Proven Arko III x Calvados Mare in Foal for 2026

• Warmblood
• Chestnut
• Mare
• 13 years
• 16 hands

• Outstanding Breeding for SJ Breeders with a World Class Pedigree.
• Superb temperament, easy to get in foal, a great mother and easy to handle at all times.
• In foal to AES Graded perlino leopard spot stallion GFS Fire and Ice for a guaranteed dilute foal

Angel is by the incredible Olympic show jumper Arko III and out of a mare by Calvados who competed at 1.60. She had competed to Novice under the name of Double M Tarko with 124 points before being sold to an amateur home and then to ourselves. Her jumping pedigree is impeccable with Grand Prix and 1.60 jumpers featuring on virtually every line of both her dam and sires pedigree.

This mare stands at 16hh, she is glamorous, talented and such a wonderful character. Miss personality plus, she is a born show off, a tremendous mover, vice free, incredibly loving and the kindest natured horse. She is 13 years old, a proven broodmare who is easy to get in foal, easy to foal down and a sensational mother. She is in foal to the leopard spot AES Graded stallion GFS Fire and Ice for a guaranteed dilute foal with a 50% chance of a spotted coat pattern in 2026. She had an outstanding colt by Ahorn in 2024 who can be viewed here and seen on our website, he is also for sale.

Her sire Arko III represented Great Britain at the 2004 Athens Olympics which tops the lengthy list of outstanding International wins including the richest competition in the world, the Calgary CN Grand Prix 2008.

Arko's earning to date are over 1 million pounds and he was number one horse in Europe for three consecutive years. His breeding is impeccable with both dam and sire being of prodigious talent and bred from a long line of incredible performance ancestry and progenitors of the same.

Angels dam sire Calvados was bred from the best French performance bloodlines. Renowned as a leading sire of show jumpers as well as eventers and dressage horses. A Grand Prix show jumper himself, his sire the Selle Francais Uriel was leading French sire for many years with a breeding index of 211 (the highest figure ever in France). Although he was bred on a limited scale, he has numerous international offspring jumping at Grand Prix level.

This is a mare with a very talented family tree and some very big names for her offspring to live up to!

Only for sale due to retirement. All information can be found on our website www.gfssporthorses.co.uk