Loreley, Mare By FS Louis Le Bon

Filly By FS Louis Le Bon

Mare By FS Louis Le Bon

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FS LOUIS LE BON

FS Louis Le Bon is a superb prize winning stallion of the NRW 2000 Approval Series. He began his 2001 career during the 30-day test. He obtained high marks for dressage, as well as jumping. He won almost all of his tournaments in 2001, in particular at the NRW breeders’ meeting, which he also won in 2002. He also succeeded in gaining a place in the finals of the Bundeschampionat. At the age of five he proved his qualities as a jumper, he placed 3 times out of 3 competitions,he won a class 1 jumping competition against formidable competition. He then pursued his dressage sport career. A victory and honourable mentions for class A and L dressage prove his exceptional twin talents. FS Louis Le Bon concluded his HLP in the sports area by his qualification for the 2003 Bundeschampionat, where he placed in the Final.

The Sire is the Champion Lancer II. He is known for producing very talented offspring who show above average ability in dressage and jumping.

The Grandsire is the top breeding stallion, Landgraf. He has produced over 80 Approved stallions and more than 100 State Premium mares just in Germany and heads the German Yearbook with the total winnings of his progeny of over 6 million DM.

Born in 1966, Landgraf I belongs to the first vintage of his sire, Ladykiller xx, who produced another hero one year later in Lord, another of the most influential stallions in Holstein.

Landgraf had a very good temperament which he passed on, together with excellent movement. His dam, Warthburg, came from the stem No. 275 and accumulates the performance genes of Ethelbert, Aehill and Cicero, who are responsible for laying the foundation of the Holsteiner Sporthorse as the world's leading jumping stud book.

Warthburg was born in 1962 and was bought as a weanling by Baron Friedrich Christian de Kielmansegg. After a competition career as a jumper, she produced Jenni, by the Thoroughbred stallion, Little Lion xx, Jenni is the dam of Orchidee, who was a member of the Gold Medal winning German jumping team at the Seoul Olympic Games with Dirk Hafemeister. Orchidee in turn was the dam of Avion (Athlet Z) ridden in international competition by Ludger Beerbaum.

Warthburg then produced six foals by Ladykiller. Landgraf was born in 1966, the following year saw his full brother, Landgraf II who was sold to the South of Germany where he was gelded! Under the name, Leon III, he went on to compete at Grand Prix level with Manfred Schlusselburg. In the following two years, the fillies Eva and Frederica were produced. Frederica when bred to Farnese produced the licensed stallion, Fridericus. In 1970 Warthburg produced another filly, Landgraffin who was ridden in the 70's and 80's by Hugo Simon, winning many speed and puissance classes. Bred to Cor de la Bryère, Landgraffin then produced the stallion Cash, who also competed internationally with Simon before his death at the age of 10 while competing at Aachen.
Landgraf was Licensed in 1968 along with twelve other sons of Ladykiller xx. Landgraf finished in 5th place with the comments 'a lot of presence, good gaits with excellent propulsion, good conformation and average hindquarters.'
Landgraf was chosen to represent the Holsteiner breed at the 1972 German National Agricultural Show, and finished last. Following protests from the Holstein officials, this was converted into second place, and then in an elegant piece of gobbledegook to 'first place C'.

Jumping is the discipline where he excels most as a sire. The list of his showjumping offspring is endless. A few names for example: Freestyle (formerly Lalique) won Aachen Grand Prix, Libero won the Dutch National title five times (!) and also the 1994 Volvo World Cup. The Licensed stallion, Lacros, is another along with top performers: Lucky Luke, Lanciano, Landlord, Lausbub and Taggi.
Nearly sixty colts by Landgraf I have been licenced for the Holsteiner stud book, like the champion of 1991, Linaro, and the dressage talent, Loutano. Some of his sons have already achieved top positions as performance sires, for example, Letus II, a jumping sire, and the versatile Landadel, who produced three champion stallions for the Oldenburger breed alone, and also the outstanding international showjumper, Le Cou Cou, a licenced stallion.

So far, 340 broodmares by Landgraf I are registered in the Holsteiner stud book, 260 of these are in the Head Stud Book, 100 have been awarded the State Premium, and a considerable number have been Champion mares at shows. Landgraf I was a legend already during his life time. His genes are securely anchored in the breed of the modern sporthorse.

In his Stallion Book of the Holsteiner Warmblood Breed, Dr Dietrich Rossow comments: