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EUROCOMMERCE EDINBURGH

Eurocommerce Edinburgh’s sire appears to have developed in such a way: in Flanders, Heartbreaker is an absolute success, in the Netherlands only amongst the average. There’s nothing wrong with that but in the KWPN he will never steal hearts as he has done in the BWP. And this while he is from Dutch origins and the combination of Nimmerdor with Silvano certainly hasn’t done any harm to the KWPN – we only have to point out Glennridge who was posthumously advanced to an approved stallion. But on the other hand, at the time, Silvano was rejected at two very differently judged approvals with, respectively, five and twelve foals. He went to Italiy where in Rome, in 1985, under Giorgio Nuti he helped win the prestigeous “Coppa delle Nazioni” (Nations Cup) on the sacred grounds of the “Piazza die Siena”. For the present, the last time that the “Squadra Azzura” have won this competition. Such rejections no longer occur at the KWPN: one can talk of advancement in insight. Ten years after Silvano’s rejection, things hadn’t quite changed; in 1992 his grandson, for safety’s sake, went to the approvals in Oud-Heverlee. Together with 21 compatriots. A tough delegation opposing 64 BWPs! Or as the Flemish call them: “home-made.” Nevertheless, after a couple of years in international sport under Peter Geerink, the coast was also clear enough in the Netherlands for him to be brought out successfully by the KWPN.

Eurocommerce Edinburgh- approved as a three-year-old in Zangersheide (at the time he was still called Aertbreaker) has a Belgian connection which consists of more than only a Belgian license -also the SBS, just as his one year younger full brother Bamiro- and a “Nederbelg” as sire. After all, he is bred by Dirk Sweetvaegher in Langemark (near Ieper) out of the BWP mare Quamira (sire; Ramiro Z-Gold Sky). The roots of the stock are not in the Flemish Westhoek but, like so many BWP stock, in Hanover.

Quamira’s grandam Dona Lisa (sire: Don Carlos-Wedekind-Ester II) was born in the stables of the mayoral family of Jarck in Engelschoff near Stade. Claus Schridde gave the stock the number II-614 and produced, amongst others, the Celler state stallion Wendelstein and his colleague Dostal of Dillenburger. The latter was a full brother of Dona Lisa. The former KWPN stallion Master (sire: Maigraf xx) and the show jumper Graf (sire: Gotthard) of the English show jumper (and wrestler) Harvey Smith also originate from number II-614.