“Negro has been the big thing behind our success, he made us… Negro himself, then with his breeding, with the sons and also with the broodmares. And of course his most famous son, Valegro. Negro is fantastic the way he is stamping his progeny. He is a once-in-a-lifetime horse. We are very lucky to have him.”
A young Negro – Jacob Melissen image
“I bought Valegro from his breeder as a foal, he came in when he was four-months-old. We took him to the stallion licensing, and they didn’t want him as a stallion. We gelded him and sold him to Carl Hester, and after that, the successful story started. The Licensing Commission didn’t want him, but okay Negro was not so well known, and Valegro is not the most modern type… if you knew what was going to happen, you wouldn’t have gelded him, but that’s how things go. If he’d been a stallion then probably he wouldn’t have had the chance to go so far in the sport.”
Negro is by Coby van Baalen’s star Ferro
Everdale, is now competing Grand Prix with Charlotte Fry