Multiple championship winner in hand sportshorse classes
Amour G is a young horse with the most delightful temperament.
Although he has all the credentials for breeding top quality sporthorses, his kind and gentle disposition make him ideal for producing allrounders for the amateur rider too.
His paces are wonderful. He walks like a cat, trots on air and has a fabulous uphill canter.
Amour G is graded with the prestigious WBS-UK, formerly known as the BWBS, in the Sporthorse Register.
The WBS-UK is widely acknowledged as being one of the toughest sporthorse societies in the UK with which to grade. They are WBFSH members and use foreign graders to assess the horses. They are experts in the field of breeding and producing sporthorses, not show judges.
We are very proud that Amour G is only the third coloured stallion to be approved with the society.
From the WBS-UK website......''The standard of the stallions was significantly higher than in some previous years and the judges licensed a total of 10 stallions from the 25 presented. In the Sports Horse category, where standards and expectations are identical to the main Warmblood Grading, this year’s Champion was Amour G, a coloured KWPN son of Goshka Ringo out of a Danish mare. Owned by Pippa Childerhouse and very professionally shown by Tim from Woodcroft Stud, the judges were impressed with this statuesque but lightfooted mover.''
He is also the only horse to date to be awarded TWO Elite First Premiums by the BEF Futurity scheme for dressage and show jumping.
With no marks less than 9 out of 10, he scored 9.75 in the vetting, 9.75 for his paces and 9.5 for his conformation. Comments from the evaluators included `` fabulous walk, good hindleg for canter``, ``very scopey, good brain`` and''it wouldn't matter what colour this horse was, he could be pink with blue spots, he would still be a great horse!''.
In the finals at Addington he was judged by Carl Hester to be the best 3yr old colt in the dressage section. (He was qualified for the show jumping section final too but rules dictate he could only contest one section final.)
Amour G is ultimately destined for the dressage arena but has also been lightly shown with great success. Winner of many sporthorse classes and championships he has also won the coveted BSPA Superstar In Hand Championship twice.
He is showing a very willing, brave yet sensible attitude to his jumping. Just starting to compete he is jumping double clears BN and just rolled one pole in his first ever Discovery.
2009 was his first season at stud. He has proved very fertile with post chill results coming back at 85% progressive motility and 93.75% of mares in foal to one or two cycles.
Pedigree.
Amour G has both Olympic dressage and showjump competitors/producers on both sides of his pedigree.
Amour G
Goshka Ringo
King
Purioso keur
Wanda keur pref prest
Leanne ster
Ferro pref
Cindy
Sigyn Torsmark
May Sherif
Elizar
May Kignaes
Alexandra
Aleksander
Tina Gravvaenge
Goshka Ringo.
Amour G's sire, Goshka Ringo, is a grandson of the great Olympic Ferro.
Goshka Ringo showing his powerful uphill trot. Ferro in piaffe.
Like his son, Ringo has a kind and easy disposition. Only lightly competed, he has been successful at BD medium level alongside a very busy stud career with offspring exported to the USA, South Africa, Belgium, Canada and New Zealand. He sired two of the finalists of the Burghley Young Event Horse series.
King.
Ringo's sire King also brings the same gentle and easy nature to the mix.
He not only rides but drives alongside mares and hit the headlines around the world in 2006 when being one of the brave horses that helped lead over 100 horses stranded by flood waters in Holland. What better proof of his level headed temperament?
He can be seen at the front in the photo below.
King leading the rescue. King driven alongside a mare.
Purioso.
King's sire Purioso surely needs very little introduction. He produced three Olympic sons including Bonfire and Cocktail, the sire of Jazz, the 2006 KWPN stallion of the year.
Purioso is himself a son of Furioso 11, the top producing stallion in Germany from 1979-89 based on the winnings of his offspring. In 1990 he was top producer of dressage horses, he produced over 200 state premium mares and at least 20 approved sons including For Pleasure and Voltaire, he is also seen in the lines through his grandsons Cocktail and Welt As (also in Sandro Hits third lineage) who produced Bonfire, Leroy Brown and STC Diamond.
King's mother is none other than Wanda, Samber's own sister (an extraordinary family).
On the other hand, Ringo's mother, Lianne, is one of Ferro's daughters (the famous Dressage stallion and Olympic individual gold medal winner) and Cindy, another of Samber's daughters, is her mother.
Ferro.
Olympic Ferro competed at the 2000 Olympics and assisted his team in achieving a team silver medal, with an individual score of 74.92%. As a three-year-old he was champion of his performance test at Ermelo, where he achieved outstanding results.
His sire Ulft, is a son of the great Le Mexico, who is listed 10th on the jumping index with 142 points. Le Mexico carries Furioso xx blood, which brings value to any pedigree. Ferro's dam, Brenda, is a daughter of the Holsteiner, Farn, who is listed sixth on the jumping index with 146 points.
Olympic Ferro sired the champion of the three-year-old stallions at s'Hertogenbosch in 2000, and had nine young stallions in the second round there in 2001.
He can be relied upon to produce beautiful, typey, talented offspring of the highest quality. Fantastic toplines and an elegant look characterise his get. In addition to their dressage excellence, Olympic Ferro's offspring also make good jumpers.
Samber.
Another needing very little introduction. The only coloured stallion to be approved for breeding with the KWPN.
The stallion with the "Golden Temperament" scored 10 for temperament and trainability at 100 day testing in Holland. SAMBER has competed very successfully in Europe through Grand Prix level Dressage and the Z levels in jumpers, mostly with a junior rider. SAMBER is by two highly rated Dutch Horses - PERICLES: a preferent rate stallion and TINA: a ster. preferent, presteinte rated mare. SAMBER has consistently been very highly ranked on the index (400 stallions on average) for both dressage (top 20's) and jumpers (top 100's) for producing offspring excelling in these disciplines.
The dam line.
Amour G's dam line is equally illustrious.
As it is widely believed that the dam is responsible for more than 50% of the gene pool, it is worth noting the quality on this side of Amour G's pedigree.
His dam, Sigyn Torsmark, is a double branded Danish warmblood mare who competed successfully in dressage before retiring to stud in the UK.
Her sire is the great May Sherif.
May Sherif.
May Sherif Matador Maximus JSS
May Sherif was approved by the Danish, Finnish, Swedish and British Warmblood societies, the KWPN and the Oldenburger Verband. An internationally known sire for breeding dressage horses, such as Mester Mouse, Joanna Jackson's Olympic ride representing GB, Matador, World Cup champion 1991 and silver medal winner at the World Games 1990 and 1988, also representing Finland at the Olympic Games, Andiamo silver medallist at Seoul Olympics and World Cup champion and Maximus JSS, currently competing for the USA in the WEG and World Cup series .
As well as being the only stallion to sire more than two World Cup Freestyle champions, May Sherif is also recognised for his ability to pass on to his progeny wonderful activity and a special talent for piaffe and passage.
It is said that if you reach the soul of a May Sherif horse he will fight for you and to his utmost to serve you.
Aleksander.
Although approved by the Danish warmblood society, Aleksander was actually an Oldenburg. He was by the Thoroughbred stallion Adonis out of an Oldenburg mare. He became an Elite stallion siring many winners of championships and horses at olympic level.
Progeny from a variety of mares can be viewed by clicking here.
STOP PRESS!
TT Amika, (Amour G x Medoc x Louella Inschallah), scored a Higher First Premium at the recent BEF Futurity, scoring 9.25 for her trot and 9s for her attitude, canter and athleticism.
Evaluators comments included that she was diligent behind in all paces and that her trot was uphill, elastic and rhythmical.
From 66 youngsters she scored the third highest mark of the day.
If you like the idea of adding a dash of colour to your modern sporthorse, there is certainly no need to compromise on quality for colour using Amour G. In fact, as Amour G is graded with the most stringent of studbooks in the UK, all foals, coloured or not, should be of excellent quality and highly desirable.
Amour G welcomes visitors at his home in Norfolk. We are just 40 minutes on from Newmarket so not as remote as you might think!
In order to concentrate on his competitive career, Amour will be doing walk in collections at Groomsbridge Stud and AI Centre at Linton, Cambridgeshire.
With excellent facilities and knowledgeable staff, mares can board here or, of course, chilled semen can be shipped to you.
Stud fee £475 + collection and carriage. AI fresh or chilled. NFFR
Possible discount for graded mares or for two or more.
Many more photos are displayed in the gallery and you can keep up to date on his Facebook page.
Click below to view his appearance at the Burghley Horse Trials stallion parade.
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