As a fan of the TB, and to share what this great breed has contributedā¦here is a list of famous TB sires in current jumping lines
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Furiosoās most influential Anglo-Norman stallion sons were Mexico (1956) and Furioso II (1965), a highly successful sire in Oldenburg and Hanover, while his daughter Tanagra B was the dam of Jalisco B, and his granddaughter Quenotte was the dam of Cor de la BryĆØre, a main influence on modern Holsteiner breeding. Seventeen of the top 100 show jumping sires of the 1990s descend from Furioso.
From the early 19th century onward breeders in Holstein were focused on producing elegant coach horses. The first studbook for the Holsteiner marshes came into being in 1886, a period of intensive consolidation, based primarily on sire lines which had been established with thoroughbred and Yorkshire Coach stallions. The most prominent of these were the lines of the Yorkshire Coach stallion Brillant (1842), which was known as the Achill line, and of the English thoroughbred St Fagans (1862), which was known as the Ethelbert line. When the smart set began to use motor cars instead of coaches, Holsteiner breeders began to focus on the production of agricultural work horses, but when the plough horse was supplanted by the tractor in the 1950s, the number of registered Holsteiner broodmares shrank from approximately 10,000 to about 1,300. At this point the Holsteiner breedersā association made the policy decision that henceforth they would concentrate on the production of better than average show jumpers - the only German studbook with such a clear focus on show jumping. To this end, they decided that the best way to do so was by acquiring the type of stallions which were used as hunter sires in Britain and Ireland, and within the next decade almost thirty thoroughbreds took up station in Holstein.
Cottage Son (1944, died 1964) by Young Lover out of Wait Not, by Cottage, was the first of these stallion imports, having been purchased in England in 1959. He had a real steeplechaser pedigree, being by a son of Son-in-Law out of a daughter of Cottage, one of the greatest National Hunt sires in the 20th century. Moreover, Cottage Sonās third dam Clonkeen was by the champion National Hunt sire Red Prince II. Another interesting aspect of Cottage Sonās breeding is that he had Son-in-Law in the second remove of his pedigree and Marco in the fourth, as did both Furioso, mentioned above, and Bright Cherry, dam of the great steeplechaser Arkle. Cottage Son had already established an excellent reputation in England as a good sire of hunters and eventers before his purchase to Germany. His best-known British-bred offspring was the eventer Cottage Romance, with whom Michael Bullen came 4th at the Rome Olympics. Sadly, Cottage Son only spent four seasons in Holstein, before his untimely death in 1964. In Holstein, his male line has always hung by a fine thread, where its most prominent representative is Capitol I (1975). However, the Cottage Son male line thrives in Holland through his grandson Joost (1968). More important still is Cottage Sonās influence through his daughters, with Valine, dam of the super Euro-sire Ramiro Z (1965), and Viola, dam of Lord (1967), the most prominent.
In all, Cottage Son makes fourteen appearances in the pedigrees of the leading show jumping sires of the 1990s. Among the leading show jumpers of the 1990s, Operette la Silla (1984) is inbred 4 x 4 to Cottage Son, Carthago Z (1987) is linebred 4 x 5 x 5 to him, and Calvaro Z (1987) and Cento (1989) are linebred 4 x 5 to him. All this is amazing in view of the short time which Cottage Son spent at stud in Holstein.
Ladykiller (1961), by Sailing Light out of Lone Beech, by Loaningdale, came to Holstein in 1965, and immediately established one of the studbookās strongest sire lines. Thirty-five of his sons were licensed as sires, among whom the most outstanding were Landgraf I (1966) and Lord (1967). Even though Ladykiller had done nothing of note on the racetrack, he had excellent conformation and a pleasant temperament.
Anblick (1938) by Ferro out of Antonia, by Herold, was of an earlier generation than Cottage Son and Ladykiller, and stood in Holstein from 1953 to 1964, after having stood for eight years in Hanover.
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