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Horse Scout Stallion review: Michael Whitakers ride Velini

May 18, 2015

Velini, a star already making his presence felt in the competitive arena, is an AES Elite Stallion standing for Select Stallions. Velini is a testament to British Breeding and his future looks set as a top performance horse. Velini had his first outing of the 2015 season with Michael Whitaker at Jumping Amsterdam, and what a start to the season he had finishing 2nd in the 6 Bar. He showed his enviable scope and fantastic attitude in front of a packed Saturday night crowd in the Dutch arena. Following this Velini flew on to Doha where he had two great rounds with Michael and took second in the 1.45m on the first day and in the table C at 1.45m but still took a credible 13^th place having rolled a pole. “We were so impressed watching this class and Velini showed real class, it’s easy to see why Michael thinks so highly of him” said his owners Select Stallions.

Horse Scouts’ Stallion listings are a good starting point to contact his owners who say that Velini passes scope and athleticism to his offspring and combining this with his fantastic attitude makes him a top choice for your mare this season.

Velinis breeding tree on his Horse Scout lisitng is truncated but Velini’s pedigree is like a who’s who of show jumping with his entire line proven at the top level. Here is a short list of just some of his Grand Prix relations:

His Grandmother Paulien II (KWPN 1997 bay mare by Koriander) level 1.60m

His other Grandmother Fleur Z (Holstien by romino SJ level 1.60m)

His Aunt Uceline (Athina Onassis)

Velini’s great grandmother, Finesse (CDI 5* dressage and 5* Show Jumping with Emile Hendrix)

Velini’s sire, Cheers Cassini jumping at Grand Prix for both Danish and German riders

At only 8 years old he jumped a clear round in the 1.60m Grand Prix at the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup in Barcelona ridden by Michael Whitaker.

I rode Velinis grandmother in many Grand Prix around the world, I hope to win some on Velini to. He has unbelievable talent, and is a star for the future.

Micheal Whitaker

His breeding has not only Voltaire but also Cor De La Breyere but also Ramiro Z.

Select Satllions have five other top class stallions listed on Horse Scout, including Cornet Oblinsky, who is also having a good start to his jumping season, as well as Diament de Semilly on www.horsescout.co.uk

You can find Velini’s personal profile page on Horse Scout here:

http://www.horsescout.co.uk/horses/profile/719

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Stallion Review. Royal Rubin

May 16, 2015

Stallion Review of Horse Scout Profiled Dressage stallion at stud: Royal Rubin

King Pin in the dressage arena – Grand Prix Stallion Royal Rubin.

royal Rubin progeny are well represented at the Hartpury Festival Of Dressage this weekend (July 2015)

Hayley Watson Greaves on Rubins Nite rides in the Grand Prix today at 3.26

John Chubb rides his own Ruby Rubin took 5^th in the Lovington Ace Advanced

Rubin Esque x Limbo owned by Kim Seaby and Linzie Seaby have two classes 02 GP / 04 GPFS

Royal Rubin himself is a well made deep chestnut standing at 16.3hh and with his white stockings is an eye catcher in the dressage arena doubtless drawing attention to his elastic, powerful and elegant presence in the ring with his own profile page on Horse Scout. This lovely, upstanding International Grand Prix stallion by Rubinstein has now retired from competitive dressage. Royal Rubin stands at Brownnscombe Stud in Devon, where the mares have every facility for both short and long term boarding and foaling.

Royal Rubin, is a Sachen-Anhalt with an impressive pedigree and a temperament which makes him a pleasure to handle and compete. He has a 70 day performance test with the Brandenburgh/Anhaltiner Studbook,and has been Accepted by WBS-UK, BHHS, and the Oldenburgh.

When you review this stallions career you cant help but be impressed. As well as an impressive dressage career Royal Rubin has an amazingly kind, gentle, straightforward temperament and these attributes are also seen under saddle. In competition his marks averaged between 65 – 76%.

His career gave him wins at Grand Prix including the Hamburg Derby in 2008 and Leipzig in 2009. After the Derby when the best 3 riders change horses for a short Grand Prix his owner and rider Heike Kemmer (team Gold and individual Bronze medal winner at the 2008 Olympics) said of Rudi “his willingness to work and his willingness to participate are always priceless. If I had several Rudi’s in the stable I would be totally lucky.” Royal Rubin also qualified for the World Cup finals.

His pedigree is exemplary, Royal Rubn’s sire Rubinstein, who needs little introduction, has 40 wins at Grand Prix, and he was a member of the 1996 Olympic team, sired 89 state premium mares and 66 approved stallions including Rodhiamant and Rotspon.

The dam line of Royal Rubin are predominantly jumpers. Barbarella is by Brandenburger who made his name in Puissance. He is also the dam sire of the incredibly well thought of stallion Quaterback. Brandenburger’s dam is by is the influential Hanoverian stallion Wendekreis, who is well known as a producer of riding horses with great trainability. Brandenburger was sired by Beach Boy, a KWPN stallion who sired 8 approved stallions and 239 competitive offspring who earned him a BLUP score of 137 for jumping and 143 for gaits. As a dam sire Beach Boy most famously sired Unika, dam of Arko lll who, ridden by Nick Skelton, was the number 1 horse in Europe for 3 years running.

Royal Rubin’s first crop of foals were born in 2014 and we were thrilled with them. They have excellent conformation, very uphill movement with good hock action and lovely temperaments. His fertility is excellent.

You can find comprehensive stallion listings on www.horsescout.co.uk and if you would like to go straight to Royal Rubins profile page and see some wonderful images of this expressive stallion then you can visit Royal Rubins page on Horse Scout here. http://www.horsescout.co.uk/horses/profile/750

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Horse Scout Stallion Review: Woodlander Stud Stallion: Fransje.

May 14, 2015

The heart melting young stallion Fransje standing at the Woodlander Stud is a beautifully bred bay KWPN / Dutch Warmblood.

Graded with AES, Oldenburg and WBS_UK his listing on Horse Scout describes his sire, United, as one of many successful licensed son’s of the international Grand Prix horse Krack C, whose other son’s include Redford, Tolando, Tuschinski, Trento B, Zhivago who was Champion of the 2011 Z level KWPN Stallion Competition at Den Bosch and also the amazing Vivaldi.

His Dam line (Tirette) brings accredited keur and preferent mares and the Tirette is by the International Grand Prix stallion Silvano N was individually placed 6th at the Sydney Olympic Games and was crowned the 2002 Dutch Dressage Champion,.

Woodlander Stud are please to say that Fensje was approved by the Oldenburg Verband with particular mention of his movement and mechanics. 2014; saw his first foal crop where he added huge movement and elasticity.

In 2014 he also completed his 70 day test at Schlickau and is now life approved for Oldenburg.

Proven Progeny For One Night Only (Fransje x Mondriaan x Ulft)

You can find Fransje’s profile on the Horse Scout website by using this link to his stallion profile page here

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1,2,3,4,5 Horse Scout Bloggers Professional Review MGH Sports Horses

March 30, 2015

One Outright Winner: Two Top Professionals: Three Talented Horses for sale: Four fantastically successful new partnerships and Five fully satisfied customers.

Horse Scouts’ newly listed ‘MGH Sports horses’ was spotted by HS Blogger this evening. Not only do the horses they have for sale look super but their website shows just how successful a partnership they have formed. Procuring and producing consistently for both amateur and professional clients in the UK and internationally.

One Outright Winner:

Anyone who visits Horse Scout and finds MGH Sports Horses listing:

Two Top Professionals:

1. Lucy Wiegersma’s bio confirms that she has a background firmly rooted in horses. Selected for the Bejing Olympics, Lucy regularly features amongst the top 5 riders in the FEI World Rankings and is the only rider to have won all three national titles, crowning her Junior and Young Rider Championship victories by becoming Senior British National Champion in 2006. Lucy can count Blenheim, Blair and Bramham amongst her three-day wins, and she narrowly missed out adding the Badminton title to her tally in 2008, when she finished second. She has nurtured and trained a string of young horses all with Championship medal-winning potential and is widely regarded as a rider tipped for the top.

2.Padraig McCarthy from Tipperary in the South of Ireland, has been involved in horses from a young age. Padraig spent close to a decade showjumping and training horses of all levels at different stables around Europe and in the USA learning his trade under the guidance of Rolf Goran Bengtsson, Max Hauri, and Hans Horn. His passion in life? – horses. Sourcing, breeding, producing, competing and selling high quality Irish sport horses to clients nationally and internationally is how Padraig divides his time. With a great eye for recognising talented young horses, Padraig has built up a wide client base who value his knowledge and experience.

Three Talented Horses

MGH Oughterard – ‘Keith’ is a big elegant horse with three excellent paces and a very good jumping technique. Started competing in July, going double clear in his first two BE100s and finishing 6th in West Wilts. In his first dressage competition of 2015 he won both of his classes on a score of 73%. Will be ready to step up to Novice in early Spring.

MGH Kings Street an extremely good looking Irish sports horses with world class bloodlines. His half sister “Instant Karma” is a successful international GP Showjumper in the USA. He also shares the same grandam as Irish Olympic team horse “Electric Cruise”, who placed individual 14th in London 2012. “Jimmy” jumped up to Newcomers successfully in 2014 and was also double clear in all nine of his BE events, including a 5th placing in his first Novice. Ultra careful jumper. Top potential as a showjumper, eventer, or equitation horse.

Killahurler Connect, known as Peggy, is a very attractive Irish Sport Horse with the attributes to be a high level eventer. She has three excellent paces and a very scopey jump. She came over from Ireland last autumn where she had been produced by a young rider. She has cross country schooled and done some unaffiliated jumping and dressage. Placed both runs so far this season.

Four fantastically successful partnerships

To underline the successes of these two talented trainers here is an outline of just a couple of their successfully produced horses:

1. Sourced in Ireland by us as a just broken 4yr old ISH gelding by Creevagh Ferro and produced to Intermediate level before moving on to Andrew Nicholson. Cilnabradden Evo and being placed 3nd in the prestigious Blenheim Palace CIC*** 8&9y/o class.

2. Vendredi Biats a 2009 SF gelding by Winning Mood (Darco). Arrived in Warren Farm as a green 4y/o in December 2013. This very talented horse spent the Winter and Spring doing unaffiliated jumping and xc schooling. He was sold to Kitty King after doing his first BE90. With Kitty ‘Vendredi’ won and was placed several times in BE100’s in 2014.

3. MGH Grafton Street a 2008 ISH gelding by OBOS Quality. Purchased as a just broken 4y/o in Ireland, ‘Cyril AKA The Squirrel’ was sold to Sally Anne Egginton and produced by us through his 5y/o year. Currently ridden by Horse Scout Professional Aaron Miller, Cyril Haswon and been placed several times at BE Novice in 2015.

4. MGH Regent Street 2008 ISH gelding by Buster King. Purchased as an unbroken 4y/o in Ireland, ‘Buster’ was produced by us and sold to Millie Dumas after doing three BE events. With Millie, Buster won two BE100’s and was placed in all of his Novice runs in 2014

As if this was not enough Lucy’s customers could not be happier:

Five fully satisfied customers

1. Megan Cummings – MGH Bingo Boy

I had been looking for a talented potential young event horse on and off for almost a year and after having two fail vettings I was beginning to think I would never find the right one. After finding Lucy’s website and seeing the numerous young horses available, I went to view a number of possible horses. I really benefitted from trying several horses side by side, which made comparison easier. The excellent facilities at Warren Farm enabled me to try them over cross-country fences and even water! Padraig and Lucy couldn’t have been more open and honest with their descriptions of the horses, and helped match the right horse to me. I didn’t feel under any pressure to make any hasty decisions and they were happy for me to come back a 2nd and 3rd visit before deciding on Bing! I fully recommend Padraig and Lucy to anyone looking for a horse, and couldn’t be any happier with my lovely boy Bing!

2. Alice Harvey

I am very grateful to Padraig for finding “Steve”. I had been looking for nearly a year for a suitable event and hunt horse, and after many disappointing viewings and a failed vetting I thought I would never find the right horse. Luckily a contact put me in touch with Padraig and Lucy who have both been extremely truthful and helpful from the beginning. The great facilities at Warren Farm allowed me to try steve in the school and in the open over a variety of cross country fences. Steve has been an absolute superstar in every way and the description was spot on! I trusted Padraig to find the right horse for me and he did just that, therefore I would not hesitate to recommend his services. Padraig and Lucy will be my first port of call if I ever need to buy again as I could not be happier with Steve!

3. Kitty King – Vendredi Biats

Having purchased a lovely five year old through Lucy and Padraig I couldn’t recommend them highly enough.They have some super horses and seem to want to match the right horse to the right rider rather than just sell a horse that isn’t suitable just to get a sale on the books. They were completely honest about the horse and told me more than they probably needed to. I will definitely be back down to look at horses in the near future.

4. Michael Hayden

I have known Padraig and Lucy for a number of years as Padraig found one of my current top horses. After receiving a call from Padraig recently to say he had a top jumping prospect, I travelled from Ireland to the UK to see the horse. She was everything he had said she was and I bought her straight away. When I was there I also bought a fantastic six year old which Padraig had arranged for me to see. I spend a lot of time travelling to see horses and am often frustrated when I travel a long way to see something that’s really not suitable. When Padraig tells me he has a good jumper, I know I won’t be disappointed.

5. Paul O’Shea – International Showjumper

I bought my multiple grand prix winning showjumper “Instant Karma” from Padraig as a six year old. Padraig had sourced Karma as a foal and produced her through the young horses classes. He has a great eye for talented horses and I value his opinion and judgment completely. I have recently travelled back from the USA and purchased two new grand prix prospects through Padraig

Information about Lucy and Padcraig, their sold horses and their customer recommendations is all information taken from their website. To find out more about the partnership you can contact them here