Incredible Ahorn x Arko III/Calvados

• Warmblood
• Chestnut
• Colt
• 2 years
• 15 hands

• Absolutely incredible Ahorn colt with the attributes expected from this exceptional breeding.
• He demonstrates power, agility, speed, style & big balanced gaits with huge presence & a great brain
• Ideal prospect for top competetive endeavour and as a future breeding stallion over horses & ponies

This highly attractive young colt is bred with a tremendous, world class performance pedigree. He has a fantastic character and having been professionally handled from birth, he is exceptionally easy to handle and mannerly. His temperament is superb and he is very much a 'people' person.
He is compact, strong and powerful with incredible movement, balanced and expressive gaits. He has the gallop of an eventer and although 100% show jump breeding, his movement would definitely not be out of place seen between the white boards!
We believe this young colt offers a huge opportunity for someone in search of a future top competition prospect with the added benefits of potentially being a worthy and sought after stallion in the future, suitable for producing top jumping ponies or horses. He currently stands at 15hh, so there is some liklihoof that he will make height as a pony unless he has a massive growth spurt!
Astro is such a lovely character, he has the attitude and willingness to go far and will be a joy and a pleasure to work with.

GFS Astro Nova's sire Ahorn competed at top International level and consistently placed in World Cups and Grand Prix competitions representing the Netherlands in Nations Cup competitions and was short-listed for the Barcelona Olympics. This earned him the prefix 'Olympic'. Ahorn is descended from one of the famous Holstein Families, no. 242 and is related to Joost, Alcatraz and Locarno. Ahorn's offspring continue the success with a number of progeny competing at International level. In recognition of his outstanding contribution to Dutch Breeding, Ahorn, whose progeny have earned over $1,000,000 in prize money, has been awarded keur status by the KWPN. Ahorn's sire is none other than the world famous preferent stallion Nimmerdor.

Ahorn's dam produced 4 approved stallions and so far 3 international showjumpers. A fantastic producer of broodmares, Ahorn mares are highly valued for their ability to transmit the characteristics of this high-performance jumper (deceased) stallion.

Ahorn's sire Nimmerdor, KWPN Stallion of the Century, was the Netherland's top sire of showjumpers to 1993. He became a Preferant Stallion approved by almost every Sporthorse and Warmblood breed society. He himself was a very Successful International Show-Jumper and sire. Siring over 50 approved sons, numerous competition horses, exceptional broodmares and daughters with great conformation. In breeding has a heredity reliability of 94%.

Astro's dam Ark Angel CS is by the incredible Olympic show jumper Arko III and out of a mare who jumped to 1.40 by the incredible Selle Francais Keur stallion 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 prior to coming to stud. Her jumping pedigree is impeccable with Grand Prix and 1.60 jumpers featuring on virtually every line of both her dam and sires pedigree. 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 I can honestly say that not only are there some very big names for this foal to live up to, but this is quite possibly one of the two last horses sired by Ahorn whose semen was stored over thirty years ago. I am not even sure if there is any remaining!!
We actually have the other Ahorn youngster too! A filly out of a well bred mare who competed at the top, internationally and consistently at 1.40.

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