Does anyone have any experience with his offspring? Especially rideability?
Thanks!
There are several on this board with MM offspring. I am a fan, for the right mare.
I have never ridden an MM horse so cannot comment on rideability, but I know several people in my circle that have used him on mares to improve movement and jump, especially on their TB mare base. I see their posts on FB from time to time and they all seem to be progressing quite well with their riders. I have been told he does best with an already decent moving mare, but will always improve jump. He is not considered a refining stallion despite being 3/4 TB.
Are you looking at a MM offspring, or are you looking to breed to him?
Does anyone know anything about his recent history and any changes? I just went and looked up his FEI record, and in 2016, after 4 or five year FEI layoff, he started competing in junior dressage competition with a French girl.
I also noticed that when he was being ridden by Dibo toward the end of his career, he tried two 3* CIC FEI competitions and finished 33rd and 25th. Then he was dropped down a notch and failed to finish twice at the two star level. He retired from eventing after finishing 13th at a CIC 1*.
Either he was NQR towards the end, didn’t have UL talent, or just wasn’t interested in competition at all. I’m betting growing unsoundness, since he transitioned to a dressage horse after several years.
His last French FEI dressage show was in March of 2017, and he was eliminated.
He seems to now be at a French stud–Haras de Feuillard
Did the Germans give up on him? What’s the story?
Viney, he was injured during training in 2012 “which deprived him of competing on an international level”. It says so right on his stallion page.
His FEI dressage rider appears to be 12 years old so that says something nice about his temperament.
Yeah, there’s really no need to speculate, it says very plainly on his website that the horse was injured.
Eugenie is the daughter of the owner of Haras du Feuillard. She started riding MM when she was 11 or 12 and did pretty well with him. They got a team silver at the European Youth Championships in Spain, were 4th on the FEI Children’s dressage rankings in 2016, and won the French national championships.
MM was listed for sale this past summer although he seems to still be at Feuillard for now. They have mostly dressage stallions. MM has produced offspring up to 3* level so far, with TONS of amateur horses. All the ones I’ve seen can definitely take a joke. Yet they’re talented enough to be showing up in the barns of Lara de Leidekerke, Kai Steffen-Meier, Will Faudree, Michael Jung, etc.
I think that the Germans were expecting his 3/4 blood to make him a refining stallion, and he really isn’t. He’s not a big thick horse, but he doesn’t breed like a TB.
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The website that I found was in French, and I don’t have much luck reading French.
http://www.haras-du-feuillard.com/fiche_etalon_mightymagic_en.html
The first site that comes up if you google Mighty Magic
I’d be looking to use him on my mare. He’s on my short list right now. Thanks for the responses.
I’d be interested in prices breeders are getting in North America for his young stock. From the little itty-bit I’ve seen in Germany, his offspring sell for higher prices there than in NA.
I have one coming 8 this year. He is 5/8 TB, but heavy and with a heavy gallop, which what I suspect caused MM to be less than a 3* horse. Has done a couple prelims with Doug Payne, and I’m hoping for some modified and prelim this summer with me ( eeks!). He is a good mover, walk not the best but lovely trot, good canter and gallop. Very amateur friendly although not a dead head. Has a spook to him, but not to fences. Very good jumper, but not careful - will have rails jut because he doesn’t really care. That make him a great ammie horse though - you can screw up royally and he just keeps going - downs t hold anything against you. He is winning at 2cd level dressage, will have a great passage, and is starting changes - should be able to go to at least PSG.
i’ve head form other breeders that they are not as careful over fences as they could be…
I’ve seen two mares by him over here. Both looked very similar and looked quite a lot like him. Both were competing at the equivalent to prelim and both seemed to be sweet and willing but neither appeared to have the gallop or athleticism to move up much beyond what they were doing. Definitely seemed to be nice amateur horses but not world beaters.
I’m a bit cynical about seeing stallions retire from competition due to injury. In racing it happens all the time, usually when the horse starts not performing as well as it had earlier. A BN horse will lose a big race, and suddenly he’s injured and retires to stud.
