Belgian Horse Stud

Belgium is one of the leading nations in breeding and producing performance horses and has been home of many leading stud farms and stallions from the major equestrian sports such as showjumping, dressage and eventing. The best known Belgian stud farm is Zangersheide founded by Leon Melchior, Zangersheide is arguably the most succesful showjumping stud in the world having been major figures at many of the major showjumping championship over the last 30 years with horse including Carthago Z, Ratina Z, Cumano Z, Caridor, Z, Zandor Z, Chicago Z and many many others.

Another succesful belgian stud farm is that of international showjumper Ludo Philiparts who along with his stallion Darco have become one of the cornerstone bloodline of belgium showjumping bloodlines and arguably one of the cornerstone bloodlines in the world of showjumping.

Belgium Stallions At Stud

Clinton - BWP Stallion
Clinton was one of the "eye-catchers" at the stallionshow in Oud-Heverlee in Belgium in 1996. Clinton combines superior conformation, with excellent movements and superb jumping ability. His sire Corrado won several Worldcup Qualifiers with Franke Sloothaak and was the stallion that won the most prizemoney as an approved stallion. Corrado has around ten approved stalli-ons such as Coriano, Corofino, Calmaro, Contago, Corraldo. Clinton’s dam Urte performed at national level with her owner, however, Clinton’s granddam is more famous. She jumped suc-cessfully at international level and won around DM 50.000,-- with Karsten Huck and Dirk Schröder under her sport-sname Olympia. Grandsire Masetto has the famous bloodlines of Moltke and Cottage Son and is known as a producer of dressage horses. Clinton had a very good Performance Test in Oud Heverlee, where he showed a lot of quality as a showjumper.

Clinton participated successfully in the Classic Cycle for four and five year olds. Clinton and his rider Dirk Demeersman had a successful year in 2003. They won the Grand Prix of Lummen and were 2nd in the Nations Cup of Aken, 2nd in the national championship of Belgium and 7th in the worldcup qualifier of Verona. From his first crop incredibly 3 sons were approved, Upsilion, Utrillio and President. Clinton offspring achieved remarkable results, for example the Reserve Champion {Clinton x Heartbreaker}of the Westfalian stallionshow, the highest priced horse of the Fences Auction in France with a record of 1 million francs, the winner of the 4 year old classic cycle in Belgium called President and also the winners of the 4 year old competitions in England and Ireland: Unette and Undorado Tibri!! Many offspring of Clinton also won loose jumping competitions, i.e. Via Volo van de Molendreef (damsire Heartbreaker} won in Mechelen.

Darco - Olympic Belgiun Stallion

Darco is a legendary showjumpig & breeding stallion, who competed at the top level of show jumping and has produced over 3000 foals in his breeding carear many of which have become succesfull showjumpers.

Once again, Darco’s story, is the story of an exceptional broodmare - in this case, his grand-dam, Atoucha. Born in 1959 in Holland the mare was purchased by Fons Pauwels in 1960. Mr Pauwels was looking for a real ‘all-rounder’, a horse for both work and play. And this she did - working in the fields and in her ‘spare’ time, competing in dressage, showjumping and eventing competitions. She was twice - in 1968 and 1970 - the Belgian Eventing champion for Rural Riders, and three times a competitor at the European Rural Championships. According to her proud owner {and quoted in Leen Devocht’s excellent article on Darco in Breeding News, January 1997} her qualities were a legion: "very strong, healthy; not a single day of sickness in her book, an immense capacity for recovering; everlasting carefulness, even as an eventer; not a single refusal; always fighting and daring like a lioness - she could eat fences raw." Atoucha gave birth to eleven foals - ten fillies and one colt, Salvador, who went on to win the Berlin puissance.

Darco’s dam, Ocoucha (by Codex} is the eldest daughter of Atoucha’s third daughter, Latoucha (by Faust}. Bred to one of the greatest of Belgian jumping stallions, Lugano van la Roche, Ocoucha produced Darco, who went on to prove himself a tough competitor on the international jumping scene.

Darco, who went on to prove himself a tough competitor on the international jumping scene with Ludo Phillippaerts. In 1988, Darco won his first World Cup qualifier, at Olympia, the following year, he won another Volvo for his rider, this time at s’Hertogenbosch. Darco and Ludo were sixth at the WEG in Stockholm, and 7th at the Barcelona Games.

Ludo has this to say about the stallion:
"Together with Darco, I began my international career. A horse to remain grateful to for the rest of my life. Darco really has everything it takes to make a unique super crack, as a showjumper as well as a sire. Horses of this outstanding quality will remain the great exceptions in the breeding industry. I will never forget the fine intelligence he so often proved in the showjumping arena, where he always showed lots of power and stamina coming from his high-bred ancestors."

"I got Darco when he was five years old – he was a breeding stallion. All my success was with Darco, and then he was breeding at my place, and I had many of his foals. All his progeny seem to be very good, and there are lots of people in the area, who use Darco, and they also give me horses by Darco to ride. My father was a horse breeder and had horses when he was younger."

"The mares from Darco are not really mares for competition, they are mares for breeding. There are not so many Darco mares in the sport, they look a little difficult to ride but they have quality and they produce very good foals. There are many stallions in Holland and Belgium and France that can breed good foals with Darco mares. It is not necessary to have a particular stallion."

Ludo Phillippaerts has had amazing success with offspring from Darco icluding his son Parco who is also showing himself to be a succesfull breeding stallion.

In the WBFSH standings for 1999-2000, Darco finished 8th, with 35 (!} progeny contributing to his ranking. His most famous offspring is Otterongo who just missed out on an individual medal at the Sydney Olympic Games. Darco is a rather solid type and cross best over elegant mares with lots of blood

Darco is one of the most succesfull BWP stallions of all time and was awarded their highest honour of  "Ambassador" of the BWP studbook, he was also the best sire in the world according to the WBFSH ranking  for sporthorses in 2007.Air Jordan Z
Air Jordan Z, a top horse of world class, with Olympic qualities. The Oldenburger stallion Air Jordan Z confirmed this year with his tremendous achievements, for example in the Global Champions Tour under Daniel Deusser. With this rider he also won the reserve title in the world cup finals in Las Vegas. Before that Air Jordan Z had already been successful in the international show jumping sport under Judy-Ann Melchior.

Sire Argentinus (Argentan I) has over the past few years specifically profiled himself as a producer of top class show jumping horses with World Cup winner Anka (Marcus Ehing), the Olympic show jumping stallion Adlantus As (Lars Nieberg) and the successful Arko III (Nick Skelton). On his dam’s side Air Jordan Z carries the blood of the famous Hanoverian Sprudelquelle family. Via the stallions Matador (Matrose), Weinstern (Weingau), Cher xx (Wilwyn xx) and Einglas (Athos) this dam’s line goes back to Franziska (Frustra II x Damm). This famous mare from the studfarm of the Haack family is the basis of more than ten licensed stallions. The Franziska family was distinguished by the Hanoverian studbook with the champions title at the Louis-Wiegels-Schau. This mare line also initiated the famous show jumping horse produces Dominus (Dominant).

The offspring of Air Jordan Z excel for their very good movements, uniform types and a jumping potential that is far above average. He already has a number of licensed sons.

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