GREAT STALLIONS

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Marco Polo

When the chestnut was presented to the public in Zuidaren, they were far from pleased with this newfangled 'upgrader'. True enough, Marco Polo was a rather smallish...... more

Master Imp xx

The Irish Thoroughbred Master Imp has been one of the greatest eventing and jumping sires of all time – and yet, he never competed in either sports!... more

May Sherif

The Danish stallion became a world wide sensation thanks to his son Matador...... more

Michellino

1991 168cm Bay It’s hard when you go from profiling jumping stallions to dressage stallions. I had just finished work on the Belgian jumping sire, Kashmir van’t Schuttershof, when I turned to Michellino, and it becomes glaringly obvious how hard it is for a jumping sire to make the top ten, how easy for a […]... more

Millennium – Stallion of the Year 2022

The black stallion, Millennium has been crowned Trakehner Stallion of the Year 2022, but he is a controversial figure in the world of sporthorse breeding. Christopher Hector surveys his influence... ... more

Mozart des Hayettes

This stallion is out of one of the most successful mare lines in the world - Mozart des Hayettes....... more

Mr Blue

Mr Blue was initially not selected by the KWPN Stallion Commission to go to the performance test, although the official reason seems lost in the mists of time... ... more

Mylord Carthago

Mylord Carthago’s sire, Carthago is rightly celebrated but his dam, Fragance de Chalus is a super star in her own right...... more