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Dressage

There’s no denying his good looks: He’s Heaven – Heaven is standing his first season at The Woodlander Stud

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Heaven is a stunning dark Bay Hannoverian 2012 Graded: WBS-UK stallion standing 16.1hh (165cm) listed with Horse Scout.

Lynne Crowden, owner of the Woodlander Stud, proudly says that from the very beginning, this young stallion has topped the lookability and the lovability polls. As the highest scoring Futurity dressage foal in 2012, he impressed with his type and his movement and this was despite being a very late foal.  Again  at the WBS_UK licencing in 2014 that he impressed with the way of going. This is a horse of “blood” (lighter weight build) but has unusually big movement for his type. Of course his dam line is impressive, St Pr Limoncello, was a Foal Champion, a Youngstock Champion and a Mare Champion and is already the dam of one other Hannoverian approved stallions, Clapton. She is also the dam of the top young dressage horse, Woodlander Betty Boo and her 2014 foal, by Zack achieved Futurity Elite and was also the Reserve Filly Champion for BHHS 2014, and Heaven is no exception in the good looks and eye catching stakes. Heavens sire Hotline was not only the top priced stallion at the auction in Verden but went on, via the Danish Young Horse Champion win, to achieve many successes up to and including Grand Prix. Heaven’s own sire, Hofrat also performed to a high level in the sport. Heaven also boasts the British Team horse Wie Weltmeyer ridden by Emma Hindle from his dams side.

You can find out more about Heaven on his profile page  (http://134.213.137.168/horses/profile/692  ) or visit www.horsescout.co.uk to look at otherr stallions offered by the Woodlander Stud.

General

Horse Scout Stallion Review: Woodlander Stud Stallion: Fransje.

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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

Eventing

Badmintons’ Battle of the Brothers. Nereo and Armada in the top three of leaderboard at the Badminton Mitsubishi Horse Trials.

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Two fabulous rides on two full brothers by Eventings top riders Andrew Nicholson and Oliver Townend Armada and Nereo are by the Thoroughbred stallion Fines on to Berganza, a daughter of the Hanoverian stallion Golfi. Oliver Townends ride Armada, owned by Paul and Diana Ridgeon, was ridden superbly round what has proved a course with many questions despite the perfect going. An immaculate, measured and controlled ride from Horse Scout supporter Oliver Townend. With the top six horses at this years Badminton Mitsubishi Horse Trials all within one fence of each other tomorrow is set to be an exciting….and nail biting, show jumping day.

Eventing

The Sky’s the Limit. Emily Lewellyn and Greenlawn Sky High set for a great ride through Badminton tomorrow

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Emily Llewellyn has featured on the Horse Scout Blog and our face book page a bit recently and here she is again as we watch her holding her own on her lovely horse Greenlawn Sky High who is owned by her mother Mrs Cindy Lewelly and Mrs Nicolette Gidley Wright.  He is a 12year old Irish Sports Horse by International Show Jumper Aldatus Z.  Previously a show jumper Emily has had the ride on Greenlawn Sky High for the last six years and it didn’t take long to realize that he was the horse for her. She loved him so much that she decided to buy him! Before selling a half share to Mrs Gidley Wright. (Kingsland Equestrain)!  Emily and Green Lawn Sky High have a penalty score of  just 49.6 to take with them to the starting gate tomorrow. We all wish her the very best at the Horse Scout Blog and I hope that the sun does indeed come out for you (as you asked on your tweet the other day!).

You can find Emily’s professional profile here: Emily Lewellyn on Horse Scout 

Eventing

Good Luck Giovanni : Horse Scout sponsors Giovanni Ugolotti at Badminton Mitsubishi Horse Trials

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Horse Scouts sponsored rider at Badminton Mitsubishi Horse Trials is Italian Rider Giovanni Ugolotti who make his debut at Badminton riding the lovely Stilo Kontika.  And the pair of them have ridden a good test today with a score of 65.11%, giving them a fighting chance tomorrow.  Giovanni represented Italy at the World Equestrian Games finishing in 22nd place having only made his senior debut the year before at the European Championships in Malmo where he and Silo Kontika had a double clear.

If you want to follow Stilo Kontikas profile on horse Scout here is his link Stilo Kontika

Good luck Giovanni.

Eventing

Flora Harris: Amazing – set to wow us after a great dressage test today

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Flora Harris riding Amazing VIII was sitting at third earlier in the running and is now a very credible 13th with only 4 penalties between her and Townend before tomorrows cross country. Floras Year is off to a great start with her debut, as a member of the British Nations Cup. A member of the World Class Potential programme she came 15th at Fontainebleau.  Her last outing at Badminton was on Law Choice.  They jumped a clear cross country but unfortunately law choice has to be withdrawn before the showjumping.  So Horse Scout Blogger along with all my readers lets wish her all the best for tomorrows awesome task on the cross country course tomorrow.

You can follow Flora Harris’ professional profile on Horse Scout here: Flora Harris on Horse Scout

British Dressage

Oliver Townend: a great start to this years Badminton Mitsubishi Horse Trials

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Huge Congratulations to Oliver Townend who is in 3rd place at this point after the dressage with a great dressage score of 73.61% (39.6) only 1.8 penalties off the leader Andrew Nicholson.

Former Badminton and Burghley winner Oliver Townend is last year’s BE number one rider and currently number 4 in the World rankings. He partnered Armada to second place at Badminton last year, and things are definitely looking positive for this years competition.

One of Horse Scouts busiest listed professional riders his Badminton Horse Trials write up for 2015 says he gained three first and second placings at a recent outing with some 14 rides over three days to bring home nine top four placings. This man is everything that says impressive.

Connect with Olivers’ profile on Horse Scout here Olivers profile

Showjumping

A Warm Reception for Freezing Rain: the only British Stallion to have approved status by the KWPN Studbook

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Freezing Rain is a young stallion on the way up.  Born in 2010 this 16.2hh handsome bay AES Stallion was bred at Paddock Woods Stud with Select Stallions, where international event rider Emily Llewellyn and Polo player and show jumper Max Routledge are based. This stud with second to none facilities is a family run stud near Godalming in Surrey where the Grand Prix show jumper Typhoon’s son Freezing Rain was bred in 2010.

Freezing Rains listing on Horse Scout’s Stallion pages has some fabulous pictures of Freezing Rain and his sire Typhoon S. Freezing rain was assessed in the UK by the KWPN inspectors and was allowed to attend the two KWPN stallion grading shows in Holland in 2012 and early 2013. From the 500 3 year old stallions assessed by the KWPN  only a few, whose confirmation and jumping ability and veterinary assessment were of sufficient quality were invited to attend the  50 day performance testing in the autumn of 2013 where Freezing Rain he was made ‘Approved’ by the Studbook!

This has made Freezing the first British bred stallion ever to reach this level. We are justifiably proud of this achievement. Ricky is only a 5 year old Stallion but he is already making a name for himself. His first foal born on the stud has been named Mr Rainmaker he and paddocks Woods say “ He is a beautiful stamp of foal and is really bright and bold in his temperament”.

Freezing Rain is out of Tiandra (a Heartbreaker mare) and by Typhoon S Paddock Woods top breeding and competition stallion.

You can find out more about him on his Horse Scout listing page by clicking this link

Stallions At Stud

Record Breaking Progeny for Stallions on Horse Scout.  Stallion review Woodland Wavavoom

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Son of Wavavoom, Woodlander Wild Child, followed his mother (Woodlander Farouche) into the record breaking books by being the highest scoring horse ever in the BEF Futurity when he took the Foal title.

Hanovarian Stallion Woodlander Wavavoom has power  and expression.  Woodlander Studs beautiful chestnut stallion has a wonderful temperament, power & paces. Woodlander Wavavoom has provided a real flag to wave for British Breeding. In 2010 and 2011, he qualified for every young horse Championship with scores of 8 and above and as a 4 year old was runner up in the Badminton Yong Horse Championships to Woodlander Farouche. 2011 saw him again as a finalist at the National Dressage Championships and the Reserve Champion Shearwater 5 year old. In 2012 he returned to Germany to complete his life approval with qualification for the German Bundeschampionat. As a six year old, he scored 86% at Advanced Medium. In 2010 he had only one foal and this was the Hanoverian Champion but in 2011, he surpassed himself by heading the stallion rankings for the BEF Futurity having presented 10 foals and achieved 6 Elites. Not surprisingly, his cross with Woodlander Farouche was the highest scoring horse ever for Futurity with 9.79. In 2012, he remained the highest scoring UK based stallion with more Elite Offspring and, once again, the top pony foal. In 2013, Wavavoom qualified for the summer and winter regionals at Medium and Advanced Medium, and unforgettably was the sire of two licensed sons: Woodlander Wild Child and Woodlander Wales – both of whom were double stallion Champions for Hannoverian, WBS-UK and SPSS. 2014 saw the start of his new partnership with Bobby Hayler where he qualified for Winters and achieved his AM scores well above 70%.

Other supremely sucsessful offspring are:Woodlander Wales (2011)– Elite Sports Pony Futurity 2014; Small Competition Horse Champion SPSS; Supreme SPSS; Licensed Stallion (WBS-UK, SPSS, Oldenburg) – Champion Stallion
Woodlander Winwood – BHHS Foal Champion 2010
Woodlander Wirginia Plain – Elite Foal
Wikipedia – Elite Foal
Wonderful World – Elite Foal
Briarwood Wild Beauty – High First
Wasimah – Elite
Woodlander Wallis – Elite Foal
Woodlander Waterloo – Elite Foal
Waverley Wright Stuff (2013) – Elite
West End Diva (2013)– Higher First
Woodstock (2013) – Higher First

To find out more about Woodlander Wavavoom and the Woodlander Stud view his stallion listing on Horse Scout here

Showjumping

Horse Scout Stallion Listing review: Select Stallions’ Showjumping Super Star Cornet Obolensky.

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World No3 Show Jumper Daniel Deusser wins the Rolex Gran Prix on Coronet Obolensky Offspring Cornet D’Amour.

Proving exactly why Cornet Obolensky is a deservedly sought after show jumping stallion. His Horse Scout listing shows his first class. A Grey Belgian Warmblood born in 1999 standing at 17hh. A proven performance horse he competed at the 2008 Olympics and was on the winning team at the European Championships in Madrid in 2011 finishing 11th individually. His agents Select Stallions are based in Newbury.  His Horse Scout listing on its stallion listing page (Cornet Obolenskys’ page).  This beautifully bred top class showjumping stallion is by ‘Clinton’ (Dirk Demeersman) who was individually 4th at the Athens Olympics 2004 and 2nd in the Aachen Grand Prix 2005 and is a proven top sire, having also bred the superb ‘Via Vola’ (Beezie Madden). His grandsire ‘Corrado I’ (Franke Sloothaak) was also a top level competitor and sire, His dam and grand dam both jumped to advanced levels and his dam’s half brother (also by Clinton) is ‘Vivaldo van het Costersveld’ jumping successfully at international 1m60 level under Roger Yves Bost. His dam’s sire ‘Heartbreaker’ was himself 4th in the Aachen Grand Prix under Peter Geerink and is a top jumper sire of the likes of ‘Action Breaker’ (Sergio Alvarez Moya) etc

He was 13th at the World Cup final at S-Hertogenbosch in 2012, won the 5 star Grand Prix at Zurich, and was 2nd in the Global Champions Tour Final Grand Prix in Doha 2012. He also won the Nations Cup at Rotterdam in 2011 and 2012, in Rome 2012 and 2nd in Aachen in 2012.

Global Stallions note his WBFSH Stallion Ranking as 6th , his records show 43 offspring with international rankings and 2 In the  top 100 world rankings with Cornet d’Amour (11th) on international points won. His GF German breeding index score is 166 (.96)

Cornet Obolensky competed at the 2008 Olympics and was on the winning team at the European Championships in Madrid in 2011 and finished 11th individually…..He finished 13th at the World Cup final at S-Hertogenbosch 2012, won the 5 star Grand Prix at Zurich, was 2nd in the Global Champions Tour Final Grand Prix in Doha 2012….. He also won the Nations Cup at Rotterdam in 2011 and 2012, in Rome 2012 and 2nd in Aachen 2012.

Cornet Obolensky accrued an overall score of 8.33 at his 30 day test coming ranking him third on the day in his field. He lead the field in show jumping with the score of 9.24. He was gained the top score of 10 for loose jumping.

Since his first crops began appearing at stallion liecensing’s and at the German Bundeschampionships it has become apparent that Cornet Obolensky has passed on his stamp to his progeny, their superb type, movement and jumping ability is now being confirmed by the large numbers of his offspring appearing on the international jumping circuit…. These include ‘Cocoshynsky’ (Emanuele Gaudiano) 4th Weisbaden 5 star Grand Prix and 9th Helsinki World Cup Qualifier 2012 plus numerous wins at 1m50 level

‘Cornet d’Amour’ (Daniel Deusser) winner of the World Cup Final Lyon 2014, winner of the 5 star GPw at Wellington 2013 and winner of the Nations Cup Calgary 2012 & 5th individually in the European Championships 2013,

Cornado I’ (Marcus Ehning) 4th World Cup Final Lyon 2014, winner 5 star GPw Bordeaux 2013 & 5 star GP Paris 2014,

‘Contifex’ (Denis Lynch) placed in many 5 star Grand Prix including 3rd in

Helsinki and 4th in Bordeaux,

‘Charlie’ (Katharina Offel) 5th 5 star Grand Prix of Gottenburg,

‘Colestus’ (Marco Kutscher) winner 1m60 at 5 star Paris 2014,

‘Comme Il Faut’ (Franz Josef Dahlman) 2nd in the 5yr olds World Young Horse Final 2010