Frequent Flyer

2005 Mare

    Sire:  Concorde   Dam's Sire: Rio Grande  Grandsire: Voltaire

This mare is by the stallion known in jumper circles as "Olympic Concorde", and out of Olive who's dam is the magnificant Rio Grande a descendent of Ramiro Z. Concorde himself is by the impressive dominant breeding stallion Voltaire. Concorde's dam, Flyer, is by the legendary Marco Polo, one of the most influential Dutch stallions in breeding and jumping. Flyer is also related to the international jumper Vivaldi, which under Melanie Smith, was speed horse of the year in 1980. Flyer produced at least 6 international jumpers. Concorde himselft an international jumper with Jos Lansink. They won the Grand Prix of the Nordrhein-Westfalen at Aken and were Champion of the Netherlands in 1994, 2nd in the Grand Prix of Amsterdam, 2nd Darmstadt, 2nd Lanaken, 2nd Helsinki and 2nd Gothenburg. The last three years Concorde was the sire with the most offspring at the World Breeding Championships for young horses. The 'preferent' Concorde himself has proved to be an absolute top sire of international sporthorses. His offspring include Audi's Jikke, Kathja, Conquest II, Larino, Viktor and Isabella proved themselves at the very top at Grand Prix (1.6 m) and World Cup jumping. In the Grand Prix of Rotterdam 3 from the top 8, had Concorde to thank as their sire. At the World Cup finals in Las Vegas, Concorde had  4 offspring in the finals. Concorde was the youngest stallion ever to be awarded 'preferent' due to his endless list of national and international children. Concorde was elected "Horse of the Year" in 2004 and is the highest ranked KWPN stallion in the top ten of the WBFSH! This is a big powerful athletic mare with huge potential.  She produced a beautiful filly sired by Ikoon in 2008, and is in foal to Cabardino for 2009.