Sire Contender

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CONVOI

Convoi is a true dual purpose stallion, as shown with his Licensing scores.

He produces offspring that can jump and move, but his particular forte is in his movement.

The Sire, Contender, won the 1987 Stallion Performance test at Adelheidsdorf with the impressive jumping score of 146.62. He was later named Reserve Champion Main Premium Stallion of Oldenburg based on the extremely high quality of his first crop of foals. Contender stood at stud in Oldenburg for 3 years, and thereafter stood in Holstein. Contender is one of the most sought after jumping sires in Germany, in Hannover, Oldenburg, and Rheinland alone, produced 498 successful registered performance horses, nearly 80 Licensed sons, and 782 registered daughters, of whom almost 60 have been State Premium mares, including the mare Riconda, who, in 1993, was awarded Champion of the Elite Mare Show at Rastede.

From Contender's first crop of foals alone came the international jumping horses Maria Callas (Ben Schröder), Niko (Geoff Billington), and Copa D’oro (Yves Houtackers), as well as the eventer Chicoletto (Herbert Blöcker). Marco Kutscher is currently riding no less than three licensed Contender sons in international showjumping, these being Contreo, Conterno Grande and Montender, who was a Bronze Medallist at the Athens Olympic Games, German Champion in 2003, and European Champion in 2005. Checkmate competed at the European Championships under Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum, and the pair also won on the Rider's Tour. Collin L, won the German Showjumping Derby ridden by Toni Hassmann. And, Controe (Contender x Aloube Z) has on two occasions taken 2^nd place in Major classes at CSI’s at Amsterdam and Stockholm.

The 2004 World Champion Sire, Con Spirito R (Contender x Caletto I) has competed successfully under Theo Muff, and is now standing at the Ruetimann Stud in Switzerland. Other successful Contender sons include, as well as Contendro I, Camiros (1994 Licensing Champion), Contango (Performance Test Champion at Oldenburg, later exported to the US), Cantos (Contender x Goodtimes), Chellano Z (Contender x Cor De La Bryere), Koriander (Contender x Moltke I), Canabis Z (Contender x Silvester), Clinton (Contender x Maikoenig), Continue, Concetto, Caius, Coleo, Calvador, Concerto I and II, and CORDOBES I and II, who were purchased by Warendorf, the State Stud of Westphalia. Interestingly, Cordobes I was winner of the 1998 Stallion Performance Test with an overall score of 146.29, a mere 0.33 different from that of his sire! In 2004, Contender was ranked 3rd in the World Showjumping Sire Ratings.

Black Sky stood at the private stud of Schmidt-Ankum, where he was somewhat in the shadow of Cardinal xx. Black Sky’s progeny were always very rideable dressage horses.