GRANDVIEW
Sport Horses
Horizon
Wanting to breed an outstanding and unusual dressage horse with the added bonus of that WOW factor? Horizon is the only black silver warmblood in the world with just exquisite bloodlines.
Amoureux was ridden by Matt Burnett and was a consistent winner with high scores at Advanced level Dressage stallion and has debuted his career at International Level.
He has been a consistent winner at Advanced Medium, Medium & Young Dressage Horse Championship qualifiers with high scores.
At the UK KWPN Keurings Amoureux succesfully passed his IBOP dressage performance test and was awarded the STER predicate as a mark of above average quality and suitability as dressage horse. Amoureux has a pedigree of legendary ancestry who has consistently achieved excellent results in dressage.
Pedigree highlights: Saros Van’t Gestelhof claimed over 50 Wins up to Prix St Georges in Dressage.
Erle (Elite) Three times National Mare Champion. She competed with good results up to Advanced Level Dressage. Krack C Competed with success at Grand Prix Dressage with Anky Van Grunsven.
Ruby Amoureux’s dam the Ster Preferent Prestatie mare is a consistent progenitor of successful dressage horses. Her sons and daughters have also faired exceptionally well in the mare performance tests and Keurings.
Zita herself successful in dressage she produced the dressage horses, “Quality’s Pride” and “Dorita” along with no less than five Ster mares and the Preferent mares Ruby and Felita.
And Amoureux can also place a hoof very well over a fence..!
Horizons dam line through Distella has the legendary bloodlines of Ferro.
Olympic Ferro is one of the great stallions who was extremely well bred with good character and very good powerful hind legs. He was first in his stallion test.
Ferro has produced 8 KWPN Approved stallions such as Rousseau the winner of this stallion test and producer of winner of Stallion test as well, the recently Keur awarded Negro, and the well known Metall and Rhodium. He has 11 KWPN Approved grandsons. His great legacy has given him the very rare title of “Preferent” which is the highest predicate a stallion can have.
He showed a lot of talent in jumping and even started out in life as a show jumper and ended up one of the more eminent dressage stallions of modern times.
This charming, talented black stallion achieved the title of “Keur” in 2000. He can be relied upon to produce beautiful, typey, talented offspring of the highest quality.
Fantastic toplines and an elegant look characterize his get. In addition to their dressage excellence, Olympic Ferro’s offspring also make good jumpers. Olympic Ferro is #1 on the BN World Stallion Rankings for dressage and is the top stallion and pride of the Netherlands, affectionately known as the “Black Pearl.”
Horizon Progeny
