Product Description
Name: Gandoff QSH
D.O.B: 9/12/2019
EMH: 16.2hh
Sire: Senator VDL
Dam: Baby Doll
Gender: Colt
Colour: Grey
A gorgeous colt with star quality.
Gandoff is a head-turner with a beautiful face, bling and a real presence about him. He has a very athletic build, is light on his feet and has lovely loose movement. Freejumping for the first time he showed a great shape with nice technique and easy scope. Paired with a beautiful nature this yearling is certainly a horse you want in your paddock.
Gandoff has been DNA verified and microchipped. He has a passport and has been registered with the New Zealand Warmblood Association.
Sire: SENATOR VDL
Senator VDL was bred at the world famous VDL Stud in Holland. On both sides of his family, he has very potent jumping blood: Corland, Cor de la Bryere, Landgraf, Voltaire and Nimmerdor.
Senator VDL is producing foals with correct conformation, lovely heads and a strong topline and hindquaters. The progeny out competing are scopey and careful, both in showjumping and eventing. Senator VDL is sire of the top New Zealand eventing horse, Balmoral Sensation, who was placed 5th at the Badminton Horse Trials 2016 and 6th at the Rio Olympics.
Senator VDL had multiple wins and placings throughout his jumping career including winning the Norwood Gold Cup at the Horse of the Year Show. He competed through to when he was an 9yo, when he was retired due to injury.
He has an enviable pedigree on both sides of his family. His dam is Falonie by Voltaire (Team Nijhof) out of a Nimmerdor mare. She is the sister of two international showjumpers Charly and Gyltaire. Gyltaire, also by Voltaire, a full relation to Falonie, was ridden internationally by Michael Whitaker.
Senator VDL’s dam, grand dam and great grand dam are all “keur” mares. Keur is a very high ranking predicate that is only awarded to quality mares that have produced satisfactory offspring and have passed selection performance tests. On his dam’s side, he has the famous sires, Voltaire and Nimmerdor which are preferent stallions. A very high honor for sires that are bestowed as famous progenitors.
Dam: BABY DOLL
Gandoff is out of the outstanding imported mare Baby Doll. A fantastic jumper herself with a huge amount of scope Baby Doll is a valuable breeding mare with proven bloodlines combining Aldatus Z and Clover Hill, a well-known, winning combination in Ireland. Baby Doll was imported into NZ from Ireland as a 4 yr old, she competed successfully through the grades until injury put her in the brood mare paddock.
Dam Sire: ALDATUS Z
Aldatus Z is a very good winner in CSIO . In 1994, he was European Vice-Champion for Individual Young Riders with Christian Ahlmann. He also won the “Sires of The World”. In 1995, he was Dutch Champion under the saddle of Jos Lansink. He also won the World Cup stage in Monterrey. In 1996, he was classified in the GP of Aix-la-Chapelle, Calgary and St Gall. He is 2nd in the Rotterdam Nations Cup.
He notably produced the very good international winners Penelope (Jeffrey Welles) winner of many Grands Pris in the USA, Abba Z , GP winner with Judy-Ann Melchior, Loro Piana Hamlet very good international winner with Guy Williams, A la Ballerina very good international winner with Katharina Offel, Aldatus Son Daonjo winner in GP in Brazil, Hamlet Van St. Maarten CSI, Jacqueline CSI, Marone CSI, Wilywonty finalist of the 7 years old World Championship … as well as the NLS stallions Coole Al Clover , Champion of the World of 6 years, Ovidius (Peter Geerink) father of good winners in CSI, Aledo, Kingstone.
Aldatus Z has sired many international jumpers and approved sires who will leave their mark in years to come.
Dam’s Dam Sire: CLOVER HILL
Clover Hill’s achievements as a sire were outstanding; he ranked 4th in the 2001-2002 WBFSH showjumping rankings, with 39 offspring jumping at International levels.
In Irish, US and UK top sporthorse pedigrees, Clover Hill’s name crops up with amazing frequency. The level of influence that he has had on the quality of the Irish Sport Horse is the equivalent to that of a Cor de la Bryère or Ladykiller in Warmblood breeding; his blood flows in almost all of the great showjumpers of his era, and continues to be reflected in the success of subsequent generations of showjumpers and eventers.
General screening x-rays of horses in the Quality Sport Horses Dispersal Auction were acquired by Matamata Veterinary Services on the 16th and 18th of March 2021.
A declaration of health for all 12 horses and x-rays (of yearlings and older excluding the broodmare) are available upon request.
When a request for been received by Equus Auctions it will be passed on to Matamata Veterinary Services who will then send the x-rays directly onto the prospective bidders chosen veterinarian. This information is confidential and will only be sent to a qualified veterinarian for examination.
Please note this does not constitute a pre-purchase examination and Matamata Veterinary Services, Quality Sport Horses and Equus Auctions take no legal responsibility. If you wish to conduct a pre-purchase examination you are able to do so at your own expense prior to the auction date (Monday 12th April 2021). The sale of the horse is unconditional from the close of the online auction and pre-purchase examinations cannot be done retrospectively.
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Quality Sport Horses is a boutique breeding program run by the Barker family. Quality Sport Horses oldest progeny are only at the start of their jumping careers but they are already impressing with top riders throughout New Zealand and multiple having been exported to Australia, a testimony to their class.
The boutique size and nature of the Quality Sport Horses breeding program means their impressive bloodlines and lovely progeny are a rare commodity, this auction will be bidders last chance to secure them as their breeding program comes to a close.
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