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Bay 1989 167cm
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Cicero |
Cor de la
Bryere |
Rantzau |
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Quenotte |
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Ligustra |
Liguster |
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Damira |
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Rabila |
Lamour |
Ladykiller xx |
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Aumina |
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Lobelia |
Sacramento Song xx |
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Grietje |
Licensed for Berlin-Brandenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt,
Sachsen and Thuringen
Service
Fee: AUS$1,500.00 NZ$1,850.00 (3
insemination doses) Maximum 3 pregnancies
CINCINATTI
The Sire, Cicero was purchased from the
Verband and immediately became a sensation in the
US. Bred to a variety of mares, Cicero has
consistently thrown beauty, legginess, super
shoulders, gorgeous heads and absolutely flawless
movement.
His progeny have gone on to become
Champion Mare, Elite Mare Show, Elmshorn, Germany
(equivalent to being champion stallion at the
stallion approvals), Champion colt at Devon,
Champion 5yo and younger for the entire USDF Region
9, and in 1998 Cicero produced the Reserve Champion
6yo jumper at the German National Championships.
In his Performance Test Cicero scored
highly receiving 9 for type, 7 topline, 7 depth of
body, 7 front legs, 7 hind legs, 7 movement, and 8
for brilliance and impulsion. He was awarded Reserve
Champion of his Approval in Holstein.
Cicero
is by leading sire Cor de la Bryère. Cor de la
Bryère has stamped mark on the world scene producing
top-class performers across all three disciplines.
He is also a world class sire of sires with excess
of 50 approved sons at stud worldwide including
Corlandus, Chanel K, Classic Touch, Calvaro, Caletto
I and II, Corlando and Cordeka.
Cor de la Bryère was by the Anglo Irish
thoroughbred and top-class race horse Rantzau. On
the track Rantzau won the Caeserwich Stakes, the
Goodwood Cup and the Jockey Club Gold Cup twice. He
went on to be a leading sire of showjumpers in
France.
On his dam-side Cicero contains Elite
mare Ligustra (HSP), who was registered in the Elite
section of the Holstein Studbook because of her
success at stud, producing six top performing off
spring, mostly by Cor de la Bryère. Her progeny
includes two other sons at stud, one of which is
outstanding sire Cavalier, which stands in Ireland.
Vamara, a full sister to Cicero is also producing
top performing stock in Switzerland, especially the
eight-year-old stallion Courage for Leslie Mc
Naught. Ligustra's family also contains three of the
most famous bloodlines in the word, namely
Ladykiller and Cottage Son, both Irish TBs, and
Aldato. Through their sons and daughters these three
have produced such stars such as Libero H, Lugano,
Ratina Z, and Taggi.
Ladykiller xx embodies the powerful type of the
thoroughbred. He was a strikingly handsome stallion
with pronounced masculine attributes. He had an
excellent mastery of the three basic gaits and was
imbued with the very best character and temperament
values. Of the enormous number of thoroughbreds that
were applied in breeding in the 1960ies and the
early 1970ies, he turned out to be the best by far.
The sires who came before him such as Anblick xx and
Cottage Son xx and partly also those who performed
stud duty as contemporaries of Ladykiller xx like
the stallions Manometer xx and Marlon xx, also
founded their own stallion lines. None however was
as convincing on such a broad basis as Ladykiller
xx. He clearly transmitted himself, his marked type,
the magnificent head, correct and powerful
foundation and excellent jumping ability in regard
to capacity, manner of jumping, leg technique and
above all spirit. A number of his progeny were
conspicuous because of their light tan colour with
“green” legs, as well as the occasionally open
kidney region. His chestnuts were consistently even
more noble than his bay progeny. Particular
successes were achieved by mating with mares who
were also of noble blood. Thus his best stallion
sons by far, Landgraf I and Lord were both bred out
of mares who themselves had significant proportions
of the best thoroughbred blood. Landgraf I became
the most important sire of showjumpers of the
twentieth century. The Holstein Breeder’s
Association erected a life-sized bronze monument in
his honour on the precincts of the association
centre in Elmshorn, the unveiling of which Landgraf
I attended personally. Lord was approvals champion
and likewise sent a whole armada of progeny to
victory on the great showjumping courses around the
globe. The fact that he was a three-quarter bred may
be the reason why his hereditary transmission was
not always of a completely harmonious type. Even
though Ladykiller did not really sire dressage
horses, he produced a son Lido whose forte in
hereditary transmission was exactly in the field of
dressage. It would be hard to find another
Holsteiner who procreated dressage horses for the
very highest demands as this stallion. In the
Netherlands, the Ladykiller xx son Heidelberg, who
was named after his damsire became the pacemaker of
the breed. The sires Lorenz, Lagos, Ladalco and
Lamour all also went to Holland following their
successful above average covering periods in
Holstein. Today it is almost a necessity of fashion
in Holstein, that a horse carries Ladykiller xx
blood at least two or three times, whereby it occurs
from time to time, that horses in the first
generations are inbred five or six times to this
invaluable foundation sire. All along, a certain
measure of inbreeding has been a regular formula for
success in Holstein breeding. |
