Product Description
Name: Prosecco QSH
D.O.B: 5/1/2019
EMH: 16.2hh
Sire: Senator VDL
Dam: V. Anubertha 8
Gender: Mare
Colour: Grey
Light, athletic eye-catching mare.
Prosecco is a stunning rose grey mare with bling and presence. A great, athletic type she is light across the ground with great movement. Freejumping she is careful and clever showing good technique and scope over the fence. An impressive young horse who will be exciting to watch develop.
Prosecco has been DNA verified and microchipped. She 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: V.Anubertha 8
Anubertha was imported from Ireland as a 10-year-old. She a very successful Young Rider and Grand Prix mount with a huge amount of jumping talent, that was not fully realized due to career ending injury. She was sired by Germus Z, who comes from one of the best performing bloodlines in the Netherlands.
Dam’s Sire: GERMUS R
From Germus R come long-legged, athletic models. They are horses with blood and a lot of work ethic. A great opportunity to directly add the golden combination Joost x Abgar xx to your breeding.
This very appealing brown stallion is the last son of the foundation stallion Joost who has proven himself in breeding and in the sport. We still often see the desired Joost blood in good sport horses. Joost is also a very strong link in the mare line.
Germus R comes from one of the best performance lines in the Netherlands. In the meantime he has proven to be a very good representative of this strain. Germus R himself jumped internationally under Peter Geerink. His children are very successful in show jumping.
Germus R is the only Joost son who has proven to pass on the very good breeding qualities of his sire.
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 has 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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