he is known at home is 

a stallion with a great attitude. 

He has scope, carefulness, 

movement, type and presence 

He is by Don VHP Z who was 

crowned Belgium Horse of the 

Year in 2017 after his exceptional 

results including European Silver 

medallist, Winning GCT GP in 

Rome and jumping double clears 

in Nations Cups. Before being 

sold he won many classes here 

in the UK with Louise Pavitt, 

Including the Royal Windsor 

Grand Prix, Multiple winner at 

Hickstead, Winner at HOYS and a 

fantastic 4th in the King George 

Grand Prix at RIHS. Krispy’s 

dam, Sussex Caretino, is a 1.50m 

International Grade A.She is a 

prolific winner in the UK and has 

bred several foals by embryo 

transfer. She is by Caretino Glory, 

who himself is a 1.60 jumper. 

Great grand sire, Hamilton III 

was also a Grade A jumping 

stallion.In 2017/18 he competed 

successfully in BS young horse 

classes and he will continue this 

in 2019 after his winter break. 

BSGrade C-£403 Actual,198oints. 



Grading: Licensed 

Stud Fee: £100 booking fee plus Stud Fee £400.00 + VAT. 

Stands At: Brendon Stud, Haresdean Lane, Pyecombe, West Sussex, 

BN45 7EG 


Tel: 07968 847025 / 01273 844508 

Email: shirleyno2@hotmail.com 

Website: www.brendonstud.com 

Don VHP Z 

Sussex Caretino 


Sara van het 

Parelshof 

Caretino Glory 

Special To me 


VeniseD.Cres 

Voltaire 

Etsina 

Cheenook 

Glorieuse 

Hamilton III 

Tropicanay 

Leprince des Bois 

48 

1999 Bay 

Eventing 

Leprince is sired by Yarlands 

Summer Song who was ranked 

for 10 years in the WBFSH 

top 10 Eventing sires and 

Leprince is his most successful 

offspring. Summer Song’s sire 

Fleetwater Opposition is a 

legend in eventing pedigrees 

as well and has produced 

numerous international eventers 

(Opposition Buzz, Trevalgar 

II, Ngong Hills, and Absolute 

Opposition). With the Olympian 

Galoubet A as damsire, 

Leprince’s pedigree easily 

explains his outstanding talent 

and achievements. Leprince 

finished 11th at Badminton, 

8th at Burghley and 4th at Pau. 

His full brother Popof des Bois 

is successful in CIC 4* as well. 

Retired in his best condition in 

2014 after winning the German 

junior eventing championships 

with a 16-year-old girl, 

Leprince’s offspring are still 

young.He produces intelligent 

and easy horses passing over his 

movement, stamina and scope. 


Stud Book: SF, AA, AES, Hann, Ba Wii, OLD 



Stands At: Tomlinson Equine, Westonbirt, GL8 8QE. 

Contact: Emma Tomlinson 

Tel: 01666 880236 

Email: info@ tomlinsonequinevets.co.uk 

Website: www.tomlinsonequinevets.co.uk 

Yarlands 

Summersong 

Escale de Bois 

Fleetwater Oppostion 

Welton Gazelle 

Quandy du Mayne 

Perle de Bois 

Muschamp Danube 

Opushka 

Welton Gamefull 

Lisa 

Galoubet A 

Scynik 

Funny Hobby 

Lolita V 

BRITISH BREEDER| 29



Lollipop 

49 

2016 Dark Brown 

Dressage 

By Uthopia, At his British 

team debut with Carl at the 

European Championships, won 

the Grand Prix to give the team 

the best possible start. Strong 

performances from the team 

and Individual silver for Carl and 

Uti (Carl’s first ever individual 

medal), won a historic team 

gold. In the Freestyle, they 

further impressed for a second 

individual silver. This modern 

and upstanding young son 

of “Uti” is the model for 

the dressage arena. He has 

three good gaits and a super 

temperament. His dam sire 

Amoureux is a horse who 

performed well to PSG and 

started at Inter I. He combines 

some great performance blood 

With Ramiro, Krack C and 

Flemingh bringing their 

influence. His dam, Ruby is a 

prestasie, ster and preferrent 

mare. Woodlander Stud is proud 

to stand this exciting young 

horse for his owners Liz Ball and 

Bramble Stud 



Grading: WBS-UK, Oldenburg Pending 


Stands At: Woodlander Stud 


Tel: 07768 323351 



Uthopia 

Gallia 

Metall 

Odelia 

Amoureux 

S.Renida 

Ferro 

Edelweiss 

Inspekteur 

Fresula 

Saros van T’ Gestelhof 

Ruby 

Jazz 

Gerida II 

Monks Stafford ESC 

50 

2007 Chestnut 

Showjumping 

Stafford is a fully licensed Grade 

A stallion and has been 70 day 

tested in Germany by 

the Oldenburg verband. He is 

also approved by Zangersheide 

and the Anglo European 

Studbooks. 

As an 8 year old he has 

competed at International 

1.40m with further scope to 

reach 1.60m with ease. His 

temperament is something 

rarely found in such a stallion. 

He is kind and easy to ride with 

the heart of a lion to every 

fence. He is an honest stallion 

andreally gives his best every 

time into the ring. 

His scope is something hard 

to describe. A true horse with 

wings. 

In 2018, Stafford was competed 

under Irish rider Trevor Breen 

with success at the British 

Masters, Hickstead RIHS and 

in Belgium CSI World Ranking 

Classes to 1.45m level. 

Height: 17hh (173cm) 


Grading: Licensed 


Stands At: Monks Stud, Shamley Wood Estate, 

Shamley Green, Guildford, Surrey, GU5 0SP 

Contact: Charlie Swanston 

Tel:07742 228739 

Email: monksstud@gmail.com 

Website: www.monksstud.co.uk 

Stakkato 

Aralmea 

Spartan 

Hauptstutbuch Pia 

Ahorn Z 

H. Ralmea 

Servus 

H.Gottilde 

Pygmalion 

H. Goldfeder 

Alme 

H.Heureka Z 

Ramiro 

H. Bienfait 

Mullionmileanhour 

51 

2006 Bay 

Eventing 

his stock with his superb 

temperament, trainability, 

quality of limb and movement. 

54% of his runners have either 

won or been placed. 

He is a true breeding bay – no 

chestnuts! 


Stud Book: Weatherby’s 

Grading: SHB(GB) Lifetime Graded 

Stud Fee: £500 NFFR (£1000 Weatherby’s Mares Natural Cover only) 

Stands At: Great Brockhamhurst Stud, Betchworth, 

Surrey, RH3 7AP 

Contact: Louisa Taylor 

Tel: 07802 358925 

Email: greatbrockstud@gmail.com 

Website: www.greatbrockhamhusrtstud.co.uk 

An exciting opportunity for 

sport horse mare owners to use 

a top class, well bred, graded 

thoroughbred stallion, to 

inject some quality blood and 

trainability to their mares. 

Already proving to stamp 

Mull Of Kintyre 

(USA) xx 

Lady Lucia (IRE) xx 

Danzig 

Retrospective 

Royal Applause 

Inventive 

Northern Dancer 

Pas De Nom 

Easy Goer 

Hay Patcher 

Waajib 

Flying Melody 

Sheikh Albadou 

Ingenuity 


Sponsored by 

Multicouture 

52 

2015 Perlino Tobiano 

Dressage 

Multicouture(Gucci) is an 

incredible AES and SPSS 

Approved perlino tobiano 

Warmblood Stallion. He not 

only has fabulous conformation, 

an amazing nature but an 

outstanding colour which 

guarantees a dilute foal every 

time with a 50/50 chance of the 

foal being tobiano. Gucci had 

his first crop of foals in 2018 

and they were exceptional. All 

of them were truly stamped by 

him. At his AES grading, Gucci 

impressed the judges with 

his expressive, balanced and 

powerful canter, and with his 

truly outstanding trot for which 

he received a dream score of 9 

with both stud books. 

Gucci is the perfect choice 

for someone wanting to breed 

something unusual but wanting 

to retain the level of quality in 

their breeding stock. 

Gucci is currently being 

produced under saddle and 

starts his BD career this 

summer. 


Stud Book: British Sports Horse 

Grading: AES, SPSS, British Palomin Society 

Stud Fee: £500 Tested WFFS negative 

Stands At: Wetpoint Stud & AI Centre, Shopshire 

Contact: Bianca Hill 

Tel: 07951822063 

Email: info@penmawddwystud@gmail.com 

Website: www.penmawddwystud.com 

Multicolor II 

Viranda 

Mascarpone GF 

Simsalabim 

Hoftanz 

Viranda 

Mega-Star 

Panachee 

Sinclair B 

Stella XI 

His Highbess 

Romina 

Karlstaad 

Reanda B 

Myspires Fider Hit 

53 

2014 Black 

Dressage 

Myspires Fider Hit is an up and 

coming young stallion who 

brings with him huge amounts of 

elegance and poise. 

A beautiful short coupled, 

charming horse, who has a 

big over stepping walk which 

scored him 9, alongside a 9 

for his trot at the Futurity’s. 

He is light footed and supple 

with an active, very athletic, 

uphill trot and canter showing 

lots of suspension, energy and 

ground cover. A true gentleman 

with a wonderful temperament 

making him a true pleasure to 

be around. His Sire champion 

stallion Fidertanz has took titles, 

leaving the arena with standing 

ovations. He has competed 

internationally at Grand Prix 

under the rider Antonio Do Vale. 

Smashed his 30-day test and was 

crowned Vice champion at the 

Bundeschampion in Warendorf 

with a very respectful score 

of 9.5. His first foals in 2006 

gained recognition of outstanding 

quality, which led to him being 

awarded the Main Premium for 

stallions in Oldenburg. 


Stud Book: WBS-UK 

Grading: Graded WBS-UK 

Stud Fee: £450 + collection and postage 

Stands At: Myspires Stud, Constables Farm, Barnhorn Road, 

Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex, TN39 4QR. 

Contact: Lianne Verity 

Tel:07761836186 

Email: lianneverity@hotmail.co.uk 

Website:www.myspiresstud.co.uk 

Fidertanz 

Veronica 

Fidermark 1 

Reine Freude 

Sandro Hit 

Version 

Florestan I 

Watonga 

Ravallo 

Fruehlingssonne 

Sandro Song 

Loretta 

Sion 

Verona 

Myspires Revolution 

54 

2009 Dark Bay 

Eventing 

Myspires Revolution is now 

proving himself as a valuable 

sire! 2018 saw his offspring take 

part in the BYEH finals, and 

narrowly missing out by 0.1 to 

take the top spot at Osberton 

in the 4-year olds! He was 

1 of 3 sires with progeny at 

Osberton that had been Futurity 

graduates, where he became 

Reserve National Champion 

for 3-year old showjumpers in 

2012. He is a sire who stamps 

his offspring with quality and 

substance, passes on movement 

with a fantastic balanced canter 

alongside a correct and scopey 

jump. 

Most importantly his progeny 

ALL show temperament, 

trainability and willingness 

to learn, even from sharper 

mares. All these attributes 

make them the ideal type for 

the professional and amateur 

to produce horses with a level 

head that makes the job a 

pleasure to do and enjoy. 




Stud Fee: £500 + collection and postage 

Stands At: Myspires Stud, Constables Farm, Barnhorn Road, 

Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex, TN39 4QR. 

Contact: Lianne Verity 

Tel: 07761836186 

Email: lianneverity@hotmail.co.uk 

Website: www.myspiresstud.co.uk 

Stanhope’s Diddicoy 

Equina B 

Ico 

Gipsy 

Cum Laude z 

Opaline de la Cour 

Marco Polo 

Sonja 

Gottward 

Anja 

Carthago Z 

Losandra 

Major de la Cour 

Aldegonde F 

BRITISH BREEDER| 31



Noble Warrior 

55 

2009 Chestnut 

Showjumping 

Wombat as he is known at 

home is homebred by Warrior. 

Warrior is a son of Tangelo v/d 

Zuuthoeve x Heartbreaker, he 

has competed at the London 

Olympics and Global Tour shows 

and is already a superstar. 

Wombat is out of Casantos Lady, 

a scopey mare who competed 

BS.Wombat shows massive 

scope and is super careful, 

good paces with a generous 

length of stride, fantastic 

type and a great attitude in 

every way. In 2014 multiple 

wins in age classes including 

Internationally at Lummen, 

Arena UK and the Young Horse 

Championships at Addington. In 

2015 won a newcomers second 

round qualifying for HOYS. He 

took the 6 yr old title at Arena 

UK. 2016 he qualified HOYS 

in the Talent Seekers with a 

fantastic win at Hickstead, he 

then stepped up to compete 

Internationally and 2017/2018 

saw him jumping and winning at 

5*International shows. 




Stud Fee: £100 booking fee plus Stud Fee £700.00 + VAT. 

Stands At: Brendon Stud, Haresdean Lane, Pyecombe, 

West Sussex, BN45 7EG 


Tel: 07968 847025 / 01273 844508 

Email: shirleyno2@hotmail.com 

Website: www.brendonstud.com 

Warrior 

Asadermie 

Tangelo Van 

Zuuthoeve 

Philliane A 

Casantos 

Nadermie V 

Narcos II 

Olympia van de Krekebeke 

Heartbreaker 

Karlien 

Cantos 

Cassima 

Edison 

K.Adermie 33 

Oliver 

56 

2007 Chestnut 

Showjumping 

Oliver is one of the only 

LIFETIME APPROVED KWPN 

stallions standing in the UK. 

He is a proven sire of successful 

competition horses having 

daughters and sons competing 

successfully in Showjumping, 

Dressage and Eventing both on 

the National and international 

circuit. Oliver is a very 

versatile and trainable stallion 

competing internationally at 

1.30 show jumping and up to 

ZZR (Prix st George) dressage 

internationally. A talent 

seen in very few stallions. 

His versatility, trainability 

and amazing bloodline and 

temperament he passes onto 

his foal.Oliver HFD received a 

very praiseworthy foal report 

from the KWPN inspectors; high 

legged, elastic foals with three 

good basic gaits His offspring 

are very promising and are 

described as elastic 

all-rounder’s sport horses. 



Grading: KWPN Lifetime Approved 

Stud Fee: £650 + collection & postage 

Stands At: Holden Fold Stud, Tocholes, Lancashire, BB3 0LR 

Contact: Mel Gravell-Barnes 

Tel: 07866458770 

Email: melgravell@hotmail.com 

Website: www.gbsportshorsestud.co.uk 

Voltaire 

Kezwiggy 

Furioso II 

Gogo Moeve 

Graaf Grande 

Gezwiggy 

Furioso xx 

Dame de Ronville 

Gotthard 

Mosaik 

Burggraaf 

Doretta 

Calvados 

Zwiggy 

Opposition Bombshell 

57 

2004 Black 

Eventing 

Opposition Bombshell is a 

very eye catching horse with 

tremendous presence, a 

beautiful head and neck and a 

good length of rein. His paces 

are bold, expressive and off the 

ground. His temperament is 

superb. He is widely regarded as 

an improving sire on his mares. 

Unfortunately as a 4 year old 

Opposition Bombshell injured 

himself in the field so has not 

competed himself. 

His first stock were born in 

2012, his 2014 colt Catherston 

Oakley was awarded an Elite 

Premium at the BEF Futurity 

and has just Premium Graded as 

a SHB Stallion, to stand in 2020. 

Opposition Bombshell also has 

4 Higher Firsts from his first 

season’s progeny who are now 

as 6 year olds out successfully 

eventing. His pedigree is 

world renowned for producing 

Olympic level progeny for both 

Eventing and Dressage. 

Height: 16hh (162.5cm) 

Stud Book: SHB(GB), AES 

Grading: AES Licensed Tested WFFS Negative 

Stud Fee: 360 incl VAT 

Stands At: Catherston Stud, Croft Farm, Over Wallop, Stockbridge, 

Hampshire, SO20 8JX 

Contact: Jennie Loriston-Clarke or Anne Dicker 

Tel: 01264 782716 

Email: catherston@btconnect.com 

Website: www.catherstonstud.com 

Fleetwater 

Opposition 

Dutch Bombshell 

Muschamp Danube 

Opushka 

Dutch Courage 

Military Song 

Isenstein 

Donaulied vom Schimmelhof 

Oplot 

Pika 

Millerole xx 

Higonia 

Marine Corps xx 

Song 


Sponsored by 

Palousa San Sebastian 

58 

2005 Full black Leopard Spotted 

Dressage 

Palousa San Sebastian is very 

versatile. He has competed 

BSJA, through his winnings he 

is a Grade B showjumper and 

has won at 1.30m. He is now 

competing BD at Advanced 

Medium and Advanced dressage, 

and has won immediately 

at this level. He has superb 

conformation which he passes 

on to his foals, he sired a 

BEF Futurity ELITE premium 

foal (9.39 points, ranked 5th 

out of 800 in 2013) and GOLD 

premiums/medals + Royal Welsh 

County Gold medals filly. His 

first international foals are 

born, in USA, Belgium, the 

Netherlands, Australia and 

France. Foals expected in 2019 

in USA, Belgium, Netherlands 

and UK. Palousa San Sebastian 

is graded with WBS-UK, where 

he was Champion Sportshorse 

Register of his year 2009. 

He is now also Graded with 

the German studbook ZfdP 

(Zuchtverband fur deutsche 

Pferde). 

Height:16.3hh (171cm) 

Stud Book: Nederland Appaloosa Stamboek 

Grading: WBS-UK, ZfDP 

Stud Fee: £625 NFFR + collection fees 

Stands At: The Dressage Company, Norfolk 

Contact: Mrs Elsa Strandberg 

Tel: 07733 098831 / 01736 365848 

Email: strart@globalnet.co.uk 

Website: www.dressagestuds.com 

San Remo 

Palousa Caprice 

Wolkentanz I 

Valente 

Gribaldi 

Palousa Cybella 

Weltmeyer 

Lovely 

Volturno 

Azira 

Kostolany 

Gondola II 

Mackael Grey 

Palousa 

Pennine View Silver Concorde 

59 

2009 Dark Bay 

Eventing 

By Z Concorde out of Silver 

Squirrel (TB). This elegant and 

modern sport horse stallion with 

stunning proportions, expressive 

paces and bold scopey jump 

that one would expect from his 

top breeding lines of Concorde, 

Ramiro Z Voltaire and Furioso 

fromhis father and pure TB 

from his mother, also has a calm 

sensible temperament that 

any owner could cope with. In 

2018 he became a successful 2* 

international eventer. 

He is scopey in all areas from 

dressage, with his stunning paces 

qualifying him for regionals and 

Nationals, now competing at 

Medium. To Show Jumping boldly 

at Foxhunter, and exceptional 

clear XC record over 4 seasons 

from novice to 2*CIC events! 

He was recognised as a young 

horse coming 2nd in the National 

BEF Futurity Eventing 3yo Final 

class at Osberton. 

His youngstock have been 

well placed in hand and been 

a pleasure to back with their 

stunning temperaments and 

classy paces. 



Grading: Graded SHB(GB) 


Stands At: Pennine View Stud, Harrogate, N Yorks, HG3 1RB 

Contact: Lucy & Chris Thompson 

Tel:07715 115164/ 07808 293847 

Email: Lucy@pennineviewstud.co.uk 

Website: www.pennineviewstud.co.uk 

Z Concorde 

Silver Squirrel xx 

Concorde 

Lentefee 

Silver Wizard xx 

Farah xx 

Voltaire 

Flyer 

Ramiro Z 

Fee 

Silver Hawk 

Cherie’s Hope 

Lead on Time 

Muznah 

Prometheus 

60 

2013 Bay 

Eventing 

Prometheus is the ultimate 

modern type of sports pony: 

he excels in pure dressage, 

show jumping and eventing. 

He is careful and scopy with 

beautiful paces and has a calm 

and kind temperament with a 

workmanlike attitude to life. 

Prometheus started his ridden 

career show jumping, his scope 

and attitude meant he jumped 

up the levels efficiently and 

had jumped Senior Newcomers 

before his 5th birthday. With his 

obvious bravery and fantastic 

paces, at the beginning of 2018 

and in his fifth year, he was 

sent to MJ Eventing where once 

again he quickly moved up the 

levels and by the end of the 

season had secured six top ten 

placings out of eight starts, 

including a win at BE100. He 

consistently scores the best 

dressage in his Arena, and is 

working at Elementary as well 

as competing in BE Novice 

Combined Training, to move to 

this level in 2019. 



Grading: SPSS 


Stands At: Hobgoblins Stud, Duddleswell, East Sussex, TN22 3BH 

Contact: Annabel Blake 

Tel: 07870 358944 

Email: annabelblake@icloud.com 

Website: 

Romulus 

A Pinch of Pepper 

Renoir 

Donna Deandera AT 

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Racket 

Ramona 

Don Joshi I AT 

Deandera 

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Rasputin 

61 

1998 Black 

Showjumping 

Impeccable breeding, 

performance, manners 

and temperament. His honesty 

and trainability is second to 

none. This entire package he 

passes on to his foals. Although 

starting his breeding career late 

in life is youngstock are 

already winning national 

championships and showing 

to have his talent and 

temperament. Rasputin’s 

bloodlines read like a who’s who 

of the show jumping world. His 

father Laroche, grandfathers 

Concorde, Cavalier and his 

great grandfathers Voltaire, 

Nimmerdor, Maykel and 

Nuprimus were all international 

show jumpers with a proven 

ability to sire world class 

competition horses. Rasputin 

is a prospective sire for many 

disciplines with his calm 

trainability, impeccable 

breeding, excellent 

performance, manners and 

temperament passed onto his 

offspring. 


Stud Book: KWPN, AES 

Grading: KWPN Ster Preferent , AES Licensed 

Stud Fee: £475 + collection & postage NFFR with fresh & chilled 

Stands At: Holden Fold Stud, Tocholes, Lancashire, BB3 0LR 

Contact: Mel Gravell-Barnes 

Tel: 07866458770 

Email: melgravell@hotmail.com 

Website: www.gbsportshorsestud.co.uk 

Laroche 

Irlenneke 

Concorde 

Bernadette 

Cavalier 

Berlenneke 

Voltaire 

Flyer 

Nimmerdor 

Derina 

Maykel 

Wina 

Nurprimus 

Poulenneke 

Samba Hit III 

62 

2003 Dark Bay 

Dressage 

Samba Hit III is a stallion of 

truly outstanding quality, 

demonstrated by his score 

of 9.0 at the 30-day stallion 

performance test. This stallion 

has magnificent temperament 

and his potential is further 

enhanced by the quality of his 

paces, his phenomenal ground 

covering walk, his balance and 

the cadence of his trot and 

the rhythmical uphill canter, 

along with his amazing ability 

to collect. Samba was ridden 

by Gareth Hughes and has won 

at Premier League Inter 11, 

many wins at Inter 1, placed 

4th at the Nationals, 2nd 

CDI at Hartpury. Outstanding 

temperament. He has 

concentrated on his dressage so 

only a few progeny but they are 

out there doing well. Salsa Hit 

won Medium at the Nationals. 

Sir Wilfred 2nd in young horse 

classes with 78%. Samba Hit III’s 

full-sister, Poetin, the double 

champion &World Young Horse 

Dressage Champion. 


Stud Book: Brandenburg Germany 

Grading: Oldenburg, Rhineland, Mecklenburg, Westfalen, AES 


Stands At: Witcham House Farm 

Contact: Katy Holder-Vale 

Tel: 07788437852 

Email: katy@whfarm.com 

Website: www.hanoverianstud.com 

Sandro Hit 

Poesie 

Sandro Song 

Loretta 

Brentano II 

Primadonna 

Sandro 

Antene II 

Ramino 

Lassie 

Bolero 

Gloke 

Gotland 

Paraboise 

Sir Shutterfly 

63 

2002 Bay 

Eventing 

Sir Shutterfly is now ranked 

55th in the WBFSH Event sire 

rankings.Sir Shutterfly (full 

brother to Meredith Michaels- 

Beerbaum’s Internationally 

famous Shutterfly), has world 

class bloodlines through both 

his sire Silvio I and his dam 

Famm, who was Hannoverian 

mare of the year 2007. She has 

bred many successful offspring 

including Let’s Fly (Rodrigo 

Pessoa) who won 2 World Cup 

Titles and over $300,000 prize 

money. This mare underlines the 

equally important need for a 

strong damline in modern sports 

horse breeding. 

He is a modern blood type 

stallion with immense 

athleticism, a great 

temperament and a desire to 

work. He copes exceptionally 

well under pressure, remaining 

calm and focused. He achieved 

excellent scores in his 30-day 

test: 10.0 for scope, 9.75 & 

9.5 for jumping ability & 9 for 

temperament & character. 


Stud Book: Hanoverian Verband, SHB(GB) 

Grading: Hanoverian Verband, SHB(GB) 

Stud Fee: £750 +VAT 

Stands At: Fairlight Stud, Cleveland Lane, Clapton in Gordano, 

North Somerset, BS20 7RJ 

Contact: Jo Sholl-Evans 

Tel: 01275 818558 /07889 203903 

Email: jo@fairlightstud.com 

wesite: www.fairlightstud.com 

Silvio I 

Famm 

Sandro 

Gelbkatze 

Forrest xx 

Galana 

Sacramento Song xx 

Duerte 

Gepard 

Rhodedendron 

Gernegross xx 

Flut xx 

Gardestern I 

Wisenfreude 


Sponsored by 

Spring’s Spirit 

64 

2009 Chestnut 

Eventing 

This classy British bred stallion 

possesses a fabulous jump, 

athletic paces and a super 

temperament. He benefits from 

possessing the finest Dutch 

Warmblood and National Hunt 

lines, providing the perfect 

balance of Thoroughbred and 

Selle Francais breeding making 

him 75% TB, thus adding 

refinement and athleticism to 

your mare’s off spring 

Spring’s Spirit was the youngest 

British bred stallion to have 

any progeny competing in 

British Eventing’s Young Horse 

Championships 2017 and 2018. 

His sire, Springfield Symphony, 

a former national champion 

eventer at the Futurity 

Evaluations. Spring’s Spirit 

has a superb temperament 

and fabulous movement and 

conformation (scoring a 9 out 

of 10 for conformation at his 

futurity evaluation). He has 

competed to CIC* at present 

and has the ability to progress 

further in both eventing & BS. 



Grading: Breeders Elite Licensed 


Stands At: Springfield Stud 

Contact: Peter Hatton, John Chambers 

Tel: 07717 432814 

Email: John.chambers191@gmail.com 

Website: www.springfieldstud.com 

Springfield 

Symphony 

Pobedy 

Kings Composer 

Springfield Jasmin 

Calvados 

Cabinda 

Sousa 

Pullandese 

Pennwood Forge Line 

Unknown 

Uriel 

Gold Rose 

Gagson Wimborn 

Paulien 

Sula Blue 

65 

2002 Dark Bay 

Eventing 

Sula Blue will be combining 

stud duties with competing in 

British Eventing. In his career to 

date, he has proven to be one 

of the most consistent horses in 

the country up to FEI 4* level, 

easily qualifying for the British 

open championships in both 

2016 and 2017 and gaining his 

5* qualification at Bramham 

International Horse Trials. 

In 2019, he will again be 

partnering an up and coming 

young rider aiming for the junior 

teams, proving his amazing 

temperament and trainability 


Stud Book: Weatherbys 

Grading: AES, Breeders Elite 


Stands At: Nuppend Stud 

Contact: Francine Fenley 

Tel: 07977699473 

Email: chilton495@hotmail.com 

Website: www.nuppend-stud.co.uk 

Sula Bula 

Certain Melody 

Midsummer Night 

Blue Ann 

Ascertain 

Glendevon Melody 

Djeddah 

Night Sound 

Road House 

Gay Mollie 

Hail to Reason 

Ballette 

Cagirama 

Secured 

BRITISH BREEDER| 35



Tajrassi 

66 

1999 Bay 

Eventing 

Tajraasi is a full thoroughbred 

stallion with exceptional 

quality, pedigree, conformation, 

character and a proven ability 

to sire outstanding horses with 

the ability, temperament and 

soundness to be competitive at 

the highest level in international 

equestrian sport. Sire of 

multiple winners in Ireland on 

the flat, over hurdles, point to 

point and National Hunt 

Tajraasi has 10 horses of 

competition age on the Irish 

Horse Register. From these 10 

horses he has already sired 

Alfies Clover and Kilballyboy Bob 

who compete at top level. 

It is hugely exciting to 

imagine what Tajraasi will 

be able produce with more 

opportunities given the success 

his progeny have already 

enjoyed. Alfies Clover is an 

established and successful 

competitor at the highest 

level including completing at 

Burghley in both 2017 and 2018. 


Stud Book: Weatherbys 



Stands At: Lowlands Farm, South Luffenham, Oakham, Rutland 

LE15 8NH 

Tel: +44 (0)7775 503771 / +44 (0)7841 747816 

Email: info@tajraasi.com 

Website: www.tajraasi.com 

Tempolino (USA) 

Inca Princess (USA) 

Sharpen Up 

Trephine 

Big Spruce (USA) 

Inca Queen (USA) 

Atan 

Rocchetta 

Viceregal 

Quiriquina 

Herbager 

Silver Sari 

Hail to Reason 

Silver Spoon 

Tiger Attack 

67 

2012 Bay 

Eventing 

Tiger Attack, owned and bred by 

Joanne & William Moran, is an 

outstanding quality young horse, 

a real head turner with superb 

conformation and exceptional 

movement. He has the most 

trainable temperament and is 

always willing to please and 

always gives 110%. 

Shown successfully in hand as 

a youngster with an amazing 

track record winning every 

major national championship, 

Ottergale Supreme x 3, £1000 

North of England Supreme x 2, 

Royal Mile Supreme, 

Martin Wood £1000 Supreme 

Final, In Hand Future Event 

Horse Championships x 3 at 

Bramham CCI and he qualified 

for the Cuddy In-Hand Final at 

HOYS as a 2, 3 & 4 year old. 

n 2018 he was 20th at 

Badminton with a lovely clear 

XC, was 3rd at the Hunter Show 

in the Novice Working Hunter, 

2nd Wilton BE100 & 1st Bucks 

County Blue Chip Flat Sport 

Horse Qualifier. 



Grading: SHB(GB), Registered NPS & Irish Horse Register Approved 

Stud Fee: £800 payable directly to Mr Moran 

Stands At: Catherston Stud, Croft Farm, 

Over Wallop, Stockbridge, Hampshire, SO20 8HX 

Contact: Jennie Loriston-Clarke, Anne Dicker 

Tel: 01264 782716 



Dolphin Supreme 

Tiger Lily IV 

Ottergale 

Dolphin Song 

The Outlaw 

Java 

Lord Gale xx 

Otterhill xx 

Blue Riband III xx 

Dolphin Play 

Criminal Law xx 

Demon Spring 

Louella Gandolpho 

Miss Melinda xx 

Timolin 

68 

2011 Bay 

Eventing 

Timolin is an elegant, lightfooted 

stallion of exceptional 

quality showing outstanding 

paces with a lot of athleticism 

as is shown in his jumping 

ability. Heads turn where ever 

he walks with him eluding 

exceptional presence and 

natural self-carriage. This he 

passes on to his stock who all 

inherit his lovely paces and 

superb conformation. He is a 

lovely, well balanced ride with 

a bold attitude and excellent 

temperament.In his first year 

of eventing with 17 year old 

Aimee Stunt he won 5 out of 9 

BE events and has achieved 58 

Foundation Points and qualified 

for the Grass Roots BE90 

Championship at Badminton 

2018. He was then evented as a 

7 year old by Gubby Leech who 

in 7 Novice Events won two, 

was 2nd & 3rd and the others 

were all in the top 10. Now 

Intermediate. He has qualified 

for the Novice and Elementary 

Winter Regionals. 


Stud Book: BWBS 

Grading: SHB(GB) Champion, BWBS, AES 

Stud Fee: £1000 Fresh, chilled, £1,100 Frozen 

Stands At: Catherston Stud, Croft Farm, 

Over Wallop, Stockbridge, Hampshire, SO20 8HX 

Contact: Jennie Loriston-Clarke, Anne Dicker 

Tel: 01264 782716 



Totilas 

Samira 

Gribaldi 

Lominka 

Sion 

Lara 

Kostolany 

Glendale 

Elsa 

Sultan 

Tarantella 

Tarantella 

Landadel 

Tarka 


Sponsored by 

Tomatillo 

69 

2013 Bay 

Eventing 

Tomatillo is a genetic clone of 

Tamarillo, the well-known Event 

horse, long term member 

of the British team and winner 

of the Badminton and Burghley 

four star Events. Because 

Tamarillo, like most Eventers, 

was a gelding he has been 

cloned so that his special genes 

will not be lost. The story of 

the cloning can be read on the 

Biddesden website - click on 

NEWS and then on PRESS. 

Tamarillo had particular merits 

as a performance horse which 

made him worthy to be 

cloned: he was a big mover with 

a light natural cadence, he was 

extremely tough and 

agile in testing conditions 

and he seemed to find the big 

fences easy. Tarnik, Tamarillo’s 

sire, was a Polish Anglo Arab, a 

many generation blend of 

Thoroughbred (about 75%) and 

Arab with a trace of Shagya 

blood. He was an extremely 

bold and tough horse. 

First foals were born in 2017. 


Stud Book: AHS Part Bred Arab Register 

Grading: Approved via Tamarillo 


Stands At: Biddesden Stud, Andover, Hampshire, SP11 9DN 

Contact: The Hon F.B Guinness 

Tel: 01264 790646 

Email: finn.guinness@biddesdenstud.co.uk 

Website: www.biddesdenstud.co.uk 

Tarnik 

Mellita 

Walezjusz 

Tarnina 

Master Spiritus 

Darya 

Hexton xx 

Valencienne xo 

Marten xxoo 

Tarnawa xo 

Spritus xx 

Gittisham Miss xx 

Nari 

Durr el Zaman 

Vincent II 

70 

2002 Tobiano 

Dressage 

Winning BD Elementary level 

dressage horse with over 196 BD 

points 

• BD Regional Finalist 

• Best 3Yr Old Loose Jumper at 

the CHAPS Championship Show 

• Winning Sport Horse in Hand 

• More than 50% Thoroughbred 

blood. 

Vincent’s sire Elcaro is one of the 

most successful Grand Prix horses 

in the Netherlands who 

won the National Stallion 

Competition Final and has a very 

high Dressage breeding index of 

over 160. He has sired both Elite 

Sport Showjumpers and Elite 

Sport Dressage horses. 

Vincent’s dam-sire is the 

legendary Samber – a Grade A 

Showjumper and Grand Prix 

dressage stallion. He is found in 

the pedigrees of many of the top 

coloured sport horses in the 

world today. Vincent has sired 

a BD U25 National Champion, a 

Futurity Champion Dressage Foal, 

multiple BD winners, a double 

HOYS finalist and multiple County 

Show Champions. 



Grading: Life Graded SHB(GB), Life Approved AES 

Stud Fee: £650 LFG on fresh/chilled 



Tel:07951 519288 / 07775 633004 



Elcaro 

Kirby 

Zeoliet 

Ritacara 

Samber 

Ginger 

Ramiro Z 

Sargab 

Lucky Boy xx 

Dicara 

Pericles xx 

Rina 

Rinaldo 

Beolinda 

Volatis Defiant 

71 

2008 Bay Tobiano 

Dressage 

Scottish Novice & Prelim 

Champion, now competed 

Advanced Medium. Graded 

Autumn 2017 with the British 

Warmblood Studbook. Judges 

described him as a “Charming 

stallion” and praised his 

jumping ability and suppleness 

and elasticity. Beautiful stamp 

of a horse, with great bone, 

whilst retaining quality. Sandro 

Hit/Fidermark sireline. Sire 

Showmaker placed in the 

Bundeschampionate and was 

National 4yo & 5yo Champion, 

and 6yo Vice Champion and is 

now no 2 on the BD rankings. 

Dam produced 2 graded stallions 

and was Champion of her 

grading. Dam sire Dueka was 

HOYS Coloured champion and 

is a son of Stanhopes Diddicoy 

who competed with Carl Hester 

to Intermediare level as well 

as eventing and winning in the 

show ring. Defiant is free from 

Samber blood making him a 

valuable outcross for coloured 

breeders. 


Stud Book: ZfDP 

Grading: Life Approved British Warmblood 

Stud Fee: £550 NFFR on Fresh/Chilled. 

Stands At: 

Contact: Sacha Shaw 

Tel: 07951 519288 / 07775 633004 

Email: volatisstud@yahoo.co.uk 

Website: www.volatis.co.uk 

Showmaker 

Dee Dee G 

Showstar 

Florin 

Stanhopes Dueka 

Sea Shilling xx 

Sandro Hit 

Feine Dame 

Fidermark 

Wonne 

Stanhopes Diddcoy 

Mariposa VII 

Handsome Sailor 

Small Money 

BRITISH BREEDER| 37



Washington DC 

72 


Dressage 

Washington is an exceptional 

young stallion by the successful 

KWPN stallion Wynton, himself 

by the legendary Jazz who is 

hugely successful progenitor 

of world class dressage horses. 

Wynton combines the proud 

uphill talent of Jazz with the 

elegant Danish lines of Matador. 

His dam line is of the hugely 

prominent show jumping stallion 

Arpeggio, who is by the world 

renowned Accord 2. 

Already Washington has had 

great success in the dressage 

arena showing his talent 

trainability and athleticism. He 

has been consistently in the top 

3 at Premier League shows 

in the 5 year old classes and 

at Addington Premier League 

won all three 5 year old classes 

with scores well over 80% 

making him one of the best 

5 year olds in the country. 

Washington takes everything in 

his stride and has a very kind 

temperament with an 

outstanding work ethic. 


Stud Book: Westphalian 

Grading: AES 

Stud Fee: £575 LFG + collection fee and postage 

Stands At: The Dressage Company 

Contact: Liz Mills 

Tel: 07768982752 

Email: poplars92@yahoo.co.uk 

Website: www.thedressagecompany.co.uk 

Wynton 

Arizona 

Jazz 

Acacia 

Arpeggio 

Florida 

Cocktail 

Charmante 

Matador 

Aktionella 

Accord 

Perle 

P.Robert Van Elly 

Sarina 

Welton Double Cracker 

73 

2000 Bay 

Eventing 

Welton Double Cracker 

(Trigger) is an impeccably bred, 

elegant horse with correct 

conformation, a wonderful 

laid-back temperament, flowing 

paces and a bold athletic jump. 

His sire Double Trigger was an 

outstanding racehorse with 14 

wins (12 Group races), including 

the Ascot Gold Cup. His dam 

was an Advanced eventer by the 

Olympic eventing sire Welton 

Crackerjack out of a Grade A 

show jumper. 

Welton Double Cracker has won 

4 events (2 at Intermediate) 

and been placed at several 

others, both nationally and 

internationally, and has an 

outstanding pedigree to 

produce offspring for eventing, 

show jumping and showing. 

His impressive 4 yr old Vale 

Royal Joshua was 8th at the 

BE Breeding Championships 

2013 with a double clear. 

Browning was 8th Aldon CIC** in 

2016. He has stock competing 

successfully in the USA & UK. 



Grading: SHB(GB) 

Stud Fee: £500 + VAT NFNF less 25% Oct 1st 

Stands At: West Kington Stud, Church Farm, West Kington, 

Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN14 7JE 

Contact: Jane Holderness-Roddam or Tessa Clarke 

Tel: 01249 782050 

Email: westkingtonstud@aol.com 

Website: www.westkingtonstud.co.uk 

Double Trigger (IRE) 

Baby Welton 

Ela-Mana-Mou xx 

Salac xx 

Welton Crackerjack 

Complete Sunrise xx 

Pitcairn 

Rosie Bertin 

Gay Lussac 

Soragna 

Welton Gameful 

Queens Entry 

Weatherbird 

Aunty Angel 

Woodlander Double Bubble 

74 

2014 Chestnut 

Dressage 

This is a young horse that must 

be chosen for movement AND 

temperament and is destined 

for the international sport 

cadre. Double Bubble is Life 

Approved following completing 

of the 50 day test in 2017. 

His first crop of foals were 

particularly impressive with 

long legs, pretty heads, good 

necks AND movement. They 

achieved many Premiums with 

both Hannover and Oldenburg. 

His son, Double Zed, bred 

by Sara Lucas was Reserve 

Foal Champion of the BHHS 

Annual Show. His offspring also 

achieved Elites and Higher 

Firsts at 2018 Futurity. What 

a good start. His sire Don 

Frederic brings together the 

dressage Grand Prix blood of 

Donnerhall, Consul and the 

powerful Wolkentanz. His dam, 

Real Perfect was a pick for 

Woodlander and bred two super 

foals for us before going on to 

produce an Elite daughter for 

Wheatley Wood Stud. 



Grading: WBS-UK, Oldenburg, Hannoverian 


Stands At: Woodlander Stud, Frenchlands Lane, Worcester, 

WR2 6QU 


Tel: 07768323351 



Don Frederic 

Vern Pr Real Perfect 

Don Frederico 

St Pr What a Feeling 

Rousseau 

St Pr Absolutely 

Donnerhall 

Cleopatra 

Wolkentanz I 

La Le Lou 

Ferro 

Zsuzsa 

Alabaster 

TWeltfee 


Sponsored by 

Woodlander Grand Designs 

75 


Dressage 

Grand Designs, who moves 

through his body with an 

active and carrying hind leg. 

He owes much to his dam. Elite 

Foxy Lady, who is by the double 

World Champion, Florencio. She 

too comes from a persuasive 

mare family and has already 

produced a licensed son 

in Oldenburg, and the BBN 

Champion Dressage Filly in 2018. 

Her own family can convince 

too, with two half brothers 

performing in dressage and 

eventing. Woodlander Rockstar 

took multiple National Dressage 

titles and performed to Grand 

Prix and Woodlander Wesuvio 

continues in his eventing career 

after having been selected for 

Le Lion d’Angers as a six year 

old. His sire, Grand Galaxy Win, 

is an ultra-modern, lustrous 

black young stallion by Apache, 

the KWPN Grand Prix newcomer. 

In fact, Galaxy is the first 

stallion in Denmark by Apache, 

having 6 sons selected for KWPN 

licensing. 



Grading: WBS-UK, Oldenburg, Hannoverian 




Tel: 07768323351 



Grand Galaxy Win 

Elite Foxy Lady 

Apache 

Winner T 

Florencio 

St Pr Savannah 

UB40 

Tolanda 

Jazz 

Magnaat 

Florestan 

Walessa 

Sao Paolo 

Lolipop 

Woodlander Sir Gorgeous 

76 

2012 Dark Bay 

Dressage 

Sir Gorgeous, who gained an 

Elite Futurity Premium for 

Dressage as a foal with a score 

of 9.1.Hebegan his BD caree at 4 

yrs and regularly scored 70+%. He 

qualified for the 2016 BD Young 

Pony 4 yr old Championship 

where he became Reserve 

Champion at the Final at 

Hartpury Festival of Dressage, s. 

Sir Gorgeous was 12th in a huge 

class at the 2016 Novice Summer 

Regionals after just 4 months 

of competing experience and 

only as a 4 year old showing how 

trainable he really is. 

In 2017 he was Winter Regional 

Novice Champion at Addington 

BD Winter Regionals as a 

rising 5 year old. at Wellington 

Premier League he won the 5 

Year Old class, with judges 

Jennie Lorison-Clarke, Judy 

Harvey and David Trott awarding 

him 9s for his trot, canter 

and adjustability. He went on 

to become BD 5 Year Old Young 

Dressage Pony National 

Champion 2017 with the highest 

score over all age groups with 

8.4. 



Grading: SPSS 

Stud Fee: £400 Frozen, £550 chilled 

Stands At: Bromson Stud 

Contact: Claire Wyatt 

Tel:07902842381 

Email: claire.l.wyatt@gmail.com 

Website: www.bromsonstud.co.uk 

Woodlander Santana 

Synod Galina 

Sir Donnerhall 

Alabama 

Synod Rum Punch 

Synod Gorgeous 

Lady 

Sandro Hit 

Contenance D 

Alabaster 

Pikantje 

Synod William 

Tydi Rosemary 

Synod Request 

Synod Gorgeous 

Woodlander Summertime Blues 

77 

2012 Black 

Dressage 

This is the first approved 

Hannoverian son of Spoercken, 

who was sired by the impressive 

Sir Donnerhall out of a Lauries 

Crusador dam. The State Stud 

at Celle wax eloquent about his 

three top gaits and describe him 

as the new star in the breeding 

sky. We see all those qualities 

in his son, Summertime Blues 

and our view was confirmed, 

not only by his licensing with 

Hannover, but also by his win 

of top two year old dressage 

horse in the Futurity in 2014. 

Strongly built with great power 

and long lines he shows all 

the elasticity and expression 

and the Hannoverian Judge, 

Dr Christmann, remarked 

that he was the image of 

his great grand dam, the 

mare St Pr Pikantje who was 

German National Champion 

under saddle. Performance is 

everywhere in this pedigree. 

Spörcken achieved a dressage 

index of 165 in his test. 



Grading: Hannoverian, WBS-UK 


Stands At: Woodlander Stud, Frenchlands Lane, Worcester, 

WR2 6QU 


Tel: 07768323351 



Spörcken 

Moulin Rouge 

Sir Donnerhall II 

La Beale Isoud 

Margue H 

Alabama 

Sandro Hit 

St Pr Contenance D 

Lauries Crusador xx 

St Pr Wilhelmina 

Mont du Cantal xo 

Corsa 

Alabaster 

St Pr Pikantje 

BRITISH BREEDER| 39



Woodlander Wild Child 

78 

2011 Chestnut 

Dressage 

A champion all the way from the 

day he was born, Woodlander 

Wild Child holds the record 

high score for the Futurity as 

a foal and in the same year 

became the WBS-UK Supreme 

Champion. In 2013, he was 

again the top dressage two year 

old and then gained a stallion 

licensing “double” with both the 

Hannoverian International and 

the WBS-UK. 

With a double World Champion 

mother in Woodlander Farouche 

who was also a world record 

holder for a dressage score 

PLUS a top scoring life approved 

Hannoverian sire in Woodlander 

Wavavoom, Wild Child is 

completely Woodlander bred 

from the best of the best. 

His grand dam Woodlander 

Dornroeschen was also an 

internationally successful Grand 

Prix dressage horse retiring 

sound to stud in 2017. From his 

first crop of foals, he achieved 

three internationally licensed 

sons incl. W.Woodstock 



Grading: Hannoverian 




Tel: 07768323351 



Woodlander 

Wavavoom 

Elite Woodlander 

Farouche 

Weltregent H 

St Pr Louisiana 

Fuerst Heinrich 

Elite Dornroeschen 

Weltmeyer 

St Pr Donna Bella 

Longchamp 

Davina 

Florecstan 

Dawina 

Dimaggio 

Claire 

Z Concorde 

79 

2004 Bay 

Eventing 

Z Concorde has exceptional 

breeding with a sire of Concorde 

and Dam Sire of G Ramiro Z out 

of a Lentefee mare.Z Concorde 

has bred a number of offspring 

with his owners, all of which 

are stunning sport horses. They 

have gained some fantastic 

top grades at BEF. His first son 

from 2009 is now a graded 

SHB stallion and is competing 

at 2* International Eventing, 

Foxhunter show jumping and 

Medium BD. He has another 

stunning daughter who in 2016 

successfully competed in the 

BYEH 4yo classes. 

Z Concorde himself presently 

competes 1.30m ShowJumping 

with his amateur rider, with 

many wins at the lower levels. 

He has also successfully 

competed up to Novice British 

Eventing, with a number of 

strong placings. In addition, he 

has competed to Elementary 

dressage but works at Medium/ 

Adv Med at home. He hunts and 

loves hacking holidays. 



Grading: AES Licensed 


Stands At: Pennine View Stud, Harrogate, N.Yorshire, HG3 1RB 

Contact: Lucy & Chris Thompson 

Tel: 07715 115164/ 07808 293847 

Email: Lucy@pennineviewstud.co.uk 

Website: www.pennineviewstud.co.uk 

Concorde 

Lentefee 

Voltaire 

Flyer 

Ramiro Z 

Fee 

Furioso II 

Gogo Moeve 

Marco Polo 

Klaske 

B.Raimond 

Coralle Z 

Triton 

Oreade 

Ashwey Laurenzo 

80 

2012 Dark Bay 

Eventing 

overall champion in the SHB 

2018 Stallion Gradings 

scoring a 9 for his jumping 

ability and technique. 

He started his affiliated 

Eventing career in 2018 with 

five outings and five top ten 

finishes. 

Height: 16hh (163m) 


Grading: SHB(GB) 

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Studbook - NEWS 

AES Horses Shine at 

the British Breeders’ 

Awards 

We were delighted to celebrate the 

achievements of British breeders at this 

year’s British Breeders’ Awards Dinner 

and Ceremony in London, an annual 

event organised by the British Horse 

Foundation. 

We were particularly proud of the many 

AES breeders who received awards and 

recognition for their outstanding horses 

and youngsters. 

The AES Award went to Suma’s Zorro 

(Douglas x Horos XX) who was bred 

by Marily Power and Susan Lanigan 

O’Keeffe. This plucky little mare needs 

to introduction, after her superb win 

this year at Calgary! We were delighted 

that Marily and her brother Robert 

were able to travel to London and join 

us for the evening. 

AES horses of all ages and across all 

three disciplines were recognised on 

the night: 

The Futurity Certificates of Merit 

and the Baileys Horse Feeds/British 

Breeding Futurity Awards are an 

opportunity to celebrate up-andcoming 

talent and give an indication of 

the exciting stars of the future. 

The Baileys Horse Feeds/British 

Breeding Futurity Award for the highest 

placed foal of the entire Futurity series 

in 2018 went to Esme X (Goodyear 

VDL x Cadence van t’Gelutt Z) bred 

by Aileen Stormonth in Scotland. A 

wonderful result for this outstanding 

filly who was also selected for the AES 

Elite Foal Auction! 

Certificates of Merit for the highest 

scoring Futurity entries for their age 

and disciplines went to: 

The dressage foal Crocket 

(Quantensprung x Jazz), bred by Nicola 

Burton. Crocket was also an Elite 

Auction foal, and we were delighted 

that her new owner Bev Lynn was able 

to pick up his award. 

Dankeschoen 

The eventing yearling Mesmerize- 

Me-SSH (Zumani Decor x Edkinghill), 

bred by Rosalyn Serex of Solaris Sport 

Horses. 

The showjumping two-year-old 

Masterclass (For Pleasure x Balou du 

Rouet), bred by Keith Lovelock. 

The showjumping three-year-old Kylie 

(Amaretto LCH Z x Concorde), bred by 

Mark Evans of Castell Sport Horses. 

But the awards did not stop with the 

youngstock. 

The British Dressage Young Horse Award 

for 5-year-olds went to Kiss and Tell 

(Kardinal x Skyscraper van de Derkes) 

who was bred by Rebecca Hoare and 

is owned by Roland Tong and Angie 

Felton. 

The British Showjumping Young Horse 

Award for 5-year-olds went to Bianca 

du Rouet (Statinus x Balou du Rouet), 

bred and owned by Helen Rees. 

The British Showjumping Young Horse 

Award for 7-year-olds went to Cristo 

Beech (It’s the Business x Cantero), 

who was bred by Derek Moreton and 

Geoff Glazzard and is owned by GG 

Horses. 

And last but not least, the Gornall 

Equestrian Award went to Wishes 

(Guidam x Wellington), bred and owned 

by Claire Inglis. 

Congratulations to everyone for 

your fantastic achievements, we are 

incredibly proud! 

AES Genetics 

We have been following the latest 

developments in genetics research 

with great interest, and are serious 

about the importance of effective 

control of recessive genetic mutations 

such as WFFS. We are of the opinion 

that rigorous genetic screening and 

complete transparency will be vital 

tools for future disease control and will 

enable us to optimise future breeding 

decisions while safeguarding genetic 

diversity. 

It is for this reason that we recently 

made an investment in a state-of-theart 

genetic laboratory facility. The 

new set up will enable us to collect 

and store genetic samples from our 

breeding population. We will also 

be able to offer our breeders the 

opportunity to have their stock tested 

at a very reasonable cost by keeping all 

these services in house. By collecting 

genetic data for analysis, we will build 

a highly valuable resource for the 

future. 

Additions to the AES 

Stallions Portfolio 

Our latest stallion gradings tour in 

November saw some exciting additions 

to our stallion portfolio. All stallions 

received a detailed linear score profile, 

which is published on our database, 

providing valuable information to our 

breeders. 

Among the stallions presented for 

their first license was the four-yearold 

James Bond (Negro x Donnerhall 

x Borneo) bred by Cees Visser and 

owned and produced by Luke Norbury. 

A very imposing horse with a lovely 

large frame, the evaluators really liked 

his power and presence, which they 

found very reminiscent of the great 

Donnerhall himself. His highlight was 

a very expressive canter, and a lovely 

active walk. 

Another young dressage talent is 

Kinnear (Franklin x Welt Hit x Grafiet), 

a three-year-old stallion bred by 

P. Rulkens and owned by Suzanne 

Leon and Fiona Langdale. He is 

being produced by Emma Woolley of 

WSC Dressage. The judges loved his 

enormous uphill canter and elastic 

trot. He was inspected loose and under 

saddle, and is already showing a great 

attitude in his work. 

It was nice to see a dressage stallion 

bred in the UK in the very attractive 

Keyland Full Throttle (For Romance x 

Goodtimes x Darling Boy XX). 



He was bred by Kelly Anderson of 

Keyland Stud and is owned and 

produced by them. This stallion had a 

particularly good walk, and convinced 

with beautiful type. 

Of particular interest to those breeders 

looking for stallions with an already 

established performance portfolio will 

be two striking stallions based in the 

North East at Caunton Manor Stud in 

the ownership of Victoria and Matthew 

Wright: 

Branduardi (Breitling x Weltmeyer) 

has been competing successfully with 

Amy Woodhead at PSG/Inter I level. 

The pair recently showed off their 

beautiful partnership at Liverpool, 

with Amy electing to ride him in a 

snaffle! A powerful stallion who showed 

a wonderful attitude and excellent 

consistency in the contact. The 

evaluators particularly commented on 

his expressive and uphill canter. 

The fabulous Dankeschön (Danone x 

Fidermark), who has already more 

than proven his worth in breeding 

and the sport in Germany, will be 

aimed at Grand Prix this year with 

Martin Schleicher. A beautiful stallion 

with long lines and striking poise 

and expression, he convinced the 

evaluators in all three gaits and in 

particularly with his outstanding walk. 

Both stallions were awarded fully 

approved status in recognition of their 

performance record. 

A splash of colour came from the 2 

½ year-old-stallion Freckleton Royal 

Affair by Co-Pilot out of a Monte Carlo 

x Lauren DVH mare. He showed a 

very expressive elastic trot with very 

good ground cover, and a very nice 

temperament. The stallion was bred by 

Penny Roots and is owned by Hilary and 

Jo Waterhouse. 

Another young dressage stallion 

receiving his initial license was 

General, owned and bred by Rebecca 

Hulme by Governor out of a San Amour 

x White Magic mare. He showed one 

of the best trots we have seen in 

such a young horse, and also a very 

balanced canter and a very good active 

walk. This stallion also convinced with 

beautiful type. 

We are delighted to introduce two 

exciting young showjumping stallions 

presented by Gerda Weston of Weston 

Warmbloods. C-Star, bred by Gerda 

herself, is a 3yo stallion by Big Star 

out of the Tangelo x Lupicor mare 

C-Serendipity who is competing 

internationally at 1.40m level. A large 

framed and athletic horse, he showed 

an unbelievable jumping ability, and 

C-Star 

Folds Director 2 

Kinnear 

fantastic, powerful and very balanced 

paces. The second one is a stallion 

bought by Weston Warmbloods who 

have just started to produce him. He 

has some very interesting breeding: 

Kantairo (Kannan x Cicero x Concorde) 

is from the half sister of the show 

jumping mare Civoli. He showed a 

super attitude to jumping and will be 

of interest to many breeders with the 

very desirable lines of Kannan, Cicero 

and Concorde. A really interesting horse 

to be graded by us is Folds Director 

(Penrhyn Executive x Cholderton 

Boreas x Southbrook Diplomat). He 

is a pure Cleveland Bay, owned and 

produced by Charlotte Springall and 

bred by her mother. This stallion will 

make an excellent cross with a modern 

warmblood or blood type mare to make 

a good allround sport horse. 

He convinced with his very harmonious 

conformation and a lot of power, but 

also a wonderful temperament. 

He is the first Cleveland bay to be 

licensed with the AES, and we hope 

that this will give these wonderful 

horses another opportunity to prove 

that they can make a highly valuable 

contribution to modern sport horse 

breeding. 

Our public gradings are also an 

opportunity for stallion owners to 

present previously graded stallions 

again for an “upgrade”. In those cases, 

we take into account the horse’s 

presentation on the day, but also their 

offspring and competition record to 

make a decision whether the horse is 

ready to move up to the next level. 

The first stallion presented for an 

upgrade was Hocus Pocus, a show 

jumping stallion by Zambesi x 

Vancouver x Silvio, bred and owned by 

Joseph Hughes-Jones. We have seen 

this horse compete very well in the 

young horse classes, and he is now 

competing at FEI 1.30m level. We have 

also inspected some very nice foals by 

him who have gone on to be selected 

for the AES Elite Auction and who have 

also done very well in national young 

stock assessments. Hocus Pocus was 

therefore awarded Approved status 

with the studbook. 

Another horse presented for an upgrade 

was Hazelwood Utah’s Romeo (Utah van 

Erpekom x Okland x Jasper) a young 

stallion bred and owned by Lisa Hall 

of Hazelwood Stud. This stallion was 

originally awarded registered status. 

He was shown under saddle and over a 

few fences, and has demonstrated the 

progress necessary to move up to fully 

licensed status, which means he will 

now be available at public stud for up 

to 30 mares a year. Congratulations to 

all our breeders and stallion owners, 

and here’s to a successful 2019 Season! 

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Sarah & Alice Oppenheimer receiving their award - Image courtesy Kevin Sparrow 

British Hanoverians 

Introduce Several 

New Annual Awards 

The British Hanoverian Horse Society 

is pleased to announce that they have 

introduced several new Annual Awards 

for successful British Hanoverians 

who have had an outstanding season 

in their discipline or who have made 

an outstanding contribution over the 

years. 

The first to be recognised was 

Headmore Stud’s Rubinsteena, who 

was awarded the BHHS Mare of the 

Year Award. Rubinsteena, who passed 

away during 2018, left behind a huge 

dressage dynasty, with her offspring 

winning across all levels. The mare 

who was by Rubinstein out of a 

Donnerhall mare was bred by Bianca 

Holsten-Burfeind and owned by Sarah 

Oppenheimer for nearly 20 years. 

Three new Awards were introduced at 

the British Breeders Award Ceremony 

which was held at the Grange City 

Hotel in London on Saturday 12 January 

2019. The Awards were presented 

to the most successful British Bred 

Hanoverian in Dressage, Show Jumping 

and Eventing. 

Nicola Williams received the award for 

the most successful show jumping BHHS 

horse in 2018 with Contendro’s Quest 

(Contender I x Raphael x Wendekreis 

x Diplomat). Contendro’s Quest has 

been competing National at 1.50m and 

Internationally at 1.45m with rider 

Adrian Whiteway. 

Lucy Nelson’s seven-year-old Hester 

(Heinrich Heine x Blue Henry) was 

presented with the award for the 

highest placed BHHS British Bred horse 

in Eventing. Hester, owned and bred by 

Lucy Nelson is ridden by Jonelle Price 

and has won at International 2 Star 

(Intermediate). 

The Dressage Award was presented to 

Judith Davis who bred the ten-yearold 

Hawtins Delicato (Diamond Hit 

x Regazzoni x Weltmeyer x Bolero), 

who is now jointly owned by Carl 

Hester, Lady Anne Evans and Ann Cory. 

Delicato recently hit the headlines with 

Charlotte Dujardin when they danced 

their way to second place at Olympia 

in December. Delicato’s appearance 

at Olympia was only his second ever 

Grand Prix freestyle. 

Olympia was another huge success 

for British Hanoverians with Frederic 

Wandres, riding the stunning 

eleven-year-old British Hanoverian, 

Duke of Britain, claiming the Olympia 

Grand Prix Freestyle. 

Frederic and Duke of Britain, who is 

by Dimaggio, finished their stunning 

freestyle on the same score as 

Charlotte Dujardin and Hawtins 

Delicato. Frederic clinched the victory 

after receiving a higher artistic score. 

Duke of Britain was bred by Tony and 

Sarah Pidgley from Windsor and is by 

Dimaggio out of a Rubinstein mare. 

Hayley Watson-Greaves and her British 

Hanoverian Rubin’s Nite delighted the 

crowd with another perfect freestyle 

putting them in fourth place. Overall, 

British Hanoverians finished 1st, 2nd, 

4th, with German Hanoverians Rubin Al 

Asad (Rubin Royal x Wanderbursch) 


(Rubin Royal x Wanderbursch) ridden by 

Lara Butler, for Great Britain, finishing 

6th and Royal Rubinstein (Royal Rubin x 

Sao Paulo) ridden by David Engelen of 

Belgium finishing 12th. 

2018 Annual Show 

The busy summer show season for the 

British Hanoverian Horse Society (BHHS) 

was concluded on the last week of 

September with the 2018 Annual Show 

at Keysoe. 

The BHHS Committee was joined by Dr 

Schade from the Hannoveraner Verband 

for what was a very successful event. 

The Rhineland mare Sezuki (Sezuan 

x Sherlock Holmes x Consul), bred by 

Christian Heinrich owned by Sandy 

Senior of Glossoms Stud, was named as 

this year’s Supreme Champion. 

The show, which was held at the 

College Equestrian Centre at Keysoe 

ran for two days from Thursday 27th to 

Friday 28th September 2018 and saw 

many entries from across the UK 

The weekend started with the 

presentation of stallions for licensing, 

followed by a Mare Performance Test. 

The BHHS are pleased to announce 

Grand Designs (Grand Galaxy x 

Florencio x Sao Paulo), bred by Lynne 

Crowden of Woodlander Stud and now 

owned by Sylvia Tainton was licensed. 

The mare, Sezuki was awarded 

Premium Candidate Status following 

the Mare Performance Test and 

achieving a 1A in the 4-Year-Old Class. 

The Gelding/Part Bred Championship 

was awarded to Dawn Boyles Don Rafiki 

who was bred by Sandra Tinker of 

Fosshey Hanoverian Stud with reserve 

going to My Booze Cruise owned by 

Susan Simmons and handled by Kerry 

Schofield. Our Youngstock Champion 

award went to Sandy Senior’s Dea 

Fortuna GF (Dimaggio x Biotop). 

Following our Regional Shows and the 

Elite Foal Tour across the UK during the 

Summer, some of the qualified foals 

were presented at Keysoe in the Foal 

Championship. Our Champion Foal, 

sponsored by Elite Foals, was Lindsey 

Roberts Saskatoon WD (San Amour x 

Don Frederico x Weltmeyer). 

During the mare classes Woodlander 

Stud presented Dorrnroschen (Dimaggio 

x Caprimond) who is not only an elite 

dressage competitor at international 

grand prix, she is also the dam of 

double world young horse champion 

Woodlander Farouche (by Furst 

Heinrich). The judges couldn’t decide 

between Dorrnroschen and Sezuki so 


they were both awarded the Mare 

Champion title for 2018. Concluding 

the event was a special commendation 

by Dr Schade which was awarded to 

Judith Davis from Hawtins Stud for 

breeding the WEG medallist Hawtins 

Delicato and the success of the other 

young horses in the BD Championships. 

Dr Schade of the Hannoveraner Verband, 

Judith Davis and Katy Holder-Vale. 

Image courtesy Kevin Sparrow 

Congratulations to all our competitors, 

thank you to the Committee for their 

support and to the volunteers, without 

whom the show would not take place. 

Thanks also to the College Equestrian 

centre for their venue. 

The British Hanoverian Horse Society 

would like to thank Elite Stallions, 

Dengie, Bloomfield Horseboxes for their 

sponsorship and lovely prizes. 

Thinking Warmbood? 

Think Briish 

Think Briish Hanoverian 

www.hanoverian-gb.org.uk 

The Hanoverian and Rhineland Studbooks 

have merged. The Rhineland Studbook accepts 

mares and stallions from most major Studbooks. 

Please check your stallion choice with us, many 

foals are eligible for Briish papers. 

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THE NATIONAL 

PONY SOCIETY 

It was pleasing to round off 2018 

with more success in the dressage 

arena for British Riding Ponies. One of 

these was the chestnut mare Whalton 

Glad Rags and Isabel Platts. The pair 

have qualified for the Regionals at 

Elementary, and were the Oldencraig 

Area Festival Final Champions at 

Novice under 21 level and the Novice 

Bronze Champions at the Sparsholt 

Area Festival Final. The pair will be 

competing in both those Nationals 

Finals at Hartpury in April, and are 

aiming for FEI competition next. 

Glad Rags started her career in the 

show ring, placing at County level and 

at the NPS & BSPS Championships. 

When purchased by the Platts she 

started competing in unaffiliated 

dressage with success, only moving on 

to affiliated competition in 2018. 

Whalton Glad Rags is a 2008 daughter 

of the great sire Kilvington Scoundrel, 

a stallion who has been the champion 

sire of hacks and riding horses in the 

UK for many years. Her dam Groveside 

Dexterity was actually competed by no 

less than a young Charlotte Dujardin, 

and won her SHP class at the Royal 

International on two occasions and was 

3rd at HOYS. Her sire was the British 

Warmblood Dexter the Fourth, a son 

of the influential show and dressage 

stallion Dallas. Her great damsire is 

Enstone Artist, who is also the great 

damsire of Kilvington Scoundrel, 

thus appearing 4 x 3 in Whalton Glad 

Rags’ pedigree. Enstone Artist was 

also the sire of champion Riding Pony 

broodmares Pendley Loving Cup and 

Pendley Birthday Girl. 

With breeders making their stallion 

selection plans at this time of year, 

there are a number of British Riding 

Pony stallions who are successfully 

producing sport ponies. One of these is 

Romanno Stud’s Stanley Grange Regal 

Heights, the NPS Young Stallion of the 

Year in 2015. He has produced the 

Scottish Show Sport Pony Champion 

Romanno Destiny, the 2018 SPSS 

Supreme Stallion - Wolken Von 

Blitz and the 2018 Supreme Youngstock 

Champion Romanno Riverdance. 

He also has offspring show jumping. 

Many German Riding Ponies are in 

fact British Riding Ponies when their 

bloodlines are explored. The German 

licensed but now British based and 

NPS licensed Dark Knight, combines 

British Riding Pony, Welsh and Arab 

blood, albeit with a German badge. 

Dark Knight was the BD Vice Regional 

Novice Champion and is the full brother 

to European Pony Gold Medallist Der 

Feine Lord AT and Bundeschampion 

Dance Star. Many more members of 

this direct family are successful in 

sport. Dark Knight and his family are a 

classic example of how selected British 

Riding Pony bloodlines can excel at the 

highest levels in sport. His daughter 

Rockwood Ace was presented at the 

Futurity in 2018 scoring an excellent 

8.5 for her trot and 9 from the vet. 

This follows on from the success of his 

son Starry Knight being awarded a First 

Premium as a foal in 2017. 

Whalton Glad Rags and Isabel Platts 

Stanley Grange Regal Heights 

Dark Knight 

A list of licensed British Riding Pony 

stallions can be found on the NPS 

website www.nationalponysociety.com 

No matter whether you are breeding 

an eventer, a show pony or for the 

dressage arena, a British Riding Pony 

stallion can add quality and ability to 

your breeding programme. 



2018 has drawn to a close 

leaving us to review the 

Trakehner success stories of 

the year. 

On the world stage I would say that 

one of the most notable was at 

the World Equestrian Games in Mill 

Spring, North Carolina, where Dalera 

BB ( Easy Game x Handryk ) was part 

of the German gold medal winning 

dressage team, ridden by Jessica Von 

Bredow-Werndle. 

Ingrid Klimke triumphed in front of 

a home crowd, to beat the British 

World Champion Ros Canter to 

take the indoor eventing derby 

at Stuttgart riding the talented 

Parmenides (Sir Chamberlin x 

Habicht). 

At the Montelibretti horse trials in 

Italy the CCI*** was won by Fosco 

Girardi riding Feldheger ( Betelxx 

x Aspirant ) and in Canada at the 

Bromont horse trials in Quebec, 

Jessica Phoenix won the CIC** 

riding Bently’s Best ( Hirtentanz x 

Eichendorf ). Back in the dressage 

arena the Elite stallion Imperio 

(Connery x Isar VI) rounded off 

another great season by beating 

his son Heuberger (Imperio x 

Michelangelo) into second place at 

the Oldenberg Grand Prix. 

Closer to home Erlentanz ( Latimer 

x Benz ) was 3rd in the BD Nationals 

Grand Prix and GP Freestyle. With 

numerous international placings 

during 2018, he is owned and ridden 

by Sonnar Murray-Brown. 

Kristjan, who is owned and bred 

by Dr Wilfred Bechtolsheimer 

and ridden by Lara Butler was the 

Intermediate II Champion. Although 

registered Oldenburg he is in fact a 

pure bred Trakehner, by Polarian out 

of a Napoleon Quattre mare. Polarian 

is the sire of the very successful 

eventing stallion Grafenstolz. 

The Keatinge Stud have been out 

and about competing successfully 

with several of their homebred 

youngsters. Keatinge Savannah (Lord 

Luciano x Sir Shostakovich ), ridden 

by Jonny Sutton was Vice Regional 

Champion Novice Silver. Hugo Boss 

(Oliver Twist x Arentino ) qualified 

for BD Nationals and was placed 

in the top ten in the Novice Silver 

National Championships, once again 

ridden by Jonny Sutton. 

Godington Stud also had a number 

of homebred stock out flying the 

flag in 2018. Godington Trinidad 

(Godington Hannibal x Maestro) 

qualified for the Winter regionals 

at Elementary. The Stud’s German 

approved stallion Contis (Interconti x 

Michelangelo) qualified for the Area 

Festival Final at Advanced Medium 

and was victorious on his first 

Advanced outings. Contis’s graded 

son Godington Utah (Contis x Roland) 

moved up to BE 100 level. Godington 

Pambula (Godington Hannibal x Van 

Deyk) had no cross country faults 

in 7 BE100 outings and Godington 

Trasimeno (Godington Hannibal x 

Maestro) had a top ten placing at BE 

Intermediate. 

HRH Queen Elizabeth II was 

successful with her young Trakehner 

Donation ( Kentucky x Lord Luciano). 

Ridden by Chris Hunnable, Donation 

was champion Novice Riding Horse 

at County level. Another showing 

success was Sacha Shaw’s Volatis 

Cruzado ( Schwarzgold x Tycoon ) 

Champion Riding Horse Breeding at a 

number of major county shows. 

On the very last day of the year 

Zimbabwean Olympian Camilla 

Kruger started the competition 

career with a first outing for exciting 

event prospect Three Chimneys 

Graffiti (Holme Park Legend x Holme 

Grove Prokofiev). A young horse with 

a huge jump, and a trainable brain. 

Her first Trakehner, Camilla says this 

is one to watch. 

Trakehners UK are pleased to 

announce that we plan to re-start 

the breed show in 2019 giving owners 

and breeders a chance to grade their 

mares and show off their youngstock. 

In the pipeline are new incentives 

for owners of Trakehner horses who 

become members. 

Three Chimneys Graffiti 

Out in her first season competing 

Galiana ( Cadeau x Kostolany )owned 

by Sian Prosser Reade and ridden by 

Kim Zimich scored over 70% at BD 

Novice and Elementary. Sian also 

owned the talented stallion Axis who 

sadly passed away in 2017. 

Follow us on social media or keep an eye on our website for more information 

on these two initiatives, and we look forward to hearing your breeding and 

competition news in 2019. 

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Top graded mare DHI Party Piece 

Dam of the SHB(GB) graded stallions 

Party Trick and The After Party. 

Image - Carole Mortimer 

Top mares of 2018 

Congratulations to the owners and 

breeders of the highest scoring mares 

from our 2018 SHB(GB) mare gradings. 

The owners will each receive SHB(GB) 

stud vouchers kindly sponsored by B&W 

Equine Vets. 

This year the two top mares, Billy Buzz 

and DHI Party Piece, gained the same 

mark (9.93); their owners will each 

receive a voucher for £350. Advanced 

eventer Billy Buzz (Vechta-Topas) 

bred by the Billy Stud was formerly 

competed by Charlotte Bacon. She is 

now a brood mare owned by Charles 

Upham. Dutch-bred DHI Party Piece 

(Tolan R-Notaris) is owned by Nick and 

Amanda Gauntlett. She is the dam of 

the SHB(GB) graded stallions Party Trick 

and The After Party both bred by her 

owners, as well as the 4* international 

jumper DHI Zulu. 

Third placed advanced eventer KBIS 

Starlet (Pavarotti v/d Helle-Landadel) 

Sport Horse Breeding 

of Great Britiain 

owned by Jo Meyer and Guy and Liz 

Prest of KBIS, scored 9.14 and won her 

owners a voucher for £300. Formerly 

ridden by Izzy Taylor, Starlet completed 

both Boekelo and Blenheim CCI3*. 

She has a foal by Primitive Proposal 

and is in foal to Cevin Z. Fifty three 

mares were graded into the stud book 

last year and 18 (34%) graded into 

the Head Studbook. Thank you to all 

our assessors who take time to judge 

the mares, owners for bringing mares 

forward for grading and to all of those 

who host our gradings. This year’s 

grading series starts in June. We grade 

mares of any breed or origin and the 

owners of all mares graded into the 

Head Studbook are awarded a £100 

voucher towards the registration and 

DNA testing of a foal. If you would like 

your mare graded into the studbook 

or would like to host a mare grading 

please contact Marian in the office. 

Spring Stallion Grading 

THE SHB(GB) spring stallion grading will 

take place on Tuesday April 9th at the 

West Wilts EC near Melksham. SHB(GB) 

welcomes stallions of all types and 

breeds to come forward for grading 

– we are particularly keen to grade 

stallions of native breeds suitable for 

breeding sport horses, providing they 

are 14.2hh or over and have passed 

a grading with the relevant breed 

society. All the rules and regulations 

for stallion grading can be found on 

the website under downloads. If you 

intend to bring your stallion forward 

please read these first. Please note 

that we now request that all stallions 

coming forward for grading have to be 

tested for WFFS (Warmblood Fragile 

Foal Syndrome) and the result declared 

with the veterinary paperwork before 

the grading. 



Warmblood Fragile Foal 

Syndrome 

A useful presentation on this fatal 

disease was well received at the 

WBFSH General Assembly in December. 

The disease, which is of genetic origin, 

causes a lack of collagen meaning the 

skin tears easily and joints are lax and 

cannot bear weight. WFFS is recessive 

and both mares and stallions can 

carry the disease without any sign or 

impediment to performance. It is only 

when two carriers are mated that there 

is a risk of an embryo inheriting WFFS 

which will either be aborted or the full 

term foal will have to be euthanised 

shortly after birth. 

As from January 1 most European 

studbooks have made genetic testing 

for the defect mandatory for all 

their breeding stallions. SHB(GB) now 

requests that all warmblood stallions 

graded with the studbook are tested 

while stallions coming forward for 

grading will have to be tested as part 

of the veterinary assessment. The 

office can provide details of companies 

that do the test. In line with other 

studbooks we intend to publish the 

results – negative or carrier. We also 

advise owners that it is prudent to test 

mares before breeding. 

A date for the diary 

This year’s SHB(GB) National Hunter 

Supreme Championship show takes 

place at Addington Equestrian from 

July 1-3 and once again opens on the 

Monday evening with the Sculpture 

to Wear Performance Horse Class. 

This class, open to three-year-old 

fillies, geldings and colts, is judged 

on conformation, movement and 

athleticism including loose-jumping 

style and ability. It offers a prize fund 

of £1000 with a generous £500 to the 

breeder (who is a member of SHB(GB)) 

of the highest placed ‘Best Britishbred’ 

horse in the top five placings. 

Skelwith Diamond Lad (Kalaska De Semilly-Sir Shutterfly) 

the winner of last year’s inaugural SHB(GB) Sculpture to Wear Performance Horse class 

As well as the traditional ridden and 

working hunter classes the show offers 

hunter, light horse and sport horse 

breeding classes together with a Cuddy 

supreme in-hand championship and 

the SHB(GB) Breeders Cup all with 

excellent prize money and superb 

trophies to the winners. Keep an eye on 

the website for the schedule. 

Contact SHB(GB) 

T: 01732 866277 

E: info@sporthorsegb.co.uk 

FB: Sport Horse Breeding (GB) 

www.sporthorsegb.co.uk 

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The Sports Pony Studbook Society 

Bathleyhills Little Miss Sunshine – 2018 Supreme Champion Mare – with owner Penny Walser and judge Hans-Heinrich Brüning 

The Best 

of the Best 

A progressive UK studbook focused on 

supporting the breeding, production, 

evaluation & licensing of competition 

ponies for FEI disciplines. Licensing 

stallions, grading mares & evaluating 

youngstock with the purpose of 

supporting breeders in the UK with 

a collective aim of producing truly 

WORLD CLASS ponies. 

As well as looking forward to 2019 with 

anticipation, it’s the time of year to 

also reflect on last year’s successes, in 

particular those achieved by the ponies 

and small horses that were graded or 

evaluated by the SPSS. With a good mix 

of breeds contributing to the success, 

it was great to see that while the 

continued efforts of the established 

sports pony studs like Romanno and 

Bathleyhills were rewarded with 

excellent results including Head 

Studbook mares and Gold Premium 

youngstock, there was also fantastic 

success for new SPSS members, 

including breeding the top two stallions 

and also for pure and part-bred native 

ponies. In particular, the SPSS was 

delighted to announce that from all 

of the mares, stallions and youngstock 

inspected by the SPSS in 2018, the 

following titles were awarded to the 

best ponies and small horses: 

Stallions 

The 2018 Supreme Champion Stallion 

was the Northern Regional Champion 

Wolken Von Blitz MPS. 

Known as “Wolter” and a 3 year old at 

the grading, he is by the British Riding 

Pony Stanley Grange Regal Heights 

out of a Hanoverian mare, Wolkenlibe 

(Wolkentanz x Matcho AA). 

Wolter‘s owner/breeder, Emily Cuthill 

had initially “tested the water” with 

the SPSS by presenting him for SPSS 

youngstock evaluation in 2017 where he 

scored over 80% and received a coveted 

Gold Premium. 

Wolken Von Blitz MPS 

2018 SPSS Supreme Champion Stallion 


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Encouraged by this excellent result, 

Emily focussed on presenting him for 

grading in 2018 and was delighted 

by the result, as was Jennifer 

Gilchrist of Romanno Stud who had 

put Wolkenlibe in foal to her British 

Riding Pony stallion Stanley Grange 

Regal Heights before selling her to 

Emily. 

is by her own SPSS Elite graded 

stallion Boss Junior out of SPSS Elite 

graded Pretty-Women (Black Boy x 

Kompass). New for 2018, the SPSS 

held Mare Performance Tests where 

mares were viewed under saddle, 

ridden by both their regular rider 

and by a test rider. 


as being the maternal half sister to 

Romanno Stud’s other pony stallion 

Boss Junior. 

Romanno River Dance 

2018 SPSS Youngstock Supreme Champion 

Bathleyhills Sea Breeze -2018 SPSS Mare Performance Test Champion – with test rider Anna Brown 

The 2018 Reserve Supreme Champion 

Stallion was the Central Champion 

Stallion, Welsh Section D Deufor 

Spellbound (Yswain Dmetrius x 

Janton Dictator), who was bred in 

Wales by his owner by Carys Taylor. 

The striking 7 year old cremello 

Spellbound impressed under saddle 

at the grading and has a ridden 

competition record, including a 

winning a British Eventing class 

(BE80(T)) and gaining points at 

British Dressage (Novice) in 2018. 

Mares 

The 2018 Supreme Champion Mare 

title went to the SPSS passported 

4 year old Bathleyhills Little Miss 

Sunshine (known as “Poppy”) 

who was British-bred by Emma- 

Jane Middlehurst then bought 

by Penny Walster of Bathleyhills 

Stud who had bred her dam, SPSS 

graded Bathleyhills Touch of Lustre 

(Thistledown Copper Lustre x 

Valiant). Poppy’s sire is the SPSS Elite 

graded Deutsches Reitpony Classic’s 

Charmeur who has competed 

internationally for GB in FEI Pony 

Dressage and Poppy was graded 

into the SPSS Head Studbook. The 

Reserve Supreme Champion Mare 

title also went to another Head 

Studbook mare bred for dressage, 

Jennifer Gilchrist’s home-bred 2 

year old Romanno Pretty Lady who 

The Mare Performance Test 

Champion was another great result 

for Penny Walster when Bathleyhills 

Sea Breeze (Casino Royale K x 

Gigman Jacana), who Penny bred, 

was capably ridden by Daisy Powell 

then impressed test rider Anna 

Brown. The Reserve Champion 

was the part-bred Connemara 

Rudgeway Royal Occasion (Pro-Set 

x Olsin) who is the dam of the 2017 

Futurity Champion Sports Pony 

Foal, Britannia’s Royal Blue (by 

Britannia’s Mail). British-bred by J 

Warr, Royal Occasion is owned by 

Jemma Colbourne and ridden by Issy 

Colbourne. 

Youngstock 

Youngstock evaluations were held 

both on the main SPSS Tour and also 

as part of the Elite Foals Registration 

Tour. The highest scoring youngster, 

Romanno River Dance, was another 

great success for Jennifer Gilchrist’s 

Romanno Stud and her pony stallion 

Stanley Grange Regal Heights and, 

as well as being the SPSS Youngstock 

Supreme Champion, River Dance 

was also applauded as Top Foal, Top 

Colt and Top Pony rosettes. River 

Dance, who is now owned by the 

Nichol Show Team, is out of Mirage 

(Voyager x Night-Star) who is also the 

dam of 2015 SPSS Supreme Champion 

Mare Mystique (by Argentino) as well 

The Youngstock Reserve Supreme 

Champion title went to Ghabar King 

of Bling who is by SPSS graded Hulst 

Mando out of the SPSS graded Welsh 

Section D Cloigen Verity (Pantygronw 

Deio x Trefaes Spark). King of 

Bling was bred by Mark & Damien 

Darbyshire and he was also the 2018 

Elite Foals Tour Pony Champion. 

Other youngstock to impress the 

judges were Kate Shone’s Britishbred 

Donna Rioja JM (Don Ricoss 

x Sandro Bedo), who was bred by 

Jacke Mathieson and was the Top 

Small Horse, Top Filly & Top 3 Year 

Old. A Welsh Section B, Emily Evan’s 

home-bred Goldvalley Enterprise 

(Celton Taran x Rotherwood 

Goldfinger) was the Top Yearling, the 

Reserve Supreme Mare Champion 

Romanno Pretty Lady (Boss Junior 

x Black Boy) was the Top 2 Year Old 

and the Top Gelding was the Welsh 

Sec D Iouar Rolo (Corscaron Cymro 

Llwyd x Derwen Desert Express) who 

was British-bred by Mrs M J Griffiths 

and is owned by Nichola Binch. 

Owner/breeder Carys Taylor collects the sash 

and rosette for Deufor Spellbound, the 2018 

SPSS Reserve Supreme Champion Stallion, from 

SPSS Chairman and judge, Jacke Mathieson 

For more information about the SPSS 

and our 2019 Tour dates/venues 

please come and find us at the 

Stallion Parade and get a free copy 

of our 2019 Stallion Guide or look at 

Website: www.sportpony.org.uk 

Studbook Office: 07703 566066 

Email: sportsponies@gmail.com 

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motherline starts with his dam Weston Miskris, Individual Junior 

European Silver and Team Gold medalist. 

Weston Justice was 6 th & 5 th in the 4 & 5 year old BYEH Finals, and 

went Advanced in 10 months and was placed internationally at 

Boekelo with a storming clear cross country. Consistency was his 

byword and proof of his trainability. 

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Jesmond Justice (4 star) 

Just Amazing (3 star) 

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Don VHP Z 

A superstar discovered at Brendon Stud 

BREEDER PROFILE 

Shirley Light & Brendon Stud 

Brendon Stud 

Is part of a family business run by the 

Light Family in Sussex, that includes a 

thriving competition centre, saddlers, 

feed merchants and the stud itself. 

Standing stallions and breeding 

was a natural progression from the 

production of show jumpers that the 

family was already successfully doing, 

and in 1983 the first stallion, Sussex 

Diamond, started his stud career. More 

stallions followed over the years, 

always progressing in terms of ability 

and included Hamilton Tropics (4th 

Hickstead Derby), Maestro Nativio 

(International competitor and sire of 

Hickstead Derby winner Buddy Bunn), 

and the ever popular Unbelievable 

Darco (Foxhunter Champion & 

International 1.50m) 

Stallions 

Probably the flagship stallion for the 

stud has been Don VHP Z, a son of the 

great Diamant de Semilly. After a great 

start to his British career (winning the 

National 6 year old Final at HOYS and 

moving on to win international classes 

under Louise Pavitt), he was sold to 

the Netherlands where under Harrie 

Smoulders he has become one of the 

most successful show jumpers in the 

world. The stud still have frozen semen 

from Don VHP available. 

Shirley purchased both Don VHP and 

another international star – Warrior, as 

2 year olds. Both showed powerful and 

airy jumps at that age. Warrior was 

also produced to international level by 

the team at Brendon before being sold 

and competing at the 2012 Olympics. 

Shirley says that Don VHP had so much 

scope, he didn’t need to really try till 

he was 8 and the fences got really big, 

and then his technique improved to add 

to that natural power. 

With such a great track record of 

spotting talented jumpers at a young 

age I asked Shirley if there is one 

statement that always stands her in 

good stead. She says you must always 

judge the horse in front of you before 

you look at the papers. No matter how 

fancy the pedigree, the horse has to be 

an athlete first and foremost. 

Mares 

In the 1980s the natural assumption 

for most British breeders was to use 

as broodmares, mares that weren’t 

making the grade in sport and had 

been injured. Today at Brendon those 

type of mares are used as embryo 

transfer recipients so the very best 

mares can combine both careers, or be 

purposely selected for their valuable 

contributions to the breeding herd. 

One of the best mares Brendon Stud 

have bred is Sussex Caretino, an 

international Grade A and prolific 

winner. Her sire Caretino Glory still 

stands at Brendon and has bred 

dressage and eventing winners as well 

as numerous top level show jumpers. 

Her dam, Special to Me is actually the 

full sister to the previously mentioned 

Hamilton Tropics. 

Through embryo transfer, Shirley 

has some very nice youngstock from 

Sussex Caretino, including the Don VHP 

licensed son Klaris Giddy Up. Known as 

Krispy at home, the 6 year old will be 

taking part at the 2019 Stallion Event. 

Shirley says he has taken the very 

best attributes from both parents. 

A little more size from his sire and a 

little more blood from his dam, and 

is an absolute Grand Prix horse in the 

making. 


Breeder - PROFILE 

Advice 

I ask Shirley was advice she would 

give to new breeders hoping to breed 

a show jumper. She says don’t look at 

your own mare with rose tinted glasses, 

be critical to her faults and her worth 

as a broodmare. Then try and see the 

stallion in the flesh. If he is competing 

try and go and see him at a show. That 

will show you his temperament and 

behaviour far better than at home, so 

if temperament is important to you, 

seeing them in the warm up at a show 

is by far the best place. 

Shirley adds that a horse’s brain is 

important no matter what your aims. 

Even the professionals like a horse that 

is straight forward. When she is looking 

at buying a youngster, Shirley doesn’t 

need to take a gamble on a difficult 

temperament as there is always 

another one for sale. 

Homebred stallion Noble Warrior 

Looking forward to 2019 

Shirley is particularly excited about 

two 4 year olds they are bringing out 

this season. One is by Don VHP and 

the other by Noble Warrior out of a 

Hamilton mare. Both are stallions and 

will stand at stud this year. They seem 

incredibly talented with superb brains. 

There are also 8 foals due, all by 

Brendon Stud stallions. After ending 

up with 7 colts and only 1 filly last 

year, Shirley is hoping the sex balance 

is a little bit better this year. Shirley 

never lets herself get excited about the 

unborn foals until they are safely on 

the ground, and even then knows there 

are still 4 years to get through before 

their talent can be tested in the arena. 

Shirley is also looking forward to seeing 

the homebred stallion Noble Warrior 

competing with Phillip Miller this 

season. He has impressed her with his 

‘cracking foals’. He always passes on 

his hind end and lovely length of neck, 

a great length of stride, and is adding 

more blood than you might expect, to 

produce lovely rangy foals. The stud 

is offering British mare owners semen 

from stallions that range from the one 

of the best horses in the world, to 

young first season sires that combine 

the best of the Brendon bloodlines, 

plus new injections of blood that are 

bought in (such as the Untouchable 

son Usher Van Overis Z). As producers 

of so many successful sport horses, 

riders and breeders know to head down 

to Sussex to source their future stars, 

ensuring Brendon Stud will continue 

to be a focus point of successful show 

jumping breeding for many years to 

come. 


Sussex Caretino 

Klaris Giddy-Up ( By Don VHP Z ex Sussex Caretino) 

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‘Annagroff’. 

Over the winter of 2018/2019 William 

Funnell brought out yet another 

homebred superstar at CSI***** level. 

This was Billy Diamo, a son of Cevin 

Z, out of the homebred AES registered 

mare Annagroff. 

Annagroff’s sire was the International 

competitor Andiamo, who was 

famed for his scope and electric 

jumping technique. He passed on a 

lot of character and blood (thanks 

to his anglo arab motherline) making 

his offspring more suitable for 

professionals. His sire Animo was a top 

Olympic level competitor. 

William Funnell and Billy Birr at Eindhoven 2008 

Annagroff’s dam Halla also produced 

her full siblings Billy Birr (by Animo) 

who competed at the World Equestrian 

Games in 2010, and Billy Burgundy (by 

Animo) who competed at 1.40m level. 

The damsire Burggraff was Holstein 

bred but became the best Dutch 

representative of his immortal sire 

Landgraf, and was known as a stallion 

who passed on power and size. 

Billy Diamo is not the only talented 

jumper that Annagroff has produced: 

Sire Andiamo 

Billy Tudor 

2002 - Billy Graff – by Vechta - over £1300 prize money, jumping 

1.15 – 1.20m opens with an amateur rider 

2006 – Billy Anna – by La Poco - over £6500 winnings - jumping 

1.20 – 1.30m opens with an amateur rider 

2007 – Billy Halla – by Billy Congo – won Big Star qualifier and 5 and 6 

yo age classes. 

2009 - Billy Graffiti – by Billy Congo - now jumping in the USA as a 

hunter, jumped double clears Foxhunter and Newcomers 

2010 – Billy Diamo – by Cevin Z – International show jumper, placed 

Olympia 2018. Winnings of over £22,000 to date 

With Billy Diamo making an impact at 

5 star level and the young stallion Billy 

Tudor already winning internationally, 

Annagroff has already made a name for 

herself as a serious producer. 

The Billy Stud have recognised this 

and have a number of embryo transfer 

youngsters waiting in the wings, so I 

expect Annagroff will be making even 

more of an impact on British show 

jumping in the next few years. 


2011 - Billy Tudor – by Cevin Z - AES Approved Stallion, Winning 

International Young Horse classes Joint winner of 4yo Championship at 

Hickstead Winnings of over £5500 


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Cassionato - Nations Cup, Calgary 2014. Photo Bob Langrish 

GORNALL 

EQUESTRIAN 

Gornall Equestrian’s “Home Farm” 

base set in 15 acres of countryside 

between the spa town of Harrogate and 

historic York is home to International 

Showjumper Jamie Gornall and his 

team of top-class horses. 

Jamie and his wife Averil, a successful 

interior designer, have sympathetically 

modified the charming and traditional 

English agricultural buildings with the 

best of modern facilities from across 

the globe to transform the former dairy 

farm into an elite showjumping yard 

that is amongst the best in Europe. 

Jamie spent over 10 years riding 

for and training with some of the 

best riders in the world including Di 

Lampard, MBE, Janne Friederike Meyer, 

Ludger Beerbaum and John Whitaker, 

MBE before setting up his base in North 

Yorkshire at the end of 2015. 

Over the last 3 years Jamie has built up 

a strong team of horses ranging from 

young horses coming through into the 

sport to those competing at 5* Grand 

Prix level. Combined with Jamie’s 

knowledge and passion for breeding 

has seen Gornall Equestrian build up a 

strong collection of stallions. 

One of these breeding stallions who 

is also one of Jamie’s main Grand Prix 

horses, is the striking 12 year old grey 

Holstein stallion Christian 25, who was 

previously based in Germany at the 

Bockmann Stud. Whilst in Germany he 

predominantly focused on breeding 

after achieving the highest scores in 

his 30 day test for his stallion licensing, 

including four 10s. 

Christian’s pedigree is full of top 

competition horses; his sire Cartani 

is the result of breeding two of the 

world’s best showjumpers – twotime 

Olympic stallion Carthago Z 

and 1994 World Equestrian Games 

team gold winner Taggi. A Holsteiner 

Premium Stallion noted for his scope, 

his hind leg technique, and perfect 

conformation, Cartani was a member 

of the Danish team on numerous 

occasions including the 2013 European 

Championships. Christian’s dam Free 

Lilly (competed as Who Knows Lilly) 

competed in the 2004 Athens Olympics. 

Christian is a tall, athletic, modern 

model of a showjumping stallion who 

passes on his rideability, fantastic 

movement and confirmation, and huge 

careful scope to his youngstock. He has 

bred some impressive offspring that are 

already beginning to prove themselves 

in the sport despite his first progeny 

only being born in 2012. 

In November 2014 a Christian son, Oak 

Grove’s Che, out of a Check In mare, 

was licensed for OS-International. 

As a 5 year old Che competed at 

the World Championships for young 

horses and won on the opening day of 

the prestigious Bundeschampionate 

in Germany. In 2018 he competed in 

CSIYH* classes with several clear rounds 

and placings internationally. 

Christian daughters have also proved 

popular with Cinderella and La Marron 

being price highlights for jumping 

horses at two Oldenburg auctions in 

2018. 


La Marron was champion at the 

Oldenburg mare grading in 2017 as a 3 

year old, now broken to ride and going 

well she sold at the Vechta auction at 

the beginning of 2018 for €141,000. 

Since moving to Gornall Equestrian 

and being based in the UK Christian 

has been focusing more on competing 

and is making himself known on the 

International jumping circuit, having 

been selected to represent Team GB up 

to 5* level in 2018. Jamie and Christian 

enjoyed a successful 2018 jumping 

up to 1m60 tracks, with good results 

including finishing 4th at Budapest 

CSIO5* in the World Cup qualifier 

(1m60), jumping double clear at 

Hickstead CSIO5* and coming 2nd at the 

Great Yorkshire Show in the prestigious 

“Cock O’The North”. 

Most recently Jamie has welcomed 

Cassionato – one of the sport’s most 

talented horses – to his North Yorkshire 

yard. This highly successful stallion, 

who was part of the British team under 

Michael Whitaker at the 2016 Olympic 

Games and helped Britain to victory in 

the CS105* Furusiyya FEI Nations Cups 

at La Baule, Rotterdam and Rome, will 

join Jamie’s team of elite equestrian 

athletes. 

“I am extremely excited that 

Cassionato is here and look forward 

to building up a strong relationship 

with him as we aim for the 2019 

European Championships and Tokyo 

2020,” said Jamie. “He has some 

illustrious bloodlines, incredible ability 

and a brilliant temperament. He will 

fit in extremely well with our other 

competition horses here at Gornall 

Equestrian.” 

This fantastic horse, with incredible 

jumping talent, was sired by Cassini 

I, who was a member of the Danish 

Nations Cup team in Helsinki and 

represented Denmark at the European 

Championships. He also sired the 2006 

World Equestrian Games champion 

Cumano. Cassionato’s damsire is the 

brilliant Selle Francais stallion Quidam 

de Revel, a member of France’s 

bronze medal-winning team in the 

1992 Barcelona Olympics who also had 

countless Grand Prix and Nations Cup 

successes. 

Cassionato is owned by Gary and 

Beverley Widdowson, who also own 

the legendary Big Star, and Jamie’s 

father-in-law, Chris Blundell, who has 

just bought a 50% share in him. “I am 

delighted to have invested in a horse 


of this calibre and thrilled that he will 

be stabled at Gornall Equestrian,” said 

Chris. “Jamie has some of the finest 

training facilities in Europe and I am 

confident that his analytical approach 

to horsemanship and commitment to 

the happiness and wellbeing of his 

horses will see Cassionato thrive. I, 

along with Gary and Beverley, am 

really looking forward to seeing this 

spectacular horse doing great things 

this year.” 

Both Christian & Cassionato will be 

available for fresh/chilled semen 

in 2019 around their competition 

schedules with UK & EU frozen semen 

also available. All the stallions owned 

by Gornall Equestrian can be seen on 

their open day on Saturday 6th April 

2019 and there is more information on 

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STALLION SPOTLIGHT 

Garuda K 

There are some breeders who 

want a stallion to have a strong 

performance record and there is no 

better record than an International 

Grand Prix track record. 

The Trakehner stallion Garuda K 

between 2013 and 2014 progressed 

from his international small tour 

debut at Drachten (placed 4th) 

through to a run of Grand Prix 

and Grand Prix Special results. 

Nationally he was Vice Regional 

Champion at Inter 1 and at PSG 

Freestyle, won at Premier League 

shows, and qualified for the 

Nationals from Advanced Medium 

through to Grand Prix. He was also 

3rd at two Winter Championship 

Finals at PSG and Inter 1. 

Most recently the young 

paradressage rider Laura Gulliver 

has taken over the ride on the 

striking chestnut stallion, who is 

also the sire of her other top ride 

Woodcroft Natalia. In addition to 

being licensed with the Trakehner 

Verband in Germany he is also 

licensed with the Westfalian 

Verband and was Reserve Champion 

of the Warmblood Breeders Society 

Grading, and is available to mare 

owners in the UK chilled and 

frozen. 

Grace Kelly 

Garuda K 

Offspring: 

Garuda K has a number of offspring out 

competing, including: 

Garudas Diamond Dakota ( x Flagmount Diamond) Winner 4 out 5 BD Prelims. 

Grace Kelly ( x Fulton) Dressage Elite – Futurity. Competing PSG, qualified for Regionals PSG and Advanced Medium 

Woodcroft Gideon ( x Tambour ) Qualified for the Winter Regionals at Elementary 

Woodcroft Gonzales ( x Adamello) Dressage Elite – Futurity 

Woodcroft Hirtensong ( x Tambour) Mare Performance Champion & Champion Trakehner foal/Supreme of Show 

Woodcroft Hirtentanzerin ( x Tambour) , qualified for the BD Regionals at Elementary and winning Medium. 

Woodcroft Natalia ( x Latimer )- Premium graded Trakehner, International Paradressage 

Woodcroft Noah ( x Latimer ) Champion Trakehner Foal & Reserve Supreme of Show 

Woodcroft Oscar ( x Arrak) Winning BD Prelim as a 4 year old, Trakehner Youngstock Champion. 

Garuda K 

Munchhausen 

Gladness B 

Hohenstein 

Mohnbluete 

Angard 

Gladness 

Caprimond 

Helena XIV 

Koenigstein 

Margerite 

Anduc 

Gundula 

Unkensee 

Gletschersonne 


Feature - STALLION SPOTLIGHT 

The pedigree of Garuda K is studded 

with Elite stallions and mares. His 

sire Munchhausen was the 2011 

Trakehner Stallion of the Year. He 

started his career by being crowned 

the Champion of his licensing in 

1997 and then headed the dressage 

section of his performance test in 

Neustadt-Dosse. When he started his 

competition career, he qualified for the 

Bundeschampionate on many occasions 

and was the Silver Medalist at the 

Young Horse World Championships. 

He progressed via the prestigious 

Nuernberger Burgpokal Finals to Grand 

Prix, was part of the bronze medal 

winning Danish team at the European 

Championships and won many Grand 

Prix competitions. 

Although he was concentrating on 

a career in sport he still managed 

to sire 7 approved sons, including 

Sambatanzer and Meraldik, and Grand 

Prix performers such as Santurion de 

Massa, Herbstfee and Moncassado. 

Munchhausen is a son of the famous 

Hohenstein, sire of His Highness, 

Insterberg TSF and was 2002 Trakehner 

Stallion of the Year. Garuda K’s damsire 

is the Elite stallion Angard, who also 

competed to Grand Prix. His great 

grand dam Gletschersonne was a half 

Thoroughbred mare and from this very 

small mare line also comes the M level 

performer Guaya. 

Caprimond & Hohenstein, Grandsire and Great Grandsire of Garuda K 

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Feature - VET INSIGHT 

Ovarian 

Abnormalities 

L.J. Brock BVSc Cert AVP (ESM) 

MRCVS - Pinkham Equine 

The ovary and structures within it play 

an essential role in the breeding cycle 

of mares. It is not only important to 

understand the normal physiology of 

the ovary but also be aware of some of 

the abnormalities that occur, how these 

are diagnosed and what can be done to 

resolve them. 

Probably the most common ovarian 

abnormality seen are anovulatory 

follicles. These are dominant follicles 

that, due to various failures in the 

hormone cascade, fail to ovulate. 

Anovulatory haemorrhagic follicles 

(AHF) are by far the most common 

(85%). These appear thick walled, 

often irregular in shape and contain 

hyperechoic fibrin strands or speckles 

seen on ultrasound. Luteal tissue 

within the wall of these follicles will 

start to produce progesterone (>1ng/ 

ml). Persistent anovulatory follicles are 

less common and appear as relatively 

normal looking follicles that continue 

to grow without ovulating. These do 

not produce progesterone. In either 

case changes can be subtle, gradual in 

onset and take an experienced eye to 

diagnose. It is strongly advisable not to 

breed on these follicles if time allows. 

Even in the rare event of an ovulation, 

the quality of the oocyte produced is 

questionable and pregnancies are likely 

to be lost in the early stages. Persistent 

anovulatory follicles will often regress 

spontaneously. AHFs contain luteal 

tissue making them sensitive to 

Prostaglandin (PG) administration. 

They may take longer to sensitise 

than normal corpus lutea and waiting 

9-10days from onset is advised. 

A persistent corpus luteum (CL) can 

delay breeding. This can be caused 

by a lack of endogenous PG release 

(idiopathic) or loss of an early 

pregnancy. Knowledge of days since 

ovulation is essential to knowing when 

a delay in oestrus has occurred. Blood 

progesterone levels (>1ng/ml) are 

of use especially if the presence of 

a CL is questionable on ultrasound. 

Administration of exogenous PG will 

cause luteolysis allowing the breeding 

cycle to resume. 

Para ovarian cysts are fluid filled 

structures arising from the tissues next 

to the ovaries. While they do not affect 

cyclicity they can grow to relatively 

large sizes and may be confused with 

a dominant follicle. Repeated scanning 

will confirm their continued presence 

and consistent size. Epithelial inclusion 

cysts are small cystic structures formed 

from the ovarian epithelium. Clusters 

of these are often seen in older mares 

and should not affect cyclicity. 

Anovulatory Haemorrhagic Follicle 

Ovarian tumours are rare, the most 

common being the granulosa cell 

tumour (GCT). These are hormonally 

active and arise from the stroma of the 

ovary. On ultrasound the affected ovary 

may appear large and honeycombed in 

appearance. Due to the production of 

the hormone inhibin which suppresses 

follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) 

release from the pituitary gland, 

Granulosa cell tumour 

follicular growth in the contralateral 

ovary is suppressed and it will appear 

small and inactive. Behavioural changes 

may be associated with excess hormone 

production the most common being 

testosterone which can cause stallion 

like behaviour. Anti-Mullerian Hormone 

(AMH) levels are raised in 95% of 

GCTs making this blood test, together 

with a more comprehensive hormone 

panel, the mainstay of diagnosis. 

Surgical removal of the affected ovary 

should allow resumption of normal 

cyclicity in the supressed ovary. 

Other less reported tumours include 

cystadenomas, which are tumours of 

the epithelial surface and teratomas 

which arise from germ cells within the 

ovary. These can become large and are 

often only diagnosed following surgical 

removal. 

Supplied by 

L.J. Brock BVSc Cert AVP (ESM) MRCVS 

Pinkham Equine 


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