Serious competition horse

• Irish Sports Horse
• Bay
• Gelding
• 8 years
• 17.2 hands

• Winner at BS British Novice
• Qualified for British Dressage Silver Regionals
• Absolute gentleman with talent to be your next top competition horse

8 year old 17.2hh gelding by Diamond Graaf (Burggraaf x Diamond Lad (King of Diamonds))

Jaeger is an incredibly talented horse with huge amounts of athleticism and scope. He has correct and expressive movement on the flat and huge amounts of power. He has been produced correctly and slowly given his size.

He has recently started his British Dressage career with 2 wins and 71% and 70.5% on his first outing as well as qualifying for the Prelim Silver Regional Championship in his first weekend of BD. Dressage judges in both pure dressage and eventing are always impressed by him and consistently score him 70%+ with a huge amount of potential for more. He moves well enough to do pure dressage and move through the levels very quickly.

Jaeger has won at British Novice, double clears at Discovery and has jumped upto 1.10m on a ticket. He has jumped over 1.30m tracks at home and has serious scope for more however has not been overjumped as he has needed the time to learn to manage his scope and incredibly active and powerful leg before jumping bigger tracks.

Jaeger is straightforward to ride on the flat, he is very well schooled and balanced so sits nicely between your hand and leg. He is very responsive and light to ride, I’m 5’2 and have gotten on really well with him. He’s a blood horse but is safe and straightforward, doesn’t buck, rear, nap etc. Incredibly fun to school and ride as you’re working with real quality. I’ve ridden him almost everyday for the past 4 years and I still get excited to sit on him. He is also a xc machine and absolutely loves it. Ditches/water/steps all super confident and gives the most incredible feeling over xc.

He is priced slightly lower as I haven’t been able to crack that last bit of consistency in the showjumping ring with him to build an affiliated record. He schools and warms up beautifully and absolutely loves going to shows but very occasionally will have a stop. Maybe I’m just missing a trick! He will always jump it the second time. Horses with this level of raw talent and quality do not come along in this price range, it is purely because I haven’t been able to crack that last bit of consistency in the ring with him to build an affiliated record that he is priced like this.

Lovely to handle on the ground and super easy to do everything with, I absolutely adore him and he is a real gentle giant. Will stand all day on the lorry alone or in company. Good to bath, clip, farrier, dentists etc. He doesn’t need a strict routine and doesn’t need riding everyday to be kept sane, can have a week off and pick straight back up where you left off. Good to hack alone and in company.

He is very quick with his feet and the combination of light footedness and raw power isn’t something that comes along very often. He is super careful and makes every effort to not touch a pole. He’s got enough scope and brain to take off from anywhere and sort himself out. Once he trusts his rider he does a lot for you. It will take a week or so for him to relax into his jumping with a new person, he great on the flat but he will be tense in the viewing over jumps with a new person so please do not come expecting to pop him over bigger courses as he needs time to relax with a new rider and equally for the new rider to learn how best to ride him.

Someone that takes the time to build a bond with him will have a serious competition horse either in dressage, showjumping or eventing.

He is hands down the most talent horse I have ever sat on and I will probably never come across one with this much raw talent and scope but I now need to focus on my number of homebreds that are starting their ridden career and focus on the young horse classes. I did initially buy Jaeger to sell but fell in love with him and kept him.

Passed a 5 stage vetting when I purchased him in 2021. He’s a strong, sound horse with no lumps or bumps. Open to vetting etc.

Lots of videos and pictures on Hope House Stud instagram and facebook. Please be prepared to send videos demonstrating your riding ability before viewing is arranged as he is incredibly special to us and I won’t be letting just anyone sit on him.