2005 1.70 cm Chestnut
Breeder: Zuchthof Fries
The great-great grandsire of Fürst Nymphenburg, Furioso II, arrived at Station Vorwerk in Cappeln in 1968 and was an immediate success. For years his offspring dominated the German competition and prize money statistics. Interestingly, the sire line of Furioso II delivers both dressage and jumping horses – especially interesting since the common belief is that French horses are no good for dressage. Furioso’s best known jumping stallions are his sons, For Pleasure and Voltaire, in dressage there is his son, Purioso and his grand-son, Florestan I.
Currently one of the more striking heirs of the Furioso II line is the Hanoverian stallion Fürst Nymphenburg, bred from a Thoroughbred line and a son of the double World Champion and elite sire Florencio I. There is depth in the pedigree – De Niro, currently the most prominent dressage sire, can be found on the dam line, and in third generation there is Argentinus, another who delivered both dressage and jumping horses. The dam line leads to one of the main branches of the Thoroughbred family 16. This family produced important stallions such as Aberglaube xx (Oldenburg), Amerigo Vespucci xx (Celle), Atatürk xx (Neustadt-Dosse) and Aufwind xx (Rhineland-Pfalz).
Fürst Nymphenburg was reserve champion at the Hanoverian licensing in Verden in 2007.
In the 2008 competition season he won several riding horse classes with scores of up to 8.7 and qualified for the Bundeschampionate. In the autumn of 2007 he won his stallion performance test in Adelheidsdorf, with the highest dressage index of 147.23 points.
According to the Hanoverian Stallion Book 2015, he has won eight dressage classes at S level for winnings of €8,158. As of the 2021 book, he had produced 377 competition horses, 326 dressage horses, 30 jumpers and 9 eventers for earnings of €151,938. Twenty six of his progeny have competed in S level dressage.
Fürst Nymphenburg commenced stud duties at Hadeln/Oberndorf in 2008 and was immediately one of the most popular stallions in Hanover. He produced successful foal crops, including numerous foal show and championship winners as well as the top-priced lots at auction. From 2013 to 2015 Fürst Nymphenburg stood at Aller-Weser in Verden before moving to Celle in 2016.
Five of Fürst Nymphenburg’s sons have been licensed, including a black stallion from his first crop (2009), Fool’s Paradise (Wolkentanz I-Thronfolger), who has already won riding and young dressage horse competitions, and Fürst Wallerstein (Walt Disney I/Lemon xx), licensed in 2013 and competing successfully under the banner of the State Stud in Celle. Fürst Nymphenburg’s other sons include First Row (Hitchcock/Matcho AA), Fürst Weedern (Rotspon/Matcho AA) and Fürstenstern (Sterntänzer/Donnerschlag), who was sold to the USA following the 2012 southern German saddle licensing.
So far 249 daughters of Fürst Nymphenburg have been registered, of which 76, received the state premium tag and several of these were victorious at mare shows.
Fürst Nymphenburg has an 2021 FN dressage breeding value as a sire of young horses of 135 points and a highest level achieved value of 119. His Hanoverian dressage value is 131, with scores of 123 for trot, 136 for canter, 129 for walk and 121 for rideability – he scores 130 for type. He has obviously missed out on the Furioso jumping talents, with an FN jumping breeding value of 69, and a Hanoverian one of 84.
