By Eva-Maria Livesey / AES
Photography: © Horsepower Creative
Our autumn stallion gradings are a key part of our annual events calendar and never disappoint, with a very wide range of exciting young stallions coming forward. Our thanks go to Breen Equestrian who hosted another fabulous grading in Hickstead and to Louie Cunningham and Dave Quick who organised our event in Cheshire.
A big thank you also to Stallion AI Services who prepared very generous goody bags and voucher packages. All newly graded stallions are also encouraged to enter the Competition Stallions Guide with special discounts available for new AES stallions.
Cheshire grading day
Our Cheshire grading day was again shared with our friends from the Sports Pony Studbook Society (SPSS). Working together has been highly enjoyable and is enabling us to offer more grading opportunities to breeders and stallion owners from both studbooks. Louie Cunningham and Dave Quick offer an excellent service to owners whereby they take colts in for preparation and presentation on the day. This means all horses have a good grading experience as they are well prepared and confident. At the same time it makes for an inspiring and enjoyable day for all spectators. What stood out were some exceptional pedigrees making for highly interesting and valuable additions to our stallion portfolio.
Lisa Hales presented two homebred colts by her own stallions. Arkola is a son of the great Arko III out of an Orlando mare, who demonstrated excellent jumping ability and technique paired with good strong conformation and good gaits. His mother Ohlala was a very successful international 1m60m horse. She is also a half sister of another international 1m60m jumper in Westbrook, and the 1m45m mare Caramia. A very interesting horse with wonderful temperament and outstanding provenance.
SFS Ashley jumped with perfect scope, technique and attitude, and is the spitting image of his sire SFS Aristio. His mother Chaquire de Messitert is half sister to several internationally successful jumpers including the 1m50 horse Amalia van de Zeilhoek and the 1m45 jumper Ellickson L’Amant van de Zeilhoek.
The experienced team at Ashdale Sport Horses presented Ashdale Christian Dior combining the influence of Christian 25 and the great Big Star. A horse with a large frame and enormous scope, he impressed with great jumping ability and attitude. His mother Ashdale Allstar is an internationally successful jumper at 1m60, as was her mother Ashdale Luxara, who is also a full sister to the outstanding 1m55 stallion Ashdale Legend.
A young stallion showing a lot of future potential is Chacco Noir HK (Chacco-Blue x Pacino) who was bred and presented by Morgan Kent. While his sire requires no further introduction, his mother Chino Noir jumped internationally at 1m45. This charming stallion showed plenty of scope.
One of the highlights of the grading day was another son of the great Chacco-Blue, Charcornwall JHH Z. His mother Muna van den Bisschop (Cornet Obolensky) jumped internationally at 1m60 with Jackson Rees Stephenson, making for a dream pedigree. This lovely young stallion has outstanding conformation with harmonious athletic lines, very good gaits, and truly outstanding jumping ability... To read the complete article you need to be a subscriber
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