The double gold Olympian, Cornishman V, was not from April The First. I’ve spent a wasted afternoon chasing down all the Cornishmen, when it was pretty much all here:
http://www.futuresporthorses.co.uk/Future_CornishFaer.htm
Sport Horse Breed database also has her with a Stallion son named Cornishman who was a “Grade A showjumper” and 4th and 9th at Badminton, and it gives him two offspring. NED has no applicable Cornishmen. The stallion Cornishman is actually a full TB who stood at Louella and is Connaught x Alley Cat.
Neither April The First or Tregea have NED records.
Sport Horse Breed database has April The First with one daughter, Tregea. Tregea had 12 foals and five were Advanced/4*/World Class event horses. She had three by Ben Faerie, one by Master Spiritus, one by Rugatino and one by Welton Ambassador. That’s eventing gold on top.
Tregea’s first foal was a 1974 gelding who went FEI. His name was Rugan. This one is impossible because Tregea is given with a 1976 birthdate. Turns out the correct one is 1968 and Rugan WAS hers.
Next came Cornish Spirit in 1979 by Master Spiritus. NED has Cornish Spirit with 3 foals. One, a gelding, Cornish Spice has BE and BSJ competition and is said to have evented to Intermediate. I’m not paying NED for the full records on her and her produce.
Then came a 1984 filly, Cornish Magic by Ben Faerie, who did FEI eventing according to SHBDatabase. This one isn’t in NED
Cornish Faer (1985) by Ben Faerie was one of the FEI level event horses, a mare who had seven foals–the last in 2009 by Future Illusion when she was 24. That one is a filly. Cornish Faer’s breeding history on the database is rather interesting. She had an Advanced eventer gelding by Espiritu (eventing great) in 1989 with BSJ, BE and BD performance records. Then a long break before the next foal in their database. Her next listed was a daughter, Cornish Gem by Rock King (eventing great), born in 1998, and she went Novice. NED has her with a BE record.
Cornish Gem was bred to Kuwait Beach (eventing great) and produced a daughter Cornish Cove in 2002 who is given as owned by Captain Mark Phillips (eventing great) and has a BE record. NED doesn’t have any offspring by her. Cornish Gem has a 2009 Champion BEF foal by Desir du Chateau for Future Sporthorses (Julia Hodkin certainly is collecting exceptional mare lines). That one bears watching: her name is Future Coeur de Reine. There is also a 2007 gelding named Cornish Reveille by a Welton Apollo son, Up with The Lark, and I haven’t checked his competition records. He has BEF records.
Cornish Faer’s next foal listed was Cornish Queen in 2000 also by Rock King. This one is also a female who went Novice. She’s got a BE record. The database doesn’t have foals by her, but NED has her with 2 foals The next filly is in 2001 by a Louella Inschallah son, No Complaints. No offspring listed yet. Then there is a 2003 filly (Cornish Liberty) by Catherston Liberator. No offspring listed. The next one (2004) was a gelding by Kuwait Beach who events. His name is Cornish Daybreak.
Tregea’s next foal, another filly by Ben Faerie, is a 1986 model name Cornish Legend II. No offspring shown, so NED search needs doing.
Her last foal was a 1988 gelding named Cornish Envoy by Welton Ambassador. He did FEI eventing and has competition records in BE, BSJ, and BD. He ran Burghley and Rolex and finished 6th at Burghley in 1998. I think Tregea may have been owned by the British event rider Bridget Parker, as she is listed as breeder of Cornish Envoy, and he was ridden by her daughter. She rode Cornish Gold at Munich, so April The First might also have been in her family.
The line from April The First through Cornish Faer at the very least is chugging along in eventing.
I just checked Rugan on NED and they have no pedigree for him, but they do have competition records.
Cornish Faer has competition records in British Show Jumping, British Dressage and British Eventing.
